The Fastaval Survival Guide

So you think you're ready to go to Fastaval. You think you're cool and you do L3375p3@k.. You've got dice and a spiky do. You're not ready! It's a jungle out there. full of ginormous evil monsters that eat your mom's monsters for breakfast. And pretty girls of the opposite sex - most with a much higher IQ than you.

• Follow this link to check out Fastaval: the most popular Danish roleplaying event which take place each easter...

• Follow this link to a completely unofficial but still useful guide for first time visitors to the event.

Or maybe you really don't think any of that and just want to know what to do to be properly prepared for the call of the FSTVL. You've come to the right place: I went in the olden days when the penguins were real birds and the GMs ate players they didn't like. I know stuff! (Some of it I may even remember!)
I had my first FSTVL in 1995 and here be the documents to prove it.

1995 and 1997 participant's certificates from FSTVL.

Total cost including this, that and stuff: about 140 DKR each.

(about 2 $ and half a pint of lager in today's money)

In those days we used to pay the organizers in glass beads

and pieces of painted bone - and they liked it!.

The map is from the back of the '95 version

and suggests hidden treasure in rooms 2 and 38...

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Note that though the prices were low in those days

the number of activities were even lower.

So overall the price hike may not be as bad as it seems

 

Anyways... The organizers of this year's event have very kindly put a nice guide for first time participants on their web-site. It's in Danish so theres that. It's a good guide though.

• With a bit o' luck this link could take you there.

What you really need to know, you ll have to read here to find out. You'll need garlic and stakes,, painkillers and pain. There be dragons off course but they are mostly invisible and should be ignored. Should you be of the cyborg persuasion I strongly recommend bringing your own charger.