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Subtitled'''Dogma 99 : a program A programme for the liberation of larp''' is a [[Norway | Norwegian]] larp manifesto published [http://fate.laiv.org/dogme99/ online] in December 1999. It kick-started the [[Age of manifestoes]] and is, alongside the [[Manifesto of the Turku School]], one of the most influential and controversial texts of Nordic larp history. It was authored/edited by [[Lars Wingård]] and [[Eirik Fatland]], the visible heads of a more nebulous [[Dogma 99 collective]].

A ==Contents==The manifesto has five sections: in the first, the "Vow of Chastity", seven named signatories swear to follow a list of 10 principles for larp design. The second, "Why Dogma 99?" states that larp is a medium and an art form and declares war on "conventional larp methods" and the dominance of genre larp. The Vow of Chastity is explained as a tool to free the furtherance larpwright of habit and development convention, and it is made clear that the signatories only comitt themselves to organize one larp according to the principles, implying that the vow of chastity describes a time-limited project rather than universal claims.  The universal claims come in the third section, "The essence of larp: a definition", which introduces the famous definition of larp as an artform'''"a meeting of players who, through their roles, relate to each other in a fictional world"'''. The fourth, and longest, written section discusses the reasoning behind and distributed implications of each point in 1999the vow of chastity. A design philosophy breaking with  The final section was added for the English-language "international edition" (formerpublished two months after the Norwegian edition) and is called "The Future". In it the authors describe the long-term goals of the collective as a then-utopian world where larp convention. Rejecting commercial was no longer synonymous with the Fantasy genre, the worst of the "conventional methods" had been abandoned, larp franchises was publicly recognized as a medium with diverse applications, and mechanical techniques larpers exchanged ideas despite living in use during playdifferent countries.  ==Influences==The name "Dogma 99" and the Vow of Chastity imitated and referenced the [http://en. Intended to empower players as cowikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95 Dogme 95 manifesto], which was well-authors of known at the time. Despite the fiction created by play of Dogme 95 influence, Dogma 99's philosophical underpinnings were drawn more from Jerzy Grotowskis "Towards a poor theatre", asking the question: "what can be removed from larp without larp ceasing to be larp?".