This weekend: A snowy Maksimir 63 and more

It's Friday and weekend is almost here. It's looking to be really interesting, especially tomorrow. Saturday, February 23rd, will feature two larps.

First is Maksimir 63. It will be the first Maksimir larp in over four months, and the first larp of the new OzOI, Ognjeni Mač's plot team. If you recently started reading us: Maksimir is a free fantasy larp series in the common Croatian fantasy world, each event lasting a few hours in the Maksimir park. There seems to be a lot of excitement around Ognjeni Mač considering this event, so despite the fact it started to snow hard - and it will snow hard for the entire weekend - seems it will not get cancelled, making it one of the rare snow larps by Ognjeni Mač.

Second is a private playtest of a certain one-shot larp which I know very little about (and what I know I probably shouldn't be mentioning much in this stage) but I'm very excited about it as it will be the first larp by some people. It's a very good thing to see the scene expanding.

Two larps in a day? Why not. It's a good practice for PoRtaL which starts in a week...

Something else will be in a week too. If you can watch Croatian national TV, check out HRT2 on Friday, March 1st (edit: it has been postponed until March 8th). Ana Rajner and me will be on Briljanteen, talking about larp for some 5 minutes. We did the filming this Tuesday.

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