Inner Tension
Thinking about internal identities can be a way to quickly and easily generate internal tension.
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Larp and Prejudice: Expressing, Erasing, Exploring, and the Fun Tax
Designers of larps with a real-world setting face questions about how to deal with prejudice. This article looks at three possible approaches.
The Blue Ribbon Collective
For Knutepunkt 2017, we held a workshop for people who wanted to avoid or limit their drinking, which included optional blue ribbon pins to signal sobriety.
High on Larp: Alcohol at Larp Events
We conducted an online survey about experiences with and attitudes towards alcohol at larps and at larp-related events, receiving over 1000 responses.
History, Herstory and Theirstory: Representation of Gender and Class in Larps with a Historical Setting
History can be an amazing source of settings for larp! Here are some ways to make sure you're doing justice to the underprivileged of the past and of today.
What Does it Mean When Sex is Sexy?
Should larp techniques for representing sexual activity be sexy themselves? Might they be more sexy than we sometimes realize? What impact does this have?
Real Men – Defining Gender Identities
Real Men is a chamber larp for 4–8 players, lasting four hours, designed by Kevin Burns and Mo Holkar. It’s about the lives and friendships of men – taking a group of characters who meet as young adults, and following…
Workshop Practice, in Practice – A Functional Workshop Structure Method
The pre-game workshop tradition in Nordic larp is mostly oral, with little written material. People take part in workshops as players, then borrow and develop ideas from those experiences to construct workshops for their own larps. So I thought it…
Nordic Style Larp in the UK
The UK has a large and thriving larp industry, going back to the early 1980s and with an estimated 100,000+ current active participants. But awareness of larp traditions in other countries, and in the Nordic scene in particular, has been minimal…
Pillage the Vikings!
A thousand years ago, Viking warriors came out of the Nordic countries, raiding and conquering in Britain, Ireland, Atlantic and Mediterranean Europe, Russia and North America. They mercilessly pillaged the finest things they could find. Now it's time for the…