Tag: playing to lift

  • An Old Player’s Guide to New Larpers

    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.

  • Taking Spotlight Responsibly

    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…

  • How To: Playing to Lift Makes You One of the Cool Kids

    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…