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.
Larp Design Cards
Mikołaj Wicher has together with Agnieszka Kisiel (translation) and Marcin Słowikowski (graphic design) produced a set of cards to help with larp design. You can download the cards here.
Larp Crush: The What, When and How
Larpers generally agree that what happens in-game stays in-game. But then there’s the larp crush -- a condition where you and your character get your wires crossed, so to speak. Larp crushes are known to be potentially more intense than…