Gunilla_Jonsson_and_Michael_Petersén

Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén

Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén

Game designers

Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén are Swedish writers and designers of role-playing games. They wrote the Mutant and KULT games while working for Äventyrsspel (Target Games) in the 1980s. They helmed their own game company, Ragnarök Speldesign, for a few years in the late 1980s.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Michael Petersén and Gunilla Jonsson at a science fiction convention (Swecon 2018)

Personal life

Jonsson and Petersén ended up in the same group of role-players in 1981. They are married, and both work at the SF-Bokhandeln bookstore in Stockholm.[2] They write for Perilous Worlds.[7]

Awards

  • Rollspelsdraken 2012[2]
  • The ESFS Chrysalis Awards (Sweden) 2019 [8][9]

Works

  • Mutant (rpg, 1984, Äventyrsspel)
  • KULT (rpg, 1991, Äventyrsspel)
    • Mörkrets Legioner, Den Svarta Madonnan, Fallna Änglar, Tarotikum
  • Writing credits on games Sagan om Ringen (Swedish translation of MERP) and Western Rollspelet
  • several scenarios for Drakar och Demoner, Chock (Swedish translation of Chill) and Mutant (1984 and 1991 versions), including Spökgeneralen and Uppdrag i Mos Mosel
  • En Garde! (rpg, 1987, Ragnarök Speldesign)
  • Skuggornas Mästare (rpg, 1988, Ragnarök Speldesign)
  • Döden är bara början and De levande döda (novels, 2018/2020, Free League Publishing)

References

  1. [1]
    Rollspelsakademien: Ragnarök Speldesign (in Swedish)
  2. [2]
    https://frialigan.se/sv/authors/gunilla-jonsson-michael-petersen/ (in Swedish)
  3. [3]
    Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '90s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-084-7.
  4. [4]
    Speltidningen.se (in Swedish)
  5. [5]
    "Gunilla Jonsson & Michael Petersén-arkiv - Nordsken 2019 - Nordsken 2019". Archived from the original on 2019-10-08. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  6. [6]
    https://eloso.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/eloso-pressrelase-call-of-cthulhu-181031.pdf Archived 2019-10-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish)
  7. [7]
    "Perilous Worlds".
  8. [8]
    Sterling, Bruce. "The European Science Fiction Society's Awards for 2019". Wired.
  9. [9]
    "ESFS Awards 2019 – European Science Fiction Society".
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