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Tears and the New Norm
In recent years, we — the Nordic/International progressive role-playing scene, both tabletop and larp — have produced games that can bring out powerful emotions in the players, and empower the players to engage with powerful emotions. This process has significantly extended the artistic reach of the role-playing medium, and also given a lot of people…
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Once Upon a Nordic Larp… – The Knutepunkt 2017 Book
The official book for Knutepunkt 2017 is called Once Upon a Nordic Larp… Twenty Years of Playing Stories and it’s out now!
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A Matter of Trust – Larp and Consent Culture
Consent culture in larp communities is a subject of great interest in the current discourse. Larp scholar Sarah Lynne Bowman explores the subject.
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What Does it Mean When Sex is Sexy?
Should larp techniques for representing sexual activity be sexy themselves? Might they be more sexy than we sometimes realize? What impact does this have?
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Let’s Fight – In Defense of Competitive Play, Part 1
Collaboration is in vogue. In Nordic circles and in blockbuster games, non-competitive play is ascendant. Matthew Webb argues for competetive play in larp.
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Literary and Performative Imaginaries – Where Characters Come From
Character sheets are an important part of a roleplaying game’s “text”, but how are they constructed, and how do they operate? Evan Torner investigates.
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Nordiclarp.org Resources – Video Equipment
Nordiclarp.org has gathered video equipment for larp documentation, which we lend out free of charge as long as it’s used for larp.
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Call for Articles
We want your brilliance! Have an idea you want to share? Write for Nordiclarp.org! We accept text contributions and you can read more about our process here: https://nordiclarp.org/write-for-us/ If you don’t want to write but contribute in other ways we have some suggestions here: https://nordiclarp.org/contribute/
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White Wolf’s Convention of Thorns – A Blockbuster Nordic Larp
Convention of Thorns is an official White Wolf Nordic-style Vampire: the Masquerade larp. The first run was held between October 27-30, 2016 at Zamek Książ, a castle in Poland. The larp was a joint collaboration between White Wolf and Dziobak Larp Studios. This scenario plays out a crucial moment in the canon of vampiric history,…
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Real Men – Defining Gender Identities
Take your mind back, I don’t know when Sometime when it always seemed To be just us and them Girls that wore pink And boys that wore blue Boys that always grew up better men Than me and you Joe Jackson, Real Men Real Men is a chamber larp for 4–8 players, lasting four hours,…