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, Ropecon ry.

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, Satu Heliö, Thomas Duus Henriksen, John H. Kim, Johanna Koljonen, Petri Lankoski, Ari-Pekka Lappi, Elge Larsson, Merja Leppälahti, Mika Loponen, Paul Mason, Juhana Pettersson, Mike Pohjola, Erling Rognli, Christopher Sandberg, Henrik Summanen, Terhi Säilä, Karin Tidbeck, Aksel Westlund, Gabriel Widing and Emma Wieslander. The foreword is contributed by Professor Frans Mäyrä 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.

The link is not working for me.

-Ben

Try dropping the period at the end of the link.

Yes, the correct addresses are

http://www.ropecon.fi/brap
http://www.laivforum.dk/kp03_book
http://knutepunkt.laiv.org