Have you ever wanted to larp in a real submarine? What about an abandoned nuclear reactor? Or maybe you’re interested in fighting a giant dragon that actually breathes real fire? ZOMG! You can find out what it feels like and
Advice for First-Time Roleplayers
It’s OK to be scared. But talk to players you haven’t met anyway.
Advice For First-Time GMs
The first installation of tips from my new series on gaming, Advice for First-Timers. Experts advise noobs on how to GM a larp or tabletop game.
Michael Pucci, Zombie-lord
Game organizer Michael Pucci extols zombies, talks television pilots, and argues that larp will become mainstream, if only larpers let it.
All About Jeep
Jeeper Frederik Berg Østergaard explains the jeepform play style, and tells us why games that make you feel bad can be so good.
Intro to Knudepunkt
I went to a Danish larp convention. And it was awesome.
A Year Later
A year ago today, I cut off my healthy breasts to reduce my astronomical chances of developing breast cancer. The months leading up to the operation were brutal, to say the least. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but I’m really glad I did it.
Watch Me on the Today Show
Lizzie talks about hereditary breast cancer on the Today Show.
Charcuterie is Like Child Rearing…
Some couples “practice” for children by getting a dog; my husband and I are evidently “practicing” with charcuterie (tr. “cooked flesh”), the art of making sausage, bacon, terrines, and cured meats. Like preparing for a child, charcuterie requires: a manual
How to Read Twilight
Stephanie Meyer needs an editor. I contend that a writer gets one free “career” use of the term “smoldering eyes,” but Meyer uses the verb at least five times, just in Twilight
It’s enough to make an MFA’s eyes fill up with tears, as she collapses sobbing into her unpublished, but smoldering, manuscript.
Of course, my husband and I are reading the book aloud to each other anyway. While individually, our tastes skew to concept sci-fi and literary fiction, our collective taste tends toward middle-brow genre novels featuring vampires, medieval fantasy, or other stuff written for teenagers.