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Terra Nova 2014 reschedule, conventions and new larp videos


This June will bring Battle of the Nations - the world's biggest medieval tournament - to Trogir in Croatia. Due to that fact, Terra Nova 2014 - which was scheduled on the same date - has been rescheduled again, a week after. Since Thursday, June 19, is a non-working day in Croatia, there will be a possibility to arrive early to the event. Sign-ups have also been opened, and they're available here.

The next larp in Croatia is Camarilla Agram Elysium 8 this Thursday. This weekend will also be interesting, as it will feature Istrakon 2014, one of the biggest sci-fi conventions in Croatia. It's still unknown if there's any larping program, but there will certainly be some larpers there.


Speaking of conventions, the society Zlati Goblin from Maribor, Slovenia is organizing GobliCon - the only Slovenian gaming convention - on April 18 and 19. It will be located in Maribor, and it will feature some larp content as presented by some of the Slovenian larpers I visited 2 years ago. Check their forum post for more info in English. Just over 100 km from Zagreb, Maribor is well in the travelling range...

An update on interesting larp videos. The third Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Larp video is here, this time it has the post-apocalyptic zombie theme from the widespread US larp Dystopia Rising. On a more serious and informative note, check out their Ars Amandi introduction video they filmed 2 weeks ago.

Also, if you haven't seen it before you simply have to see this trailer for the Swedish larp Granland - Ingen Ära i Krig (No Honor in War). It tells a story without any words.

And here's two more LARPs: The Series episodes:



Regarding other interesting videos, if you have the time here's an interesting discussion about larping and self-doubt:


And of course if you're not watching them yet keep an eye out on Larping.org, LarpForge, Stephanie Twilley and Larp Girl channels for fresh and interesting larp content.
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