Mike Pohjola

Mikko "Mike" Pohjola (born 15 October 1978[1]) is a Finnish poet, playwright, author, and roleplaying game designer.[2] He is the author of Myrskyn aika, Star Wreck Roleplaying Game, Tähti, Kadonneet kyyneleet, Ihmisen poika, and Age of the Tempest.

Mike Pohjola in 2011

In Nordic live action role-playing (LARP) circles, he's known as the author of "the Manifesto of the Turku School" (2000), advocating immersive gaming, as the designer of several experimental LARPs,[3] and as the author of several published roleplaying books. Several of Pohjola's artistic and theoretical articles have been published in journals and magazines in Europe and the United States.

Pohjola's first novel, Kadonneet kyyneleet was published in the summer of 2008.[4] Also in 2008, he released the nonfiction book Sanaleikkikirja, a collection of Finnish puns and wordplay.

Roleplaying bibliography

As author

As contributor

Other books
  • Kadonneet kyyneleet, 2008, Gummerus Kustannus Oy
  • Sanaleikkikirja, 2008, Gummerus Kustannus Oy
  • Ihmisen poika, 2011, Gummerus Kustannus Oy
gollark: Linux permissions are, honestly, not much use in desktop environments, since if an attack on a program gets it to run arbitrary code as your user, it can still access your files and stuff. All it can't do is poke at the system files (owned by root).
gollark: There should probably be a company which does that with some sort of witty name.
gollark: Hacking space-time for fun and profit™
gollark: Also "let's spy on everyone because terrorists".
gollark: ```'I [suspect] that we are throwing more and more of our resources, including the cream of our youth, into financial activities remote from the production of goods and services, into activities that generate high private rewards disproportionate to their social productivity. I suspect that the immense power of the computer is being harnessed to this 'paper economy', not to do the same transactions more economically but to balloon the quantity and variety of financial exchanges.'--James Tobin, July 1984```

References
  1. (in Finnish) Mike Pohjola's brief CV
  2. (in Finnish) Publisher's page on Pohjola
  3. (in Finnish) Interview on Mike Pohjola Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
  4. (in Finnish) Kadonneet kyyneleet by Mike Pohjola Archived 2009-02-06 at the Wayback Machine, Gummerus Publishing


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