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Gaming the Meta

A partial view of the Mandelbrot set generated by Wolfgang Beyer. Cropped version of the original used here under CC BY-SA 3.0.

The funhouse of games about metagame culture

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMay 31, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inCriticismTags:meta, momatoes, richard kelly, tragos games, ttrpg2 Comments on Gaming the Meta

Eat Your Favorite RPG

Lamprey mouths in M.E. Blochii ... Systema ichthyologiae iconibus CX illustratum, 1801. Public domain.

Dinner and dessert with Game Lamprey

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMay 24, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inCriticismTags:lamprey, materiality, ttrpgLeave a comment on Eat Your Favorite RPG

William Blake: poet, painter, indie zine maker

Bust of William Blake made by James de Ville c. 1807. Public domain.

Echoes of a 18th-19th century creative in 21st century RPG culture

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMay 17, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inCriticismTags:blake, graphic design, indie, materiality, ttrpg, zineLeave a comment on William Blake: poet, painter, indie zine maker

A Divorce of Druids and the Reviewing of Their Remove, Part 1: Spring

Reflections on a DIY game of cutting, pasting, endings, beginnings … and adorable druids

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMay 3, 2021March 14, 2022Posted inReviewsTags:A Divorce of Druids, crafting, Long Tail Games, ttrpg3 Comments on A Divorce of Druids and the Reviewing of Their Remove, Part 1: Spring

*Lance Not Included

Arthur Rackham, How Mordred Was Slain by Arthur, 1917. Public domain.

But you’ll wish you had one in Chris Bissette’s Freelance RPG

Posted byLīber LūdōrumApril 12, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inHacks & Homebrew, ReviewsTags:chris bissette, freelance, mini-rpg, rpgLeave a comment on *Lance Not Included

Why We Need Mörk Borg Lite

This is a seriously badass picture of a two-headed basilisk, and if you can't see it, then I feel bad for you.

And other cogent, coherent observations

Posted byLīber LūdōrumApril 1, 2021June 6, 2022Posted inBSTags:April Fools, Mörk BorgLeave a comment on Why We Need Mörk Borg Lite

Sword & Satire

Felix Vallotton's painting of Perseus Killing the Dragon

Subversive humor in 3̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶e̶s̶ 2 games & a “game”

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMarch 29, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inCriticismTags:a dragon game, here's some fucking D&D, satire, sigma bandits1 Comment on Sword & Satire

Rolling Solo

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the sea of fog, ca. 1817

A roster of GM & player emulators, oracles, and engines for TTRPGs

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMarch 14, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inReferenceTags:emulator, engine, gmless, oracle, solo playLeave a comment on Rolling Solo

The Things They Carry

Louis Anquetin, Ruiter en bedelaar, 1893. Public domain.

Character sheets as gameplay components in Knave, Troika!, and UVG

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMarch 8, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inCriticismTags:character sheets, Knave, material components, Taylor Lane, Troika!, UVGLeave a comment on The Things They Carry

Ariadne’s Ribbon

The Labyrinth, from William Henry Matthews's Mazes and Labyrinths

Emmy Allen’s Stygian Library in silhouette

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMarch 1, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inCriticismTags:books, Emmy Allen, labyrinth, mise en abyme, rhizome, Stygian Library, textuality8 Comments on Ariadne’s Ribbon

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