Tag: roleplay tips
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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.
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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…
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A Thematically Driven Character
A basic part of any literary analysis is identifying themes of characters and story. Learning your characters own themes is a great way to help highlight a narrative story and steer your character into deeper tales even in non-narrative gaming.
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Playing a Doctor, Consent Negotiations and Medical Roleplay
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…
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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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Queerness and LARPing Day Four: Cole and Emrhys Benson
Today’s stories come from two more people whom I greatly admire. The stories are more full of advice and challenges, so I find them particularly valuable for younger queer LARPers and allies who want a better understanding of how to be GOOD allies to queer LARPers. In the words of Cole… “Prior to my first…
The Space Between Stories 