Thinking about stories and games and larp
The Peckforten Papers is a collection of writing about UK larp published by the Wychwood Press. You can buy it on Lulu should you wish, or get the pdf here.I wrote a bit for it in a stream-of-conscious sort of way, and it's down here so I don't lose it... I am sat where it... Continue Reading →
Earlier this year, I was asked to be head of the College of Wizardry for its 25th run. I 've written about loving CoW12 as a Junior, frothed about CoW18 as janitor and talked about the role of Janitor itself. I've been a larper as player and crew member for ages, and this is a... Continue Reading →
I've written about Secret Cinema before: Bridgerton and Moulin Rouge and mentions of others. It's fair to say I'm a fan. Guardians of the Galaxy improves on their world-running, but the viewing experience is so-so. Is that important? Not to me - the Secret World was a blast. "Secret Cinema do “immersive experiences” based on... Continue Reading →
When the photos from a larp are released, there can often be a moment of dissonance when how you thought you looked at the time collides with the reality of what the camera captured. When the two don’t line up it can be easy to feel bad and get caught up in negative self-talk about... Continue Reading →
(These are just here for me to find later. Move along.)
I'm just back from Knutpunkt 2022, the Nordic Larp conference. I went in 2018, and just blogged the hell out of it. This time, not so much, but I did catch a couple of excellent sessions that need recording.This one was "How to fix the "wrong" larp", an evening panel anchored by the incomparable Eva... Continue Reading →
I played the Danish run with the fabulous Linnea as my character's snake daemon. I’m extremely happy to say that I’m producing Katrine Wind’s larp "Daemon" in the UK. I played a run in Denmark earlier this year, and had a glorious time. It leans heavily on Kant and Pullman, and I heartily recommend the... Continue Reading →
This floated past on Facebook the very day I'd been That Guy. Twice. (I'd essentially said "That's the game. You can choose not to play." about a bit of game which isn't terribly inclusive. And I'd assumed a game's players weren't mostly male without counting.) So. This bears repeating at me, and here it is... Continue Reading →
I was at a larp called Daemon recently - more here. These are just the "scientific" papers I variously plagiarised, invented, and gratefully received from others. There here so I can find them later, or if anyone who ends up playing the larp could find any use for them. I guess this a Pullman fanfic.... Continue Reading →
Daemon was a larp set in the world of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, after the events of the books. There’s heavy spoilers in the post, which might matter because there will be re-runs, and you might not want to know much of Professor Rowan McMillen; with Cecilia his snake daemon. There’s more at the... Continue Reading →
(Or “The Poetical Effusions of Harley Widdicombe, of the Oxfordshire Widdicombes.) (Or “Balls, and what I did there.”)
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