Tag: Bleed
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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Wrestling with Bleed-in of the Self
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This video was recorded during the 2025 Nordic Larp Talks, in Oslo. When you larp, you are you. It sounds obvious, but how often do we really think about what that really means for the characters we play, and for our larp experience? In this talk, based on the ideas of Anne Marchadier, Mo Holkar…
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Learning from Bleed
How you can learn from bleed yourself, and how you design a larp in such a way that your participants can learn from their bleed, if they want to.
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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
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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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?
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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.
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Larp as a Player, Larp as a Character
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Theorizing engaging with the larp as both a character and as a player.
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A Ramble in Five Scenes
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How age, life experience, and the knowledge you have achieved become part of your larp.
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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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Bleed as a Skill
This toolbox provides practical tips on how to manipulate your brain into more bleed and more immersive experiences.
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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.