Building Player Chemistry
This article By Nór Hernø, introduces a workshop tool to help build player chemistry before a larp.
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The Hated Children of Nordic Larp – Why We Need to Improve on Workshops and Debriefs
We should design specific exercises that fit the larp and the experience we want to create.
Larping Before the Larp: The Magic of Preparatory Scenes
How short facilitated scenes larped during workshops can enhance play.
Overview of Edu-Larp Conference 2019
Edu-larp can be described as implementing live-action role-playing games in formal or informal educational contexts, “used to impart pre-determined pedagogical or didactic content” (Balzer & Kurz 2015). The aim of the Edu-larp Conference 2019 was to present and discuss recent…
How to Take Care of Your Organizer
This article offers ways that players can take care of their organizers to help people avoid burning out and becoming discouraged from running larps again.
Group Improvisation of Larp Rituals
This article describes a 30-minute workshop which teaches on-the-spot collective improvisation of fake rituals for larp purposes.
Workshop Practice, in Practice – A Functional Workshop Structure Method
The pre-game workshop tradition in Nordic larp is mostly oral, with little written material. People take part in workshops as players, then borrow and develop ideas from those experiences to construct workshops for their own larps. So I thought it…
Culture Calibration in Pre-larp Workshops
With a few exceptions, all larps take place in a set culture. This can be either a fictional culture or a culture based on the real world. For the previous larps where I have been part of the organizer team,…