Tag: character
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A Beginner’s Guide to LARP
LARPing can be intimidating. You are in an often crowded room full of people you don’t know. They are loud and dramatic. There is a lot of action happening at once and you’re not certain where to look. Or, worse? Sometimes there is no action happening and you are nervous if you have a deep…
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Meyerhold Onto That Feeling
(This is an old post from an old, old blog I used to run. It seemed quite relevant to my work nowadays, so I wanted to repost things here. Written by Ericka Skirpan, 2013) It has always been important to me, as a gamer and a storyteller, to live in the moment. Now, you may…
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LARPing While Queer…
In celebration of Pride month, this week’s blog is actually going to be a series of essays from several people I know and trust around the gaming community. These brief essays come because I think it is important to hear these voices, and because the gaming community has often been such a good space to…
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The Road to Emotionally Compelling Roleplay…
In the past months, I had a few people express to be the fact that they are bored with their game, can’t figure out how to sink their teeth into the meat of things, or feel slightly on the outside of the story going by. They ask me how I consistently manage to get into…
The Space Between Stories 