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Bleed Before it was Cool: Early descriptions of dissimulative pretense, their unintended effects, and their impact on the evolution of roleplaying

2025-07-15 0 Mátyás Hartyándi

European sources from the 18th and 19th centuries describe phenomena occurring during, or as a result of roleplaying, that we might now recognize as bleed.

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What Do Adult Participants Get Out of Larp? A qualitative survey based on SWORDCRAFT Australia

2025-07-11 0 Sam Barta

Knowing the answers to what motivates adults to spend time, money, and emotional energy on a game seemingly not valued, may provide insights into developing roleplay further as pedagogy beyond recreation.

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Larping Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s: A Look Into the Birth of Performance Studies and Experiential Ethnography

2024-04-08 0 Mike Pohjola

The interaction between Richard Schechner and Victor Turner and how their experiments align with larp.

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Comments on VR, Larp, Technology, Creation

2024-02-26 0 Nadja Lipsyc

Aesthetics, Possibility and Ethics of an Immersive Mass Media This article is a personal commentary on a few major topics I picked up throughout the past six years of creating for VR/new media and larp. The principal aim of this…

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Larp in Leadership Development at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (RNNA)

2022-03-14 0 Maria Kolseth Jensen

Naval cadets became more role flexible as a result of the use of larp in training, and those who were positively inclined gained greater benefits.

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Pre-Bleed is Totally a Thing

2017-04-21 0 Martine Svanevik Simon Brind

Pre-bleed is the experience of emotional bleed prior to ever playing the character in a larp setting. This paper considers pre-bleed before College of Wizardry 5.

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Three Roads (of Translation) Not Taken: Different Degrees of Openness of the Work (and of the Game)

2017-03-10 0 Tadeu Rodrigues Iuama

Abstract From the Julio Plaza’s proposition that, based on the concept of open work of Umberto Eco, categorises the relationship author-work-reception in three degrees, and the division in cultural events in reception, interaction and participation, seen in the research of…

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High on Larp: Alcohol at Larp Events

2017-03-09 2 Mo Holkar

We conducted an online survey about experiences with and attitudes towards alcohol at larps and at larp-related events, receiving over 1000 responses.

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