Izgon larp updates, The Monitor Celestra, and larp videos!

Izgon (or: The Exile) preparations are going great. Sign-ups are over (or are they really?), the rules, setting and all characters have been written and sent to players. A little bit more preparatory work, and it will be all ready to start this Sunday morning! (If anyone who signed up didn't get the rules or the character or has any questions don't hesitate to contact me) Some people might be on Istrakon or Sunčev Kotar which will happen on the same weekend... That's all addressed in the larp design :)

And some news from the worldwide larp scene. "The Monitor Celestra", the high-budget Swedish Battlestar Galactica larp we already wrote about (and probably the most hyped larp of this year, worldwide) finished its third (and last) run the last weekend, and it was well received. Read the out-of-character and in-character recaps of the second run by Thomas Be, a French larper living in Switzerland, check out the Celestra site and the movie below to get a glimpse on how it was (edit: and hear the report from Claus Raasted):

If that's too sci-fi for you, here's also a recently-released trailer for the Swedish larp Krigshjärta:

And a nice video from "LazyLarper" Martin (from The Larp Group) explaining how to do larp knuckles (if you're doing them in Croatia where we have a distinct lack of knuckles on our larps, make sure they're OK on a larp you intend to use them on):

I found all of these videos quite inspiring, and I hope you will too :)

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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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