How to Cut a Freeform Game
Cutting freeform games isn't easy. In this first post from my new series on freeform, experienced GMs give advice on cutting short, cutting to enhance mood, and more.
Lizzie
Leaving Mundania Bonanza
Since I last wrote with an update on Leaving Mundania, the book has been cooking in the media. I’ve been podcasted, broadcasted, filmed, questioned, and written up in a variety of awesome outlets, both big and small. In case you…
A Civil Excursion to the Steampunk World’s Fair
I don’t get Steampunk. (yet) There. I said it. This weekend, husband and I excursed to the Steampunk World’s Fair in Piscataway, New Jersey to get a load of this thriving subculture, which incorporates Victorian fashion, anachronistic technology, and old-timey…
Leaving the Larp Closet
Come out of the larp closet in three easy steps: explain it to non-gamers using analogy, own it and forget about the haters, documentation doesn't hurt. Advice from seasoned gamers.
Leaving Mundania Hits the BBC!
The BBC films a segment on Leaving Mundania, and a great review from Geekadelphia.
Leaving Mundania Launches; OED Recognizes “LARPing”
Leaving Mundania hits stores, and the Oxford English Dictionary adds "LARPing."
Larp in NYC and September 11
While I was in Finland, I had the pleasure of participating in the Nordic Larp Talks, a yearly series of short talks on larp and larp design modeled on the TED talks and hosted by famed journalist, author and larper Johanna…
Leaving Mundania Reading @ The Fallout Shelter
Does the idea of larp fascinate you or pique your interest? Do you live in New Jersey? Do you play Knight Realms, Dystopia Rising, or another local game? Been to the DREAMATION and DEXCON conventions? Are you friends with a certain Rutgers…
Player Safety in Nordic Games
Notes I took during the player safety panel at Solmukohta 2012.
Symptoms of Knutedepression
Solmukohta, the weirdly-named Finnish edition of the Knutepunkt convention ended more than a week ago, but the symptoms of Nordic withdrawal linger. Do you suffer from this dread disease? Symptoms may include: using the prefix “knute-” for everything, regardless of appropriateness…