Author: Sarah Lynne Bowman
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Together at Last: Romantic Paradox in a Not-Quite-Dystopian Future
A larp set in a governmental facility in which volunteers are matchmade three times in order to find their Perfect Match.
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Helicon: An Epic Larp about Love, Beauty, and Brutality
Ritual play in which group of artists, leaders, and scientists bind the Muses of antiquity to their will.
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Listen 2 Your Heart Season 8: An Unexpectedly Bleedy Experiment
Reflections on an online larp adaptation of the popular Netflix dating series Love is Blind.
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Magic is Real: How Role-playing Can Transform Our Identities, Our Communities, and Our Lives
What is magic? From our perspective, at its core, magic is a form of manifestation: the ability to alter the self and the world around us through the power of intentional thought, force of will, and creative action.((Mat Auryn, Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2020).)) At…
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Transformative Role-Play: Design, Implementation, and Integration
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A framework for how to design, organize, and play intentionally for transformative impacts throughout the role-play experience and beyond.
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The Butterfly Effect Manifesto
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This manifesto describes our preference for playing, designing, and facilitating larp experiences with the purpose of encouraging transformative impacts.
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Immerton
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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 roleplay, and transformational experiences using a meta room, mask play, and multimedia storytelling as core…
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Larp Counselors: An Additional Safety Net
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This article advocates for the inclusion in certain larps of the unique role of a counselor, who is part of the safety team.
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Enlightenment in Blood: A Pervasive World of Darkness Nordic Larp
It’s not a revolution… it’s an insurrection. Anarch catchphrase during Enlightenment in Blood Enlightenment in Blood was an official White Wolf larp in the Nordic style spanning 10 locations for approximately 200 players in the city of Berlin. The larp lasted five hours and took place in the Friedrichshain district on May 12, 2017. Developed…
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A Matter of Trust – Larp and Consent Culture
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Consent culture in larp communities is a subject of great interest in the current discourse. Larp scholar Sarah Lynne Bowman explores the subject.