Updates: Izgon, Sunčev potočić and redesigns

Izgon larp had some hiccups in the beginning, but it's progressing along very nicely. It took a couple of days to get going fully... which is very interesting, but highly expected. I'm documenting every step of the larp and I'll publish it once it's done. At this point, I'm really curious how the participants like it so far, but of course it would be breaking character for them to answer, so I'll withold those questions until larp ends in a month. You can still sign up to participate in this larp and have plenty of meaningful stuff to do - sign-ups for secondary roles are open until one week before larp ends...

Sunčev potočić event that happened last weekend (third in the series) was by most reports a success. This paragraph is all second-hand knowledge, as I didn't participate in the larp. Apparently, there were some hiccups (mostly with organizer synchronization) and some painful night fighting, but most people there had a good time. The content was largely written for new players, of which there were many. There were a total of 44 participants - an impressive number! - most of them from Croatia, but some of them from Serbia too.

You might have noticed the recent redesign of this blog. It's not the only one - Larp Hrvatska has also been through a redesign. It's also been rebranded as a portal, and it has a new domain - www.larphrvatska.info

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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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