Obligatory reading
One You should read what Jonas K. has to say about Stephen King and Vincent Baker. Two Read what Vincent himself has to say about character sheets! Everyone should read that, even my mother (well, you don't have to). At the moment, Vincent Baker is the shit, even if I think his blog is a bit too ugly. Three During the day I have updated the links with a few blogs to Forge-related people. Later I will see which Nordic links to rpg creators are worth having there. The problem seems to be that most of them doesn't update very regurlarly. That makes them much mor uninteresting.
posted by Sven Holmström at 2:41 am
3 Comments:
"[...]and I'm sure I'm missing something."
Well, as far as I am concerned Vincent didn't really come to any new conclusions. I don't think that I after reading his post got any new clear view of what I want on a sheet, but in spite of that the article gave me several revelations during the read of how I should analyze a sheet in the future. I really thought I wrote this on the blog. Either I deleted it, or I it was just a dream.
"Oh, and I'd be interested in the Nordic links, as it's really hard to find any online discussions on or presentations of lajv and freeform."
Yeah. The main discussion is at G-punkt (I have that one linked). The few discussions that takle place on Sverok's forum is not worth reading. I think there is one more larpers sometimes talk about, but I don't remember it's name right now.
But to conclude: the Swedish online discussion in these matter is minimal, which is really a pitty, thinking of how many serious people that are thinking about this stuff. But there is some more, I will get back to that.
I guess what you talk about here is Swedish convention freeform (svensk konventsfriform or Finnish Frifeerm as it's called becuase of hysterical reasons). Cause we all know that sheets are used in a lot of diceless roleplaying.
In Swedish friform I have never seen sheets being used. But you almost always has a quite long backgorund text. How you should relate to the text is different from scenario to scenario, but the most common is definitely that you can have the text available while playing. Usually you don't prepare before the meeting, so you only read it once and the keep it for reference.
In most freeform there is not so much meta game, but a lot of OOC. The Alex scenario by Vi åker jeep, that I mentioned, seemed to have a lot of meta game, where you discuss the scenes and make retakes of scenes and things like that.
You know that me and Jonas Barkå wanted to make friform with character sheet. Especially Jonas is very much into friform with sheets, but we havent' fone any yet. (but the sheets are ready! They look really swell!)
We see it as a problem with the Swedish friform-genre that it's only meant for scenarios and there is not one example of this kind of stuff made for campaigns. The idea is that a campaign would gain more from sheets than a one-meeting scenario.
Well, Barkå, regarding his conclusions I agree. And I guess the conclusions should be the main point. Of course the character sheet is for the player. But I thought the way of getting there was beautiful theory prose. Maybe Iäm disturbed.
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