Previously My Firefly LARP, Goldrush, had come to a premature end, I’d played a different Laser-Tag System at Humanity Ascendant and I was wondering if LARP had lost its sparkle and had resolved to find it again. The Babylon Project My 2019 LARP life was dominated by two games, one was the very worst LARP […]
Read more "My Life in LARP / Chapter 6 / 2019 – 2026"Previously The UKLTA had been formed, Data over Tag was being worked on and I’d started writing and running the Goldrush campaign of LARPs set in the Firefly universe. A Friend Called Arduino As an off shoot of the DoT conversation from earlier in this series of articles, it was starting to become clear that […]
Read more "My Life in LARP / Chapter 5 / 2014 – 2018"Previously The last few years had been good in terms of LARP since my exile from 3rd Age, Summer Kingdoms being a real highpoint and it would also involve playing Laser-Tag LARP in the US. Unification The next major change/idea/battle I was involved with was the formation of the United Kingdom Laser-Tag Alliance (UKLTA) around […]
Read more "My Life in LARP / Chapter 4 / 2006 – 2013"Previously Starlore had broken up, it had been all change at the Adventurers Guild and I had been exiled from 3rd Age Adventures. What You Carry Forward I entered 1998 after having been unceremoniously ejected from 3rd Age and unsure of my place in the wider LARP hobby but when news of this began to […]
Read more "My Life in LARP / Chapter 3 / 1998 – 2005"Previously At the end of 1992, I’d had a great LARP year, I was a member of both the Adventurers Guild and Starlore and both of those groups would leave lasting impressions on me, arguably to this day. I’d got my first bits of fantasy and scifi costume, some LARP and Laser-Tag weapons and definitely […]
Read more "My Life in LARP / Chapter 2 / 1993 – 1997"Introduction A friend recently posted on Facebook that they’d been LARPing for 8 years, I made an off hand comment that I’d been doing it for over 35 to which they responded that they were in kindergarten then.. It’s moments like that that make you stop and think. Some hobbies are fleeting, you dabble for […]
Read more "My Life in LARP / Chapter 1 / 1986 – 1992"This will be a Retrospective lookback at the Eclipse LARP as organised by Chaos League. I attended the third international run of this game that took place in Poland between September 5th to the 8th, 2025. All photos are by the author unless otherwise specified. Please note I do discuss parts of the game that […]
Read more "Eclipse : A Retrospective"Before I start, I’d like to dedicate this blog post to the memory of Kai Simon Fredriksen who sadly passed away in January 2025. I first met Kai through my European LARP experiences where he would be a photographer at the game I was at. In the run up to Christmas 2024 I posted that […]
Read more "L’Inconscience : A Retrospective"This will be a look back and thoughts on the “Adventurers Academy #1” event that that was organised by WonderLARP and happened at Zamek Czoch over the dates of October 10-12, 2024. This was the only run of the LARP, part 2 is tentatively scheduled for Autumn 2026. All photos are by the author unless […]
Read more "Adventurers Academy #1 : A Retrospective"This is a retrospective lookback of my experience before, during and after on the LARP “Odysseus” that took place in Helsinki, Finland from July 3rd to 7th 2024 (this was the second International run of this second cycle of games). All photos are by the author unless otherwise specified. Please note that I have tried […]
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