We’re back and we’re acting up. While we are normally pretty sedentary gamers, we have been convinced to try some LARP techniques and see if they can make our roleplaying more immersive. The props seemed like a good idea, but maybe we should have paid more attention to the safety tools. Now we’re learning all about bleeding out…



Main Topic: Using LARP Techniques at the Table



Live action and tabletop roleplaying share common roots and many similarities, but they have become quite separate hobbies. Each has evolved a unique set of forms and tools. So what can the world of tabletop roleplaying, particularly Call of Cthulhu, learn from LARP? Which LARP techniques lend themselves best to tabletop play? And which games blur the line between tabletop and LARP?



Our Guest Host



We are delighted to welcome Ericka Skirpan as our guest host for this episode! Ericka is a LARP creator, consultant, and facilitator. She writes extensively about LARPs at The Space Between Stories. Currently, Ericka is working with Mooney Bin Entertainment on LARPs such as “Conscience” and “Dresden Files 1923”.



You can find Ericka’s article “LARPing Made me a Stronger Person” in Scientific American. She has also written for 7th Sea, Vampire: The Requiem, and Changeling: The Dreaming.






Links



Things we mention in this episode include:




* Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Roleplaying Games by Lizzie Stark



* Sinking Ship Creations



* The Mortality Machine



* Ain’t Slayed Nobody



* Push the Roll With Ross Bryant



* Harold improv



* “Lord of Lies” by Atropos



* “The Forbidden History” by Atropos



* “Miskatonic University” by Chaos League



* Intercon LARP convention



* Consequences LARP convention



* Gen Con



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