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 (2015)
Talks
- Using lies to tell the truth: Player agency on epic scale - Larp Design Conference 2016