Like a Mummy locked inside a cursed pyramid, or a Japanese schoolgirl who has experienced near-death happiness, the Scandinavian larp mag Playground (dedicated to the “new wave” in roleplay) has shambled (leapt?) to life again, courtesy of the great people of…
Witness British larp of the early 1980s.
So, you've created a character and rolled up to your local larp: what then? Experts from the U.S. and beyond talk about how to create a satisfying character arc.
Today I define "revenge larp."
A thrilling compendium of larp magazines the world over. By which I mean live European magazines, and dead American ones.
Rev up your Google Translate and head over to Kalashnicore, a blog written by Swedish larper and feminist Anna Karin. Many of her posts respond to a list of challenges, from blogging about her biggest larp gaffe (which permanently put her…
Tips on how to find the right larp for you.
Novelist Urban Waite calls Leaving Mundania a "knockout book" and a "beautiful accomplishment."
On a recent car-trip we mulled over the question: What if great literary writers of the last 200 years had penned Twilight? For starters, Cormac McCarthy's version would begin with necrophilia.
There are infinity-jillion roleplaying games, but you can talk about all of them using just three words: gamism, simulationism, narrativism. Find out what these mean and more in the first post in my "Larp Theory for Laypeople" series, in which I read the classics so you don't have to.