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Playing with Eros: Consent, Calibration and Safety for Erotic & Sex Roleplay

2021-04-29 0 Maury Brown

Erotic games are meant to be played by consenting adults who approach sexual play with openness, honesty, and clarity. The tools and principles outlined here will help you prepare for, play, and debrief from erotic games so everyone involved has…

Solmukohta 2020

Recognising Disappointment

2020-11-02 0 Sandy Bailly

The first step to be able to deal with disappointment in larp is recognising that you are experiencing these emotions. However, this is not always easy during a larp.

Solmukohta 2020

Larp-Related Stress

2020-09-28 0 Eino Partanen Suvi Korhonen Ira Nykänen

Larping is a recreational activity, and larps are positive life events. However, larps can be more demanding than the player expects, and thus create stress.

Solmukohta 2020

Your Body Is Your Body

2020-09-17 0 Karin Edman

This piece tries to provide a practical tool for overcoming machismo, internalized norms, and other patterns that can lead to physical injury to the player’s body.

Techniques

Sleeping Areas, Off-Game Areas, and the Black/White Ribbon Metatechnique

2020-06-01 0 Julia Greip

The black/white ribbon metatechnique, as used at Libertines (2020), to signal if you want play in your sleeping area or not.

Theory

Leaving the Magic Circle: Larp and Aftercare

2020-04-15 0 Anneli Friedner

The transition from larp to everyday life can be messy sometimes. Some thoughts on aftercare in a larp context: how to do it and why.

Theory

The Impact of Social Capital on Larp Safety

2019-10-29 0 Muriel Algayres

We cannot discuss exploring outside of our comfort zones in larp without taking into account imbalances of social capital, influence, and power.

Theory

Larp Counselor Code of Ethics

2019-01-22 0 Brodie Atwater Alex Rowland

Larp counseling is the practice of dedicating a staff member to overseeing participant well-being at a live-action role-play (larp) event.

Diamonds

Safety and Calibration Design Tools and Their Uses

2018-01-24 3 Maury Brown

Safety & Calibration techniques are important design tools that help diverse players access your larp and create stories together. This article offers three Safety & Calibration Tools that have been in use since June 2016 and are now used internationally…

Joker

Playing Safe?

2018-01-22 9 Martine Svanevik Simon Brind

A number of high profile articles and discussions about safety in Nordic larp seem to imply that safety has become the primary concern for larp design. This article interrogates that implication by a series of interviews with larp designers, and…

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