Mo Holkar

Mo Holkar has been running and playing larps and freeforms (uk- and other) since the mid-80s.

He also runs Freeform Games LLP with Steve Hatherley, bringing uk-freeform-style games to the general public.

Mo has a blog about larps and other games-related stuff at Games! – All sorts of different ones. He's written various articles:

• The Blue Ribbon Collective, on nordiclarp.org, March 2017
• High on Larp: Alcohol at Larp Events, on nordiclarp.org, March 2017
• History, Herstory, and Theirstory: Representation of Gender and Class in Larps with a Historical Setting, in the 2017 Knutepunkt companion book and also on nordiclarp.org, February 2017
• What Does it Mean When Sex is Sexy?, with Monica Hjort Traxl, on nordiclarp.org, February 2017
• Real Men – Defining Gender Identities, with Kevin Burns, in the 2016 Nordic Larp Yearbook and also on nordiclarp.org, November 2016
• Walking in the Darkness: handling race in Lovecraftesque, in Lovecraftesque
• Non-nominated Fastaval Scenarios, on the Plan B blog, April 2016
• Larp and Prejudice: Expressing, Erasing, Exploring, and the Fun Tax, in the 2016 Solmukohta companion book
• Workshop Practice, in Practice, in the 2015 Knudepunkt companion book and also on nordiclarp.org, April 2016
• Opening the Chamber of Secrets – an introduction to chamber larp, on larping.org, May 2015
• What's the big deal about Nordic larp?, on larping.org, October 2014
• Nordic-style larp in the UK, on nordiclarp.org, July 2014
• Pillage the Vikings!, with Ole Peder Giæver, on nordiclarp.org, July 2014
• Orientalism and exoticism, on the Ginger Goat blog, May 2014

Mo's freeforms / chamber larps

Mo has written the following freeforms and larps by himself:

• Experimental Findings
• Life Lessons
• Delta Sector Helter Skelter (a playset for Picking up the Pieces)
• The Best Medicine
• 'Heroes' (for Fastaval 2016)
• Keep It in the Family
• The Tongues of Our Ancestors (for the Golden Cobra Challenge 2015)
• How Was it for You?
• Women on the Verge… / These Are the Days of Our Lives
• Café Incognito (for the Golden Cobra Challenge 2014)
• A Will to Murder (also in German as Letzte Wille Mord)
• The Monte Carlo Entanglement (a playset for Picking up the Pieces)
• A Dead Man's Chest (also in German as Des Toten Kerls Kiste)
• Curse of the Pharaoh (also in German as Der Fluch des Pharao)

and has co-written these ones with various other people:

• 21 Moments (with Steven Doyle, Jenny Dunn, Ruth Trenery-Leach, Graham Walmsley, and Laura Wood)
• The Drinklings (with Anna-Karin Linder, for A Week in Sweden 2018)
• On Location (with Kate Bennett, Karolina Sołtys, and Laura Wood)
• Life of a House (with Will Osmond and Ruth Trenery-Leach)
• It's Just a Stage (with Karolina Sołtys)
• The Life of Mermaids (with Olga Rudak, Mira Suovanen, and Jouni Karppinen)
• The Baby Club (with Jamie Harper and David Owen)
• Freakshow (with Traci Whitehead)
• Real Men (with Kevin Burns)
• Queen of Denial (with Nickey Barnard)
• Mars Attracts (with Graham Arnold, Kath Banks, Graham Charles, and Steve Hatherley).
• None but the Brave (with Traci Whitehead).
• Preserving the Village (with Graham Arnold, Andrea Civiera, Sue Lee, Michele Minett, and Alison Rider-Hill).
• The Outsiders (with Cat Tobin).
• What Happened in Blackpool, and the Picking up the Pieces system for which it was the first playset (with Heidi Kaye, Alli Mawhinney, Cat Tobin, and Traci Whitehead).
• Reading between the Lines (with Cat Tobin).
• Small Town Folks (with Tracy Bose, Rob Harris, Tony Mitton, Mike Snowden, and Cat Tobin)
• The Accused (with Graham Arnold, Tracy Bose, Sue Lee, and Cat Tobin)
• Off the Rails (with Tracy Bose)
• Zeus's Zoo (with Andy Brown, Mike Grace, and Alex Helm)
• Superbia (with Dennis Douglas)

and co-wrote these, back in the day, as part of the Epic Experience; with various combinations of Melanie Dymond Harper, Wendy Prosser, Emma O'Connell and Graham Harper:

• Air Today, Gone Tomorrow?
• All Rite on the Night
• Almost Crazy
• B.A.D. Books
• Bassethwaite 5: After the Fall
• Bassethwaite 5: Intimations of Danger
• Bring on the Bellywobblies
• Cereal Killers
• Come Die With Me
• Countdown to Doom
• Court in the Act
• Enigma Variations
• Fall of Kar-Dernath
• The Fall of the House of Basset
• Family Values
• From Bassethwaite with Love
• Ghosthunters
• Human Racing
• I'd Like To Thank…
• In Stitches
• Interr'd with Their Bones
• Irons in the Fire
• Let Nothing You Display
• Loft Treasures
• Over the Edge
• Pearls before Swine
• Poles Apart
• The Quest for El Dorito
• Ship of Fools
• The Show Must Go On
• Veni, Vidi, Bassethwaite
• Winter of Discontent