Criticism
Table Talk
TTRPGs as communication & communication in TTRPGs
The Apocalypse Meant Möre
Insight and inspiration from Johan Nohr
Roleplayer’s Dilemma
Making tough choices in RPG theory and game theory
Imagining Dystopia
Neurocity & the cognitive, social, and political functions of RPGs
A Festive Apocalypse
Mörk Borg & Medieval Carnival culture
What Is a Roleplaying Game?
It’s a game by Epidiah Ravachol, of course.
Machina ex Machina: Theoretical Perspectives on Adira & Fen Slattery’s The Machine
At the intersection of schizophrenia, self-replicating automata, and lolcats
Between Civilization & Play: A Cultural Perspective on TTRPGs
Johan Huizinga on tabletop roleplaying games
Six Doors to Darkness
Analysis of an anti-game
Dread Contra Fiasco
Material risk and narrative agency in a pair of peculiar TTRPGs
Anatomy of a Rulebook
Don’t judge a game by its rulebook.
Reviews
I COME TO BURY THE GOD-KING: A Game/Book Review of Sophia Tinney’s Kingdoms RPG
Forge a dynasty from birth scream to last gasp
Hindsight is d2020
Let the bad times roll
Agon: A Review
Competition is (literally) the name of the game
The Machine: A (Mostly) Material Review
What is the sound of one player writing?
Basilisk’s Legacy: from Dark Fort to Mörk Borg
The prehistory of a spiked flail to the face
Long on Wrath, Short on Glory
How Ulisses NA’s promising Warhammer 40,000 RPG got lost in a terrible rulebook
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Reference
Analyses of the Unreal
A curated reading list of TTRPG theory for designers, players, and thinkers
The Typology and Sociology of Play
A reference sheet for Roger Caillois’s Man, Play and Games
Ex Libris Mörk Borg
An annotated bibliography of official, semi-official & community content for Mörk Borg. Updated weekly.
Hacks & Homebrew
Zeitgeist in Ravenland
GM-less play and material culture in Fria Ligan’s Forbidden Lands
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