4 October 2019
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA
Five players
Designed by Malcolm Campbell
Organized by Malcolm Campbell, Josh Krehbiel, and Jon Cole
Photography by Malcolm Campbell
Documentation for Eye in the Sky
Documentation for Slayer Cake at Be-Con
15 September 2019
Be-Con
Rosemont, Illinois
23 players
Designed by Kat Jones and Evan Torner
Organized by Larry Lade, Kathy Shane, Cat Stuntebeck, and Jon Cole
Photography by Cat Stuntebeck (and Jack Phillips)
Costume pieces sacrificed to the gods of metal:
2 boots, 1 belt Continue reading “Documentation for Slayer Cake at Be-Con”
Documentation for Be-Con 2019
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
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!
Larp House Presents: Eye in the Sky
A British-led intelligence operation close to the border of Pakistan is using an American drone for overwatch. Players are military, legal and political decision makers for either the British or American team. The optional 7th player is an unexpected observer from the Pakistan embassy. How will they all cope when the mission changes and their rules of engagement are no longer clear?
The premise
The larp is an exploration of the morality and effectiveness of using drones as a weapon of war. Different characters will have different ethical concerns about when and how to use drone weapons, and those will be tested as events unfold.
The leaders of a joint British-American intelligence operation are sitting in a room in a secure location in England, remotely directing the operation by issuing orders to British agents on the ground, local military units, or the American drone on overwatch.
Eye in the Sky will premiere at The Smoke 2020. This North American sneak preview is only at Larp House!
A larp for 6-7 players, 4 hours long (including debrief)
Designed by Malcolm Campbell
Organized by Malcolm Campbell, Josh Krehbiel, and Jon Cole
When & where
7 pm to 11 pm, Friday October 4th 2019
Hosted in private home near 78th and Dell Rd in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. (Exact address will be shared with ticket-holders.)
Plentiful free parking on site. We’ll be organizing a ride share to help get people out there.
Sign-up
Get a ticket by filling out the Eye in the Sky registration form. Unlike some of our other events, these free tickets are first-come first-served. Once you have a ticket you don’t need to do anything else besides show up to play! Continue reading “Larp House Presents: Eye in the Sky”
Meg vlogs about Glamourous Night
Meg and Laura vlog about their experience with our Glamourous Night playtest!
Documentation for Glamourous Night
Documentation for Glamourous Night, a playtest of a live-action game about hubris, temptation, and choice.
Designed and organized by Jon Cole
1 September 2019
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nine players + a facilitator
Video music courtesy Bensound.com
Salon du Larp House: Glamourous Night playtest
Wizards, humans, magical creatures, and faeries attend a mundane community’s summer solstice festival. Magic is in the air, voices are stilled, and dreams can come true at a cost. Tonight shifting auras will grant attendees terrifying mystical power to pursue their desires. How far will you go to get what you want? When you are all-powerful, what is actually important to you?
What
Glamourous Night is a larp about faerie magic and wizards’ hubris for 15-25 players. It is an abstract and musical experience exploring the themes of temptation and choice. This event is a playtest for an unfinished larp designed by Jon Cole.
In Glamourous Night, players use two movement techniques to perform ensorcelling magic as their characters. Characters will experience joyful exploration and tempting darkness as they share, subjugate, and are subjugated.
When
Sunday September 1st, 2019, from 1:30 to 6 pm
Background
This is an alpha playtest of a larp. Glamourous Night isn’t finished, and this will be one of the first times it is played. There might be big holes missing or rough patches in play. If this larp sounds interesting to you even though it may not be a coherent start to finish narrative experience, we will be very glad to have you join us!
Continue reading “Salon du Larp House: Glamourous Night playtest”
Local designers featured in The Guardian
Larp House members and local larp designers Kelley Vanda and Jon Cole have been prominently mentioned in this article in The Guardian about women designing games about reproductive rights.
Through video games, live-action role-playing games and interactive documentaries, developers are challenging the conversation around reproductive rights
Now Available: The Abortionists
The internationally award-nominated ’70s feminism larp The Abortionists by our own Jon Cole and Kelley Vanda is now available for download.
Larp House Presents: POP!
Update: Sorry to burst your balloon, but this event has been cancelled.
The warm hum of a CRT monitor is drowned out by the scream of a dial-up modem. As Internet access becomes ubiquitous, people with obscure sexual interests are beginning to find one another in anonymous forums. A cursor floats over a hyperlink to looner-landing private forums 18+ only.
On one bulletin board service, a group of people connect over their common sexual interest in balloons. Who are the people behind the keyboard? What nascent community do they form, and how does it change when they meet in person for the first time?
What
POP! is a live-action game about online communities, for 8 to 12 players.
Specifically, it’s about an online community of people who love and fetishize latex balloons.
Players will immerse into the warm, soothing atmosphere of a nostalgic Internet via private messenger, forum posts, and chat rooms. At the end of play, the characters will meet for for the first time at an in-person meet-up event, which might be a joyful revelation or an awkward trainwreck. While this game is about a very specific community, the themes of finding belonging are universal.
Designed by Alex Roberts
Organized by Jon Cole and Tom S. Tea
When
Saturday, 25 May 2019, from 2 to 5 pm
Where
POP! will take place at SpringBOX, located at 262 University Ave W in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Parking is available on site. METRO Green Line and bus lines stop nearby.
Tickets
Get a “ticket” by filling out our POP! registration form before 11:59 pm on Sunday, 19 May. Unlike some of our other events, these tickets are first-come first-serve. Once you have a ticket, you don’t need to do anything else besides show up to play. In the unlikely event that too many people sign up, we will solicit volunteers to drop out of the event in exchange for a “golden ticket” of instant admittance to their next event with us.
SpringBOX is a space for community events and programming, operated by Springboard for the Arts. We are requesting a pay-what-you-want donation ($5-10 suggested) to support the work of SpringBOX in appreciation for the use of their space. No one will be turned away if they are unable to make a donation.