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Knutepunkt 2021

Magic is Real: How Role-playing Can Transform Our Identities, Our Communities, and Our Lives

2021-03-09 0 Sarah Lynne Bowman Kjell Hedgard Hugaas

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…

Solmukohta 2020

Bleed as a Skill

2020-12-28 0 Ane Marie Anderson Karete Jacobsen Meland

This toolbox provides practical tips on how to manipulate your brain into more bleed and more immersive experiences.

Theory

The Butterfly Effect Manifesto

2019-08-20 0 Kjell Hedgard Hugaas Sarah Lynne Bowman

This manifesto describes our preference for playing, designing, and facilitating larp experiences with the purpose of encouraging transformative impacts.

Theory

Investigating Types of Bleed in Larp: Emotional, Procedural, and Memetic

2019-01-25 0 Kjell Hedgard Hugaas

Based on personal accounts, this article describes three categories of bleed states as experienced by larpers: emotional, procedural, and memetic.

Theory

Larp Crush: The What, When and How

2018-03-28 0 Sanne Harder

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…

Documentation

The Battle of Primrose Park: Playing for Emancipatory Bleed in Fortune & Felicity

2017-06-21 0 Jonaya Kemper

Fortune & Felicity was an opportunity to immerse into a world, explore my academic interests, add to my fieldwork, and experience emancipatory bleed.

Research

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.

Theory

Tears and the New Norm

2017-02-13 0 Troels Ken Pedersen

In recent years, we — the Nordic/International progressive role-playing scene, both tabletop and larp[1]I’ve been in on the tabletop/freeform side of things for many years; on the larp side, I got going with a splash with Just a Little Lovin’…

Documentation

Chasing Bleed – An American Fantasy Larper at Wizard School

2016-07-01 2 Tara M. Clapper

This article describes how I felt about my experience as someone who comes from an American campaign boffer fantasy larp background taking part in a Nordic style larp.

Theory

Bleed: The Spillover Between Player and Character

2015-03-02 5 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Participants often engage in role-playing in order to step inside the shoes of another person in a fictional reality that they consider “consequence-free.” However, role-players sometimes experience moments where their real life feelings, thoughts, relationships, and physical states spill over…

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