Theory review #27

• Nopat ja miten niitä käytetään, https://pelilauta.web.app/thread/3xio4ShQPK6SeXIpEd9Y/view/from/0, has thoughts on when and why dice are rolled and how they are interpreted.
• Hvem er vi?, discussed by Michael Stensen Sollien and Nicolai Krogsrud-Strøm, https://vertshuset.podbean.com/e/episode-44-hvem-er-vi/, give their personal roleplaying histories and discuss binary versus non-binary resolution.
• Deleuze & Dragons – Dread Trident: Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Modern Fantastic by Jukka Särkijärvi, https://roolipeliloki.com/2021/09/21/deleuze-dragons-dread-trident-tabletop-role-playing-games-and-the-modern-fantastic/, presents a summary of the Dread trident book, which takes a look at roleplaying game worlds from a literary studies perspective.
• Drawing Science: an interdisciplinary, playful, and inclusive proposal by M. A. M. Souza, V. Dutra, T. B. Menezes and J. W. Silva, https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10748, shows adapting Pictionary to natural science teaching. The nature of the game encourages using non-scientific depictions of scientific concepts.
• ”Matter of Fact” RPG & OSR play vs. ’Sly Flourish’ illusionism by the CGA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EYa7zbNP08, describes an approach to game mastering in the ballpark of blorb and neutral OSR refereeing, but not quite as well-defined or strict.