Simon Brind
Template:Person 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.
Games
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)
Books
- Editor: Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories (2017)
- Author "The Witchards Almanack" (2017)
Articles on Larp
- ”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
Talks
- Using lies to tell the truth: Player agency on epic scale - Larp Design Conference 2016