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Author Archives: Līber Lūdōrum
Zeitgeist in Ravenland
GM-less play and material culture in Fria Ligan’s Forbidden Lands
Machina ex Machina: Theoretical Perspectives on Adira & Fen Slattery’s The Machine
At the intersection of schizophrenia, self-replicating automata, and lolcats
Agon: A Review
Competition is (literally) the name of the game
The Typology and Sociology of Play
A reference sheet for Roger Caillois’s Man, Play and Games
Between Civilization & Play: A Cultural Perspective on TTRPGs
Johan Huizinga on tabletop roleplaying games
Six Doors to Darkness
Analysis of an anti-game
The Machine: A (Mostly) Material Review
What is the sound of one player writing?
Ex Libris Mörk Borg
Reflections on an annotated bibliography of official, semi-official & community content for Mörk Borg
Basilisk’s Legacy: from Dark Fort to Mörk Borg
The prehistory of a spiked flail to the face
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