Category: Documentation

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Larp House at Con of the North

whiteboard scrawled with complex diagram mapping relationships between suspected agitators

Members of Larp House ran larps at Con of the North, Minnesota’s longest-running gaming convention, running 14-16 February 2020.

We also got a chance to meet other local larp designers!

Games ran:

Thanks to all the con volunteers, the friendly hotel staff, and all the rad players that showed up to play!

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Documentation for A Crow Funeral on Twin Cities PBS

Minnesota Niche: LARP House - TPT Originals
Minnesota Niche: LARP House – TPT Originals
Sure, many of us grow up role-playing alternate realities that revolve around fantasies of, say, being stranded in the woods or discovering a new alien planet. But admit it: There’s some hidden part of you that craves a role-playing outlet as a fully fledged grown-up. Turns out, you can do just that if you’re a
www.tptoriginals.org

 

Larp House has been featured in this PBS documentary anthology! We are local TV famous! Check it out!

A Crows Funeral by Tim Hutchings
Facilitated by Tom Fendt
Seven players

Event announcement

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Documentation for Be-Con 2019

Woman in surgical mask and black rubber gloves sits to back of another woman with a man facing camera in background

A weekend-long larp convention in the Chicago area

Rosemont, Illinois
13-15 September 2019

Glamourous Night
Designed by Jon Cole
Organized by Jon Cole and Cat Stuntebeck
16 players

Pop!
Designed by Alex Roberts
Organized by Jon Cole
11 players

Intense love letter on hotel stationery
ephemera from Will That Be All?

Will That Be All?
Designed by Graham Walmsley
Organized by Larry Lade
8 players + facilitator

All Options
Designed and organized by Jon Cole
3 players

Slayer Cake
coming tomorrow!

 

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Documentation for Boundary Waters

two people in lifevests carrying a long tube
six people seated in circle on shoreline
camp circle
two people in lifevests carrying a long tube
canoe portage scene
two people in lifevests, simulating rowing
rowing scene
two people in lifevests carrying large tube, with a third person in tow
canoe portage scene
two people in lifevests, simulating rowing
rowing scene
camp grill with several electric candles on top
campfire
two people in lifevests, simulating rowing
rowing scene
paper reading FURIOUS & BETRAYED torn in half
the trait FURIOUS & BETRAYED is lost
person running on wooded shoreline
the wild GM in their native habitat

Documentation for Boundary Waters, a live-action game about shared journeys, burdens, and friendship

This run was played outdoors on a lovely day in a city park, with riparian forest and the Mississippi River standing in for the forests and lakes of northern Minnesota.

Designed by Katherine Shane
Organized by Tom Fendt

24 August 2019
St. Paul, Minnesota
Six players + a facilitator

 

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Documentation for Sarabande

two people embrace as third person in foreground burns a paper document
whiteboard diagram of a number of small stick figures > a single large stick figure next to a guillotine
the logic of revolution
three people in light costumes
The aristocrat, the philosopher, and the lover discuss
two people dancing while a third watches
The lover and the adventurer dance as the aristocrat looks on
piece of paper with strange symbols
person standing on chair holding piece of paper
The philosopher at a high point
person reading from paper as two others watch
The soldier reads revolutionary propaganda as the adventurer and revolutionary look on
man reading newspaper
The revolutionary looks through the news of the world
two people in headed discussion over green drinks
The lover and the aristocrat discuss
person holding rolled map discussing with two others
The lover, the adventurer, and the aristocrat
person with rolled map standing over kneeling person in veil
two people embrace as third person in foreground burns a paper document
The adventurer sets fire to a letter of affection
handwritten document titled MANIFESTO, burned letter, and bowl of water with floating candles
Revolutionary manifesto
paper with hand written symbols including heart and cage
two people dancing
The adventurer dances with the aristocrat
two people dancing
The adventurer dances with the revolutionary
two people toasting with green drinks
The revolutionary toasts the philosopher
handwritten symbols involving boot and dollar signs
two people dancing
The adventurer dances with the lover
three people discussing over a map
The adventurers map
a cartographic map of region of Germany with heart drawn on it
In foreign lands, people are happier
prop newspaper with handwritten story about poverty
Distressing news of the world
pocketwatch on table with electric candles and candles in bowl of water
The philosopher's watch
handwritten rant about CHANGES NOTHING
The philosopher's rant
prop newspaper titled MONDE
intoxicated person holding green drink and embracing another person
The lover helps the drunken philosopher
person reading speech with fist in the air as another watches
The soldier takes up the cause while the worker watches cynically
two people sitting together under a parasol
The worker and the lover share a moment

Documentation for Sarabande, a live-action game about truth, love, freedom and beauty, set in 1890s Paris

Designed by Jeppe Bergmann Hamming and Maria Bergmann Hamming
Organized by TLS

14-Juillet 🇫🇷 2019
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Seven players + a facilitator