Yesterday, I riffed on Fastaval, an awesome Danish roleplay convention I attended as part of my two-week Nordic roleplay junket. Today, I want to talk about a few favorite elements of the convention that US convention designers might import into their
Fastavaling
The first stop on my crazy Nordic tour was Fastaval, a convention devoted to board-gaming, larps, and freeform games. What are freeform games, you ask? No one knows for sure. They are sort of like tabletop games, except you sometimes
The Three-fold Theories
There are infinity-jillion roleplaying games, but you can talk about all of them using just three words: gamism, simulationism, narrativism. Find out what these mean and more in the first post in my “Larp Theory for Laypeople” series, in which I read the classics so you don’t have to.