Category: LARP Community

  • Narrative Awareness: Adapting Writing Technique into LARP Strategy

    Narrative Awareness: Adapting Writing Technique into LARP Strategy

    This post discusses how a player can practice narrative awareness to better their scenes and the scenes around them. It has tips for people who struggle with being socially aware of what to look out for to make a scene better!

  • Put Down the Pickaxe

    Put Down the Pickaxe

    This week we have a guest blog by Halden Ingwersen talking about her pickaxe — that one thing you keep carrying, can’t let go of, which is making everything all that much harder to juggle.

  • On Writing More Gender-Inclusive Games

    On Writing More Gender-Inclusive Games

    (This week’s guest post for Pride Month is by a wonderful writer by the name of Rose Jackson. Rose is is a writer, editor, and games consultant living in Brooklyn, NY. She writes for Dystopia Rising’s Northern California game and is an inclusivity consultant for the upcoming campaign boffer game Encore: the Afterlife. In between…

  • Taking Spotlight Responsibly

    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…

  • Processing Feedback: We Can Lift Without Putting Others Down

    Processing Feedback: We Can Lift Without Putting Others Down

    Processing negative feedback can always be challenging for players or organizers, but we can take feedback in and defend our games without putting other games actively down.

  • After the End: A Review

    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.