Why I hate post-larp compliment threads
Compliment threads are a quite common phenomenon after a larp. So why does it always make me slightly uncomfortable and anxious?
Bleed
Grief in Larp: Bleeding Through Two Lives
By weaving empathy, safety, and self-awareness into the fabric of larp, participants can transform grief from an overwhelming experience to an opportunity for collective healing and deeper connection, says Lyssa Greywood.
Larp as a Player, Larp as a Character
Theorizing engaging with the larp as both a character and as a player.
A Ramble in Five Scenes
How age, life experience, and the knowledge you have achieved become part of your larp.
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.[1]Mat Auryn, Psychic…
Bleed as a Skill
This toolbox provides practical tips on how to manipulate your brain into more bleed and more immersive experiences.
The Butterfly Effect Manifesto
This manifesto describes our preference for playing, designing, and facilitating larp experiences with the purpose of encouraging transformative impacts.
Investigating Types of Bleed in Larp: Emotional, Procedural, and Memetic
Based on personal accounts, this article describes three categories of bleed states as experienced by larpers: emotional, procedural, and memetic.
Larp Crush: The What, When and How
Larpers generally agree that what happens in-game stays in-game. But then there’s the larp crush -- a condition where you and your character get your wires crossed, so to speak. Larp crushes are known to be potentially more intense than…
The Battle of Primrose Park: Playing for Emancipatory Bleed in Fortune & Felicity
Fortune & Felicity was an opportunity to immerse into a world, explore my academic interests, add to my fieldwork, and experience emancipatory bleed.
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