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Larp organizers may declare that a particular larp is meant to be played in a hardcore style, though it is more often an option availble to those players who choose it, or an approach chosen by players irrespective of the wishes of organizers and co-players.

Those who pursue hardcore play usually give one or more of three reasons for their choice: intensity of experience, the trust and emotional bonds formed between players who go through such an experience, and a notion that it is disrespectful to distance oneself from certain themes through simulation..