College of Wizardry

Larp Tools: Pronoun Markers and Correction Mechanics

2017-12-01 2 Maury Brown

In role-play, players and their characters do not always use the same pronouns. Some players use role-play to explore personal questions of gender identity, using the alibi of the character to give them a chance to try on a new…

Research

Pre-Bleed is Totally a Thing

2017-04-21 0 Martine Svanevik Simon Brind

Pre-bleed is the experience of emotional bleed prior to ever playing the character in a larp setting. This paper considers pre-bleed before College of Wizardry 5.

Theory

Telling Character Stories

2017-02-22 0 Monika Weißenfels

There are many ways to tell character stories. Nordic larp design often implies that characters are written by the larpwrights. That's not always the case.

Techniques

A Matter of Trust – Larp and Consent Culture

2017-02-03 2 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Consent culture in larp communities is a subject of great interest in the current discourse. Larp scholar Sarah Lynne Bowman explores the subject.

Techniques

Creating Play in the Magical Classroom

2016-05-19 0 Johanna Koljonen

Creating Play in the Magical Classroom is a multi-part guide to playing a teacher at the College of Wizardry and New World Magischola larps. While it was written specifically with these events in mind, it can be applied to many…

Techniques

Creating Play in the Magical Classroom: Part 7

2016-05-19 0 Johanna Koljonen

This final part of the series gives practical examples on how to apply the techniques and ideas explained in the previous parts.

Techniques

Creating Play in the Magical Classroom: Part 6

2016-05-18 0 Johanna Koljonen

Most of the larp (but especially the last six hours of the game, when every remaining plot-line is culminating at the same time) will be great for students riding their respective plot trains, and an incoherent mess for anyone with…

Techniques

Creating Play in the Magical Classroom: Part 5

2016-05-17 0 Johanna Koljonen

In this series, we have had lots of examples of what is encouraged play for professors. Here are a few examples of discouraged play. Professors sit in a position of authority and players (and characters) will be conditioned to obey…

Techniques

Creating Play in the Magical Classroom: Part 4

2016-05-16 0 Johanna Koljonen

Magic school professors are inevitably strong characters. Whatever they are, they are to the extreme. Super wise, or bitter, or dotty, or eccentric. Actually, most of you can be eccentric, that just adds to the game.

Techniques

Creating Play in the Magical Classroom: Part 3

2016-05-15 0 Johanna Koljonen

As discussed in the previous section, a good class will provide players with something useful for the game as a whole: a deeper understanding of their own character, an opportunity to develop the relationships between their characters, knowledge or gossip…

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