Harry Harrold
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Harry Harrold | |
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Nationality | United Kingdom |
Years active | 1983–present |
Organization | |
Website | larpx |
Harry Harrold is a crew member, player and game designer. He has been a larper since 1983 and a larpwright since 1984, he thinks.
He blogs at larpx.com
Contents
Games
Larpwright (producer/designer/co-designer/co-organiser/writer)
- Bubbles - A hot-tub larp anthology The 572nd meeting of the colonisation committee, 2024
- Witchards Society, producers of the College of Wizardry and Bothwell School of Witchcraft, etc. (2024-) board member
- Narrators.eu/Larpx' Daemon (UK runs) (2023, 2024) producer
- Omen Star/Larpx' Meet at the Midwinter Feast (2021, 2022) design and writing
- Larpx/Carcosa Dreams' A Midwinter Night's Dream (2020) co-organiser - https://midwinter.carcosadreams.com/
- Larpx/Crooked House's All For One (2019) co-director - http://allforone.crookedhouse.org/
- Allied Games' Wing and a Prayer (2018, 2019, 2025) co-designer - https://www.wingandaprayer.org.uk/
- Profound Decisions' Odyssey (2010-2016) UK fest, co-designer - https://wiki.dagon.church/wiki/Main_Page
- Larpx's Game Of Roses (2016, 2018, 2022) UK edularp, designer - https://larpx.com/2016/09/18/the-game-of-roses/
- Profound Decisions' Empire (2012-present) UK fest, assistant writer 2012-2014 - https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire?0
- Profound Decisions' Maelstrom (2004-2011) UK fest, head of plot 2004-2006
- Stab in the back various games (2001-2003) UK 'campaign-style', designer, writer
- Earthworks Manchester various games (1997-2001) UK 'campaign-style', assistant writer
- Overkill countless adventures (1984-1991) UK 'linear/club style', writer
Crewing (...these amongst others)
- Reginae Regis, the Six Wives of Henry VIII (2023) 'Henry VIII'
- Omen Star's Goetia (2023) event catering
- College of Wizardry 25 (2023) 'Professor Percival Brunet, head of school', ig/og responsibility for smooth running of school graduation weekend. Actual work done by many, many hands.
- Profound Decisions' Empire (2012-present) UK fest, 'John of Meade', ig/og responsibility for smooth running of Senate. Actual work by design team and other civil servants.
- Broken Dreams LRP' Twilight Theatre UK chamber larp (2017-2018) 'Oberon', ig/og responsibility for player enjoyment. Actual work by Puck...
- Strange LRP's Event One (2017) event catering
- Crooked House's God Rest Ye Merry (2015) event catering
- Profound Decisions' Odyssey (2010-2016) UK fest, 'King Minos', ig/og responsibility for smooth running of an arena. Actual work delegated to kick-ass team.
- Lorien Trust's Gathering (1997-2003) UK fest, 'Caine of Teutonia', ig/og responsibility for the Viper's faction, as 2ic 1997–2001, as 1ic 2001-2003
Articles on Larp
- Immersive, interactive, in-character: larp edges into mainstream entertainment in Peckforten Papers (2017)
- "Sing in me muse, and through me tell the story" in Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories, the journal of Knutepunkt 2017 (2017)
- "Designing for competence at a Wing and a Prayer" at Knutepunkt 2021
- Blog post s at larpx.com