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This is probably old-hat to a lot of you, but to anyone on my flist who boggles at me going on and on about larp, especially if your main experience of it is that one vampire game you saw in high school, I've got something to share. Last night I happened upon an article written by Andrew "Looney Labs" Looney, circa 1988 about his experience with theater-style larping. I was really interested by the fact that despite being over 20 years old, it still pretty accurately describes the structure and appeal of the hobby as it is today. The main thing that's changed, from what I can tell, is that there's a lot more nowadays: more games, more players, and more variety in terms of format and genre. Perhaps indicative of this is that fact that, despite enjoying what the article says and how it says it, many of the specific games he describes don't actually sound that interesting to me, because since the article was written they've almost all become sub-genres unto themselves, examples of most of which I've played in.

Anyway, here it is.




...ok, one class down for today. Off to grab lunch and prep/teach my afternoon class. *kermitflail*