Karl Otto Kristoffersen

Seven months of silence while the work got loud. July became KR1's biggest month ever – here is what happened, and what comes next.

This is the story of how I introduced fantasy roleplaying to a colleague, and how a few dice rolls at the office grew into a Dungeons &...

On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, I ran a roleplaying session in English for 30 international exchange students at Kongsberg Upper Secondary...

On Saturday, June 4, there was a public celebration in Norway's oldest town. In glorious weather, Slottsfjellet was filled with bustling...

MidgardCon 2022 took place from September 30 to October 2, in the Gildehallen at Borre in Horten. It became a fantastic weekend of...

I have always been fascinated by Greek antiquity. This weekend I listened to The Poetics by Aristotle as an audiobook, and here are some...

Music has been part of humanity's genetic and cultural evolution for tens of thousands of years. Modern research suggests that listening...

In 2021 I ran KVAD for Kvinnherad Brettspelklubb. Several of the players were teachers, planning to use KVAD as a platform for teaching...

We are now in 2022, a new year with new opportunities. Of all things, I have gotten it into my head to start a blog...

During the Viking Age, the skalds held many different roles in society. They entertained the people with poetry at festive gatherings...

I have started a new series of roleplaying supplements. This time it is about exciting places that can provide inspiration for your...

On Saturday, March 12, 2022, I gave a talk at Outland Oslo about my journey to becoming a roleplaying game author.

"Sigurd Jarl will bitterly regret it when I stick my knife in him!" - says one of the players with great immersion. The roleplaying...

In the summer of 2023, KVAD turns two years old. After hundreds of hours of adventures in Nordveien, I want to highlight some points I...

The town of Kongsberg turns 400 years old in 2024, and the municipality is planning a grand anniversary year for the mining town by the...

From October 14 to November 19, 2022, Emil Kaaen organized a digital game creator jam over itch.io. This framework, and all the creative...

Barely two years after launch, the roleplaying game Kvad is out of stock in Game Forlag's warehouse. Over 300 books were printed and...

As of this writing, I have spent 274 hours of a 400-hour budget developing Silverheart. The game now has a finished first draft, and...

This year I attended two gaming conventions, one in Horten (MidgardCon) and one in Bergen (RegnCon). These are fantastic arenas for...

Lately, several exciting things have been happening for Kvad. Here are some of the highlights.