Monica Hjort Traxl and Mo Holkar Sex! Isn’t it great? And a significant and thought-provoking part of human experience. Interesting because of the effects it has on people; dramatic because of the emotional stories that can be woven around it; fun because it’s (usually) enjoyable, and we’re all grown-ups here, aren’t we? If you’re designing Read the full article…
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!
Have you been tempted by the open sea? You feel it: passion unbridled with no dull excuses. The world outside is a faraway grey street where words are blades that hurt. This is our utopia of intellect and illusion: we are the dry-mouthed seafarers, as wounded as proud, as mad as holy. The Siren Call Read the full article…
This is a compilation of answers to this question asked by James Stuart: “Friends who have played in a weekend-long nordic larp (College of Wizardry, Just A Little Lovin’, Mad About the Boy, etc, etc), I’m curious to hear what advice would you give to someone (not me) who is completely new to LARPing on Read the full article…
You might be planning to design a larp (or a freeform/semi-live scenario) in a short space of time, looking at a blank page, and wondering where to start. Or you might want to shake up your usual design practice a little with a slightly different approach. This is what I do myself: read on, and Read the full article…
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 Read the full article…
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 Read the full article…
I know I’m months behind on here, but I wanted to do a quick post with some feedback I’ve been sent about recent larp runs. So Women on the Verge… and These Are the Days of Our Lives are two subtly different versions of my chamber larp about the lives of a group of women Read the full article…
“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 Read the full article…
I got to play the freshly-published version of the excellent social card game In a Bind recently. It’s designed by Behrooz Shahriari, who I know originally via the London playtest meetup. It’s a very straightforward game, quick to learn and to play, for 3–10 players, about physical constraints. At its simplest, players take turns to Read the full article…