What Is Nordic Larp?
What is Nordic larp? We’ve updated and expanded our definition of the term! We hope it's easy to undertstand and useful for our readers.
Nordic Larp
Playing the Stories of Others
Larps that treat social issues often aim to create empathy for real people who live in circumstances different from ours by putting us in their shoes.
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Creating a Culture of Trust through Safety and Calibration Larp Mechanics
When Ben Morrow and I decided to offer a College of Wizardry-like experience in North America in April 2015, we knew we had our work cut out for us. Not only did we need to form a larp production company,…
Bjarke Pedersen – Becoming the Story
Danish larp producer Bjarke Pedersen of Odyssé is talking at the Future of StoryTelling conference in New York in 5-6 October 2016. Here is a short talk (3m 26s) where he eloquently and concisely describes what larp is.
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You can now support Nordiclarp.org on Patreon! By giving us a monthly donation through Patreon you can help us keep the site running. Our Patreon page, linked below, further explains how to donate and where the money goes. Where Does the…
Chamber Larps and the Audience Problem
When attending contemporary theatre performances in the past year, I have been following closely what happens when the actors try to involve the audience in doing something. Even though the audience at these kind of performances should not be alien…
Play the Gay Away – Confessions of a Queer Larper
I guess everybody knows I'm gay, but I don't think everybody knows I'm a queer, too. I like to incorporate gay culture into my speech and slang, and even used to flaunt my gayness, but I haven't been able to…
Ship Ahoy! Mark your calendar for Solmukohta 2016!
On Wednesday the 9th to Monday the 14th of March 2016 it’s once again time for the international roleplaying conference Solmukohta. The conference often known as Knutepunkt is this year in Finland and therefore goes by it’s Finnish name Solmukohta for…
Processing Political Larps – Framing Larp Experiences with Strong Agendas
Thanks to it I turned my communist friend into a patriot. And I realized who I really am. This is how a respondent, according to Mochocki (2012), described the Polish tabletop role-playing game Dzikie Pola (“Wild Planes”) in an online…