Category: Opinion
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in these texts are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Nordiclarp.org or any larp community at large.
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How Do You Value Creative Work?
If you’re a larp organiser, you probably sometimes find yourself wanting something done for your larp that is either a little outside your own area of expertise or just more work than you and your team have hours in the day. This is where you find someone to collaborate with, who can do that work…
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Embodying Future Cyborgs
In this article, I argue for the potential of larp to explore how forms of cyborgisation may change our personal interactions and societies.
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Designing and Playing for Hope in a Hopeless World
Instead of learning from a position of privilege why we don’t want certain things to happen (again), is it not worthwhile to focus on learning to hope again instead?
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Designing Vessels of Meaning
When it comes to larp design, the designer makes creative choices and steers the larpers; but the larpers are the ones that fill the vessel with their own meaning and story, to different extents depending on the larp.
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Relational Larp
“Relational larp” enables us to embrace the common vision and inspiration we have and work together on getting larp the acknowledgement it deserves among other forms of art, entertainment, self-expression, and means of transformation.
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Permission to Play
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We provide adults with permission to play. We also provide children with the same permission but they need less help getting over the hurdles. Once they have been given permission to play again, they are free to explore the world with a sense of awe, wonder, and curiosity. This psychological emancipation permits the participant to…
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Joy is an Act of Rebellion
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This piece was originally published in the Italian Larp Festival magazine (ILF Mag) 2025, and is republished here with thanks. In a capitalistic world that thrives on conformity, joy becomes one of the most radical acts we can choose. More than just an emotion, joy is an expression of vitality and hope. Different from the…
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The Prosocial Act of Larp Crime, and Some Thoughts on Odysseus
Author’s Note: The essay below is a design thinkpiece that contains many evidence-free assertions about player behavior. This anecdotal information has been gathered from a lifetime of gamemastering and larp organizing. Your own experience and data may vary, and I welcome rebuttals with those differences in hand. Larp is a medium of relation. We invent…
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Why I hate post-larp compliment threads
Compliment threads are a quite common phenomenon after a larp. So why does it always make me slightly uncomfortable and anxious?
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Grief in Larp: Bleeding Through Two Lives
By weaving empathy, safety, and self-awareness into the fabric of larp, participants can transform grief from an overwhelming experience to an opportunity for collective healing and deeper connection, says Lyssa Greywood.