I went to the second Tallinn Larp Festival! It happens in a community centre not far from the historic part of the city, and it had about 40 people – a nice mix of Estonians and internationals – playing 14 different larps across four slots. Larps at Tallinn I ran Real Men, the co-created larp […]
This year’s annual nordic larp conference was Knutepunkt 2017, in Norway, just on the edge of Oslo. It was my fourth time of attending, which means that I’ve now completed the cycle around the four host countries – which is probably some sort of level-up. The venue was a comfortable hotel, the food was all […]
I went for the second time to Stockholm Scenario Festival, early in November – you can read here about my first visit, last year. This time I was part of a quite decent-sized UK-based contingent, and I think overall the attenders might have been a bit more internationally mixed than last year. In stages I […]
Last weekend was the tenth annual run of Consequences, the UK chamber larp convention. When it started it focused very strongly on the style known here as freeform, but in recent years it’s broadened out considerably, and you can find a real mix of styles and approaches. It’s a very friendly, mingly kind of convention, […]
I forgot to say, this was a couple of months ago now, I wrote a guest post on the excellent Plan B Rollespil blog – about my experience playing and GMing scenarios at Fastaval that didn’t win prizes (because people tend mostly to talk about the ones that do win). Check it out!
Back at the end of October I was at Grenselandet, the international chamber larp festival held in Oslo. Unlike Stockholm Scenario Festival which I wrote about recently, Grenselandet is just for proven games, not new material – they all have to have run properly at least once – and each takes place only once and […]
In November I attended Stockholm Scenario Festival, a three-day gathering of about 130 people for short chamber larps and freeforms. Back in the spring the organizers had done a call for new games to run at the festival, and I submitted my Women on the Verge… They liked it, with certain tweaks which meant that […]
“What’s a man now, what’s a man mean? Is he rough or is he rugged, Is he cultural and clean? Now it’s all change, it’s got to change more, Cause we think it’s getting better But nobody’s really sure…” ‘Real Men’, Joe Jackson The other day Kevin Burns and I got to run the first […]
Just back from Knudepunkt 2015, this year’s version of the annual Nordic larp conference. It was great! – a fantastic time of interesting thoughts and lovely people (and vice versa). I wrote last year about my experience of the 2014 KP, and a few weeks ago here about encouraging people to go along, so I […]
The UK’s national chamber larp convention took place at the end of November as usual – this was the 8th edition. 150 people, 28 different larps, over three days. The standard slot is four hours, and the games ranged from 4 to 32 players – a mix of the traditional UK-style, some American, Nordic and other […]