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Terrain scouting and announcements for Rise of Rashalan and Terra Nova 2014

As I mentioned earlier, I was unable to join either Maksimir 68 or Utvrda Svijetlosti 2013. I had friends who visited and stayed overnight - and we had a lovely time. It doesn't mean I spent the weekend completely unproductive larp-wise, however - it was time for some terrain scouting for +Terra Nova larp (aha! Now on Google+) which included a total of over 250 km of cross-country driving...

First order of business was a location in Subotica Podravska, near Koprivnica. The terrain is a private property which could take 100 people camping in comfort - and it would work well even if pushed to 200 people. It's a very diverse terrain which will host Terra Nova 2014 in May next year - and sorting it all out allowed us to announce it :)

Afterwards, we scouted a second location which would be great for a shorter (single-day) Terra Nova spin-off event this autumn, Rise of Rashalan. We haven't really decided on this location yet as there are few more to scout - but it had allowed us to announce the event.

Both Terra Nova events are going to have meetings (one for RoR, one for TN2014) about a month prior to the event itself - which will hopefully help the players prepare as well as help us create even better events this time.

Several more larp projects for the future have been discussed - and even though there are some details I can't yet share, I'm quite excited about what's going to happen on the Croatian scene.


Dru

Apart from all the terrain scouting, I played a role-playing scenario called Dru with four of my friends. Not really a larp, and not exactly a tabletop RPG - it was an interesting tale about druids created by collaborative storytelling, and it worked much better than I thought it would. A nice way to finish an interesting day.

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