• The Evolution of the Depiction of Rape in Larp

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    The Evolution of the Depiction of Rape in Larp

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    Muriel Algayres

    Choosing to depict rape scenes can have a strong impact. This article discusses the evolution of representations of rape in French and international larps.

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  • Your Alternate Relation Narrative (YARN)

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    Your Alternate Relation Narrative (YARN)

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    Nór Hernø

    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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    How to Take Care of Your Organizer

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    Petra Lindve

    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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  • From Winson Green Prison to Suffragette: Representations of First-Wave Feminists in Larps

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    From Winson Green Prison to Suffragette: Representations of First-Wave Feminists in Larps

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    Muriel Algayres

    In this article, I present feedback on my experience playing and writing on suffragettes in larps set in early 20th century Europe. I present the diverse angles through which the theme and characters were approached in these larps and contrast their differences. These games are set up at a time period with clearly separated gender…

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  • Larp Safety Manifesto

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    Larp Safety Manifesto

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    Eva Mærsk

    A larp safety manifesto penned at Knudepunkt 2019.

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  • Knudepunkt 2019: Summary

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    Knudepunkt 2019: Summary

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    Johannes Axner

    The Danish edition of the Nordic larp conference Knutepunkt, Knudepunkt 2019, is now over. This post will be continuously updated with links to articles, reports, photo albums, videos, slides, books and other relevant documentation. If you have any content you want published but lack a place to host it we will gladly host it here…

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  • What Is Nordic Larp?

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    What Is Nordic Larp?

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    Johannes Axner

    What is Nordic larp? We’ve updated and expanded our definition of the term! We hope it’s easy to undertstand and useful for our readers.

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  • Investigating Types of Bleed in Larp: Emotional, Procedural, and Memetic

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    Investigating Types of Bleed in Larp: Emotional, Procedural, and Memetic

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    Kjell Hedgard Hugaas

    Based on personal accounts, this article describes three categories of bleed states as experienced by larpers: emotional, procedural, and memetic.

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  • Larp Counselor Code of Ethics

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    Larp Counselor Code of Ethics

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    Brodie Atwater

    Larp counseling is the practice of dedicating a staff member to overseeing participant well-being at a live-action role-play (larp) event.

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  • The Jeitinho Brasileiro Manifesto

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    The Jeitinho Brasileiro Manifesto

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    Tadeu Rodrigues Iuama

    From the dawn of our experimentation with larp, we as Brazilians have already come across something that made our culture stand on the impositions crystallized in a rulebook. If Laws of the Night, the first larp “manual” that arrived in Brazil, already provided the rule of “not touching”, we were faced with a stir. And…

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