An Eco-Horror
Game Anthology
Rules-light and rooted in the award-winning horror game, Trophy.
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Rooted in Crisis coming to Kickstarter on May 28
Three years ago, Sam, James, and Chloe approached me to discuss the possibility of using Trophy as a teaching tool in the environmental sciences, specifically to counter the feelings of powerlessness that come up when facing the climate crisis. They saw how tabletop roleplaying games can use fantasy as metaphor for contemporary struggles, can shift…
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Shadows in the Ice
On this Earth Day – the annual initiative instigated in the USA in 1970 and now a global awareness-raising platform for a plethora of environmentally-themed events and campaigns – I put the finishing touches to my yearly contribution, Writing the Earth – a programme of events using the creative arts to explore ecological issues. This…
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New Ozymandias
“No one is more dangerous than someone fueled by righteousness.” While we were drafting New Ozymandias for Rooted in Crisis we were thinking about the type of person that does a lot of mental gymnastics to justify their means to their envisioned end. Throughout our drafting, we did a deep dive into the complexities of…
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A Poetic Turn
In the face of the ever-intensifying climate crisis, innovative approaches to fostering understanding and inspiring action have never been more needed. As an interdisciplinary scholar with a focus on the consilience of science and poetry, I assert that poetry stands as a uniquely potent tool to achieve this. It is this conviction that has guided…