PoRtaL preparations

PoRtaL preparations - and more

I've kept quite busy lately - aside from 2 larps this past weekend, my regular job and family time (which could be better, to be honest), I've been quite busy working on the PoRtaL convention this weekend (programming and schedules, yes - it's a bit late but should be done this evening) and the larp I'm running there (which is almost complete, but it will need some polish before it's published because due to the fact I switched from Croatian to English midway while writing the first version...).

And I still need to write all my presentations (and I'll have a few!) - AAARGH! There's nothing quite like the deadlines. This will be a short post.

Anyway, today is the discussion about larp in the book club Booksa in Zagreb under its regular discussion series "SF in Booksa", with Aleksandar Žiljak and Ana Rajner. It will mention the history of larp, scene in Croatia and Europe, and it will also mention the subjects of literature, reenactment, possibilities of using larp for education and much more. It starts at 19:00 this evening, so if you're free around that time, check it out.

Oh, remember how two posts ago I asked you to watch Briljanteen this Friday on HRT2 for a 5 minute special with me and Ana talking about larp? Scratch that - it's been postponed for a week, so it should be up next Friday (March 8th).

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The 15 rules of larp

The following 15 rules (warning: strong language) were written some years ago in Great Britain, and have been pretty much generally accepted on the British larp scene. Especially popular is rule 7 - widely known by its number and commonly considered to be the most imortant rule of all (and I agree). Even the biggest British larp forum has taken Rule7 as its name. The rules have been originally created by the Drunken Monkeys and edited by Rick Wynne who added some extra stuff in the explanations to make them more understandable to international audience (it still contains some British larp lingo though), more work-safe and to throw in his two cents. (copy of the original wording is available here ) 1. Don’t play a mighty warrior; play a warrior and be mighty. Don’t label your character. As soon as you say that you are the best swordsman in the land someone will come along and kick your ass. Just get into the mindset of the person and role-play it out. 2. No one cares about you...

It's been way too long without any updates

I'm just back from PoRtaL XII, which was back in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 6 years after PoRtaL VI , which is - incidentally - only 3 posts below this one on my blog, and I still remember it like it was yesterday. And this means I failed to review the past two year's PoRtaLs, also excellent. Here's some representation for them. Back during PoRtaL 10 in Krakow, I did a presentation called Designing larps with intent . It was streamed, and can be found on Youtube. For PoRtaL 10, I also wrote and ran a larp Journey to Tau Ceti - an expanded version of the Arrival at Tau Ceti. I was a mess at documenting it, and it still remains in an unpublishable state. Both of these were run on Friday, which means I haven't really see much else on the convention that day, but I did on Saturday, when I was also able to play Ties that Bind larp by Alexandros Alexiou. I skipped Sunday, as we had to go early to drive home. For documentation purposes, full program listing is here . At next year...

Discord is up

More stuff from my PoRtaL XII talk, Larps and Information Technology , seem to be coming true. In particular, the part about technology becoming old. And so it is with this blog. The technology it's built on is getting old and starts to not play as nice with modern browsers, plugins and smartphones as it used to. Specifically, the comment section doesn't seem to work for anyone. So I decided to open a discord to help us all connect in an easier way. If you are interested, join the Crolarper discord server here .

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