Category: Techniques
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Characterization in a Hurry: From Laban to Larp
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The Laban efforts are a method of describing movement used by dancers and actors. They can also be used in larping to create a distinct character quickly.
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Writing an Autobiographical Game
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Designing an experience that explores autobiographical themes through metaphor while also incorporating characters based on real people.
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10 Pieces of Advice for an Autism Friendly Larp
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There are many things you can do to make sure that your larp is more inclusive of autistic people. This article offers several pieces of advice.
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Your Alternate Relation Narrative (YARN)
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Creating relations between characters is essential to larp. The YARN technique helps you create playable relationships between characters.
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How to Take Care of Your Organizer
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This article offers ways that players can take care of their organizers to help people avoid burning out and becoming discouraged from running larps again.
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Larp Tools: Pronoun Markers and Correction Mechanics
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In role-play, players and their characters do not always use the same pronouns. Some players use role-play to explore personal questions of gender identity, using the alibi of the character to give them a chance to try on a new identity and experience being known, seen, and referred to as that gender. Others are simply…
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Larp Counselors: An Additional Safety Net
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This article advocates for the inclusion in certain larps of the unique role of a counselor, who is part of the safety team.
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Safety Coordinators for Communities: Why, What, and How
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This article will define a Safety Team and its role, examine what makes for a good Safety Team, and offer advice for maintaining one for your community.
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The Blue Ribbon Collective
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For Knutepunkt 2017, we held a workshop for people who wanted to avoid or limit their drinking, which included optional blue ribbon pins to signal sobriety.
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Keeping Volunteers Alive
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Organising larps is a multi-disciplinary exercis. A large part of my larp work consists of managing large (25+) teams of people, most of them volunteers.