Tag: Techniques
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Epic Feels
Tips on how to prepare for the game in order to create a character who easily feels and some practices for expressing the turbulence of their inner realms.
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Constructing Your Experience
How you can use constructive alignment theory to improve your larp experience.
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Building a Comfort Zone
Today, I know that I can play characters close to the parts of myself that I don’t usually show, and also ones that are so far away from who I am.
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Larper: The Pretense
The larper character sheet is a playful tool for evaluating your strengths and weaknesses as a larper.
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Making a Flat Character Sing
Getting a pre-written character can be an exciting part of the pre-larp process, but what if you don’t like your character?
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Strength in Numbers
Building a group and fostering relations therefore falls mostly to players, and requires different player skills from solo preparation. Here is a list of tools in the form of questions and descriptions for constructing a group concept in a deliberate fashion.
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Body Positive
This article introduces tools for body positivity and acceptance. It discusses what other people can do and how to avoid larps and larpers that might not be safe for you, but I also want to focus on what we internalize and the way that larp can help.
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Reading Others for Interaction
When we larp, we make deductions about other characters and the types of role-play they will provide. Through speech, costuming, body language, and other signs, each player signals to others how to interact with their character. As you play, analyze what a character looks like, wears, and does with their body to learn important clues…
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Writing a Life
When you write as the character you are going to play in a larp, you remember — not just the background and story of the character provided to by the organizers, but the mind of the character as you want it to be, with the knowledge and quirks characterizing this person.
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Playing an Engaging Victim
We draw from our experiences to give you tools as a victim player. What can you do to help tell the story of the relationship? How can you support the perpetrator’s game or have agency even when your character doesn’t?