Katrine Wind
Katrine Wind | |
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| Born | 1988 (age 37–38) |
| Nationality | Denmark |
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Katrine Wind is a Copenhagen-based writer and larp designer. In 2019, she founded the independent and voluntary based Danish larp organisation Narrators Inc. It has supported other larps in the larp community.
Complex and meaningful characters, strong mechanics and thoughtful pacing is at the core of all of Katrine's larps in a framework she calls River Rafting Design (published in the 2025 Knutepunkt book Anatomy of Larp Thoughts: a breathing corpus). The goal for the design practice is an abundance of opportunities for emotional impact.
Katrine insists on a community of kindness, tolerance and respect for cultural differences in the larps she is responsible for. Concepts like "The House of Bravery" is a core concept to all her projects. She exercises a strict time management policy at her larps and aims for clear communication as well as predictability both for participants and crew.
She has helped as a consultant on many international larps from other designers and offers this especially to newer organisers.
Larps
Epos Daimon (2025-) Designer, Setting, Character writing, Workshop design, Casting, NPC-coordination. One run in the Czech Republic for the Danish larp boarding school Epos. It will be redesigned and re-run in 2026 for the new students.
Helicon (2024-) Designer, Setting, Character writing, Workshop design, Casting, Logistics (with Maria Pettersson). Four runs so far in Denmark and two in the US produced by Journeys and Tales LLC. Two more in Denmark in 2026. Website: Helicon Larp
Daemon (2021-) Designer, Setting, Character writing, Workshop design, Casting. 20 runs so far in Denmark, the US (produced by Journeys and Tales LLC and Mooney Bin Productions), the UK (produced by Harry Harrold) and Belgium (produced by Sandy Bailly) Website: Daemon Larp
Spoils of War (2019-) Designer, Setting, Character writing, Workshop design, Casting, Podcasting. Six runs so far in Denmark. Website: Spoils of War
Victorious 2 (2017) Designer, Character writing, Logistics (co-creation with Alexander Bakkensen)
Victorious (2016) Designer, Character writing, Logistics (co-creation with Alexander Bakkensen)
Lost in Dublin - 1899 (Triology) (2014) Designer, Character writing, Logistics
City of Kings (2010–2013) Plot designer, NPC-coordinator, NPC
Freeform scenario
Articles on Larp
Together, Apart: Dyadic Play in Larp (2025)
River Rafting Design (2025)
Dinner Warfare (2024) /
Playing an Engaging Victim (2020) (with Karijn van der Heij) in What Do We Do When We Play? .
Talks on Larp
River Raftign Design (2026), a walk though of Katrine's design philosophy: Knutpunkt 2026 - River Rafting Design
Larping Fascism to Understand the Allure of Toxic Communities, a Nordic larp talk about the larp Epos Daimon at Knutpunkt 2026: Larping Fascism to Understand the Allure of Toxic Communities - Katrine Wind
The Magic School Where Teens Play Fascists (2026), an interview with Adrian Hon about Epos Daimon: The Magic School Where Teens Play Fascists
How to play to lift (2024), a brainstorm with best practices from Katrine and the participants, Knutepunkt 2024
Writing highly playable characters (2022), a brainstorm with best practices from Katrine and the participants, Knutepunkt 2022
Playing to parts of the same character (2021), a keynote talk at Knutepunkt 2021
Playing an engaging victim (2020), a brainstorm to expand the article about the subject with Karijn van der Heij
Larping Out Loud (2019-) Podcast in Danish about Larp design, player skills and often with guests from the Danish Larp community.
Orkerne Kommer Sommerskole (2020–2022) Teaching "Visions" and "Casting processes" at the Bifrost Larp Summer School in Denmark.
Toolbox of the drama designers (2019) with Alexander Bakkensen, Knudepunkt 2019