(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 … Continue reading A Template for Role-Play Negotiations…
(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, … Continue reading The Preparation Dance and 1878
I’ll start by saying this blog is absolutely not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. If you get squeamish at all, if you dislike any sort of torture scenario (physical or emotional), if you aren’t interested in visceral scenes in gaming, or there is any other reason torture makes you uncomfortable to read about … Continue reading Torture Techniques: Destroying Your Players (Safely)
By Michelle Stagnitta (Editor's Note: This guest post started as a comment in response to yesterday's blog, but it was big enough and, I thought, important enough that it received it's own post. While this seems to apply to more stats-based LARPing, there are healers, medics, and dangerous fight scenes in all ranges of LARP … Continue reading Playing a Doctor, Consent Negotiations and Medical Roleplay
(Featured photo by Miguel Espino.) Nearly every event I play these days has some form of consent negotiations built into the system. Whether they are mandatory or a way for players to check in on the emotional safety of other players, the American LARP world at large is waking up to the fact that high … Continue reading Negotiating for Drama: Consent Driven Narrative Roleplay
The Space Between Stories 