Nordic Scene

Every year there is a nordic conference where people interested in nordic style live action roleplaying gather to have seminars, workshops, parties and catch up on what is happening in the nordic countries. Some germans, americans, russians and other nationalities have been known to show up, apart from the usual visitors from Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway. The conference moves between the four nordic countries, and changes it’s name every year to the local language.

The upcoming event is in Finland and is thus called “nodal point” in finnish: Solmukohta. The event will be held at a conference center outside Helsinki on the 4.-6. April 2008. What you can expect as an outsider to the scene is an event with an informal tone and lots of old friends meeting up, some mad parties and very interesting topics in the panels, seminars and workshops. This really is the place to find out about the events to go to and get to know the people behind them.

The event website can be found at solmukohta.org and introduces the event with these words:

Since the first event, Solmukohta has evolved into the main venue of cooperation between Nordic role-playing gamers. The panels, lectures and workshops are a goldmine for finding new ideas about gaming and game organizing, and for floating old ideas around - it is a wonder how many old ideas in one gaming culture are found to be a novelty in another.

If you are not familiar with games and roleplaying at all, expect to do some catching up or prepare to not understand every part of the conversations you end up in. If you are involved with some other artform or just curious and open minded, you will quickly become part of the social context.