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New World Magischola is a wizard-school larp in which players portray students or faculty members attending a North American magical college. The experience runs for four days and three nights for 80-160 players, who are divided among five school houses. The larp's themes deal with identity, growing up, confronting institutions, parental and societal expectations, problematic privilege, and the ethics of magical use. Characters are written gender-neutral, with the player deciding what gender to portray. The default pronoun in the Magimundi (the magical universe) is "they" and NWM was among the first larps to use player and character pronouns by default on name tags.
New World Magischola was the largest Nordic style larp organized in the United States, though not the first. NWM was the first larp to introduce the [[Check-in|OK Check-In ]] safety mechanic, and the first to test [[Trine Lise Lindahl|Trine Lise Lindahl's ]] and [[Johanna Koljonen|Johanna Koljonen's ]] "[[Lookdown]]" bow-out mechanic. The pronoun-correction mechanic was also first introduced at New World Magischola.
The larp has spawned a children's week-long larp adventure, Magischola Prep, which introduces young people ages 11-17 to collaborative larp concepts.
== Runs ==
June 16-19, 2016, Richmond, Virginia