photo from here I just got back from Knutpunkt 2014, the annual Nordic-countries larp conference. 300 or so very interesting, clever and fun people talking and doing about larp for three days at a holiday camp not far from Gothenburg. It’s going to take me a little while to internally process everything I took in […]
Next week I’m going to be attending Knutpunkt, the annual Nordic(-style) larp conference. I’ll write more about that in due course, but this post is about the book that accompanies it, which has just been published. It’s in two volumes, which you can download from the linked pages: The Foundation Stone of Nordic Larp – […]
The Mixing Desk of Larp is not just a great metaphor, it’s also a useful design tool and a valuable way of conveying information about a game to prospective players. Let me tell you about it! Or you can read about it yourself in this article taken from the 2013 Knutepunkt book Crossing Theoretical Borders. […]
Phew, it’s been a fortnight now since I played in Cafe Casablanca. This was a weekend-long game set in Casablanca in 1941, in the same mould as the King’s Musketeers game that I went to last year. (And don’t seem to have written about on here. Hmm, sorry about that.) So these are both quite […]
None but the Brave is an idea for a Nordic-larp-style game for Consequences, November 20141. As the con title/theme is “Heroic Consequences”, I wanted to come up with something that examines the nature and performance of heroism. The game’s main themes are: bravery vs cowardice; different types of bravery; the effect on people of heroic […]
I find it kind of a pity that the people running the UK Larp Awards event evidently either don’t know about the sort of larp (uk-freeform-style) that we’re doing, or don’t care about it, or don’t consider it to be ‘larp’. Steve Hatherley has recently suggested that early examples of our games were described as […]
(Caveat: this is not an attempt to define anything, or to declare anything, or any kind of artistic or political statement… just a set of observations which will hopefully be helpful.) Freeform in general Here in the UK there is a type of game called ‘freeform’. Well, this is inaccurate already: there are probably all […]
A few days ago I went for the first time to the Storygasm group, a London-based bunch of role-players who specialize in story games. This particular get-together was called with the plan of exploring the Play with Intent guidebook, written by Emily Care Boss and Matthijs Holter. This document contains a set of methods and […]
This is a mechanic to be used in a possible WiP (about which I shall post more if it comes to anything). I wanted a range of outcomes whose probability distribution would be affected by how brave the character wished to be, with braver declarations giving more likelihood of extreme outcomes in either good or […]
So this was the seventh year of Consequences, the UK’s convention for short-form larps of the type generally referred to in this country as ‘freeforms’. If you’re not familiar with this style, I’ve got a post brewing about what characterizes them as distinct from other kinds of larp, but let’s say for now that they’re […]