Tag: character
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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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“I’m Down for Anything”: how NOT to fill out a LARP Application
(A huge thanks to Aj Mooney for this brilliant guest post! Please read more about our author at the end of this blog! Featured photo also by Aj Mooney) Let me tell you about my mistakes…. As a rather new initiate to the world of Freeform LARPing, filling out an application for a game can…
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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.
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The Preparation Dance and 1878
(Featured image by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash.) The next few weeks are filled with exciting things for me where the larp-o-sphere is concerned. Dammerung launches this weekend and 1878: Welcome to Salvation is the weekend after. While these events are somewhat different in their styles, they share a lot of similarity in being consent-negotiation driven,…
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Permission to Grieve (in Gaming…)
(Cover photo by Bret Lehne at Inside Hamlet 2017, Run 2.) This blog is a touch more personal than I usually write, but sometimes the personal can help you reflect on things professionally. I hope people take the lesson from this that I did, and my own reflections help others see their work and ability…
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The Power of Positive Bleed
I’ve spent a lot of time on this blog discussing the negative bleed and how players can cope with it (the most prominent blog here); I suggest giving it a read in conjunction with this blog. However, I believe one of the most powerful, wonderful things about LARP is the changes it can create in…
The Space Between Stories 