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A '''Replacement rule''' is a rule that states that a cetrain off-game action is use used to replace an action in the fiction. Replacement rules are usually made to allow for actions in the fiction that are either impossible to conduct or that most people consider unacceptable to perform. Replacement rules are often use to shield the players from [[player fatigue]] originating from violence, sex, hunger, thirst, lack of sleep, lack of shelter or lack of sanitation.
== Formal vs informal replacement rules ==
Hardcore approaches where replacements are not used can also be used as a design tool to influence the threshold for when to use an action. In the larp [[Europa]] no replacement were used for fighting. This was actively stated from the organizers in order to overrule the default informal replacement rule in most communities of replacing fighting with play-fighting if nothing else is stated.
Even when all players have given informed consent to this and there are proper [[opt-out mechanics]] in place, this lack of replacement has implications for [[player safety]] and possibly [[player]] fatigue. However, it also severly severely increased the player thershold for engaging in a fight, thus eliminating or heavily reducing fighting as an aspect to play on.
On the opposite end, enabling replacements for actions can easily encourage these actions to take up more space in a larp. For example, if you spend a lot of time during a [[pre-larp workshop]] excercising exercising a replacement rule for sex, it can give a signal that sex is an important part of the larp in question. Furthermore, if the replacement rule lowers the bar for conducting the action, it can encourage it to be used more often than what would be [[plausible]] in the larp in question.
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