Icebergs

For ten years, I made larps that made people bawl. I felt like I really created something special. Then everyone started running “crying” larps. More accurately, I met more people who were already doing the same thing. And I realized I wasn’t special, or brilliant, or a larp god. Because the thing about tears is that it’s really not that hard to make a larper cry.

Last week, we kind of trashed an entire style of role-play. Actually, what we did was challenge designers.

About a decade ago, the unofficial slogan of the Sinking Ship larp at the time was “we make our players cry.” It was an extremely popular sl