{"id":239,"date":"2018-08-25T14:49:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T19:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/?p=239"},"modified":"2018-08-25T14:49:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T19:49:35","slug":"interviewing-anders-sandberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/2018\/08\/25\/interviewing-anders-sandberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviewing Anders Sandberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer I had the amazing opportunity to interview a man I admired greatly in my teenage years.\u00a0 Anders Sandberg, a native of Sweden, ran Anders Mage Page during the 1990s.\u00a0 It was the best Web site for fans of Mage: the Ascension, a roleplaying game by White Wolf.\u00a0 I visited the site regularly to see the new pieces he was writing.\u00a0 His intelligence and imagination were evident in all his writings.\u00a0 I was such a fan I submitted a piece for the Web site and he graciously posted it.<\/p>\n<p>On July 14th my interview was made <a href=\"https:\/\/magethepodcast.com\/post\/175874133201\/anders-mage-page\">an episode<\/a> of Mage the Podcast.\u00a0 Initially, I was quite nervous interviewing him.\u00a0 He has moved on to become a research fellow with one of Oxford University&#8217;s groups.\u00a0 However, my apprehensions faded away within moments.\u00a0 We discussed our favorite roleplaying game and quickly jumped from topic to topic.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll have the chance to speak with him again but, after so many years, it was wonderful to have a full conversation with a person I admire.\u00a0 He even granted me permission to reprint his pieces which are no longer available online.\u00a0 More on that project later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer I had the amazing opportunity to interview a man I admired greatly in my teenage years.\u00a0 Anders Sandberg, a native of Sweden, ran Anders Mage Page during the 1990s.\u00a0 It was the best Web site for fans of Mage: the Ascension, a roleplaying game by White Wolf.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}