Finally Poland getting mentioned in any book, Cracow city and Warsaw had much more impact on Europe than people imagine. Gonna check when it will be fully released. Greetings from Poland by Night.
@@teatrumyslurpg Oh to be sure, but I've been watching TVP World and if they're at all realistic as a representation of Poland, Poland is a great place with great people. And admittedly if I were even that close to the war I'd be stressed out.
@@daviga1 We were in first 6 months I would say. TVP is kinda another propaganda TV here xD most of mine "World News" source is 9gag tbh. only prices skyrocketed as hell. Those damn Ventrue!
As a fan of Nordic LARP I am glad that it gets a bit more international attention with this book. What people need to understand about Nordic LARP is, that immersion is a big factor and every system that makes you do math during the event or yell rules around or starting to reread or even discus rules during the game is simply destroying the immersion. Nordic LARPs therefore tend to be very rule light which does not mean that there are no powers. I don’t know how this book handles it but a common method is “You can do what you can depict”. The success of the use of power therefore often depends on if the other players are convinced or entertained or just nice. But putting afford in your depiction, be it acting or building a costume or some kind of special effect gets often reworded by more players being willing to let your powers work. The combat score thing, though, is nothing I particularly like. It seems more like a beginners solution to me, to be used when you play with people new to Nordic LARP you also might not know well. Boring but reliable and easy to be controlled by the Organizers/Storytellers. Play to lose, on the other hand is solid advice. I am excited to learn more about how this book talks about Nordic LARP. Maybe you want to make a follow up video about this specific aspect.
I will be reading this in completion and giving my feed back after. I, who have never played in a Nordic LARP before have often given and played myself by the saying "Play to lose". However, if I'm going to lose I'm bringing some bitches down with me, lol. Most of the time anyway. I do understand that it can be obnoxious when rules becomes the focus, we even did a night years back where everyone filled out a sheet at the beginning of the night where all the tests were plotted out. It was smooth and fun but we kept using the standard RPS as we went on.
I was too young to join but there was an apparently incredible Vampire LARP running out of a goth coffee shop (didn't have a liquor license, but could do all ages music) run out of an old bank downtown that had an actual vault with the giant safe door that was normally used as an art gallery. My gf's cousin who was a couple years older than us might have played here but I really don't remember. The owner closed and reopened in another space that was less centrally located, without the vault and the view of the river that lasted for a while. This was Reno, would have been 97-99 or around that time
LARP is my first RP love. It's how I really got started. With this book I was hoping to see some explanation with how Nordic LARP works. Maybe start something up in my downtown area. We used to run out of Laws of the Night, which has defined rules for conflict resolution and Disciplines. We had upwards near 300 players there for awhile. I really missed those nights and was thinking the might be back with renewed interest with this book.
Finally.. I'm really excited to learn more about the ashirra it's been long overdue Edit: after watching the video I'm actually disappointed that's not what I was expecting
Yeah. I wasn't as happy as I thought I was going to be either. Like I said in the review, "It's good for what it is, but I don't feel it's what was advertised."
Fingers crossed the short blurb on the Ashirra is just basically an official introduction where later down the road they can get their own book going over how to run a game with the sect. And I'd have to delve into their explanations and examples more but their description of Nordic larp is an awful lot like what I used to just call a parlour larp. And it really does line up nicely with Elysiums as theres not supposed to be powers used anyway making all "combat" purely social maneuvering...
I do hope you're right about the Ashirra getting their own book but I really thought that was what this one was supposed to be. As for the description that they gave, I just wish it was more than that. I've looked all over the internet for anything to help me grasp the concept but there is almost nothing. Kind of sucks. I was looking forward to this helping me and others with the same issue out a little more.
@@VoivodeMekhet Okay, so my main gripe is the editing - the editor who lives part time in my brain cavity wants to take a red pen and strike out whole sentences and paragraphs. (i.e. p217 does not need a paragraph to explain that LARP is sometimes not capitalized. It belonged in Ch. 1) And I have very few formatting issues - the Table of Contents does not need so much empty space and Ch. 15 (Nordic Larp) should have been the second chapter. Your initial impression about it not having much on the Ashirra is the same as mine after reading as well. Where it succeeds the most is where it explains the principles the underpin a Nordic Larp, specifically everything between pages 220 and 240. At least this was the content I was looking for primarily in the book. I haven’t read the book in its entirety, but that’s because life gets in the way.
To my understanding the Ashira in V5 have basically become the Islamic-ish wing of the Camarilla. I think they didn’t offered much more explanation so far in V5 because they assume it to be basically the same as Camarilla with slightly different Clans in charge. If you want to learn more about its origins the Dark Ages book Veil of Night is what you want. More about the modern Ashira can be found in State of Grace and Cairo by Night, but I have neither of this two. I can totally recommend Veil of Night, though.
I have to admit that I'm a little disappointed with this one too. Where I do think that War of Ages has beautiful art work and a lot of great information for getting a LARP set up it's not exactly what I felt they were advertising. I do want to put out there that I have not ever participated in a Nordic LARP and I think if I did this might make more sense to me but this book feels like an ST companion for people running out of By Night Studios or Law of the Night.
Just looked thru my copy and had the same vibe, but never heard about the nordic style either, but i stay open til i read it. and not like i ever did any form of larp before or propably will. (and yeah, you might its weird i backed it, but well i gotta have lel). You can find my name easily as one of the few with 2 lines. I totally forgot I put my internet handle under it as well lol (Auburnt_Amaranth. youtube just doesnt let me change it :/ )
Nordic LARP is quite a different beast. It may take a while until a traditional LARPer wraped their head around it but done openminded with the right people it can be a very intense experience.
Nordic Larp is a really cool thing to watch and I'd love to participate at some point. But I am a beast of probability and I do like to be surprised by what my players come up with. I need systems for that.
@@VoivodeMekhet they just announced a new kickstarter for in 10 days "laws of the night" and for larp. sounds a hella lot like the mechanics are in this one. i mean this one is a good book, but well if that is true, they could have communicated that better or planned them both together at least they wrote that writing for it is almost done already.
@Paul Gauthier- I completely agree. I'm impressed by the people who can say, "Well logically my character would die here and I submit to that logic". That's I guess not me. I want to go down swinging. @Auburnt Amaranth- I know! It's a Laws of the Night so we should be seeing something. I am going to continue working on my own system until I see the finished product. I'm also going back and forth on weather I will be participating in the kick-starter. The last few times I did I was to put it bluntly fucked over. The books were given out with mistakes and incomplete. I might just wait which kind of suck at the same time.
Finally Poland getting mentioned in any book, Cracow city and Warsaw had much more impact on Europe than people imagine. Gonna check when it will be fully released. Greetings from Poland by Night.
Agreed. The impact Poland has had is so vast, the fact that their is such a slight reference in any book is just weird. Greetings!
Big ❤ out to Poland, especially with what's going on in that region lately
@@daviga1 Appreciate it, no worries, we are doing quite fine. ;)
@@teatrumyslurpg Oh to be sure, but I've been watching TVP World and if they're at all realistic as a representation of Poland, Poland is a great place with great people. And admittedly if I were even that close to the war I'd be stressed out.
@@daviga1 We were in first 6 months I would say. TVP is kinda another propaganda TV here xD most of mine "World News" source is 9gag tbh. only prices skyrocketed as hell. Those damn Ventrue!
As a fan of Nordic LARP I am glad that it gets a bit more international attention with this book. What people need to understand about Nordic LARP is, that immersion is a big factor and every system that makes you do math during the event or yell rules around or starting to reread or even discus rules during the game is simply destroying the immersion.
Nordic LARPs therefore tend to be very rule light which does not mean that there are no powers. I don’t know how this book handles it but a common method is “You can do what you can depict”. The success of the use of power therefore often depends on if the other players are convinced or entertained or just nice. But putting afford in your depiction, be it acting or building a costume or some kind of special effect gets often reworded by more players being willing to let your powers work.
The combat score thing, though, is nothing I particularly like. It seems more like a beginners solution to me, to be used when you play with people new to Nordic LARP you also might not know well. Boring but reliable and easy to be controlled by the Organizers/Storytellers. Play to lose, on the other hand is solid advice.
I am excited to learn more about how this book talks about Nordic LARP. Maybe you want to make a follow up video about this specific aspect.
I will be reading this in completion and giving my feed back after. I, who have never played in a Nordic LARP before have often given and played myself by the saying "Play to lose". However, if I'm going to lose I'm bringing some bitches down with me, lol. Most of the time anyway. I do understand that it can be obnoxious when rules becomes the focus, we even did a night years back where everyone filled out a sheet at the beginning of the night where all the tests were plotted out. It was smooth and fun but we kept using the standard RPS as we went on.
I was too young to join but there was an apparently incredible Vampire LARP running out of a goth coffee shop (didn't have a liquor license, but could do all ages music) run out of an old bank downtown that had an actual vault with the giant safe door that was normally used as an art gallery. My gf's cousin who was a couple years older than us might have played here but I really don't remember. The owner closed and reopened in another space that was less centrally located, without the vault and the view of the river that lasted for a while. This was Reno, would have been 97-99 or around that time
LARP is my first RP love. It's how I really got started. With this book I was hoping to see some explanation with how Nordic LARP works. Maybe start something up in my downtown area. We used to run out of Laws of the Night, which has defined rules for conflict resolution and Disciplines. We had upwards near 300 players there for awhile. I really missed those nights and was thinking the might be back with renewed interest with this book.
Finally.. I'm really excited to learn more about the ashirra it's been long overdue
Edit: after watching the video I'm actually disappointed that's not what I was expecting
Yeah. I wasn't as happy as I thought I was going to be either. Like I said in the review, "It's good for what it is, but I don't feel it's what was advertised."
Fingers crossed the short blurb on the Ashirra is just basically an official introduction where later down the road they can get their own book going over how to run a game with the sect.
And I'd have to delve into their explanations and examples more but their description of Nordic larp is an awful lot like what I used to just call a parlour larp. And it really does line up nicely with Elysiums as theres not supposed to be powers used anyway making all "combat" purely social maneuvering...
I do hope you're right about the Ashirra getting their own book but I really thought that was what this one was supposed to be. As for the description that they gave, I just wish it was more than that. I've looked all over the internet for anything to help me grasp the concept but there is almost nothing. Kind of sucks. I was looking forward to this helping me and others with the same issue out a little more.
Thank you for making this video! My email from BNS ended up in my spam folder and missed that I got it yesterday.
When you have a chance to read it please share what you think.
@@VoivodeMekhet Okay, so my main gripe is the editing - the editor who lives part time in my brain cavity wants to take a red pen and strike out whole sentences and paragraphs. (i.e. p217 does not need a paragraph to explain that LARP is sometimes not capitalized. It belonged in Ch. 1) And I have very few formatting issues - the Table of Contents does not need so much empty space and Ch. 15 (Nordic Larp) should have been the second chapter. Your initial impression about it not having much on the Ashirra is the same as mine after reading as well.
Where it succeeds the most is where it explains the principles the underpin a Nordic Larp, specifically everything between pages 220 and 240. At least this was the content I was looking for primarily in the book. I haven’t read the book in its entirety, but that’s because life gets in the way.
Love it. I agree that it needs more material for ghouls. Maybe you’ll have a episode on ghouls in particular?
I'm sure I'll get around to coving the Ghouls at some point.
To my understanding the Ashira in V5 have basically become the Islamic-ish wing of the Camarilla. I think they didn’t offered much more explanation so far in V5 because they assume it to be basically the same as Camarilla with slightly different Clans in charge.
If you want to learn more about its origins the Dark Ages book Veil of Night is what you want. More about the modern Ashira can be found in State of Grace and Cairo by Night, but I have neither of this two. I can totally recommend Veil of Night, though.
Thanks a lot. I'll look into those.
Eherm. I actually have those. They contain Thaumaturgy.
Thank you for saving me a lot of money. I'll wait for The Ivory Tower release in August.
I have to admit that I'm a little disappointed with this one too. Where I do think that War of Ages has beautiful art work and a lot of great information for getting a LARP set up it's not exactly what I felt they were advertising. I do want to put out there that I have not ever participated in a Nordic LARP and I think if I did this might make more sense to me but this book feels like an ST companion for people running out of By Night Studios or Law of the Night.
what release you mean? first time i hear about this
It's just the PDF they released a few days ago. At this point I'm in the opinion that when they put out the PDF it's to gauge public reaction.
Where is this book avaliable for purchase?
bynightstudios.com/products/war-of-ages-pdf.html
Just looked thru my copy and had the same vibe, but never heard about the nordic style either, but i stay open til i read it. and not like i ever did any form of larp before or propably will. (and yeah, you might its weird i backed it, but well i gotta have lel).
You can find my name easily as one of the few with 2 lines. I totally forgot I put my internet handle under it as well lol (Auburnt_Amaranth. youtube just doesnt let me change it :/ )
I'm in the same boat, keeping an open mind until I can read the whole thing cover to cover. I hope my first impressions are not my last.
Nordic LARP is quite a different beast. It may take a while until a traditional LARPer wraped their head around it but done openminded with the right people it can be a very intense experience.
Nordic Larp is a really cool thing to watch and I'd love to participate at some point. But I am a beast of probability and I do like to be surprised by what my players come up with. I need systems for that.
@@VoivodeMekhet they just announced a new kickstarter for in 10 days "laws of the night" and for larp. sounds a hella lot like the mechanics are in this one.
i mean this one is a good book, but well if that is true, they could have communicated that better or planned them both together
at least they wrote that writing for it is almost done already.
@Paul Gauthier- I completely agree. I'm impressed by the people who can say, "Well logically my character would die here and I submit to that logic". That's I guess not me. I want to go down swinging.
@Auburnt Amaranth- I know! It's a Laws of the Night so we should be seeing something. I am going to continue working on my own system until I see the finished product. I'm also going back and forth on weather I will be participating in the kick-starter. The last few times I did I was to put it bluntly fucked over. The books were given out with mistakes and incomplete. I might just wait which kind of suck at the same time.