Not a real doctor

This looks brilliant!

I need a word that describes an implicity and empathic understanding, an academic equivalent of knowing something in your bones. Once upon a time I might have used Heinlien's Martian word ' grok; for this, but that is no longer available. Does a suitable word exist in another Earth language?

I went to Dragonmeet for 24 minutes. Even with Noise Cancelling on it was too much input to even be able to focus on objects. There were many objects. I came away none the wiser.

It looks like they have dialled back a little on the new T&Cs but I don't think it is by enough for me to re-activate my account. I should probably read it again after the coffee kicks in.

I can _type_, but my mouse game is not so good. Fingerless mittens sound amazing ... knucklewarmers ... better than the 'footless sock'

I have resorted to fingerless gloves and a battered top hat. It would be peak VictorianUrchinCore, but I have ruined the look with a Disney Tigger™ hot water bottle

My dream came true to a certain extent when I was invited to help redesign some of the larp. Sadly, I never got to ride a horse or visit the barbers. Small regrets in big places. Look at that backdrop!

A town that looks like the Old West (although actually a movie set in Spain) a dusty man in a black hat walks up the deserted street. His shirt sleeves are rolled up and he has six guns in holsters at his waist. In the background are mountains. There is something about his approach that suggests trouble is coming...

A photo taken at Conscience. It was a difficult larp for me to play but I learned so much from it. (There's pretty much a chapter on it in my thesis.) It contained one of the best and one of the worst scenes of my 40+ year larping career.

Congratulations Dr Turner!!

Yep. Variations of Blood Bowl and Jugger have been a staple at fest-larps for as long as I can remember

Sometimes vicarious larping is totally a thing

This weekend the incredibly talented team at @wonderlarp.bsky.social are running Convention of Thorns

which I hope everyone in the larpospehere already knows about. A crossing of streams between VtM and the Nordic form

www.conventionofthorns.com

I want to know more about the dystopian powers trying to enforce this decision

This was where I learned the fundamentals of the form. Writing meaningful linears ("Dungeons") week after week and somtimes getting through two characters in a single day while playing

KP26: Welcome to Knutpunkt 2026!

Ticket sales for Knutpunkt 2026 are now open!

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House of Craving started with a nap ... it does not end that way though

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if €22 is too expensive, then you can get the PDF from the same site with a pay-what-you-want price.

(The link does not work unless you are signed in to DriveThruRPG and have enabled adult content; there are some adult themes in the game and we decided to publish responsibly)

Happy Halloween.

One day remaining for a chance to get a physical copy of the Scriptbook for the larp Gothic for only €22

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

I got to watch with with my friend, Emma, who has played one larp - Inside Hamlet - and some of the staging was weirdly reminiscent/triggering. She says playing the larp affected the way she teaches the text.

Francesca Mills' Ophelia at the National Theatre (The English one) was heartbreakingly brilliant. I really enjoyed the whole production. Fascinating edits to the script taking the runtime down to sub two and a half hours. Hamlet remains one of the greatest plays.

A scone, cut in half. One side has the jam first and the clotted cream on top. The other half has the clotted cream on first like butter and the jam on top. There is half a strawberry lying off to one side. The caption reads 'An eternal question, answered.'

offered without context

I don't think they explain exactly how it was done in the book, but the apples were roasted to make them soft and then scorched with a blowtorch. I think the spots that look like mould are caramalised sugar.

The worms are real (but edible)

(This response was funny in my head)

Until you get it right, Jaakko.

I am reminded that David Norris had a user extendable larp family tree project back in 2000, sadly it is no longer accessible. That sought to map where a larp took inspiration from another earlier game. It started off UK centric but spread into Europe and (I think) North America.

Less a taxonomy, more an extended family swimming in the same soup

A fruit bowl that appears to show rotten fruit witg maggots on them

One of the scenography twists from Gothic was replacing some of the props with others when the players were not looking. Everything here is edible, including the worms!

Moth the cat would like more food, for next door's cat to stop attacking her, for the rain to stop, constant attention in the way of strokes, and to be right up in my face.
I would like a second cup of coffee.