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{{Infobox book|name=The Book|published=2001|author={{Unbulleted list|[[Anette Alfsvåg]]|[[Ingrid Storrø]]|[[Erlend Eidsem Hansen]]}}|country=Norway}}
'''The Book''' was published in conjunction with the [[Knutepunkt 2001]] conference.

==Content==
===The Book - Knutepunkt 2001===
===='Editorial====
By Anethe Alfsvåg, [[Erlend Eidsem Hansen]], Ingrid Storrø, Tommy Finsen, Bjørn Rugstad and Helge H. Jensen.

====Welcome====
By Benedikte

====KP Online====
By Tommy Finsen

====GiHa-DraMaK 07====
By [[Erlend Eidsem Hansen]]

===The Articles===
====Knutepunkt; A retrospective vizualisation====
By Lars Munck

A series of humorous drawings.

====Developing a Character====
By Holger Jacobsson

A suggestion to drop writing long background stories and descriptions for roleplaying characters and focus on the personal qualities and experiences that the players would want to explore.

====Pre-LARP Communication====
By Cathrine Movold

A short primer on the principles of communicating information to the players before a game and the exciting new opportunities of digital media.

====Cultural Studies and Role-Playing====
By Frans Mäyrä

The lack of and trouble of doing academic studies of roleplaying, due to its manifold character and grassroots nature.

====The LRP-phenomenon====
By Lars Ivar and Owesen Lein-Borge

Summary of an article. Ritual theory as applied to larp. The unique conditions of audience-less performance and the liminal spaces that allow for behavious unaccepted in normal life. The duality of actual experiences in a fictional setting.

====Norwegian Vampire LARP====
By Torgrim Husvik

An example of a vampire larp campaign in Norway and how it differs from the original Mind’s Eye Theatre system from the US, illustrating some particularities of Norwegian larp.

====Factors of LARP====
By Morten Gade

Seven factors that players would want out of larp: Adrenaline, fun, intrigues, personality, education, media, art.

====Historical Worlds====
by Henrik Summanen

Ideas and examples of possible cooperation between museums and larpers, the kinds of thing each can gain from the other.

====Before Full Time====
By Ingrid Fahlgren

Two examples of larps that had to be stopped before time, due to developments that hurt the play of a large part of the participants.

====LARP on the Net====
By Bo Kjellson

How larpers are using chatrooms to continue the life of their characters between play.

====Experience History====
By Hilde Bryhn, Cathrine Movold and Margrete Raaum

Example of and advice for using a larp to teach history to primary school students.

====Politically Consciousness-Expanding Roleplaying====
By Helge Hiram

Philosophical perspectives on larp as a post-modern media and it’s ability to change political viewpoints.

====Why LARP Changed the Society Before 2010====
By Morten Gunnerud

A scifi-style look at how larp was supposed to save the world in just ten years.

====Emotions and Authority====
By Ragnhild Hutchison

How a higher degree of women in the Oslo larp scene has brought emotional depth and a focus on relationship play into the hobby. As well as giving opportunities for women to take on roles of authority and the problems faced due to gendered socialization.

====LARP = Sex?====
By [[Erlend Eidsem Hansen]]

A  look at how larp is like sex in many ways, ex. the use of body language and the intensity between two people.

====Hidden Plays in Public Places====
By Jonas Nelson

A thorough dissection of the dangers and moral implications of pervasive larping, using numerous examples.

====Building Dramatics====
By [[Susanne Gräslund]]

A text on creating better dramatic structures for games, focusing on the individual player perspective. Goes through three-level models of design, dramatic webs, fateplay and assorted narrative techniques.

====Two-Faced Dogme - Auteur Truth====
By [[Johanna Koljonen]]

A comparison of the state of larp with contemporary media, specifically film and larp theory with political thinkers, to examine theorists who do not connect with reality of larp.

====About the Feminist Movement====
By Staffan Ericsson

An ironic counter statement.

====Warning - Selfdestruction has Started====
By Thomas Davidsson

A warning that if we keep suppressing the dissenting voices, larp itself will die.


===The Manifests===
A series of statements on how larp ought to be and how to go about making it so.

====Introduction====

====Rules of the Post Bjorneborgian School====
By [[J. Tuomas Harviainen]] and Lihaa Kuvitelmille

====[[The Manifest Sunday]]====
By [[Emil Boss]], [[Martin Brodén]], [[Gabriel Widing]], and [[Tobias Wrigstad]]

====Brosme 9,9 kg====
By Egil Moe

====Dogma ‘99====
(By a host of larp designers)

===The Countries===
A look at the state of larp in various countries.

====Larping in Sweden====
By [[Anna Westerling]]

====Larping in Denmark====
By Mikkel Sander

====Rovantemi====
By Matti Nuorto

====Larping in Norway====
Ed. Ingrid Storrø

====In the Nordic Castle of Murmansk====
By [[Hanne Grasmo]]

====Larps and Stripes====
By [[Mike Pohjola]]
===The Regulations===
===The People===
==Downloads==

*[//nordiclarp.org/w/images/1/1f/Kp2001book.pdf The Book] (PDF)

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