I promised Ziv I’d run a Lexicon game in Hebrew, which should open when his article on Lexicon games in the next issue of Aspamia shows up.
Now, I’m looking for good ideas for a subject/setting for the Lexicon. One thing very clear to me is that I want something that is uniquely Hebrew and Israeli; a Lexicon that couldn’t be played in English, because it reflects our culture rather than being translated in the participants heads to English/American and back. I’m striving for the level of cultural stickiness we had in the Navi Commission game, which basically outlined an occult secret history for modern Israel. Interestingly, it also avoided politics very consistently – there were entries on the army, and secret government operations, but because of the occult focus, the Arab-Israeli wars and the Palestinians were rarely mentioned, and if so it was in the background.
With the current situation, I think I want something even more escapist.