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.
Larpy v roce 2016
Také už se ztrácíte v tom, co za larpové pecky se budou konat v roce 2016? Vybral jsem přes 30 akcí, o kterých si myslím, že v roce 2016 stojí za účast. Pokud ne za účast, alespoň za povědomí. Ve videu níže najdete zběsilý 25-minutový průlet (20-minut bez videí) toho nejdůležitějšího v letošním roce. Všechny větší […]
Z poznámek mladého designéra
Petrius nedávno vykopl velmi zajímavý text o penězích a motivaci. Tak jsem si řekl, že zkusím napsat, jak to vidím v některých vybraných ohledech já. Diclaimer: Text si v žádném případě nenárokuje univerzální platnost. Nechci ovšem sklouzávat k relativismu, protože to je podle mě sice může ukázat autora jako nadřazeného intelektuála, ale v praxi je […]
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 […]
Content Larp Manifesto
The Content Larp Manifesto was originally presented on the Content Larp Manifesto website.
Hell on Wheels – Experience the Wild West
The Hell on Wheels larp is a dramatic game for 54 players that takes place in Stonetown, a western settlement in the Czech Republic. It draws its inspiration from the US AMC TV series of the same name. It borrows certain characters and introductory plots from the series, but handles them freely and places them […]
Legion – Trans-Siberian Railroading
The Great War, or the first World War, was a massive, horrible massacre on a truly industrial scale, and it is one of the wars I find most fascinating. I’ve read so much about it it, know so much trivia and still I had almost no knowledge of the Czech Legion in Siberia. Walking a […]
Phase Games in Czech
In Knutepunkt 2009 Jana Jevická and Tomáš Kopeček held a presentation about the history of larp in the Czech Republic. Rather surprisingly they started their history lesson during the First Republic (1918-1939), long before Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax commodified role-playing activity into Dungeons & Dragons, generally considered to be the starting point of role-playing […]
Skoro Rassvet – Vodka, Tears and Dostoyevsky
Man will vanquish by his will and reason over the nature. He will understand that he is mortal that he has now hope for resurrection and he will accept death and he will accept it with satisfaction. He will be as God and eve- rything will be allowed to him and as soon as man […]
De la Bête – An Expensive Beast
“The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.” Revelations, 13:2 De la Bête (About the Beast) was a larp for 95 players, running over 48 hours, with […]
Salon Moravia: Cabaret for Women Only
The door shut and he was gone. At that moment, Evžénie forgot his rank. But she would never forget his short moustache waving over her, how the lips under it were feverishly mumbling something in that repulsive language. How he snorted when he humped. She slid down to the floor. Her back against the wall, […]
Business larp
Deep in the Arctic Ocean, the alarm sounds in a submarine. Twelve members of the crew suddenly realise that they only have enough oxygen to barely get to the surface. What will they do? Should they descend deeper to their colleagues trapped several meters further down, or should they save their own lives? Calling off […]
Moon
How we created a Firefly larp, not exactly about Firefly One day the world became too small for all of us. Then we started to settle other planets. Terraformation begun. Things changed. Lot of us became adventures, seeking freedom and independence. But with great power comes great responsibility… None of us had an idea of […]
L-World – Czech larp in London
“Sabine is a successful magazine publisher, a political activist and she is running in the local elections. She is raising her daughter Denise together with her second wife Veronica. And this evening she is throwing a party for several friends. Although Sabine and some other characters are lesbians, the larp in itself doesn’t deal with […]