Icebergs

It’s become fashionable to talk about how to play a larp villain — that there’s special things that a larper needs to do to play the bad guy. Invariably, I think it’s bad advice, because it almost always focuses on things other than role-play. I’ve heard advice that ranges from how to act out-of-role to pseudo-facilitating for the “good guys” to self-care for the in difficulties assumed to come with it. And with all due consideration, I’m going to call “bs.”

When we talk to people about their larps, we ask about the design, not the writing... because we want to know what people do at the larp.

Our primary design goal is for our participants to make difficult decisions - the more difficult the decision, the better.