Upcoming workshops 2023

On Saturday, May 6, 2023 the scenario organizers Nina and Danny will host Scenario Ideas Day in Valby, where everyone who wants to can meet and develop scenario ideas. There will be a special focus on Fastaval scenarios, but all ideas are welcome.
The day is intended for both participants who would like to develop an existing idea, participants who do not yet know what they would like to write and participants who are just curious and want to play or just want to come and hang out.
Both new and experienced writers are more than welcome!
During the day, there will be workshops focusing on idea development and testing individual elements of a scenario and there will be a hangout space where you can hang out, talk, write or get inspired. Read more about the Facebook event here.

If you can't make it to the idea day in Valby, a similar event will be held in Aarhus on May 27, 2023. See the event here.

A sparring evening will also be held online on Discord on May 10, 2023. See the event here.

What is a Fastaval scenario?

Role-playing is a core activity at Fastaval and the congress has a unique tradition of writing and designing role-playing games. A roleplaying experience at Fastaval is often called a scenario. A scenario is characterized by the fact that it is a written, self-contained role-playing experience for 2+ participants, usually lasting between 2-6 hours.

A scenario has at least five runs, often more, divided over two blocks of time, and GMs can be both volunteer participants, or recruited by the author or the organizers. So people you have never met might run your game.

Scenarios are not limited to any particular genre, system, or themes. Many games have similar styles as Nordic LARP, although Fastaval is mostly a table-top or chamber LARP convention. There is definitely also room for system role-playing and dice rolls at Fastaval, but as a writer you should prepare for the fact that people should preferably be able to participate in your scenario, without preparation or knowledge of a particular system, setting or genre.

Although most Fastaval scenarios are tabletop, we would very much like to also have LARP on the program. A Fastaval LARP can be minimalistic in its use of costumes and props, but if you have some wild ideas you can talk to us about what might be possible. Props and other equipment are most probably something you should bring yourself.

Role-playing at Fastaval has a huge diversity both in design and content and Fastaval is a good place to make role-playing games if you want to experiment a bit with role-playing as a medium, but we also really want classic system role-playing games. The scenarios can be grave, imaginative, or action-adventure comedies and there is room for everything from Call of Cthulhu, investigation, love stories, surrealism and historical drama.

You can see last years program here, as an example here.

 

Scroll down to read more about synopses and how to become a scenario writer

How to become a scenariowriter

If you want to write a scenario for next year’s Fastaval, you must send a synopsis to scenarieansvarlige@fastaval.dk no later than September 1st 2022.

A synopsis is a short text of 1-2 pages that outlines the story, structure, and features of the scenario. The synopsis is the place where you explain what kind of experience the players will have and why it will be engaging to play. It is from the synopsis that we select which scenarios to include in next year’s Fastaval programme.

 

Workshops and sparring

Throughout the summer and autumn, the scenario coordinators will facilitate a series of workshops, some online others physically, about different parts of the scenario writing process. These events are both for new and experienced writers.

For the authors that are accepted to be part of this years Fastaval, there will be the option to get a sparring partner that can help and give feedback throughout the scenario writing process.

Read more about these workshops as well as dates further down.

 

Deadlines

Send your synopsis to the scenario coordinators Nina Runa Essendrop og Danny Wilson on email: scenarieansvarlige@fastaval.dk no later than Thursday September 1st 2022 at 11.59pm.

We will respond around September 7. Shortly thereafter we will present this years scenarios on Fastaval.dk.

The finished scenarios need to be handed in no later than Wednesday February 1st 2023 at 11.59pm.

The scenario coordinators for Fastaval 2023 and 2024

Nina Runa Essendrop
Danny Wilson

Nina Runa Essendrop & Danny Wilson have written multiple internationally acclaimed Fastaval-, Live action-, and Blackbox-scenarios, since their debut at Fastaval in 2012 and 2013 respectively. They have been looking forward to taking care of the new team of authors and the opportunity to facilitate the amazing community there is around Fastaval scenarios, like children looking forward to Christmas.

Contract us here:  scenarieansvarlige@fastaval.dk