Category: LARP Safety
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Our Bodies Know What’s Real
(Featured Photo by Ardian Lumi on Unsplash) “Your body doesn’t know that was pretend.” If you have ever been in one of my debriefs or spoken to me after a game, it’s likely you have heard some version of this. While our minds know we were just playing characters and nothing happened in the game…
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Safety is Personal: Wearing Your Larp Seatbelt
(Featured photo by Stephen Andrews on Unsplash.) Every time you get in a car, you put on a seatbelt (at least, I really hope you do.) Not because you plan to get in an accident that day, or because you think you are with a bad driver, but because things happen. Even with all the…
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What’s Your LARPing Type of Fun?
Type 2 fun. Myself, and many of my friends (though not all), describe ourselves as “Type 2 larpers.” I even used this term before I fully understood what it meant or where it came from; all I knew is I liked it when larp made me cry and people called that Type 2. But knowing…
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We Have a Responsibility to Do Better
(Featured photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash.) As someone who is considered a community leader within larping circles, there’s been pressure to make a statement or take clear action against the current COVID-19 crisis that our country is facing. Communities all around the world are cancelling public gatherings because social distancing is…
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A Template for Role-Play Negotiations…
(Photo by Bret Lehne. Models: Nerissa Hart and Lex Pulice-Farrow.) I speak a lot in this blog about consent negotiations and how to handle narrative free form safely. However, negotiations in larp aren’t just a part of the more free form/emergent styles. Even in your hardest boffer game, relationships and situations come up where it’s…
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We Can Tell Dangerous Stories Safely
(Trigger Warning: This blog discusses topics of racism, hate crimes, and sexual violence under a separate cut warning at the end. Do not read if any of that content is triggering for your mental state.) (Featured photo by Bret Lehne of Velvet Noir II. Models: Dann Lynch, Jason Brunett, and Victoria Lai.) Safe spaces don’t exist…
The Space Between Stories 