Tag: freeform
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How To: Playing to Lift Makes You One of the Cool Kids
(Featured photo by Elias Gubbels. ) “Playing to lift” is a phrase that is thrown around the larp-o-sphere a ton. Many games encourage it at their opening ceremonies and we all generally agree it’s a *good* thing. But not every larper understands why it’s a good thing (other than promoting community values) or exactly how…
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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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Q&A With Ryan Hart of “The Mortality Machine”
(Featured Photo by: Liz Paulie. Additional Design: Allegra Durante. Models: Jason Knox, Lara Marcin) As I delve into different sections of the LARP-o-sphere on this blog, I’m going to be exploring a bit more journalistic content. This may be reviews of games or upcoming, big projects which are doing things to change the face of…
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Negotiating for Drama: Consent Driven Narrative 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…
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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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Converging “Nordic” and American Style LARP Design…
I’ll preface this post by saying I am not omnipotent. I haven’t been involved in the American freeform scene near as long as many well-known names (Lizzie Stark, Sarah Lynne Bowman, Jacqueline Bryk, and Shoshana Kessock are some of the first that come to mind) but I sure as hell am dedicated to this new…
The Space Between Stories 