The Space Between Stories: A Blog About Stories, How We Tell Them, and Designing for the Best Narrative Possible
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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!
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An Old Player’s Guide to New Larpers
This blog talks about the best way to interact with brand new, first time larpers without overwhelming them with your experience or excitement.
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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.
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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…
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Normalizing Queerness in Games
One part of being a welcome community to queer players is designing fantasy settings with a structure that normalizes queerness. You don’t need to be making a specific commentary on queer stories to be inviting and open to queer gamers. To kick off pride month, we’re talking about how to normalize queerness in your games!
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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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