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Nathan first became involved in the Nordic scene with [[Dragonbane]] in 2006, for which he wrote parts of the culture briefings and metaphysics. He regularly attends Knutpunkt and Fastaval, and writes for the Knutpunkt books.
In == Background ==Nathan first became involved in the Knudepunkt book Nordic scene with contributions to Dragonbane in 2006. He has regularly attended Knutpunkt and Fastaval and written for 2007the Knutpunkt books, until the recent controversy in 2016.Previously he published 'The Bristol Manifestohad been involved with the UK larp scene since 1997 and the internatonal Camarilla organisation since 2000.In 2008, Nathan presented ' Spoofing Magna CartaAnd Not to Yield, this larp manifesto presents ' the position that players shoudl focus on immersing in their characters, organisers should focus on simulating an internal consistent world (including modelling offfirst Nordic-screen parts of the world, if needed), and story should style minilarp to be regarded as something that naturally both written and organicly develops from a sufficiently interesting settingorganised in the UK.
In August 2008, Nathan present 'And Not to Yield,' the first Nordic-style larp to be both written and organised in the UK at Grand Tribunal (an Ars Magica convention). It uses 'being trapped in faerie' as a metaphor for the Nordic larp scene, a conceptual place where emotional play comes to the fore. It has since been run at Fastaval, Knudepunkt, Stabcon, Grand Tribunal US, and elsewhere.
Nathan is currently a distance PhD student at Tampere University, Finland, researching identity theory in roleplaying. Prior to this, he compeleted MSc Psychological Research Methods with the Open University, UK with a dissertation researching larpers. His dissertation is available as a free download from lulu.com== Academic background ==
Nathan has published 3 scenario books in In 2012, he compeleted MSc Psychological Research Methods with the Green BookOpen University, developing [[psychodrama]] scenarios as a form; drawing inspiration from psychological models to create replayable freeforms UK with strong emotional play. He has also published Heart's Blood, a literary scenario adapting Dracula to jeepformdissertation researching larpers. His books are dissertation is available online as a free download from lulu.com
He presented Since 2013, Nathan has been a distance PhD student at University of Tampere, Finland, researching identity theory applied to roleplaying in the 2014 Nordic larp talks http://nordiclarptalksgames.org/post/87238078318/identity-crafting-keeping-the-black-dogIn October 2015, he moved to Finland on a fellowship to work full-time on research. He presented his research at-baySolmokohta 2016.
In April 2014, he co-organised an international run of [[Pan]] in Finland.
In May 2014, he published the board game Magus. https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/magus== Scenario publications ==
In November 2014, he co-organised another international run of [[Pan]] Nathan has published 3 scenario books in the UKGreen Book. This is believed to be the first multi-day Nordic-style larp run in the UKHis books are available online.
→Controversy: Typo fixing, typos fixed: July of 2016 → July 2016
'''Nathan Hook''' is a British game and larp designer and academic.
== Controversy == In January 2015July 2016 several people in larp communities came forth with allegations of abusive behaviour from Nathan which lead to a police report being filed in Finland as well as bans from several groups, he co-organised another international run of larps and events in several countries. Bans from events in the UK remain in place from earlier. [http://web.archive.org/web/20170801073328/https://www.facebook.com/claus.raasted/posts/10155351498192626 Dziobak Larp Studios ban announcement] [Panhttp://www.holkar.net/nathan_hook.html Mo Holkar's ban announcement]] in the Netherlands.
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