February larps: Krvomeđe and Maksimir 63

The schedule for February has been announced. So far it looks like a quiet month - well, more quiet than January at least. February will give us one more Krvomeđe (Feb. 17th) and a Maksimir larp (Feb 23rd), which will be the first Ognjeni Mač larp by the new OzOI (Ognjeni Mač's plot team), in the Maksimir park, Zagreb. It will be the 63rd Maksimir larp made, and the next two have also been announced. Maksimir 64 will be on March 9th, and Maksimir 65 on April 13th. Seems like the OzOI is aiming for once-a-month larps this season.

If you're a new reader, Krvomeđe is a pure fantasy battle event, while Maksimir is a high-action quest-based fantasy larp. Both last a couple of hours, are located in Zagreb on a public area, have free entrance, and will give you plenty of opportunities to fight.

Last day of the February could be the first day of the planned larp convention (which is supposed to be March 1st-3rd in Zagreb), but it hasn't been officially announced yet...

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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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