Carcosa Dreams

Games, Events, Madness

Carcosa Dreams

Inquisitorial Reaction

So, we forgot to post this here, but we did an AMA a few weeks ago, and here are the first batch of answers: If you’d like to ask us more questions, you can do so at our Curious Cat…

Keeping Busy in Lockdown

We are 100 days into lockdown now, and it’s increasingly looking like the 2020 event season will be a complete wipeout. We still have some hopes that the planned October Forsaken and November T67 events will run on schedule, and…

Never Again

Almost a decade and a half ago a group of fools called New World Order Games ran the last of a series of live Ars Magica games over a long, long weekend in the Peak District. The games – variously…

Apropos of Nothing

“Oh Ali, I will never again wish to go to the moon!”

“Never say never again, Faqib. You will always be made a liar by such absolutes. The wisest know that minds only grow when they change.”

– Faqib and Ali Go to the Moon

The Inevitable Post

So, as per the last post, common sense and government recommendations have swung towards the thing we didn’t want to do. We’ve had a number of people come to the conclusion that for their own safety, they’d rather stay away. This in…

The Raven in the Room

Okay, so, COVID-19, formerly the Novel Coronavirus. We’ve got an event next week, and future events coming up, so we thought it’s worth letting you know where we’re at. We’re not planning on cancelling events at this stage, unless sensible…

Calibrating your experiences

What if the experience is not working for me?  What if I need to talk something through with someone or I have a question?  Most of us have been there, you’re at an event and things just don’t seem to be going right. Perhaps you feel like you…

“A Pleasure Just To Be Nominated”

The LARP Awards are somewhat controversial, but it would be churlish not to appreciate that our players think highly enough of our events that we’re nominated five times for different things in their recently published list. So thank you all…