Diary of a Croatian larper

We made our fourth Larp Group video - about love and relationships on larp. If you haven't seen it live, check it out here! :)

Tomorrow is when the biggest Croatian reenactment / living history event starts, the tournament of Sv. Helena - it's a huge tournament which draws in many medieval groups from Croatia and the surrounding countries, and many visitors too. The attendees will also see great visuals... which sometimes remind me of big German larps, such as Drachenfest and ConQuest. There's just something about that level of organisation, size, visuals and equipment standards which brings back memories, and desire to bring Croatian larp closer to that visual level. Tomorrow is also when I'll do another Hangout by larping.org's The Larp Group. It will start in its usual time, at 5 PM CET, and it will be about love and relationships at larps. If you miss the live stream, you'll be able to see the video on the youtube channel, as usual. Highland games is a larp that will happen tomorrow - in-character highlander and celtic games, with lots of song and partying to boot. It will ...

As announced, here's a third Hangout panel by The Larp Group: Larp and other Drugs. In it, we talked about use of alcohol, smoking and drugs on larps. Enjoy!

Yup, it's that time of the month again. Time for the third Larp Group Hangout! This time it will be about a touchy subject: drugs and alcohol. Which is quite fitting as April 20th is a cannabis day in North America. Also, in a very interesting turn of events, this has just recently been discussed in some larp circles here in Croatia. It should be quite interesting. And as always, there's a live chat on Youtube to answer any questions you might have. It will be streamed live on Larping.org channel this Saturday at 5 PM central european time (11 AM for east coast Americans). Unfortunately, we haven't been able to get our regular larper, Callie. So we've got another person as a fourth member of our panel for this month. His name is Tom Miller. The rest of the crew is familiar - Kaza Marie, the Larp Girl who's organizing this Hangout, Martin Straarup (Larp Forge/Lazy Larper), and yours truly. If you missed our first two panels, here they are: On Sunday, th...

It was time for the second Hangout of The Larp Group, a series of online discussion panels sponsored by Larping.org, and consisting of Kaza and Callie from USA, Martin from Denmark and yours truly. Today we shared some experience from our first events, remembered how it was back then, shared some of our silliness, shared old photos and gave some advice to new players. Compared to last time, we also shortened it to 1 hour run time. If you missed it live, check it out below:

"The Larp Group" which I'm a part of - we did the live panel on Hangouts recently, if you remember - is meeting once again in ten days. I'll join Kaza "Larp Girl", Callie and Martin  on Saturday, March 16th and it will be broadcast live on larping.org youtube channel, like last time. If you live in USA on the east coast, it will be one hour earlier than the previous Hangout - at 11 AM EDT. If you're in Europe, it will be TWO hours earlier - at 16:00 CET. The reason for this is the USA switching to daylight saving time earlier (March 10th) than us Europeans switching to summer time (March 31st). We'll be discussing how to get started on larp, and our personal experiences. Our first video if you missed it - Physical Combat Rules This was a busy weekend. While many Croatian larpers were on PoRtaL, and there was also a huge convention in the USA (Intercon M), two Larp Group panelists - Kaza and Callie - went to the first event of Callie's Era...

So, we did that Hangout :) Total recorded material is 1 hour and 21 minutes long. It started late (due to some bugs it had to be re-created) and I was plagued by some audio issues, seemingly due to bandwidth (I solved it later), but it was a very interesting cross-cultural discussion. For those of you who missed the live stream, you can watch it here: We'll do it again at some point :)