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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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