How to Take Care of Your Organizer
This article offers ways that players can take care of their organizers to help people avoid burning out and becoming discouraged from running larps again.
From Winson Green Prison to Suffragette: Representations of First-Wave Feminists in Larps
In this article, I present feedback on my experience playing and writing on suffragettes in larps set in early 20th century Europe. I present the diverse angles through which the theme and characters were approached in these larps and contrast…
Larp Safety Manifesto
A larp safety manifesto penned at Knudepunkt 2019.
Knudepunkt 2019: Summary
The Danish edition of the Nordic larp conference Knutepunkt, Knudepunkt 2019, is now over. This post will be continuously updated with links to articles, reports, photo albums, videos, slides, books and other relevant documentation. If you have any content you…
What Is Nordic Larp?
What is Nordic larp? We’ve updated and expanded our definition of the term! We hope it's easy to undertstand and useful for our readers.
Investigating Types of Bleed in Larp: Emotional, Procedural, and Memetic
Based on personal accounts, this article describes three categories of bleed states as experienced by larpers: emotional, procedural, and memetic.
Larp Counselor Code of Ethics
Larp counseling is the practice of dedicating a staff member to overseeing participant well-being at a live-action role-play (larp) event.
The Jeitinho Brasileiro Manifesto
From the dawn of our experimentation with larp, we as Brazilians have already come across something that made our culture stand on the impositions crystallized in a rulebook. If Laws of the Night, the first larp “manual” that arrived in…
D8 – Fascinating Paradox
When I heard some first mentions about the idea behind D8, I felt it’s going to be a really interesting thing. Knowing them personally, I occasionally drifted in each conversation towards this larp, to learn more. A design document for…
I Feel Released – How Designing for Inclusivity Might Mean Including Oppression
Sometimes you learn from your failures. Rocky Horror Larp changed the way I approach designing gender, sexuality and oppression in larp.