The As If Collective

Apr 17, 2025

The As If Collective is a network of roleplayers, gamers, GMs, Game Designers, artists and neophiles interested in exploring and contributing to experimental applications of narrative engineering. Every month I do 2-4 Releases: each is a minigame, a subsystem, an adventure, a table/chart, a form/sheet, or a web-based tool which will be of interest to Roleplayers, Storygamers and Interactive Fictioneers. As a member of the Collective, you get early access to all of these works in both draft and final form, with the added knowledge that you helped make them happen. Click Here.

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Roleplaying Games – Where’s the Art?

Roleplaying Games – Where’s the Art?

Over at Coming Out of the Basement, Jack Stephenson-Carr is engaging in an in-depth analysis of the question (and the assumptions behind the question): "Are Roleplaying Games Art?" Here's my take on it. Certainly they are, if they convey meaning. But they're not...

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