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 “One day you will see the truth, you will learn to understand the patterns and numbers in the data. When God left the analogue world…
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…
Let’s Talk Freak Show
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,…