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