Larp Counselor Code of Ethics
Larp counseling is the practice of dedicating a staff member to overseeing participant well-being at a live-action role-play (larp) event.
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D8 – Fascinating Paradox
When I heard some first mentions about the idea behind D8, I felt it’s going to be a really interesting thing. Knowing them personally, I occasionally drifted in each conversation towards this larp, to learn more. A design document for…
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…
Epiphany – A Collaborative Mage: the Ascension Larp
Epiphany was a collaborative larp based loosely on Mage: The Ascension that took place December 15-17, 2017 in Austin, Texas. The larp was set during a weekend-long spiritual retreat where mentors help initiate mages navigate their Awakenings and come into…
Bad Larp Design: Choking Hazard
When someone seems to be choking or having difficulties breathing at a larp, you should always assume the situation is real and go to their immediate aid. Designers should never, ever design larp mechanics that require participants to role-play that…
Tenement 67: Tales from the Tenements
How a UK larp’s take on dystopian cyberpunk is learning from Nordic larp design principles As William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy was coming to an end, I was spending a fair amount of my time in underground nightclubs listening to angry…
Larp Tools: Pronoun Markers and Correction Mechanics
In role-play, players and their characters do not always use the same pronouns. Some players use role-play to explore personal questions of gender identity, using the alibi of the character to give them a chance to try on a new…
Immerton: A Fire in the Desert
I knew as soon as I heard about Immerton that I wanted to go. I’d been to one other women-only larp — the U.S. run of Mad About the Boy (2012) — and while it was some of what I wanted from the…
Let’s Talk Freakshow
An honest, possibly scrambled, and very emotional review and critique. Trigger warning: Contains coarse language and depictions of violent acts. In September 15-17, 2017, I attended the larp Freakshow by Nina Teerilahti, Alessandro Giovannucci, Dominika Cembala, Martin Olsson, Morgan Kollin,…
Road Trip Report
Road Trip was like no other larp I’ve ever done. I felt like I’d fallen down the rabbit hole, with a constant interweaving of fiction and reality. Road Trip, a joint production of Dzobiak Larp Studios and Imagine Nation Collective,…