What Does it Mean When Sex is Sexy?
Should larp techniques for representing sexual activity be sexy themselves? Might they be more sexy than we sometimes realize? What impact does this have?
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Let’s Fight – In Defense of Competitive Play, Part 1
Collaboration is in vogue. In Nordic circles and in blockbuster games, non-competitive play is ascendant. Matthew Webb argues for competetive play in larp.
Literary and Performative Imaginaries – Where Characters Come From
Character sheets are an important part of a roleplaying game's "text", but how are they constructed, and how do they operate? Evan Torner investigates.
Nordiclarp.org Resources – Video Equipment
Nordiclarp.org has gathered video equipment for larp documentation, which we lend out free of charge as long as it's used for larp.
Call for Articles
We want your brilliance! Have an idea you want to share? Write for Nordiclarp.org! We accept text contributions and you can read more about our process here: https://nordiclarp.org/write-for-us/ If you don’t want to write but contribute in other ways we…
White Wolf’s Convention of Thorns – A Blockbuster Nordic Larp
Convention of Thorns is an official White Wolf Nordic-style Vampire: the Masquerade larp. The first run was held between October 27-30, 2016 at Zamek Książ, a castle in Poland. The larp was a joint collaboration between White Wolf and Dziobak…
Real Men – Defining Gender Identities
Take your mind back, I don’t know when Sometime when it always seemed To be just us and them Girls that wore pink And boys that wore blue Boys that always grew up better men Than me and youJoe Jackson,…
Krigshjärta 7 – The Gamification of Nordic Fantasy Larp
Krigshjärta 7 was the latest addition to the Krigshjärta (Heart of War) campaign, a Swedish war larp campaign that has gained international recognition.
SHOWTIME – How a Silly Joke Turned into an Experimental Larp
During a christmas dinner last year Claus Raasted got drunk and played “truth or dare”. He ended up getting dared to announce a larp that same evening.
Rebels on the Mountain – The Last Night of Montelupo
The Rebels on the Mountain was a larp played in Italy in 2015. It was the first historical larp of Terre Spezzate, a larp group active in northern Italy.