37 Paolo Greco

Weird Games and Weirder People

Paolo Greco is a writer, game designer, artist, book binder, editor, publisher and many other things! They created the Adventure Fantasy Game, Chthonic Codex, Mageblade, Wulfwald, Beyond the Pale and much more. They also created Lost Pages, the publisher who first published both Into the Odd (by Chris McDowell) and Maze Rats (by Ben Milton).

I've been a fan of Paolo's work and presence in the RPG space since the good old days of Google +, and miss seeing them around, so this chat was special for me. Paolo's work both as a game designer and publisher helped shaped the way I game and how I make games too. The line of spell books which started with Wonders & Wickedness is probably one of the best books/zine dealing with magic for fantasy games I've ever seen. I love them.

In this chat me and Paolo talked about mental health, how that affect our creativity, art and hobbies that we practice or are interested in, works and artists that have influenced us, weird games we played, and many more weird things.

It was a great chat, it get personal, it gets weird! The way we like it here! ;)

So listen up and get weird with us!

Check out Paolo's Links!

https://www.lostpages.co.uk/

https://shop.lostpages.co.uk/

Get Wulfwald: https://shop.lostpages.co.uk/products/wulfwald-boxed-set

Get Beyond the Pale: https://shop.lostpages.co.uk/products/beyond-the-pale-print-pdf

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Stuff mentioned in the Episode:

Italo Calvino: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino

The Nonexistent Knight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nonexistent_Knight

Invisible Cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Cities

Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad: https://www.kickassistan.net/p/metal-gods-of-ur-hadad-zine.html

Jorge Luis Borges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges

Fiesta de San Juan: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_de_San_Juan

Fighting Fantasy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Fantasy

Atlantis of the Sands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_of_the_Sands

Twine: https://twinery.org/