Thomas B.
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As already explained back in December, documenting larps in English is work. It’s work because of the expected quality standards, and I am neither a native speaker nor a humanities major. But it’s even more work because of the politics. It took me a few more months of discussions, both online and offline, […]
Knutpunkt is an international conference about Nordic style larp, held this year in Gullbrannagården, Sweden. In the spirit of “focus in 2014“, my recap is much shorter than last year’s.
Random larpish memories
· Seeing the attempts at renaming “Nordic larp” into “progressive larp”. Does this mean intellectualized, self-indulgent […]
Afroasiatik was a French-Swiss larp run in the zen garden of Aigle, Switzerland, in August 2013. Its goal was to expose larpers to hip-hop themes and enable them to give their first hip-hop performances.
Video documentation
French hip-hop vs. French larp
According to Afrika Bambaataa, the Godfather of […]
In 2013, my motto was “try new and weird things”. Here are a few things I learned on the way thanks to larp-related events, in chronological order.
1. Running a small high-tech larp five times in 33 hours is both a lot of fun and a fantastic learning opportunity in
Warning: long post ahead. Read the short version here.
Part 1: the original reason for the game, a history of French hip-hop and its Asian influences
Part 2: how inspiration sources were used to build a game world that featured kimono-wearing rappers in a European zen garden
Part […]
Warning: long posts ahead. Read the short version here.
Part 1: the original reason for the game, a history of French hip-hop and its Asian influences
Part 2: how inspiration sources were used to build a game world that featured kimono-wearing rappers in a European zen garden
Part […]
Warning: long posts ahead. Read the short version here.
Afroasiatik was a French-Swiss larp run in the zen garden of Aigle, Switzerland on Sunday 25th August 2013 with pre-game workshops on Saturday 24th August in Lausanne. Both Aigle and Lausanne are located in Romandie, the western, French-speaking part of Switzerland.
Since 2011, part of the Slaaneshi brainstorming included how to incorporate «gifts» from our Chaos god, body mutations ranging from tentacles to crab arms. Our priestess once considered extra rows of breasts, as shown on some Warhammer illustrations or figurines. Faced with the challenge of making good-looking props that were practical enough to wear and […]
With 6000 players and 1500 NPCs, Conquest of Mythodea is the largest larp event in the world, held every August in Brokeloh, Germany. It features several hundred Francophones who usually refer to the event as «Conquest» (with a nasal «con»). In this classic fantasy environment, the continent of Mythodea attracts settlers from all […]
Most of my exposure to Nordic larp goodness comes from attending Knutepunkt, and Mad about the Boy (MatB) is no exception. I remember a presentation in 2011, and a quick chat with Trine Lise Lindahl (one of the authors) in the KP cafeteria, telling her how cool this stuff was, and something like […]
