Whereas a blockbuster larp might be compared to attending a Broadway show one time, a hamburger larp is the pub you go to after work, or the community center at which you meet your friends on weekends. The post Savoring Sameness: Hamburger larps appeared first on Nordic Larp ..read more

Creating subtle but strong emotional pressure based on specific relations when designing eating situations in larps. The post Dinner Warfare appeared first on Nordic Larp ..read more

Why sex larps might appeal to players. The post Debauchery: Fantastic appeared first on Nordic Larp ..read more

International larp is a tremendous thing, and it deserves to thrive and grow. But not at the expense of the Nordic larp that it borrows so heavily from. The post Nordic Larp is not ”International Larp”: What is KP for? appeared first on Nordic Larp ..read more

Anyone can come up with an excuse to put a bunch of people in a house to lust after each other and call it a larp. The post Debauchery: Meh appeared first on Nordic Larp ..read more

All those who are active in the field of larp, as organisers or players, have to face the fact that needs arising from diversity have to be recognised and accommodated. It is irrelevant whether a person is disabled or not: every person has needs arising from their background. The post Inclusion in Larp: Between Challenge and the Experience of Limits appeared first on Nordic Larp ..read more

When cast in a relationship with another player, — meaning any kind of relationship, such as family, friendship, enmity etc., as well as romantic/sexual relationships —  it is customary (but usually not mandatory) to reach out and calibrate before the larp. At times like these, there are a few questions I usually ask my co-player. A friend recently mentioned that she found my questions very helpful, and always used them when calibrating. At first I thought that they were nothing special, probably everyone used questions more or less the same? But, pre-game calibration definitely is a skil ..read more

At Knudepunkt in 2019 I attended a panel discussion, You Look Like I Want To Play With You, hosted by Karijn van der Heij, where participants shared their experiences of co-players refusing to play on pre-written relations. According to the participants, the excuse often used by said co-players was them feeling “a lack of chemistry”. Disregarding the problematic nature of such a judgement, the argument inherently states that chemistry is something which either exists or doesn’t between people, even though we have multiple examples of the opposite being true. Just take something as common and w ..read more

“We won’t stop the larp if it’s just an air raid.” — Anna Posetselska, Ukranian larp designer and organizer When war erupts, larps come to a halt. The same holds true for various other cultural activities. Society is in a state of suspension. Individuals are fixated on their phones, doomscrolling through the news and social media. Larpers stay connected, checking in on each other – has someone we know died, have the bombs struck a town where our friends or relatives reside? However, in the subsequent weeks, months, or even years, larp returns, even if the war persists. This occurred in both U ..read more

What could we bring into larp from the climate crisis and what can we take home that could have an actual influence on how we act to mitigate the disaster we are living in? I awoke late to ecological conscience, relatively speaking. Despite all the available information about climate change, I felt pushed to action only after the scorching summers from 2017 onward. At that point I became interested in ecoactivist groups and started speaking out about the climate catastrophe as well as including it in my poetry. Contemporaneously ecological themes were taking root in the Finnish larping scene ..read more