Last time, I wrote about the unexpected richness of roleplaying games—or more specifically, storyjamming—as part of rewilding, as a crucial, long-term survival skill. I found something else interesting at that unusual intersection: other people. Yes, other people, besides me, have an interest in both rewilding and roleplaying games, and even how roleplaying games can deepen, improve, and help our rewilding!

• The College of Mythic Cartography. You can’t talk about storyjamming without mentioning the man who coined the term, Portland’s illustrious Willem Larsen. I do take some pride in having a hand in pushing Willem to dust off his old teenage hobby and see the potential in it.
• The Myth Weavers. An online story band I sometimes jam with. At the end of each episode, I call it “the actual play story games podcast for people who rewild.” We haven’t jammed nearly as often as I’d like, so episodes come very sporadically.
• Buried Without Ceremony, an incredible blog written by Joe McDonald, an independent game designer who came up with some beautiful games, including Ribbon Drive. He brings together rewilding, guerrilla theater, appreciative inquiry, urban foraging, guerrilla gardening, nonviolent communication and so many other wonderful things that every time he posts a new entry, I feel a positive tingle of anticipation.
• Story by the Throat, the blog of Joel Shempert. I think example will fill in here better than description. Trackers Portland does youth camps to introduce children to the outdoors, and teach them nature awareness, basic tracking, the kinds of basic skills we all used to have. To make it fun, and to make it come alive, they put on a camp called “Welcome to Middle Earth.” All the more fitting, since Tolkien himself aspired to create a new English mythology. Tony got in touch with Joel, who helped apply story games design to the event. He blogged about it recently. The combination of skills and story, woven together so tightly, all to weave back together family and land, to find the stories in the landscape, seems so beautiful I could cry. That gives you an idea of the kind of stuff Joel gets involved with.

Do you know about anyone else? Tell me about them!