Monthly Archives: May 2015

The Last Ropecon at Dipoli

2015-05-25 0 Juhana Pettersson

Ropecon is a Finnish roleplaying game convention. It’s also been something that’s been a part of my life for twenty years now. It was first organized in 1994, but I missed the initial years. I’m pretty sure my first Ropecon…

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Tonnin Stiflat: Season One – To Booze or Not to Booze…

2015-05-22 0 Johannes Axner

Setting Helsinki in the 1920’s: urbanization, the admiring gaze towards Europe; jazz and lipstick, daring women entering the public sphere; a country divided by the bitter civil war in 1918; prohibition and the tsunami of illegal alcohol and booze-related crimes.…

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The Golden Cobra Challenge: Amateur-Friendly Pervasive Freeform Design

2015-05-20 2 Evan Torner Whitney "Strix" Beltrán Emily Care Boss Jason Morningstar

Once upon a time – actually, at GenCon 2014 in Indianapolis, USA – several of us discovered a design problem for live freeform games. For the last five years, the independent role-playing game scene here in North America has run…

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Ticket to Atlantis – Fear, Love, Death, Life…

2015-05-15 0 Nadezhda Vechorek Vasily "Jolaf" Zakharov

Atlantis is a small town in Washington, USA. It’s surrounded by woods, has no phone line, and the mail service works poorly. The only way to come there is by the railway, and the train is the only way to…

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Baltic Warriors Tallinn

2015-05-11 0 Juhana Pettersson

I work as a larp producer in the Baltic Warriors project, and first game of our summer season was played last Saturday in Tallinn. It’s quite intimidating to go another country to do a game there. I had never even…

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Skoro Rassvet – Vodka, Tears and Dostoyevsky

2015-05-08 0 Tomáš Hampejs

Man will vanquish by his will and reason over the nature. He will understand that he is mortal that he has now hope for resurrection and he will accept death and he will accept it with satisfaction. He will be…

Theory

The Blockbuster Formula – Brute Force Design in The Monitor Celestra and College of Wizardry

2015-05-06 4 Eirik Fatland Markus Montola

2013 and 2014 may be remembered as the conception of the Nordic blockbuster larp. Two ambitious larps – The Monitor Celestra in Sweden and College of Wizardry in Poland – succeeded in attracting an unprecedented level of international attention from…

Theory

You’re in Charge of You

2015-05-04 1 Mike Pohjola

Let me tell you about how you can game master yourself in a larp. In a tabletop role-playing game it’s easy for the actual game master to work on pacing and theme and mood and so on, because she sees…

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Salon Moravia – Cabaret for Women Only

2015-05-01 0 Rädim Bondy

The door shut and he was gone. At that moment, Evžénie forgot his rank. But she would never forget his short moustache waving over her, how the lips under it were feverishly mumbling something in that repulsive language. How he…

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