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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.

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. They write for Perilous Worlds.

Awards

• Rollspelsdraken 2012
• The ESFS Chrysalis Awards (Sweden) 2019

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

• Review of "Mot andra världar" (Towards other worlds) (in Swedish), a Swedish-language documentary of the Swedish TTRPG scene featuring Jonsson and Petersén discussing their creation of KULT and the moral panic surrounding the game

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

• Role-playing game designers
• Swedish game designers