Simon Brind

Simon Brind is a writer, game designer, and PhD student. He is researching ‘Combat Narratology: Strategies for the resolution of narrative crisis in participatory fiction’ at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, (UWE), Bristol; primarily he is interested in the tension between the larp writer’s vision and what the players make of it. He has been a larper since 1985 and a larpwright since 1986.

Editor of Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories (2017) together with Martine Svanevik, Linn Carin Andreassen, Elin Nilsen, and Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand.

Larpwright (designer/co-designer/writer)

 * System two (1986)
 * The Dream Game (1989-1992))
 * Deci Underground Campaign (1991-1992)
 * Zombie: The Gibbering (1994)
 * A Winter’s Tale (1999)
 * Dreams and Shadows (1999-2002)
 * The Washing of Three Tides (2001)
 * Into the Woods (2001)
 * Bel’s Faire (2002)
 * Cheerleaders of Satan in Bondage (2002)
 * Odyssey (2010-2016)
 * "Freakshow" (2017)
 * The Quota - Border Crossing (2017)

Books

 * Author The Witchard's Almanack (2018)
 * Editor: The Peckforton Papers - Essays from four decades of UK larp (2018)
 * Editor: Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories (2017)
 * Author The Witchards Almanack (2017)

Articles on Larp

 * Playing Safe? - article in Re-shuffling the deck - The Knutpunkt 2018 printed companion (2018)


 * Response to Ian Andrews - an article about player agency in story led larp in Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories (2017)


 * Prebleed is totally a thing - article in Larp Realia - Analysis, Design, and Discussions of Nordic Larp (2016)


 * College of Wizardry - part 1 - a review of College of Wizardry 3 in Larp.Guide (2015)

Talks

 * Using lies to tell the truth: Player agency on epic scale - Larp Design Conference 2016