Author: Mo Holkar
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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Wrestling with Bleed-in of the Self
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This video was recorded during the 2025 Nordic Larp Talks, in Oslo. When you larp, you are you. It sounds obvious, but how often do we really think about what that really means for the characters we play, and for our larp experience? In this talk, based on the ideas of Anne Marchadier, Mo Holkar…
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Performance and Audience in Larp
“When we larp, some of the time we are in a performing role, and some of the time in an audience role. And that is ok! It’s the same in real life, after all. We shouldn’t see this as larp falling short of an aesthetic ideal in which such concepts don’t apply. Larp doesn’t have…
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Flagging: A Response
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While flagging is not perfect, it addresses manifest abusive behaviour from predatory individuals within the increasingly internationalizing larp community.
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Challenging the Popularized Narrative of History
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The popular version of history will always be tempting for larp designers to draw upon – but it brings a load of cultural baggage and assumptions.
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Bringing Larp to the Larpers
Katrine Wind has worked with local producers to re-run Daemon in different countries. In this presentation she shares her experiences together with some of the collaborators: Sandy Bailly who is the producer of the Belgian run and Mo Holkar who is the safety person.
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Larping Before the Larp: The Magic of Preparatory Scenes
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How short facilitated scenes larped during workshops can enhance play.
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Inner Tension
Thinking about internal identities can be a way to quickly and easily generate internal tension.
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Larp and Prejudice: Expressing, Erasing, Exploring, and the Fun Tax
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Designers of larps with a real-world setting face questions about how to deal with prejudice. This article looks at three possible approaches.
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History, Herstory and Theirstory: Representation of Gender and Class in Larps with a Historical Setting
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History can be an amazing source of settings for larp! Here are some ways to make sure you’re doing justice to the underprivileged of the past and of today.
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What Does it Mean When Sex is Sexy?
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Should larp techniques for representing sexual activity be sexy themselves? Might they be more sexy than we sometimes realize? What impact does this have?