Player Safety

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…

Techniques

Larp Counselors: An Additional Safety Net

2017-08-07 6 Sarah Lynne Bowman Maury Brown Brodie Atwater Alex Rowland

This article advocates for the inclusion in certain larps of the unique role of a counselor, who is part of the safety team.

Techniques

Safety Coordinators for Communities: Why, What, and How

2017-04-17 2 Maury Brown

This article will define a Safety Team and its role, examine what makes for a good Safety Team, and offer advice for maintaining one for your community.

Opinion

19 Truths about Harassment, Missing Stairs, and Safety in Larp Communities

2017-03-14 4 Maury Brown

This article presents a Series of Truths about harassment, missing stairs, and community safety that exist in larp communities around the world.

Techniques

A Matter of Trust – Larp and Consent Culture

2017-02-03 2 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Consent culture in larp communities is a subject of great interest in the current discourse. Larp scholar Sarah Lynne Bowman explores the subject.

Theory

Safe Words and How to Use Them

2015-04-15 0 Nathan Hook

Many larps have adopted safe words, as a form of meta-communication between players (rather than between characters). While in normal interaction it is sometimes possible to read non-verbal clues of fear or distress, the embodied nature of larp means there…

Theory

Returning to the Real World

2014-12-08 3 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Debriefing After Role-playing Games Debriefing is a somewhat controversial topic in role-playing communities today. While some individuals feel that games should remain distinct from the mundane world and debriefing is an unnecessary complication, many role-players have grown concerned about difficulties…

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