2025 has been a great year for playing and creating games. Games in this context are boardgames and roleplaying games, played face-to-face with real people around a table. In this post I look back at my gaming activities in 2025 and how this leads into 2026. SPIEL in Essen was a smorgasbord of fun for … Continue reading 2025 in Games
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LinCon 2025
LinCon is a game convention in Linköping, Sweden. After a pleasant visit last year, I returned this year for more. A two hour drive from Stockholm and spanning the four days of the Ascension school holiday, LinCon is a good destination for a family holiday. Linköping itself offers many sights and Sweden is at its … Continue reading LinCon 2025
Playing with history
I like history. Reading books about our past and exploring locations that show traces of past human existence. To understand what has happened before. Why things are as they are in the present. How the future may look like. Or at least to see a shadow of the thing. The past is complicated. We will … Continue reading Playing with history
The City: What we do to fit in
Last weekend I did a second run of my tabletop roleplaying game The City. It took some effort to make a face-to-face game happen but it worked out and we had a great session. I have updated the game text based on my reflections and the game is available for free under a Creative Commons … Continue reading The City: What we do to fit in
Games: Best of 2024
2024 is coming to an end and it’s a rewarding mental exercise to look back at the year that passed and learn from what happened. This post is about 2024 in games. For me games are tabletop boardgames and roleplaying games played face to face with other people.
The City: A steampunk drama about what we do to fit in
I'm happy to announce the release of my latest game: The City: A steampunk drama about what we do to fit in. No man on is truly free, all are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.⁃ Euripides The City is a tabletop roleplaying … Continue reading The City: A steampunk drama about what we do to fit in
A game eight years in the making
An idea I got eight years ago for a game set in Ancient Greece finally clicked. Coming to a convention near you in 2025.