Category: Characters
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Sex and Death : To be Human and Larping
(Featured photo by Photo by Cyrus Crossan on Unsplash) Sex and death – the two things in life that are impossible to escape. Even if you are ace and you decide to never touch a human being sexually, I bet that informs a whole bunch of your human interactions – I know figuring it out…
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Villainy: Tips and Tricks for Black Hatting in Larp
(Feature photo by Mor Shani on Unsplash A guest post by Emily Randall, wonderful fellow larper, IT nerd, and creative writer.) Playing a villain is far from easy. You have to plan out all sorts of horrible things to do to your victims and proper motivation for doing them, which is harder than it sounds…
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Taking Spotlight Responsibly
For most of their lives, responsible and generous larpers have been told don’t be too much in the spotlight. Share the stage. Play to lift others. It’s not about you, it’s about EVERYONE. We spend so much time coaching generous play, it’s given most of us a complex around those times that we do enter…
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A Thematically Driven Character
A basic part of any literary analysis is identifying themes of characters and story. Learning your characters own themes is a great way to help highlight a narrative story and steer your character into deeper tales even in non-narrative gaming.
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After the End: A Review
After the End is an intimate game in rural northern Tennessee which challenges its players to live up to the standards of radical trust. It explores what it means to be human after the world ended, but digital immortality still exists in a wastes-and-wild-west landscape.
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The Beauty of Playing to Type in Larp
This blog discusses why it’s actually good to play similar characters and how to create around your favorite character traits.
The Space Between Stories 