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Maury Brown

Maury Brown is a storyteller, larp producer, game designer, and scholar who consults with educational institutions and companies about interactive storytelling experiences. She is known for her scholarly and practical work designing safety and calibration techniques for larp and participatory experiences and for helping larp communities improve their accessibility and inclusion. She wrote and produced several multi-day destination Nordic-style experiences, including New World Magischola, Immerton, and Beat Generation, and believes in the power of roleplay to empower individuals and transform societal norms.

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Tools

Flagging is Flawed

2024-05-08 0 Maury Brown Nina Teerilahti

Although helpful for safety reasons, flagging is also commonly used to prevent people from attending a larp for lesser reasons.

Tools

Playing with Eros: Consent, Calibration and Safety for Erotic & Sex Roleplay

2021-04-29 0 Maury Brown

Erotic games are meant to be played by consenting adults who approach sexual play with openness, honesty, and clarity. The tools and principles outlined here will help you prepare for, play, and debrief from erotic games so everyone involved has…

Solmukohta 2020

Reading Others for Interaction

2020-10-05 0 Maury Brown

When we larp, we make deductions about other characters and the types of role-play they will provide. Through speech, costuming, body language, and other signs, each player signals to others how to interact with their character. As you play, analyze…

Hearts

Immerton

2018-02-12 0 Maury Brown Sarah Lynne Bowman Quinn D Kat Jones Orli Nativ

Immerton is a 4-day larp written by women for women participants, taking place in a fictional society of women in a polytheistic goddess pantheon. Produced by Learn Larp, the game used a feminist sandbox design that emphasized rituals, relationships, collaborative…

Diamonds

Safety and Calibration Design Tools and Their Uses

2018-01-24 3 Maury Brown

Safety & Calibration techniques are important design tools that help diverse players access your larp and create stories together. This article offers three Safety & Calibration Tools that have been in use since June 2016 and are now used internationally…

Techniques

Larp Tools: Pronoun Markers and Correction Mechanics

2017-12-01 2 Maury Brown

In role-play, players and their characters do not always use the same pronouns. Some players use role-play to explore personal questions of gender identity, using the alibi of the character to give them a chance to try on a new…

Techniques

Larp Counselors: An Additional Safety Net

2017-08-07 6 Sarah Lynne Bowman Maury Brown Brodie Atwater Alex Rowland

This article advocates for the inclusion in certain larps of the unique role of a counselor, who is part of the safety team.

Techniques

Safety Coordinators for Communities: Why, What, and How

2017-04-17 2 Maury Brown

This article will define a Safety Team and its role, examine what makes for a good Safety Team, and offer advice for maintaining one for your community.

Manifestos