In this episode Dirk talks to Magnus Seter about Outside the Box, How Sweden Conquered The World of Role-Playing Games. Learn the fascinating story of how RPGs reached Sweden and were transformed by the play culture.
Thanks to Fandrake, the publisher of Outside the Box, we have books to giveaway. Share this episode and make a comment below to be in with a chance of being drawn from the hat (finishes on 31st December 2025).
Judge Blythy is in the Room of Role-Playing Rambling talking about Mutant: Year Zero RPG.
Make sure you keep it Eldritch by listening to Mason and Fricker’s Eldritch Stories.
The play out music is Mumble One by Aidan
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That sounds like a fascinating read 🙂
Oh wow, just as I am about to start my research on TTRPGs from Sweden, you are dropping this! Gotta give it a listen right away.
I shared this and made it my first Facebook comment in years, which will probably mildly confuse various people I haven’t seen or spoken to in decades. The book sounds great, even if I currently get to play TTRPGs about as often as I go to Sweden.
The previous anonymous is me, might help if I’m not anonymous if I want to win the book that would need to be sent to a named person who exists.
This caught my eye, and I immediately thought of you guys.
The Making of Dungeons & Dragons
https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/long-rush/#dungeons
A hundred bucks is too rich for my blood, or at least for my relatively-mild interest in the early history of our hobby, but you’d probably see it differently. Enjoy!
Dropped a “reskeet” on BlueSky before I listened and then dropped a “quote reskeet” after the listen. Great episode!
That was a fascinating episode – you have a new subscriber!
I hope you are enjoying Caroline Munro introducing “The Cellar Club” every Friday on Talking Pictures TV! Currently showing “The Omega Factor”…