The Beauty of Czech Larps in 2022
In the past year, we had the opportunity to visit dozens of games in the Czech Republic. You can see their dates on two calendars, you can add the ratings of the larps to the Larp database, and a summary of current events appears every three weeks in the Larp newsletter. And we remember many larps through photographs.
A number of events and photographers will share their photos on their profiles, where they will get forgotten. I think it’s a shame, because the quality of larp photography has been at a high level in Czechia, and the larps in their presentation look gorgeous. So let’s recap this year’s best visual cuts and maybe it will inspire you to visit some such extravaganza next year.
Ladies and gentlemen, these are Czech larps of 2022. We have a lot to be proud of. Click, enjoy, have fun. And the next time someone asks you what larp looks like, send them here!
1914: Home by Christmas
A content larp set among soldiers in the trenches of World War 1 in the run-up to Christmas.
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels,
Complete photo gallery by Lenka Anois Kopečková, Anoisina spoušť.
Akkon
Dramatic content historical narrative larp which is set in the city of the same name shortly before its fall. The second run took place.
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, and portraits, Zip’s rusty pixels.
Good People of Languedoc (eng)
Content atmospheric larp, the plot of which is, among other things, inspired by the Cathar heresy of the second half of the 13th century.
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels,
Complete photo gallery by Petr Ĺuba, Thief of Souls.
Belle Epoque
Larp from the alternate history of the late 19th century inspired by motifs from Victorian horror and adventure novels, the work of Jules Verne, the atmosphere of the works of E. A. Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, occultism, political machinations and phantasmagorical visions of the time, mixed with a world dominated by inhuman and extraterrestrial entities called „the Ancients„ and a pseudo-Slavic pantheon.
Complete photo gallery by Michal Kára, Michal Kára · LARPy, cosplay a tak,
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels
Complete photo gallery by Martin Archalous, Martin Archalous – fotky SF&F
The Line
The Line is an educational role-playing game for a group of ten players. It is set in the Czech border zone in the autumn of 1950, and its heroes try to cross the Czechoslovak border and get to the „West„.
Complete photo gallery by Marley Boba.
Complete photo gallery by Majda Foto.
House in Circles
A content-driven, atmospheric horror game that takes inspiration from haunted house horror and ghost stories. It also deals with themes such as the breakdown of family relationships and historical grievances.
Complete photo gallery: the first, second, and third part by Michaela Portychová, Zachytit ten moment / Míša Portychová.
Fallen
A content game using the principle of fate play, inspired by comics and other stories about the transformation of ordinary people and heroes into villains.
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels.
Fin de siècle
A conversational content role-playing game set in Paris at the end of the 19th century, where the characters meet in the cabaret Le Chat Noir in a gloomy depressive atmosphere alternating with occasional bursts of optimism and nostalgia. There were two runs.
Complete photo gallery by Michal Kára, Michal Kára · LARPy, cosplay a tak,
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels.
The Cabaret
A weekend larp loosely encompassing everything you imagine when you hear the word cabaret and let your imagination run wild. There were two runs.
Complete photogallery of the first, and the second run, by Michal Kára · LARPy, cosplay a tak.
Age of Blood
A content dramatic narrative historical larp set at the Reichstag in Nuremberg in 1313. It was its fifth run.
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels.
The Legend of Blackhill
Weird Western larp full of themes of dime novels set in the Wild West about 1858. There were two runs.
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels,
The gallery by Petr Ĺuba (Thief of Souls), the first, and the second part.
Legion: Siberian Story (eng)
A historical narrative game set in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. There were two international runs.
Complete photo gallery: retro version and coloured version by Lenka Anois Kopečková, Anoisina spoušť.
Complete photo gallery by Tomáš Guth Jarkovský, Very guth pictures.
Complete photo gallery by Tereza Šolcová, Spadla Z Višně – Tereza Šolcová.
Tiny Shiny
Tiny Shiny is a content larp set at the turn of the millennium in a Berlin club where everyone has one last chance to live their lives the way they really want.
Complete photo gallery by Michal Kára, Michal Kára · LARPy, cosplay a tak.
Complete photo gallery by Michaela Portychová, Zachytit ten moment / Míša Portychová.
Melloria
Fantasy sandbox world type game in its own setting and with a long tradition.
Galerie by Karea Foto, first and second part.
Mirrors of England
Narrative content larp that takes you into the world inspired by Susanna Clark’s book Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. There were two runs.
Complete photo gallery by Quilip Gray,
Complete photo gallery by Michaela Portychová: Zachytit ten moment / Míša Portychová.
Moomins
A somewhat experimental game on a smaller scale with a Nordic theme, loosely inspired by the life and work of the writer and painter Tove Jansson.
Complete photo gallery by Michal Kára, Michal Kára · LARPy, cosplay a tak.
Night of Crosses
An atmospheric larp from the Wild West, which works with the themes of separation, hope, but also the daily grind, without which the hard-tested society of a remote American town would fall apart completely.
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels,
Complete photo gallery by Hana Maturová, Hana Maturova Photography.
Liebenthal Operation
A project that aims to bring selected aspects of life in the Czech borderland at the very end of the Second World War as close as possible.
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels,
Complete photo gallery by Hana Maturová, Hana Maturova Photography.
Opus Magnum
A six-hour horror larp set in Austria-Hungary at the end of the 19th century. It aims to convey feelings of anxiety, uncertainty and fear of the indescribable.
Complete photo gallery by Tomáš Guth Jarkovský, Very guth pictures,
Complete photo gallery by Lukáš Viper Makovička.
Stories of Avalon
Larp from the environment of Arthurian legends with dramatic and content procedures. It is created as a community project driven by groups which participate on it.
Complete photo gallery by Gabriela Goffová, Gigi photo / Gabriela Goffova,
Complete phot ogallery by Kristýna Darien Obrdlíková, FotoGen Darien,
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels.
Requiem: Reichskinder (eng)
The play is inspired by the complex period of Czech-German relations just after the Second World War. It processes it in the form of an atmospheric thriller from the environment of an institution for troubled youth. There were two runs.
Gallery by Michaela Portychová, first, second a third album, Zachytit ten moment / Míša Portychová.
Heart of the Drakkar
Content chamber outdoor larp set in a gloomy environment in the Viking age, where the line between reality and madness meet each other.
Complete photo gallery by Kristýna Darien Obrdlíková, FotoGen Darien.
Heart of the Forest
A content dramatic game about forest creatures from Slavic mythologies. It is set on the border between prehistoric times and ancient times, full of savage rituals and mysticism.
Gallery by Karea Foto, first and second part plus portraits,
Complete photo gallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels.
Hundred Years War, 1337
The game combines elements of larp and board game, and its course affects events across Europe and surrounding countries during this important conflict.
Complete photogallery by Petr Zip Hájek, Zip’s rusty pixels.
Under the Dark Mark
A content dramatic larp from the world of Harry Potter; the plot is set during the seventh part of the saga at Hogwarts school. There were two runs.
Complete photo gallery by Barbora Ĺuba, Bára dělá fotky,
Gallery by Pierogi Photography, first and second part plus portraits.
Uprooted
An experimental larp with memories as its central theme. The game is divided into two parts. In the first part the players co-create content for the second part. It then takes place on three levels that are significantly different in terms of content and gameplay, through which players act repeatedly.
Complete photo gallery by Petr Ĺuba, Thief of Souls.
Knights‘ Song (eng)
An action fantasy fairy tale, dramatic content larp. The key to the game is the atmosphere of autumn, the telling of stories that are not completely closed to the player and the physicality of the game. There was an international run.
Complete photo gallery by Lenka Anois Kopečkové, Anoisina spoušť.
Autor
Darien – Kristýna Obrdlíková 
Působí v Pardubicích, organizuje od roku 2007, tvoří převážně outdoory a v tomto kontextu se věnuje i focení a vzdělávání. Je součástí týmu Larpového newsletteru. Svůj čas tráví hledáním rozmanitých druhů inspirace a snahou o obohacení světa druhých.