Tag: Character
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Bleed Before it was Cool: Early descriptions of dissimulative pretense, their unintended effects, and their impact on the evolution of roleplaying
European sources from the 18th and 19th centuries describe phenomena occurring during, or as a result of roleplaying, that we might now recognize as bleed.
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Six Levels of Larp Participation
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A hierarchy of things for you as a participant to do and take care of for the larp to work and for all the participants to have the Experience they want.
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Larp as a Player, Larp as a Character
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Theorizing engaging with the larp as both a character and as a player.
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Finding the Magic in the Mundane
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Often it isn’t necessarily the big scenes that we carry closest to our hearts after having played a larp, it’s rather the unexpected small moments, the unplanned occurrences, the intimacy. It’s in these mundane moments that the magic happens in a larp.
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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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Investigating Types of Bleed in Larp: Emotional, Procedural, and Memetic
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Based on personal accounts, this article describes three categories of bleed states as experienced by larpers: emotional, procedural, and memetic.
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Literary and Performative Imaginaries – Where Characters Come From
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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.