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Designing and Playing for Hope in a Hopeless World
Instead of learning from a position of privilege why we don’t want certain things to happen (again), is it not worthwhile to focus on learning to hope again instead?
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Translating Culture
As the larp community grows more and more international, it is inevitable that we start to invite each other into larp experiences deeply rooted in local culture and history. How do we as organisers translate the cultural context in which a larp was made to an international participant group? How do we as designers make…
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Using ChatGPT in Character Creation
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This article is not about the history of LLMs or whether or not they are ethical to use (spoiler alert: they are not). Rather, it is a serious, cynical, and pragmatic look at the pitfalls of using them.
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The Importance of Local Larp Communities Through the Lens of Project Liminal
This article is two things at once: it is an exploration of usable design choices in local community building, examined through the lens of Project Liminal. Secondly, it is a love letter to all of our local larp communities and the differences they make.
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How to Run a Cheap Weekend Larp
Some tips and tricks on the practicalities of how to run a game like that, some things to keep in mind, what kind of game design works well for this format, and why to buy pre-chopped onions.
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Designing Vessels of Meaning
When it comes to larp design, the designer makes creative choices and steers the larpers; but the larpers are the ones that fill the vessel with their own meaning and story, to different extents depending on the larp.
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Relational Larp
“Relational larp” enables us to embrace the common vision and inspiration we have and work together on getting larp the acknowledgement it deserves among other forms of art, entertainment, self-expression, and means of transformation.
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A Transformative Journey of a Character in Larp
Content advisory: Spoilers, witnessing suicide, trauma recovery Introduction This character journey takes place in the larp Eclipse. Eclipse is an SF larp by Chaos League, where the participants are on a mission to establish if a planet is habitable for humanity. A certain amount of suspension of disbelief is needed, but none of this is…
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Permission to Play
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We provide adults with permission to play. We also provide children with the same permission but they need less help getting over the hurdles. Once they have been given permission to play again, they are free to explore the world with a sense of awe, wonder, and curiosity. This psychological emancipation permits the participant to…
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SOMA – A larp about Insanity, Intimacy, and Giant Robots
SOMA is a larp about intense human connection in a hopeless world, about people finding each other in the dark, even as they slowly lose themselves. This review covers the first international run of the LARP (following a beta test and a French run) in March 2026. Setting SOMA, which is according to the main…