Does the historical inaccuracy of boffer larps reflect America's truncated past? Plus, I finally find a way to use the words "simulacrum" and "hyperreality." Come for the theory, stay for the shameless jargon-usage!
Cookbooks rule, apps drool. A piece I wrote for Bites, the Today Show food blog.
Want to game for a living? Here's some advice from people who have tried it. The sixth first timers' installment.
A talk with Emma Wieslander, creator of Ars Amandi -- a Nordic mechanic for representing romance/sex in larp -- on the origins of the technique, and why larpers should make love, not war.
Lessons learned from a stateside Ars Amandi workshop. Six brave gamers tried out this Nordic mechanic for simulating romance and sex in larp, and raised a number of interesting questions about the technique.
For all the writing I’ve done about larp, I haven’t made much effort to define it in this space. Larp, or LARP, is an acronym for “live action role play”; it’s a type of game that tells a story, which…
Do you like roleplaying? Do you like reading? Do you have eyes? Whip out your glasses and check out Playground, an international roleplaying magazine that just so happened to post a piece on a certain forthcoming larp book...
Budget extra time and give a shout out to your volunteers. Tips from experts in this installment of the first-timers' series.
Just came across this feature, “Live Action Role Playing Clubs at Cornell: A thoroughly interactive hobby” by Kevin Boyd, a piece about an ongoing college vampire game from Cornell’s Kitsch Magazine: “In reality, though, it was a completely different experience.…
Do you long for more romance at your larp? Come to METATOPIA and attend my workshop on Ars Amandi, a Nordic method for simulating sex.