How to Cut a Freeform Game
Cutting freeform games isn't easy. In this first post from my new series on freeform, experienced GMs give advice on cutting short, cutting to enhance mood, and more.
Tag nordic larp
Leaving Mundania Hits the BBC!
The BBC films a segment on Leaving Mundania, and a great review from Geekadelphia.
Player Safety in Nordic Games
Notes I took during the player safety panel at Solmukohta 2012.
Symptoms of Knutedepression
Solmukohta, the weirdly-named Finnish edition of the Knutepunkt convention ended more than a week ago, but the symptoms of Nordic withdrawal linger. Do you suffer from this dread disease? Symptoms may include: using the prefix “knute-” for everything, regardless of appropriateness…
The Solmukohta Culture Report
I’ve written about the programming that I enjoyed at Solmukohta, but I’ve got more observations scrambling to escape my noggin. Here they are, in no particular order: Travel Fatigue Foreign travel depresses my natural level of pep. There’s something about…
Solmukohta Ahoy
After my stop in Denmark for Fastaval, I headed to Helsinki to participate in Solmukohta, the Finnish installation of the Knutepunkt conference that rotates its way around the Nordic capitals, changing its name according to the local languages. The event…
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…
Link Love: Larp Conventions
Shout out to some of the world’s larp conventions. This list would be way longer if I included all the general gaming conventions that offer larp as part of the fun; I tried to keep it to just the larp…
Come to ‘Do You Love Me?’
Lonely this Valentine’s Day? Or maybe you have a date but don’t know where to bring him? Live near New York City? Come to <3 Do You Love Me <3, a free series of short talks about love and gaming…
Danish Larp: Arty Edition
Danish organizers and players Bjarke Pederson and Nynne Søs Rasmussen give us the goods on workshops, debriefs, and the mind-blowing intensity of Nordic arty larp.