Creating Play in the Magical Classroom is a multi-part guide to playing a teacher at the College of Wizardry and New World Magischola larps. While it was written specifically with these events in mind, it can be applied to many other larps and settings.
The texts in this series are written collectively by (in alphabetical order) Maury Brown, Stefan Deutsch, Johanna Koljonen, Eevi Korhonen, Ben Morrow, Juhana Pettersson, Maria Pettersson, Mike Pohjola, Staffan Rosenberg and Jaakko Stenros. The series is edited by Johanna Koljonen.
The seven part series is available here:
- Part I: Playing a Professor
- Part II: Designing and Running a Good Magic Class in the Nordic, Wysiwyg, Trust-based Style
- Part III: Class Objectives and Making Up Knowledge
- Part IV: Professor Personalities
- Part V: Authority Awry: Stop, Shut Up, Do What I Tell You
- Part VI: Reasons for Your Professor Character Not to Get Personally Involved in Students’ Life-shattering Personal and/or Occult Drama, and How to Play Them
- Part VII: Example/Examples of How to Teach a Spell so That the Teaching Makes It Clear How to Play
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