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==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. Each principle prohibited a then-common practice in larp design - such as [[game mechanics]], symbolic [[representation]], and [[back story]]. A larp following these rules, or even a subset of them, would not necessarily be recognized as "larp" by the community of the late 90s. The second section, "Why Dogma 99?" claims that larp is a medium and an art form, declares war on "conventional larp methods" and the dominance of genre larp, and explicityly explicitly distances itself from [[gamism]]. The Vow of Chastity is explained as a tool to free the larpwright of habit and 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 '''"a meeting of players who, through their roles, relate to each other in a fictional world"'''. The fourth, and longest, section discusses the reasoning behind and implications of each point in the vow of chastity.
