Nordic Scene

nordicscene.org
A website that covers news and upcoming events on the nordic roleplaying scene in a way accessible to people outside it.

To be properly launched at Solmukohta 2008.

With nordicscene.org I would like to specifically solve three problems:

1) I often talk to people outside the live role-playing community about some of the events I’ve been to, and they think it all sounds wonderfully exciting and want to hear about the next thing coming up. These are people I meet at parties or other subculture happenings, who often have some skill or interest where some live role-playing events seem highly relevant to them. Theater people, writers, film makers.. list goes on and on. These people are not part of the roleplaying scene at all, and thus have a pretty hard time finding their way onto it without some very hands on guidance by people already on it. This rarely happens, since you talk to people, they find it interesting, but then you move on and have nowhere to point them for hooking into the scene. I want somewhere to point people where they can find out what events are coming up, what they can expect and how they can participate, written in a style that does not suppose you know everything about this already.

2) There is actually no website presenting the nordic style roleplaying a style that can be linked to for clarification to outsiders. This part is the least ambitious at the moment - I think that if the first problem can be solved and there is a need for more of a wikipedia style info center website about the nordic scene, this will follow if the site gets visitors and as people feel the need. The simple way to start this is to collect a few links and texts that make up some starting points if you want to explore.

3) News about what’s going on around the nordic scene are very scarce. When not at Knutpunkt, I have little or no idea what people are up to in the other nordic countries. Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places, but I would like to try to make this website some sort of hub where editors from each country will post news items about the local scene. Still in a way that would be accessible to outsiders, though.

/Andie Nordgren