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The year is nearly done

Or at least this year's Croatian LARP season is. Even though the actual year ends in two weeks, no LARPs have been scheduled for the remainder of the year.

After today, that is. Because today is Maksimir 53, which has the honor of being the last event of the year. Perhaps it manages to wrap up its tiny story arc which started on Maksimir 51? We'll see.

Most other LARPs wrapped up their stories as much as they could. Which gave this year the feeling of being somehow complete. With most large and midsize LARPs ever to be organized in Croatia, old ideas which were finally made to work, and plenty of new ideas and creativity we have seen.

We made awesome connections with LARPers from other countries - Slovenia, Serbia and USA primarily, but also players from Bulgaria (who by the way have a new site), Germany, UK, Denmark, etc.

It was a wild ride, sometimes bumpy, but overall we have truly created something here this LARP season, something that's hopefully going to last and grow further as our LARP population and our international LARP connections continue to grow, as well as our own RP quality, and keep bringing out the best of our RP efforts while we're on the event.

Thank you all for this wonderful season, and let's continue in 2012. in the same spirit. First announced event is Krvomeđe on Jan 15th. And for those of you who can make it today, visit Maksimir park in Zagreb and attend the last Croatian event of the year.
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  1. AnonymousDecember 23, 2011 at 10:48 PM

    Hello friends, another greeting from Bulgaria, I found the blog when I was the post larp.bg's new main page. I quite like it, you are doing a good thing here. I'd like to share with you my own blog - http://drunkethics.blogspot.com/ where I put my works - I make a lot of armour for bulgarian larp players.

    Best regards, Shash.

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  2. Ivan ŽalacJanuary 25, 2012 at 7:09 AM

    Hi Shash, following your blog now ;)

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