'''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.
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)