Diary of a Croatian larper

As I have mentioned before, last weekend was quite busy . What time I spent on the living history tournament I was mostly busy or having a headache, but it was nice except for all the rain, but I mostly missed that part. We did the Hangout . I missed the Krvomeđe on Sunday, but it had 12 people attending, and fitting nicely in the dry period of the day. The biggest larp thing that weekend, though, was the Highland Games larp. Campfire tales Well, due to my schedule and arriving late I missed the "games" part, but I heard from the others it was great fun. Caber toss, hammer throw, tug o'war and several other games were played in-character. When I arrived, the sun was already setting - at least I guess it did, the cloud cover was thick enough. The spit-roasting of a suckling pig was just about done, and I arrived at the start of the feeding frenzy. And it really was a sight to behold - I can honestly say I have never seen people who are more happy or excited about th...

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 ...

The question I've been asked recently by several people is why don't I do more larps. The question was not larps in general - it was about the specific series. Why don't I do a sequel to Izgon soon? Why don't I do more Terra Nova events per year? I'll explain my thoughts on this below. To tell the truth, I've actually been doing a lot of stuff for a while. Here's a short list of things I've done this year so far: Terra Nova: Zimograd  (a 3-day larp event) PoRtaL (a 3-day larp convention - coorganized it, while doing workshops, presentations, writing a larp  for it and guiding a team into creating another larp, (Re)union) Izgon larp, merely running it took over a month, preparation took some more time Running Ars Amandi workshop and Death of the Japanese Emperor larp on SFeraKon Co-organized a Krvomeđe Terra Nova 2013 (a 3-day larp event) Maintaining this blog, my personal life and my sanity, while also writing stuff for larping.org, do...

Scroll of Law of New Ardonia Reviewing an event which you have done yourself is different than reviewing an event you have visited, as experience had shown. Terra Nova series is now over a year old. It had four events since March last year: intro , 2012 , Zimograd , and now 2013. Its fourth event was also its third big event, and the second summer event. Like all Terra Nova events so far, this one was done on a different terrain - both in-game and out-of-game - and it was played in Starigrad near Koprivnica. The terrain consisted of a narrow valley which housed camps (and a house which was on terrain), a hill, and a nearby forest, and it represented a mountain in the larp storyline. An Ur-Tuk and the air altar Due to some terrain issues, organisation started later than I wanted to. There were some other issues as well - as I have switched jobs I was unable to take a day off at Friday, and Zagreb was overcrowded that day, which means me and other organizers arrived after s...

Terra Nova 2013 starts tomorrow. It's something that occupies most of my thoughts since Izgon ended, and especially this week as it's been quite busy. Most of my free time had been spent preparing for the event and making sure everything goes smoothly. I haven't watched the newest episode of "Game of Thrones", nor did I go out to see the newest Star Trek movie yet. There will be time for it - after weekend. Last evening I was on the terrain which will be used on Terra Nova 2013. Most of what we did was some minor landscaping - clearing the terrain, making it more accessible, safe and usable for larp, camping and passage. We also did some crafting, scouting the nearby locales and had some fun together, preparing for the event this weekend. Preparations are not done yet - there's still stuff to do today and tomorrow - but most of the stuff is done. It makes me wonder - dear readers, what usually goes in terrain preparations for your larps? Or set preparat...

Apparently, I'm a pretentious, jealous piece of shit. It seems my review of Jaska 11 had ruffled some feathers. As one of its organizers posted on his facebook profile: Although I was not specifically named, I assumed this refered to me and my review - which had dared to say something negative about that event (mostly about gamism gone wrong, as I reviewed that event on a largely positive note). Apparently, I'm trying to put down the event to raise my own (Terra Nova). Am I jealous? Well, the golem suit was awesome, but it was probably the only element on Jaska which I'd like to see on Terra Nova. Anyway, to clarify if this refered to me I've asked the man himself: So, the status was referring to me among others (isn't it nice when an organizer calls his players names?). Also, apparently I write huge piles of shit, I'm a liar and my "writing" and "blog" are so worthless that they've had to be put in the quotation marks. And...