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Fairweather Manor: Perspectives from a United States Player

2016-02-05 0 Chris Bergstresser

I thought I’d write up a game summary about my experience playing Fairweather Manor, as there seems to be some interest. My background is as an American larper with some-to-moderate larp experience in the American scene, whose first international larp…

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Legion – Trans-Siberian Railroading

2016-02-01 0 Sebastian Utbult

Legion, or Legie as it is called in its original language, is a Czech larp that had already had six runs by the time the international run was played, and is a game for 54 pre-written characters, both soldiers and…

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Fairweather Manor – The Latest Iteration of the Blockbuster Formula?

2015-12-16 1 Muriel Algayres

Fairweather Manor is a historically-inspired international larp for 140 whose first run took place in Zamek Moszna, Poland, on the 5-8th of November 2015. It was created by the Liveform/Rollespilsfabrikken team already behind the creation of College of Wizardry. As…

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Starting a Russian Revolution

2015-09-25 1 Frida Aronsson Erik Pihl

A visit to Russian “Larp-poem 1905” to do living history and dream of changing the past Have you heard about the Russian revolution of 1905? Don’t be embarrassed if you haven’t, it’s not that well known, not even Russians talk…

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Love, Sex, Death, and Liminality: Ritual in Just a Little Lovin’

2015-07-13 2 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Just a Little Lovin' is commonly touted as one of the best Nordic larps ever designed by those who have played it. Originally written in 2011 by Tor Kjetil Edland and Hanne Grasmo, the larp explores the lives of people…

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Hinterland: Playing to Really Lose

2015-06-05 1 Emma Ström

In the year 2013, the Swedish midsummer idyll is shattered to pieces when Russia suddenly attacks. A war without winners commences, followed by the deadly epidemic called Rosen (the Rose). In refugee camps around the country, tens of thousands die…

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Hinterland: Design for Real Knives and Misery

2015-06-01 0 JC

Hinterland was a Swedish post-apocalyptic larp about refugees and disease. It was language-neutral, in effect meaning that people did their best to switch to whichever language was most inclusive for the players present in any given scene. What follows is…

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The Last Ropecon at Dipoli

2015-05-25 0 Juhana Pettersson

Ropecon is a Finnish roleplaying game convention. It’s also been something that’s been a part of my life for twenty years now. It was first organized in 1994, but I missed the initial years. I’m pretty sure my first Ropecon…

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Tonnin Stiflat: Season One – To Booze or Not to Booze…

2015-05-22 0 Johannes Axner

Setting Helsinki in the 1920’s: urbanization, the admiring gaze towards Europe; jazz and lipstick, daring women entering the public sphere; a country divided by the bitter civil war in 1918; prohibition and the tsunami of illegal alcohol and booze-related crimes.…

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The Golden Cobra Challenge: Amateur-Friendly Pervasive Freeform Design

2015-05-20 2 Evan Torner Whitney "Strix" Beltrán Emily Care Boss Jason Morningstar

Once upon a time – actually, at GenCon 2014 in Indianapolis, USA – several of us discovered a design problem for live freeform games. For the last five years, the independent role-playing game scene here in North America has run…

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