Players: 5-12
Genre: Oppression
Two soldiers from your unit have been charged with the crime of stealing bread. If found guilty, they will be shot. The problem is that they are innocent.
The Tribunal is a short, intense participatory scenario about the mechanics of oppression, inspired by Orwell, Krylov and Buchner. The scenario takes place in a space of waiting, just before the first one of you is called to testify in front of the military tribunal. Each of you will face the judges alone, not knowing what the others will say. So if you want to make a difference, or be sure you survive, you need to discuss and deal now. The Tribunal has been played all over the world and won the 2010 Larpwriter’s Challenge award and is an approachable point of entry for learning about Nordic LARP.
The winner of the Nordic Larpwriter Challenge was J. Tuomas Harviainen with the game “The Tribunal”, which according to the author himself is a " A participatory scenario about the mechanics of oppression"
The Tribunal aims to be a participatory scenario about the mechanics of oppression. This it manages to do with an elegant and easy to grasp design. The character design is in particular effective in how it establishes distinctive characters for a short game of this type. The Tribunal clearly shows how ordinary people become accomplices in the oppression of themselves and others in the machinery of an authoritarian society.
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