Category: Techniques
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More Than A Few Funny Words: Designing Magic Systems That Convey Challenge & Rigour
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A method of creating a system of magic for larp that can achieve many of the desired aesthetics of complexity, challenge, and scholarship.
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Tarot for Larpers
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Using tarot readings in larp to deepen and intensify the experiences of co-players.
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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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10 Steps for Integrating Transformative Experiences
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Whether you’ve been through a larp, a work of magic, a psychedelic experience, integration roughly works the same way.
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Immersion through Diegetic Writing in Character
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Examples, case studies, and testimonies from larpers about in-game writing.
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We Share This Body: Tools to Fight Appearance-Based Prejudice at Larps
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How fatphobia, ageism, and rejection based on perceived attractiveness can influence play and negatively impact larpers.
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Six Magickal Techniques
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Six techniques to help frame how larp characters engage each other, their perceptions, and their environment, avoiding conventional paths.
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Navigating Online Larp
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There’s a lot to think about as we adapt how we design and play larps to our current constraints, but with luck the community as a whole can see that as exciting rather than offputting.
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Writing Live Action Online Games
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Online larps require different communication tools and design strategies to allow players and facilitators to effectively communicate. But if we use design and technology carefully our online games can bring together people from across the world and explore all sorts of exciting stories and experiences just as well as physical larps do.
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Sleeping Areas, Off-Game Areas, and the Black/White Ribbon Metatechnique
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The black/white ribbon metatechnique, as used at Libertines (2020), to signal if you want play in your sleeping area or not.