edmocat.bearblog.dev · 12d · discuss
Much has been written about Over/Under, what it was and how it worked, what happened and who was there. So I’ll spare you a repeat. This retrospective is about what it meant to me. Someone smarter than me called Over/Under “RPG Woodstock” and I think that’s right. It was a month long festival of improvised free Live Text Roleplaying backed by the ever present (occasionally realised) threat of a wargame; it was mass delusion, hysteria, dogs and cats living together, the fruitful clash and collaboration of distinct cultures of play - OSR, LARP, storygames, MUD, and “what the hell even...