About

Our LARP Club

Phoenix Reborn started in 2004. Originally, it was simply known as "Phoenix" and was the collaborative creation of Howard Cooper, John Graham, Bob Cloudsdale and Paul “Fudge” Ferguson. After several successful events, they decided to pause their game, and so it lay quietly slumbering in the minds of its players for many years.

In 2017, Ryan Robbins, Jack Brown and Nigel Bell were graciously given permission by the original ref team to resurrect the game. Overtime, key elements of the world background had become common knowledge, and, therefore, the decision was taken to significantly revamped its setting so there would still be some mystery behind the game.

The first event of the new Phoenix Reborn game took place in the winter of 2017. Phoenix Reborn has ran one, two, or three events a year since then.

The current referee team is:

Ryan Robbins (lead ref)
Jack Brown (creative and play ref)
Nigel Bell (creative, play ref and chef extraordinaire)
Victoria Stephenson (logistics)

Thank you

The current referee team would like to thank the original creators of the game (Howard, John, Bob and Fudge) for their generosity in allowing Phoenix Reborn to take their original materials and use them as a basis for Phoenix Reborn’s current setting and world background. The quality and quantity of work which they so graciously passed over to the new game was invaluable and we hope we have been able to do it justice.

Many thanks to my fellow referees, Jack Brown and Nigel Bell for helping to make our game so rich and such fun. Phoenix Reborn would be lost without their creativity and energy. A special thanks to Victoria Stephenson for being our logistics referee; without whom everything would have descended into chaos.