Two-nic

Yesterday and today the Fox and I made a tunic for NWO. Although he doesn't seem to think that his contribution was that great, without him the finished garment would have been the wrong size, had the wrong edging and would have taken about three times as long as it did. Also, the process of designing and making it would have been a real chore. As it is the experience was mostly a lot of fun.

Don't get me wrong, this item of clothing wasn't terribly complex, I imagine that certain of the people reading this would have been able to run up a far superior version in less than half the time. However, it was created by us and is therefore infinitely more wondeful than the most perfectly tailored garment would be.

LRP Theory

Beyond Role and Play: Tools, Toys and Theory for Harnessing the Imagination is now available as a free electric edition in the Internet.

Beyond Role and Play is a collection of articles by researchers and role-playing game enthusiasts from seven countries, made for the Nordic role-playing convention Solmukohta 04 in Helsinki, Finland. The book offers practical tools, analytical viewpoints, inspirational game reviews and fresh methodological ideas for all who take role-playing seriously. The book covers both tabletop and live-action role-playing as an artform, a political tool, an educational method and as great entertainment.

As Beyond Role and Play is now out of print, the book is published in the Internet for free, as a courtesy of the authors, the editors and the publisher, Ropeconry.

The theory section consists of articles that are mostly of interest to researchers, practice includes tried and true tools for both game designers and players. Games holds descriptive reviews of coompleted projects and analyses of a number of Nordic larps, and finally openings provokes with radical new ideas that are of equal interest to both researchers and game masters.

The book is edited by Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros, and it also includes texts from Edward Choy, Martin Ericsson, Tova Gerge, J. Tuomas Harviainen, SatuHeli, Thomas Duus Henriksen, John H. Kim, Johanna Koljonen, Petri Lankoski, Ari-Pekka Lappi, Elge Larsson, Merja Leppelahti, Mika Loponen, Paul Mason, Juhana Pettersson, Mike Pohjola, Erling Rognli, Christopher Sandberg, Henrik Summanen, Terhi Si, Karin Tidbeck, Aksel Westlund, Gabriel Widing and Emma Wieslander. The foreword is contributed by Professor Frans Meyre from University of Tampere Hypermedia Laboratory.

You're welcome to download the book from www.ropecon.fi/brap.

With the best regards,

- Markus Montola & Jaakko Stenros

PS. You may also be interested in the prequel of Beyond Role and Play: As Larp Grows Up, the book for Knudepunkt 03, can be read at www.laivforum.dk/kp03_book.

Also, the preliminary page of Knutepunkt 05 convention is open in http://knutepunkt.laiv.org.

PPS. You are free to spread this message, as well as to give feedback to the editors and contributors.