Finland

Freak Show, an Autopsy

2018-02-05 0 Nina Teerilahti

Freak Show, a larp held in an abandoned amusement park in Finland. The larp told the story of the last freak show and explored otherness through a romantic gothic horror setting. The participants played a family of outcasts and freaks…

Nordic Larp

Playing the Stories of Others

2017-02-18 0 Kaisa Kangas

Larps that treat social issues often aim to create empathy for real people who live in circumstances different from ours by putting us in their shoes.

Documentation

End of the Line: White Wolf’s First Official Nordic-Style Larp

2016-03-21 0 Sarah Lynne Bowman

End of the Line is the first official Nordic larp under the One World of Darkness produced by White Wolf and Odyssé since the IP was acquired by Paradox Entertainment.

Events

Nordic Larp Talks Helsinki 2016

2016-03-07 0 Johannes Axner

Nordic Larp Talks is a series of short, entertaining, thought-provoking and mind-boggling lectures about projects and ideas from the tradition of Nordic Larp. This year Nordic Larp Talks will be hosted in Helsinki, Tuesday March 8th at 19:00 and you are of…

Events

Ship Ahoy! Mark your calendar for Solmukohta 2016!

2015-08-04 0 Petter Karlsson

On Wednesday the 9th to Monday the 14th of March 2016 it’s once again time for the international roleplaying conference Solmukohta. The conference often known as Knutepunkt is this year in Finland and therefore goes by it’s Finnish name Solmukohta for…

Documentation

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…

Documentation

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…

Documentation

Murder in Helsinki

2015-04-27 0 Juhana Pettersson

Tonnin stiflat is a Finnish larp campaign played in Helsinki in 2014. Consisting of three games, it was organized by the veteran city game designers Niina Niskanen and Simo Järvelä. The setting is Helsinki in the year 1927, and the…

Nordic Larp

Processing Political Larps – Framing Larp Experiences with Strong Agendas

2015-04-08 0 Kaisa Kangas

Thanks to it I turned my communist friend into a patriot. And I realized who I really am. This is how a respondent, according to Mochocki (2012), described the Polish tabletop role-playing game Dzikie Pola (“Wild Planes”) in an online…

Documentation

Looking at You – Larp, Documentation and Being Watched

2015-03-11 0 Juhana Pettersson

So far, Nordic larp has produced two games that have become international news stories that all kinds of sites cannibalize and copy from each other: the Danish 2013 rerun of Panopticorp, and the Polish-Danish Harry Potter game College of Wizardry.…

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