Icebergs

When we talk about larping — the actual activity of live action role-play — we often talk about how to do things better. This ranges from theoretical (“How do we play to lift?”) to specific (“What are good ways to role-play a romantic relation?”) to technical (“Should we try to do an accent?”).  But all of these questions have a fundamental assumption: that role-play is something we can do better or worse. And this question has a lot of implications.

If you’re a larp organizer, Facebook is an unfortunate fact of life... which has a lot of us asking, "can we drop Facebook?"

As designers, we spend a lot of time asking, “What makes a good larp?” The best answer we’ve heard is “a larp is good when it meets or...

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