A Thousand Stars and No Home
“We have been let into the dock. The spacecraft is coupled to the gate, which is dented with obvious traces of meteors and repairs. The crew goes and comes, they greet each other, just outside the airlock some of them are talking to each other, they joke with each other, laughing and ignoring us. Human traffickers.
We communicate in bad intergalactic and information is sparse. We know that we are going on a hard journey, and that we have paid a lot of money to people we don’t know,...
LARP DAY 2015
Today is the international day to celebrate all larpers around the globe!
Please feel free to share this event with other players from your area and around the world.
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5 writing tips I’ve learned…
…from designing female characters in a gender-segregated patriarchal Larp subculture
Most roles in historically-inspired Larps tend to be gender-segregated, involving patriarchal societies (which were mostly the norm, at least when European Christian societies – in the broader sense of term – are concerned). This makes the creation of female characters more challenging.
I am not talking here of larps actually focused on gender oppression. I am rather addressing social, historical...
Rejection, a clash of personalities
This article was originally published there: http://www.baltazar.si/blog/knudepunkt-talk-rejection-a-clash-of-personalities
Thanks to Blaz for accepting to publish it on Electro-LARP
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In February I had the honor to be one of the speakers at this year’s Knudepunkt in Denmark. The talk was a part of the Inspirational session. I decided to speak about an issue known to game-masters: the player’s rejection of the assigned character.This talk’s content is a blend of...
Larp Review: Skoro Rassvet
Foreword : this article is a loose translation of an article that was originally written in French with the French-speaking audience it mind. It establishes comparisons with a sub-genre of historically inspired Larps that have been called “romanesque” in our own gaming culture. Romanesque means literally “that would have its place in a novel”, especially something emotional or very dramatic.
As Larp goes, frenchstyle Romanesque larps have focused on character-based stories, 360...
Larp census 2014 – How many larpers in the world ?
We want to count every larper, including you!
It only takes 1 minute to answer the main questions.
http://larpcensus.org
How many larpers in the world ?
That is the question of Aaron Vanek and Ryan Paddy and they decided to answer it with your help.
Why a global larp census?
Although some countries have rough estimates of their larp population, there has not been a comprehensive global census taken of self-identifying larpers on this scale. We really want to count everyone who larps, has...
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