Minnesota roleplay collective
Documentation for Walk Among the Dead by Johannes Oppermann, a horror larp about a grief support group that ventures into the land of the dead.
Organized by Jon Cole for Larp House.
Photos by Jon Cole and Heather Silsbee.
Played in Saint Paul in January 2017 for 6 players.
Daring spacefarers hurtling through the infinite void at speeds that defy understanding in the search for something more…
Star Trek meets Firefly, with narrative authority related to your character’s role on the ship.
WHAT:A freeform larp for 5-8 players
Written by Jay Treat
Organized by Jon Cole
WHEN:7:00 pm — 11:00 pm on Saturday, March 4th
Seekers of the departed, welcome. We have come together
because each of us has one we have lost. We have formed this secret
grief support group, rejected the 5 stages, and now seek to reach beyond
the veil and contact those lost to us.
This
mask is our key to the shadowlands. We can give each other strength for
the way and solace when we return, but whoever goes must go alone. Going
in, we have only so much breath to pay the ghosts for answers. Each of
us searches for resolution, we may be fortunate to find it, escape with
only our life, or become lost ourselves.
WHAT:A freeform larp for 5-6 players
Written by Johannes Oppermann
Organized by Jon Cole
WHEN:7:00 pm — 11:00 pm on Saturday, January 14th
Players take on the roles of a team of amateur thieves hired to obtain a work of art. All players work together to identify which piece of art they’re after and plan how to steal it while balancing the team’s humorous assortment of skills & hangups.
In about an hour and a half, the team will case the joint, plan their caper & try to convince each other that this will work. And if the group can tolerate each other long enough to complete their scheme, it just might!
Contrapposto is part improv comedy and part exercise in teamwork, with a healthy respect for art & museums thrown in. Don’t worry: no actual laws will be broken while playing! It is a fun way to visit an art museum with a group of new friends.
WHAT:A freeform larp for 2-5 players. Written by Andrew Larimer and organized by Jon Cole
“We’re all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it’s like, what we’re going through. We’re living through war, but where they’re living it’s peacetime, and we’re all in the same country.”
– Larry Kramer, American playwright and AIDS activist
LARP HOUSE PRESENTS: I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER
Five gay men live together in a shared apartment in New York City. We follow this group of friends over a couple of years in the early 1980s when the AIDS epidemic hit gay communities hard. These men will be personally affected by the AIDS crisis over the course of play.
This larp was written to be a bite-size version of Just A Little Lovin’ a 6-day long larp about friendship, desire, and the fear of death. Larp House is supporting an independent team of organizers in bringing the acclaimed Nordic larp to Minnesota in summer 2017. I Say A Little Prayer covers many of the same themes and is written by the same author.
WHAT: A freeform larp for 5 players
Written by Tor Kjetil Edland
Organized by Jon Cole and Kelley Vanda
WHEN:
noon — 6pm on Saturday, July 30th
TAGS:
AIDS crisis, based on a true story, friendship and death
Continue reading “Larp House Presents: I Say A Little Prayer”
A freeform larp for 8 players
Run Valentine’s Day Weekend February 2016 in Saint Paul, MN. Collaboration between Larp House and the Macalester Gaming Society.
Written by Daniel Eison and Sam Zeitlin
Organized by Arnold Cassell, Jon Cole and Rebecca Gold
Cheyenne Rain is cool, and her project entirely distinct from your friendly local Twin Cities larp collective.
That’s a Larp House photo gracing the article. How does it feel to be famous?
Marseille, late fall, 1940.
France has been occupied by the Germans and the collaborationist Vichy regime has been allowed to exist in the south. American liberals are stunned at the fall of France and horrified by German (and now French) anti-intellectualism and anti-Semitic brutality. These liberals form the Emergency Rescue Committee hope to spirit away as many European artists and intellectuals as they can manage.
Villa Air-Bel is about documentation, virtue, and desperation. It is a small, intense live action game about staplers and hard choices.
WHAT:A larp playtest for 5 players
Written by Jason Morningstar
Organized by Jon Cole
WHEN:
7:00 pm — 11pm on Friday, February 19th
