Nerdstash interviews

T.R. Knight at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. He is teaching a class called the Tabletop Game Writing Lab. Its specific focus is teaching the art of designing a tabletop roleplaying game, more specifically, Call of Cthulhu.

In other news from the gamer-verse, Open Cthulhu is now online. An old-school RPG, it seems to be aiming to be properly Lovecraftian rather than ‘machine-guns vs. Cthulhu’. And more importantly, to be free of trademark entanglements. See the background discussion on the project and the legal elements.