Designing For Reality: Fault-Tolerant Larps

By Jason Morningstar There’s a larp modality that looks like this: You design a large, intricate live action game called Legacy of the Witch-Nuns. Characters are richly detailed and have complex interrelationships with other people and groups. Elements of plot and action hinge on these...

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A Proposed Taxonomy of the Immersive Arts

This article is cross-posted from Caro Murphy’s original post here. Disclaimer: There is probably never going to be an entirely perfect and universally accepted paradigm for the “Immersive Arts” industry, but since this is a burgeoning and blossoming field, I’m attempting...

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The Lesser Players Tale: Postmortem

by Lizzie Stark & Jason Morningstar In the live roleplaying scenario The Lesser Players’ Tale (LPT), a shabby group of Renaissance actors perform an awful play called “The Lusty Queen” in front of whatever audience fate throws their way. The actors adapt their play to each raucous —...

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