Author: Matthijs Holter (---.tele2.no)
Date: 07-06-2004 09:52
It feels a bit weird to me when people talk about "The Nordic Scene". Probably because I'm not part of it - even though I'm very much a part of the Norwegian RPG scene. I'm one of two professionally published RPG authors in my country, the editor of our nationwide gaming fanzine (no prozines exist in Norway), and one of the people behind rollespill.net, among other things. Still, until I started reading the Forge, I'd never even heard of the Nordic Scene.
It's fine with me if bright people with new ideas want to define what they do as a "scene". I think some of the stuff that's come out of the Knutepunkt books is pretty good, and am definitely following the project with interest. But this "scene" is very much defined by a handful of people, most of whom speak a language I don't even understand (finnish), and most of whom are very much into a hobby I don't participate in (LARP). Using the term "Nordic scene" implies broad support among gamers in the Nordic countries - but I don't really see any such support.
I think it might be better to call it "The Solmukohta scene", "LARP immersionist theorists" or something similar, to avoid confusion. As it is, the name is misleading - sort of like a gang of mostly Mexican jazz musicians calling themselves "The South American music scene".
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