Social Season: The Event from Regency
At the beginning of May, I took part in the romantic Regency larp Social Season in Germany, set in 1811 England.
The Beauty of Czech Larps in 2022
In the past year, we had the opportunity to visit dozens of games in the Czech Republic. You can see their dates on two calendars, you can add the ratings of the larps to the Larp database, and a summary of current events appears every three weeks in the Larp newsletter. And we remember many […]
Patrik´s Blog, Part 5: 2021
Hey, my friends! It’s been a while. Lately I found myself not having much energy to do stuff. Depression and shit, you know… I postponed my summaries so much, I fell several months behind. Well, what the heck, let’s do it now! :-)
Dance Macabre
Dance Macabre was a dancing larp based on the larp In Fair Verona [note]In Fair Verona is a tango-larp-love story made by Tue Beck Saarie (Olling) and Jasper Bruun for 30 players. The game explores different love relationships between male and female characters. The focus of the game is the individual character emotions and the […]
CZECH CHAMBER LARP THROUGH THE YEARS (PART 2)
This half of the article ends our story about the evolution of chamber larp in the Czech Republic (and Slovakia). I started writing this essay as a by-product of the recent larp book Check Larps because I thought it was high time for reflecting on the past before the details vacated my mind for good. […]
CZECH CHAMBER LARP THROUGH THE YEARS (PART 1)
Last year, a team of authors published a Czech collection of chamber larp scenarios called Check Larps. I wrote the introduction, focused on the specific features of the Czech approach to this format, and in the process, I realized that it would be interesting to look back on the history of Czech chamber larps in […]
Patrik´s Blog, Part 4
Patrik is probably only one of the active larpers of the Czech community who makes his larp summary in English. It is an interesting insight into this hobby because Patrik makes larps – and plays them – a lot. And his interests in themes are wide. We prepared a summary serial of his texts that […]
Patrik´s Blog, Part 3
Patrik is probably only one of the active larpers of the Czech community who makes his larp summary in English. It is an interesting insight into this hobby because Patrik makes larps – and plays them – a lot. And his interests in themes are wide. We prepared a summary serial of his texts that […]
Patrik´s Blog, Part 2
Patrik is probably only one of the active larpers of the Czech community who makes his larp summary in English. It is an interesting insight into this hobby because Patrik makes larps – and plays them – a lot. And his interests in themes are wide. We prepared a summary serial of his texts that […]
Patrik´s Blog, Part 1
Patrik is probably only one of the active larpers of the Czech community who makes his larp summary in English. It is an interesting insight into this hobby because Patrik makes larps – and plays them – a lot. And his interests in themes are wide. We prepared a summary serial of his texts that […]
together/alone – Searching for a Soulmate in Summer Prague
spolu/sami (in English: together/alone) was a game about ordinary people in present-day Prague. The larp was lyric, melancholic, atmospheric, and authentic. It was about friendship, love, life, and things that really matter. The characters were asking themselves “Can we be happy when we find our soulmate?” The game was created through workshops during one weekend […]
Review Together / Alone
Together / Alone is a game set in the contemporary Prague. The characters who are playing the game, are normal people with their issues, romances and everything else. We created these characters via the workshops set before the game. The game was played mixed in Czech and English. As for the duration, there was one […]
Kola – Konferencja Larpowa in Warsaw.
Kola is a polish larp conference with 4 years long history. This year it was organized by larpers from Warsaw, who got support of the faculty of liberal arts. The conference audience was mainly polish but there were also delegations from Italy, Ukraine, Russia and Czech Republic.
The Cure for the Stuffed Beast
The unexpected problems of a game stuffed with themes and plots and their working solutions. We made the most expensive game in Czech larp history, we had worked hard on it for a year and we had prepared almost 100 detailed pre-written characters. After the first two runs of the larp a lot of people […]
Russian Roulette in Practice
Players Casting: A Case Study from the Larp Skoro Rassvet This article describes the selection process used for high-resolution dramatic larp called Skoro Rassvet [Breaking Dawn] (2012, 15 players). Its advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Knowing that we could take the risk because the number of potential candidates exceeded the number of offered roles several […]