Month: September 2015

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Larp House Presents: Golden Cobra LarpJam 2015

Larp House Presents: Golden Cobra LarpJam 2015

LarpJam is a lightning-fast larp design workshop where people with no experience can create fully-playable larps in hours.

WHAT: A larp design workshop for 5-20 people
WHO: Have you played in a larp before? If so, you have enough experience to enjoy LarpJam. Anyone with an interest in role-playing can get something out of LarpJam.
WHEN: 1:00 pm — 5:00 pm on Sunday October 11th
WHERE: Macalester College Campus Center, Saint Paul MN  USA

LarpJam is the Iron Chef of game design: Each team has to cook up a larp using the Secret Ingredient. Half-way through the “dishes” are rotated between teams of chefs, who have to keeping working on a “meal” they didn’t start.

A winner of last year’s Golden Cobra competition was created by Larp House members using LarpJam. Join the tradition this year!

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Larp House Presents: Beyond Boffers Workshop

The padded foam sword, called a boffer, has an honored place in larp as a safer way to simulate combat with weapons. For weaponless combat, such as wrestling or martial arts, other larp traditions have developed their own styles to fill the void. The Beyond Boffers workshop will teach these “boffer martial arts” techniques in a friendly learning environment.

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