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• Character
  A '''character''' in a larp is one of three things: # A fictitious person that exists in a game world. A role in a drama or a playable entity.
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• Larp
  ...within the set fiction. It can be described as theater without an audience or script.
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• Focus Scene
  ...reak or by requesting a retake on an exchange that just happened, verbally or nonverbally.
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• Act structure
  ...wing a classic formula dramatic arc. The act brakes may or may not include a [[Time Jump|time jump]].<br> ...sible and utilized as a technique in conjunction with the players or it is a technique used by the organizers to decide when organizer controlled events
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• Et Morshjerte
  ...may join or leave at any time, an artifact of it having been designed for a gallery context. An English translation of the larpscript was published in the anthology [[Larp
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• Meta room
  ...ing that is meant to be happening in-game, such as two characters fighting or having sex. ...the meta room, hence the common misunderstanding that a [[black box]] and a meta room is the same.
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• Shadows
  ...real'' like a possessing spirit or guardian angel (and then the shadow may or may not exist for other players). ...r control the player in someway. [[Knappnålshuvudet]] is a good example of a shadow-heavy LARP, where shadows in the form of ''guardian angels'' were us
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• Type 2 fun
  ''Type 2 fun'' describes an experience that is challenging while it's happening, but fun in retrospect. ...rm appears to have originated from the rock climbing community to describe an experience that was objectively awful (cold, dangerous, uncomfortable) at t
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• Ball of yarn
  The '''Ball of Yarn''' is a technique used pre-larp to help players generate relationships between thei ...The exercise ends when everyone has sufficients relationships, usually two or three per player.
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• Larp reviewing, critique, analysis, reflection, feedback, and documentation
  (Draft page taken from a Facebook post by [[Petra Lindve]].) ...case just point me towards it). Of course a piece written or voiced after a larp can contain aspects of several of these though!
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• Non-player character
  ...game masters. NPCs can also be used as "resistance" for the players, i.e. an "opposing force" (OPFOR). ...r some perceived problem in that larp culture, such as prolific rule abuse or unsafe behaviour.{{Citation needed|reason=Who's been talking about this?}}
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• Off-Game Sign
  ...ly or a symbol to indicate that an object is not diegetically interactable or should be ignored. ...player is to be ignored, i.e. is not present diegetically (for instance if a "dead" character needs to move somewhere encountering other players on the
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• Fate
  ...t on something a character has to do or an imperative during the course of a larp. ...that "Before the second night of the larp, you shall challenge the king to a duel on the third morning. You will lose this duel." The duel is unavoidab
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• Narrative Engine
  ...eloped narrative engine that operates under a high level of uncertainty is a factor that distinguishes LARP from other narrative artforms and forms of r ...ssons Honours thesis "An Evaluation of Educational Live-Action Roleplay As A Learning Medium For Security Education and Training." Used with permission.
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• Blank-firing firearms
  ...ank-firing weapons such as starter pistols or weapons designed for theatre or movie use. While blank-firing firearms have a high degree of realism, that does come with several serious dangers:
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• Larp festival
  ...ain focus is other content about larp it's either a [[larp conference]] or a [[larp convention]], the two are often grouped together and shortened to [[ You can find a list of larp festivals in in the [[:category:larp festivals|larp festival c
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• Narrative voice-over
  ...a kind of Intro or Outro to a whole game, usually used in conjunction with a [[slow take-off]] and [[slow landing]]. ...used one of several pre-recorded endings at the end of their final game as an outro.
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• Monologue
  ...een them. It has the added benefit of making the speaking player feel like a main protagonist and give them closure to their own story. ...with the same gesture. This technique has at least once been mistaken for a way to give off game messages, but that is not its purpose.
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• Honor system
  ...than explicit rules and authority is generally known as an "honor system" or "trust system". See: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honour_system Honour Sys ...urrender. The lack of formal rules makes the player focus on being seen as a good role-player by his/her peers rather than fulfilling the technical requ
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• Celtic larp communiqué
  '''Celtic larp communiqués : A confusing set of documents produced by person or persons unknown. ...a mixture of a serious attempt to set out an approach to larp design, and a series of complex and obscure jokes. The numbering system is taken from th
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• Epic Dramaturgy
  An Epic dramaturgy is a structure for a larp that use time jumps and where the same player will play in several dif ...iques picked from games like [[2027]], [[When Our Destinies Meet]], [[Just a Little Lovin']] and [[The Monitor Celestra]]:
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• LAOG
  .... video conferencing software, audio chats, text messenger applications or a combination of them. The term was coined by [[Gerrit Reininghaus]], one of ...lso helping your co-participants. The structure of ViewScream is more like a framework with numerous scenarios that can be played within its defined bou
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• Kapo
  '''Kapo''' was a larp about a prison camp set in an alternate present day Denmark. ...nd values. The camp is ruled by an eat-or-be-eaten mentality, you will die or prey on those weaker than you, ultimately forcing you to choose between you
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• Content Declaration
  ...t to a trigger warning or a content warning due to not being a warning but a way to make it easier for possible participants to seek out and find larps ...ntent declaration if one works as an organizer in a context where there is a consensus of what is meant by different terms. Otherwise the content declar
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• LajvVerkstaden
  ...p'') is a Swedish company that works with larp as and cultural form and as an educational tool. In 2012 LajvVerkstaden organized the second run of [[Just a Little Lovin']]
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• Zoning
  ...enter the different zones or when to bring a scene into a zone to ecalate or de-escalate what is happening. ...altercations in a specific area might result in character death. To enter an area with harsher rules should be based on all players actively consenting
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• Hardcore
  ...the player avoids simulation also when dealing with emotionally difficult or physically harmfull actions. ...rt by being hurt, and falling in love as a character by falling in love as a player. The [[bleed]] concept is meaningless when applied to hardcore larpi
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• Slow landing
  A slow landing is a technique for ending a larp, often accompanied by a [[slow take-off]]. ...typically meditative, and may be accompanied by music and/or the voice of an instructor guiding the transition.
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• 1912
  ...endings. It was run in two sessions in late January and early February in a mansion in the Stockholm archipelago.
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• Fluid time
  ...ories to develop properly. Rigid time might brake the games consistency or a plots internal logic. <br> ...ump needed for each plot is not the same. Then you ask the players to have a fluid sens of time and not play up against the fact that the time is illogi
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• Container
  ...f experiences, usually of a transformational, cathartic, vulnerable, edgy, or intimate nature. Arising from psychoanalysis and group dynamics, the concep ...tions, sharing vulnerable parts of themselves, or practicing new skills in a less risky environment where they feel more supported than they normally wo
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• Kutt
  ...Contract]] there needs to be a way to suspend roleplay, and a safeword is a commonly applied method to make this visible. ...no longer role-playing. Kutt may be used by organizers, affected players, or their co-players.
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• Really Really Meta-technique
  '''Really Really''' is an intrusive [[meta-technique]] that is used to represent vampire powers calle ...nd a hand movement. The combination of the two, signals to the player that a supernatural power is being used. <br><br>
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• Forum Theatre
  '''Forum theatre''' was a method developed by Augusto Boal in the Latin Americas during the 70s [http ...would suggest different actions''' for the actors to carry out on-stage in an attempt '''to change the outcome''' of what they were seeing.
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• Masks
  ...larp, masks can be used as a simple but powerful part of a costume - or as an integral part of the game design. ==Larps with masks as a central part of their game design==
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• Debrief buddy
  ...ise to keep in touch afterwards with the intent to discuss any experiences or feelings that crop up later. ...to do so. It is also better for dealing with more complicated issues than a time-limited [[debriefing]] session.
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• Nordic larp
  ''Nordic-style larp'', or '''Nordic Larp''', is a term used to describe a tradition of [[larp]] game design that emerged in the Nordic countries. ...a statement to gather the scene around it in an inclusive manner. There is a longer explanation of the term at the source link.
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• Don't Rule
  The '''Don't Rule''' is a very simple meta-technique used to indicate willingness to escalate (primar ...ayer is okay with, as in ''please '''don't''' leave me here in the dark!'' or ''please '''don't''' tie me up''.
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• Dry Humping
  Also called "theater style sex simulation" or "theater sex". ...esentative method to show characters are having sex. It is performed fully or almost fully clothed.
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• Bleed
  '''Bleed''' is when emotions bleeds over between player or character, in either direction. ...re and more transparent. It makes sense to think of the degree of bleed as a measure of how separated different levels of play (actual/inner/meta) are.<
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• Debriefing
  ...fing''' is a type of [[aftercare]] with structured conversation held after a larp ends, about the larp that just ended. The term could describe at least ...purpose of this kind of debrief is to help everyone connect the dots, and a chance to talk about cool stuff that happened and wasn't visible to all pla
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• Replacement rules
  ...inating from violence, sex, hunger, thirst, lack of sleep, lack of shelter or lack of sanitation. ...of actually hurting each other, even though this has not been specified as a formal replacement rule.
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• Black Box
  ...hen this effect. Usually the black box is equipped with theatre lights and an audio system. ...sed for other [[meta technique]]s than the meta room during the runtime of a longer larp.
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• Internet Wall
  ...'internet wall''' (also known as Social Media Wall, Message Wall, etc.) is a meta-technique where digital communication between characters is visible to ...e phone text messages, or open messages such as a Twitter feed, blog posts or news stories. This let's game masters affect the game and let's the interne
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• The Nordic Larp Rulebook
  ...4/22/write-a-rulebook-already/ write a damn rulebook]. This page is to be a draft of what that rulebook should look like. ...s a short field guide for someone from another larp tradition to come into a Nordic Larp and understand what to expect and what to do.
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• Check-in
  ...tense scene but, for whatever reason, may be unable to convey their wishes or feelings directly. ...in mechanic essentially asks another player, "are you OK?". Unless you get a "''yes"'' from the other player in response to the check-in, you are suppos
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• Participation Contract
  ...ttempts to outline and formalize the responsibilities and promises between a larps organizers and the players. It can contain information on, for instan ...ter the larp (e.g. holding organizers accountable for unfulfilled promises or removing players from the game if they are not following the participation
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• Pre-larp Workshop
  ...A workshop can be a few hours of practicing meta-techniques before a larp or two full weekends of co-creation and game design. ...designed in many different ways, it seems that most workshops contain all or some of the elements below.
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• Force Majeure
  '''Force Majeure''' is a scenario about 13 people trapped in an air-raid-shelter. It was played in Sweden and Denmark and was designed by [ '''Force Majeure''' is a two hour long game that is directed by a soundtrack.
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• 700%
  ...re than 3) that are directed through a very scripted story by the means of a lot of non-player characters. ...Dittmer, Michael Riis and Povl Gad affiliated with the organization SLOG (an abbreviation of South Seelands Liveroleplay Organisation). Other contributo
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• Evolution Events
  [https://www.evolution-events.nl (Stichting) Evolution Events] is a larp organisation based in the Netherlands that was established in 2005. Al ...s organised several larps that could in retrospect have been called Nordic or at least having some design elements in common with Nordic larps. Their lar
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• Alibi
  ...acceptable spectrum of play. A negotiation of what is acceptable to do in a certain larp. * Alibi as an (inner) legitimation of what you are playing.
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• Brems
  ...he responsibility of the other players present to change the direction and/or reduce the intensity of play. ...commonly used [[safewords|safeword]], employed in addition to [[Kutt]] as a bare-bones structure for managing risk and handling emergencies at Nordic l
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• Berättelsefrämjandet
  |image_alt=A thought bubble with a question mark, a speech bubble with an exclamation mark and the text Berättelsefrämjandet ...ization is also to allow for outside organizers to use the organization as a platform and support for their own larps.
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• Meta-technique
  A '''meta-technique''' is a loose term encapsulating various rules and narrative tools/practices which ...game mechanic in a Nordic Larp, while another usage put meta-techniques as a direct opposite to game mechanics. One clearer definition of meta-technique
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• Off-game
  '''Off-game''' is a state for elements that are outside of the game. It is contrasted with [[in ...the individual establishment of fiction. [[360º]] illusion can be seen as an attempt to abolish all off-game elements from play.
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• The Larpwriter Challenge
  '''The Larpwriter Challenge''' was a collaboration project between [[Fantasiforbundet]] and [[Education centre " *Spread the use of live roleplaying games (larps) as an educational tool
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• Larporatory
  ...tical follow up to [[the Larpwriter Summer School]]. The goal is to design a playable larp in two days and then playtest it on the third day. ...rps that can be played in blackbox or conference rooms. They can be as big or as small as they want but the playtest on Sunday will limit the run to abou
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• EntreRevs
  '''[http://entrerevs.wix.com/entrerevs#!english/cemb EntreReVs]''' is an annual Spanish larp convention which has been running since 2013. It is org It includes lectures, workshops, debates and, in a smaller number, short larps. However, the most relevant in EntreReVs is the
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• AmerikA
  ...disturbing the people living on the dung, called AmerikA (with an anarcist A at the end). The larp project was part of Oslo 2000 year anniversiary. .... 4. Sign up for the larp in more short time characters - but also then be an audience for the different groups that was more tightly weaved into the dai
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• Theory of Marbles
  A marble is 1 piece of a set that makes a coherent unity. The set might be a set of scenes that together forms a story
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• Bifrost
  '''Bifrost''', or Landsforeningen Bifrost, is the national organisation for Danish role-playe ...ation which does not accept individual members, you have to be a member of an organisation to apply for membership.
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• The Manifest Sunday
  '''The Manifest Sunday''' (''Söndagsmanifestet'' in Swedish) is a larp manifest published in [[The Book]], the companion publication from [[K ...rily consecutive events, with one higher purpose embracing the whole work, a message.
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• Mr&Mrs Unscripted
  ...members of the production team – producers, camera crew, an assistant, and an intern. The designers played the showrunners who were charge of everything ...whenever they felt it was needed. This could include scenes for everybody or just some of the contestants.
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• Krusadis: Punainen Aurinko
  ...r game Artemis Bridge Simulator. However, the setting was designed so that an encounter between the two ships would become more and more likely as the la ...nt in the meta room. There were also separate meta rooms on each ship, and a 12-person npc team to portray various personae that the player characters c
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• Aftercare
  '''Aftercare''' is methods to take care of the participants of a larp after it is over and maybe even during play in [[act structure|act]] b ...help players move from the mindset of the character back into real life in a safe way that helps them process game experiences constructively.
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• Immerton
  Immerton is a 4-day immersive larp for woman-identified participants produced by Learn La ...on in the event was restricted to those players who identified as a woman. An inclusive definition of woman was used, and organizers and participants wel
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• Freeform
  ''Freeform role-playing'' describes any one of a number of unrelated role-playing traditions that have originated by rejecti ...ith a GM taking the players from scene to scene. They are usually based on a repeatble, written, scenario.
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• Playing the learning game
  ...en]], published by [[Fantasiforbundet]] and [[Education Centre "POST"]] is a book about using roleplaying in education. ...ighlighting different uses of roleplaying games in educational spheres and a multitude of methods and exercises to improve your games.
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• Limbo
  ...t on life as it has been so far before either returning to life once again or facing the unknown on the other side of death. ...between life and death who find themselves stranded in Limbo. In addition an organizer should play the character of the Host. The recommended time frame
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• Sigridsdotter
  ...y about a group of ordinary people and their lives, desires and longing in a world not entirely unlike our own. ...unsophisticated violent emotions that make them unsuitable for leadership. A lot of the play centres on the effects of the matriarchal culture on family
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• Terra Incognita
  ...only larp. A first round of larpers received an invitation snail mail with a code to access the web page, and once you paid for your participation you c Horror and mystery in a Lovecraft Mythos setting, in 1920s Sweden.
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• Utumno
  |image_alt=Utumno written in a scraggly font '''Utumno''' was a larp set in Tolkiens Middle-earth and was played in a quarry outside of Botkyrka, Sweden.
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• 1942 - Noen å stole på (2000)
  ...were young Norwegian women and girls who were romantically interested in, or had affairs with German soldiers. It also featured quiet resistance to the In November 2017, a substantially redesigned version of the larp ([[1942 - Someone to trust? (2
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• Pan
  ...gothic horror based on classic literature, and psychological horror, with a modern setting. It does not fit into many conventional notions of horror, d ...and the film Antichrist (Von Trier, 2009). The short story is available as a free download here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/389
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• As Larp Grows Up
  A classic and controversial theory originally from tabletop thinkers of how t ...e from our tabletop origins and put power in the hands of the players. And a really thorough follow-up explanation, by the authors.
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• The Book of Just a Little Lovin' (2013 Denmark Run)
  '''The Book of Just a Little Lovin' (2013 Denmark Run)''' ''- Documenting a larp project about desire, friendship and fear of deaths'', published in 20 ...he participants and organizers of the Danish production of the larp [[Just a Little Lovin']] that was run in July 2013.
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• Psychodrama
  Psychodramtic scenarios are a form of scenario, connected to jeepform, fastaval scenarios and black box g ...by [[Nathan Hook]] after being influenced by jeepform ideas, particularly a presentation in the Knutpunkt pre-week in 2009 in Norway. He combined these
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• Hello In There
  ...ntually follow for many of us. It's not a larp that is meant to be comedic or funny beyond the way that ordinary life itself can be. In essence, let the ...ring 1970–71. Some of you could have been friends longer, but the group as a whole did not come together in this configuration until fairly recently. Yo
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• If I Could See Your Face Again
  ...orton's Gully. Nestled deep in traditional coal country, this tiny town is a place where everybody knows your name, and where God, country, and family s ...ell the story of how this tiny community reacts to an accident that leaves a skeleton crew of miners caught underground, and the rescue operation that g
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• Østerskov Efterskole
  '''Østerskov Efterskole''' is a role play boarding school in Hobro, Denmark, which uses edu-larp as the mai The school is an ''efterskole'', which is a Danish boarding school for children from the age of 14–18 years of age.
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• Jotta vahva ei sortaisi heikkoa
  ...urt hearings were held, where the locals could accuse each other of crimes or bring up various disputes for the judges to solve. In the preamble for the ...ld e.g. play the ancient Mesopotamian boardgame Game of Ur or take part in a debate contest hosted by the high priest. In the evening, people would tell
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• The Tribunal
  ...ng particularly effective in how it establishes distinctive characters for a short game of this type. ...along with several other contributions, was also translated to Russian and/or Belarusian to be used by Belarusian NGOs in their work with young people.
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• Skymningsland
  ...kulle stenbrott]], Sweden in 2010 (at the same site as [[Futuredrome]]) as a follow-up to [[Ingenmansland]]. It was designed by [[Olle Nyman]], [[Sebast ...st-apocalyptic Sweden. The backdrop was a refugee camp/frontier camp under a ruthless capitalist system. Primary themes were exploitation, oppression, s
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• Susanne Vejdemo
  ...urrently lives in New York, USA. She often writes games involving politics or ethical dilemmas.<Br> *Frizon, 2010, Sweden. A mobile adventure/drama larp about the legacy of a past genocide. With [[Daniel Armyr]].
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• The Mixing Desk of Larp
  ...arp design – it is an aid in visualizing the most important design choices a larpwright makes.'' ...specific sound frequencies or similar. All these faders can be adjusted up or down, adjusting the amount of whatever they're controlling and affecting th
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• Kjærlighet i fornedringens tid
  |image_alt=A woman comforting a crying man with his face in his hands. |tagline=How do we experience love in an age where it would seem that it so often don`t work out?
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• Mad About the Boy
  '''Mad About the Boy''' was a game run two times in Norway in 2010 inspired by the comic series [[Wikiped ...nnecticut, through a collaboration between the original Norwegian team and a US group, led by [[Lizzie Stark]].
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• Portal:Contents
  There are two ways to look things up in Nordic Larp Wiki: by searching or by browsing. * If you know the name of an article for which you are looking, simply type it into Nordic Larp Wiki's [
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• Fastaval
  ...gned tabletop role-playing games, freeform games and larps. There is also a large selection of board games, miniature wargaming and collectible card ga ...is a creative melting-pot for new ideas for games of any kind, as well as a place to enjoy more traditional gaming experiences.
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• Sarabande
  '''Sarabande''' is a scenario originally created for [[Fastaval]] 2013. It has been run in Denma ...live out these issues through their art, trying desperately to break free or to find that one true love.
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• KultUr - Was besser verborgen bliebe...
  ...by criminal-mystery series like Mrs. Marple or Sherlock Holmes and set in a H.P. Lovecraft inspired world in the 1920s in Germany. ...n western Germany. A weekend to see and be seen in the post-war 1920s with a fatal and unexpected twist towards the realms of cultists, demons and horro
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• Dogme2
  A Danish larp manifesto inspired by the [[Wikipedia:Dogme 95|Dogme 95]] of fi ...al to the experience. With Dogma2 we will avoid alienating ourselves. Hold an honest focus. By having simple and absolutely realistic effects the charact
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• Granland
  |image_alt=Three Granland Regular Army soldiers standing in a snow covered forest. ...er creation. The campaign also involves elements of war, which are used as a catalyst for creating and improving the mutual immersion. The main focus of
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• Black Friday
  |alt=A torn US flag in front of a black background with white text saying Black Friday.}} ...he distinctive trait d’union of all the people involved in the project was a Nordic-like style larp, still very niche in Italy.
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• The Knudepunkt 2015 Companion Book
  '''The Knudepunkt 2015 Companion Book''' is a collection of articles about larps which was released as part of documentat ...ng-between-in-character-and-out-of-character/| Ingame or Offgame?: Towards a Typology of Frame Switching Between In-character and Out-of-character] by [
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• Dogma 99
  ...red/edited by [[Lars Wingård]] and [[Eirik Fatland]], the visible heads of a more nebulous [[Dogma 99 collective]]. ...p according to the principles, implying that the vow of chastity describes a time-limited project rather than universal claims.
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• Thule
  |image_alt=A green clad figure wearing a plague doctors mask standing in a foggy forest. ...rns the war between the revived empire of the evil Prince of Margholia and a motley alliance of smaller kingdoms and peoples precariously united against
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• Hinterland
  '''Hinterland''' was a larp about loss, grief and survival in a fictive post-war Sweden. Survival and human nature in a kitchen-sink post-catastrophe setting.
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• Exit
  ...scrutinised. The prime motivators for play were interpersonal conflicts of a moral, religious and even ethnical nature between the characters. ...f-game rewards were going to be handed out. This provided the players with a reason to have their characters play to win, but steer for drama.
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• Larp, the Universe and Everything
  * SCENE DOCUMENTATION: "A bilingual history of Latvian larp" by [[Agnese “Axa” Dzervite]] * SCENE PLAY: "33 ways to have fun at a Latvian larp" by [[Agnese “Axa” Dzervite]]
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• Cirque Noir
  ...er around him saying: "Step right up, right this way! A pittance to enter, a lifetime to pay. 1927" |tagline=A pittance to enter, a lifetime to pay.
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• Knutepunkt
  ...nd '''Solmukohta'''. In English the translation would be ''meeting point'' or ''nodal point''. ...[Nordic Style]] larps, Knutepunkt has since embraced role-playing games in a more general fashion.
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• Lotka-Volterra
  ...cipation_fee={{Currency|170|EUR}}-{{Currency|370|EUR}} (regular, supporter or subsidized tickets) ...a "naturalistic" science fiction larp about the survival of humanity after an overwhelming alien invasion.
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• Agerlund
  '''Agerlund''' was a gothic larp set in a mythological version of 19th century America. The larp took place in Denmar The larp was a collaboration created and run by [[Jesper Heebøll Arbjørn|Jesper Heebøll
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• Brudpris A Few Years Later
  |name=Brudpris A few years later |name=Brudpris A Few Years Later(2018)
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• The Nordic Larp Yearbook 2014
  '''The Nordic Larp Yearbook 2014''' is a collection of articles about larps run during 2014 which was released as pa ...tp://nordiclarp.org/2015/02/06/de-la-bete-an-expensive-beast/ De la Bête - An Expensive Beast] by [[David František Wagner]]
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• Beyond Role and Play
  *In Search of the Self: A Survey of the First 25 Years of Anglo-American RolePlaying Game Theory by [ ...Reading Victor Turner's “Liminal to Liminoid, in Play, Flow, and Ritual; An Essay in Comparative Symbology” by [[Martin Ericsson]]
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• Odysseus
  |alt=A Logo featuring ring as a planet and a shape that can be either ship or star circling it with text ESS ODYSSEUS.}} ..., the game explores the inner turmoils of societies and human beings after a catastrophic collapse.
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• It’s a Man’s World
  |name=It's a Man's World It’s a Man’s World is a larp about masculinity in a world where all women have died.
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• Maury Brown
  ...es can create radical empathy and personal transformation and is currently a PhD Candidate at Old Dominion University. Founder and President, Learn Larp, LLC, a larp production company, producer of New World Magischola, Immerton, Beat G
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• Cien Años de Soledad larp
  '''Cien Años de Soledad larp''' is a Czech experimental larp introduced in 2016 and played multiple times since ...s of one family. To achieve the feeling of the book and magical realism as a genre it uses several game design techniques.''</blockquote>
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• The Monitor Celestra
  |image_alt=A logo in a science fiction font saying The Monitor Celestra |duration=4, 8h acts for a total of 32 hours
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• Oslo Winterlarps
  ...p Origins09 KrutvassCabin.jpg|thumb|right| Winterlarps in forestcabins had a strong impact on Nordic larps]] ...the Nordic style, as do their aspirations towards a [[360º]] illusion and an emphasis on cultural simulation and intra-personal relationships at the exp
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• Sanne Harder
  ...ne Harder''' (sometimes credited as Sanne Harder Flamant or S. Benarzi) is a Danish game designer, who has organized and written scenarios since 1994.<b ...f the [[Nordic Larp Talks]] in 2011 she gave a talk titled "Roleplaying as a Teaching Method."
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• Edu-larp conference 2016
  ...a Blitz: Pentagon 1 & 2: take four upper secondary school courses and make a hybrid game - Nukes included! ''Taru Kumara-Moisio'' (FIN) - Data Blitz: Aqua - an educational live action role-playing game about running out of fresh water
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• Tuhannen viillon kuolema
  ...viillon kuolema''' (Finland, 2018, Eng. ''Death by a Thousand Cuts'') was a larp about climate change and class war designed by [[Juhana Pettersson]] a ...e class, and the rich. Many of the middle class characters were working at a company called New Life that marketed climate change survival solutions for
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• Last Will
  '''Last Will''' was a larp run twice in Stockholm, Sweden. First run took place {{start and end d ...create a future battle with constant fighting against fear and hunger. In a time when freedom every day is weighed against security and survival the qu
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• Marcellos kjeller
  A larp musical, built around the music and lyrics of the album ''Ompa til du ...ette, and plan their next daring raid against the Enemy. The larp is about an unusually eventful such Friday in Marcello's basement, the evening when Vic
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• Just a Little Lovin'
  |name=Just a Little Lovin' |website={{URL|just-a-little-lovin.blogspot.com}}
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• Brudpris
  |next_larp=[[Brudpris A Few Years Later]] |organizers=[[A New Hope]]
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• Inside:outside
  '''inside:outside''' was a highly abstract four-hour game that was staged ten times for fifteen player ...dilemmas. Then the prisoner is returned with the others. At random times, or if the prisoners are difficult, guards enter the cell and beat up the priso
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• Tina Leipoldt
  ...g Syrian Peace Activists on (Mini-) larp techniques and uses larp often as a training method in her professional life. ...unus together with her husband, her son and three crazy cats. She works as an advisor on transitional aid and the humanitarian-development nexus for the
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• Larp Design: Creating Role-play Experiences
  ...=428|country=Denmark}}'''Larp Design: Creating Role-play Experiences''' is a 2019 book about larp design. It was edited by [[Johanna Koljonen]], [[Jaakk *An Introduction to Bespoke Larp Design by [[Johanna Koljonen]]
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• Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology
  ''The correct title of this article is '''#Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology'''. It appears incorrectly here because of technical re ...[Anna Westerling]]|[[Misha Bushyager]]|[[Shuo Meng]]}}|published=2016 ([[Fëa Livia]])|pages=97|isbn=978-91-639-0177-5|country=Sweden}}
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• Knutepunkt 1997
  <pre style="color: red">This text is adapted from an old email located in the depths of my ancient filevault, where dragons roam :The different delegations teach the others a new dance/song o.s.
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• Edu-larp conference 2017
  ''Mathias Bakkejord'' (NOR) - Student perspective on playing an edu-larp ''Terje Pedersen'' (NOR) - Teacher perspective on running an edu-larp
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• Isle of Saints
  ...2007 as developement debrief from one of the organizers and can be read as an example of late 90's/early 2000's Finnish larp, based heavily on pre-writte ...as held in Helsinki, which doubled as the capital city of Isle of Saints – an imaginary island in middle of Atlantic Ocean. The cities were identical cop
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• Kjell Hedgard Hugaas
  ...t two decades and contributes to the ongoing discussions on larp theory on a regular basis, his particular field of interest being the transformative ef He writes and designs on a freelance basis for a number of different larp studios and creators and creates chamber larps on
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• Totem
  ...dic Larp]], edited by [[Jaakko Stenros]] and [[Markus Montola]] (2010, [[Fëa Livia]])'' ...e from last summer. It became a last fleeting memory of what had been, and a sort of good-bye ritual for the two…When Må woke up on the second day at
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• Claus Raasted
  ...lsfabrikken]] (The Roleplaying Factory) in Copenhagen since 2005, and runs a company (Rollespilsakademiet) that provides larps to schools, libraries, co Claus has been a contributor of talks to the Knutpunkt conference since 2002.
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• World Health Organization
  ...Nations Development Group]]. Its predecessor, the Health Organisation, was an agency of the [[League of Nations]]. ...gue of Nations Health Organization. Since its establishment, it has played a leading role in the [[eradication of infectious diseases|eradication]] of [
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