A Swedish English-language podcast interviews me about my long career as a designer of role-playing games. I explain how I reason when I create rules and settings. Lots about Tolkien’s Middle-earth and Traveller.
After May the Fourth Be With You and Revenge of the Fifth, it’s time for Si(x)th Happens.
Summary in English: We commemorate that 30 years ago, we published the Swedish edition of the Star Wars RPG from West End Games.
Podden Nostalgi & Nördkultur högtidlighåller att Äventyrsspels utgåva av rollspelet Star Wars från West End Games (läs mer om det spelet i den här bloggposten från 2011 — länk >>> ) lanserades på Spelkongress 88 för 30 år sedan. I det här inslaget berättar jag lite grann om varför vi valde att satsa på just det spelet.
The Archipelagic Empire’s HIMS Navis Mortis, a fully armed and operational battle-colossus, in search of the Rebels’ hidden island base.
This picture is from the Final Fantasy game series. However, the first time I saw it, my instant reaction was Star Wars: an interior shot from a dieselpunk Deathstar. The Tibetan mystic must sneak across the abyss without attracting the attention of its grey-coated sentries.
Summary in English: In an interview by the Blandbandet podcast RPG veterans Tomas Arfert and myself spoke of what it was like to be a game designer in the 1980s.
Podden Blandbandet ägnar sig enbart åt 80/90-talsnostalgi. Så podmastern Niklas Gerholm bjöd nyligen in Tomas Arfert och mig att berätta våra minnen från denna gyllene era i den svenska rollspelshobbyn. Det blev två pod-episoder som avhandlar de klassiska spelen Expert Drakar och Demoner, Mutant, Sagan om Ringen, och mycket annat.
Episod 1 — länk >>>
Episod 2 — länk >>>
The steamdroid R1D1 onboard the smuggler S/S Decennium Falcon, bound for Port Suzette.
Artist: Dennis Anfilov.
A trio of dieselpunk landspeeders, for example suitable for retrostyle crossovers with Star Wars.
Artist: Egor Kudashkin (link >>> ).
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A dieselpunk/Star Ears crossover model of Boba Fett. Artist unknown. Click on the picture for a larger version.
This diorama by Satoshi Araki proves the versatility of the Star Wars mythos. Welcome to the dark streets of Gotham City.
The Dream Forge 