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The week of awesomeness splits Croatian LARPers

The next week is going to have two events - both awesome as in "you can't miss them" until you realize they're held at the same time.



April 26th - 29th brings us Eurocon in Zagreb, in place of this year's regular SFeraKon. It will be the biggest and most significant SF/Fantasy event in Croatia since 1986. (which is the last time it was held in Zagreb). While the tickets are more expensive than for regular SFeraKon, Thursday is free for anyone in costume - that would be all LARPers as well. Ognjeni Mač will have a stand there - and there will be other LARPers too. Krvomeđe tournament will also be held outside on Sunday at 2. Overall, there will be a very decent LARP presence. It goes without saying that it will be awesome.



April 27th - May 2nd brings us VLarp in Serbia, organized by Green Banner it'll be quite possibly the biggest Serbian LARP of the year, drawing in Bulgarian players as well. For Croatian standards, travel there + stay + food is very inexpensive considering the length of the LARP (7 days!!!) and its distance. And that LARP will be awesome too - that's again something that goes without saying.

If you had no plans so far to visit any of those, perhaps now would be a good time to make them - I'm sure you won't regret it.

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