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Salon du Larp House: Un/sanctioned Songs

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Un/sanctioned Songs: A larp about music censorship

You are a group of musicians and producers trying to make art under an authoritarian regime’s censorship. Listen to and curate protest music, and talk about the impact music can have when performed. Shape your character’s story as you navigate the consequences of state censorship, grapple with the spectre of self-censorship, and try to stay true to your artistic vision and your ideals–or perhaps change them, in the face of your experiences. Can you collectively organize a resistance strong enough to speak out against the Regime?

What

A live action game about music censorship.

Duration: 5 hours
Players: 6 to 12 players

Designed and Facilitated by Michelle Hofeldt
Admin support from Jon Cole

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Larp House Presents: Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building

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Gay 80's Leather Bar Live Roleplaying. August 9th, Minneapolis. www.Larphouse.org

“I walked in there and I was absolutely terrified because everyone was in leather, head to toe. And I was the only one who was wearing Levis and a regular shirt. []…I was terrified, visually, at what I was seeing, excited at the same time–tremendously excited…”
–Ellis Chan on July 19 1996, recalling The Brig

Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building is a larp about intimacy and community connection through kink, set in the underground gay men’s leather scene in the 1980s under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic.

When your most-familiar forms of sexual expression have become dangerous, alienating, unfamiliar can you learn to share your heart’s deepest fears and desires? At this bar the music’s pulsing beat and the burning heat of other men’s bodies call to you. Beautiful boy, when the clock strikes midnight are you going hard or going home?

In this larp players use a variety of embodied meta-techniques to stand in for BDSM play, reaching for the sensations and emotions their characters do. Play is an emotional mix of discovery and anxiety as characters decide how to re-enter BDSM while forsaking the exchange of body fluids.

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Salon du Larp House: Ready Set Switch playtest

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Ready, Set, Switch! A larp about collaborative identity

In Ready, Set, Switch! groups of players take turns playing the same character while multiple scenes play out in parallel, to explore some of the feelings and experiences, both negative and positive, that arise from discovering you exist in a plural system. How are you supposed to meet your goals, make friends, build relationships, when you’re missing out on 2/3rds of your own life?

“Plurality” is a type of neurodivergence where multiple people/identities/consciousnesses collectively share a single body, and a “system” is a common term to refer to this group. The characters are ordinary contemporary people living their lives in three everyday scenes, except that multiple players take turns portraying the same character in sequence. Players will switch between three concurrent scenes and have the experience as their charcaters of arriving in the middle of a situation they don’t recall starting. Keeping track of identities and meeting your goals will be a struggle at first, but it won’t last forever, once you meet the others you share your life with and learn how to work together.

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Larp House Presents: Til Death

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Members of The Addams Family clash with the seemingly ‘normal’ family of their daughter’s fiance, during the lead up to the wedding of a cross-cultural couple: An Addams and a Normal. Will the two families ever get along? Will the juveniles’ wedding aisle file be vile in-style or beguile as worthwhile?! They’re scary and they’re spooky-

Join us for a light-hearted romp with genuine feelings as you play two over-the-top families going through some serious culture shock. Experience family expectations, disagreements, and questioning what it means to be an outsider.

What

A satirical sit-com larp featuring The Addams Family

Duration: 4 hours. 30 minutes workshopping, 3.5hrs play.
Players: 16 to 32 players

Designed by Vivien Grimm and Meredith Mayes
Facilitated by Vivien Grimm
Admin support from Jon Cole

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Larp House Presents: Strangers

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Strangers: An Immigration Larp

Difficulties can arise when different cultures meet on uneven terms.

Two cultures in neighboring countries. Not friends and not enemies, each minding their own business. Then catastrophe hits one country, forcing the inhabitants to flee and seek refuge among their foreign neighbors.

Strangers is an abstract larp which uses physical methods such as signed concepts and simple movement routines to create two cultures and the feeling of belonging or not belonging to these. It aims to explore refugees trying to fit in, and the reactions among the people who they try to fit in amongst.

This acclaimed scenario by the genre-defining designer Nina Runa Essendrop has been the toast of European festivals and North American larp conventions. Known for her profoundly emotional  and movement-based games, we are thrilled to bring Nina’s Strangers to Minnesota for the first time!

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Larp House Presents: The Language of Bones

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The Language of Bones by July Pilowsky

Iluvenen was once a dark and nameless wilderness ruled by monsters. Then the noble heroes of the West came in their chariots, slew the monsters, and raised from the wilderness a great nation.

That is the story told in Iluvenen. The monster-kin, descended from the children of humans and monsters, are an inconvenient reminder of what the story fails to explain.

The Language of Bones is a game played in pairs. One person plays a monster-kin raising a monster from their grave with the power of dance, and the other plays their long-dead ancestor. Throughout gameplay, the monster-kin are able to speak, but the monsters cannot, because the language of bones is dance. This is a game about genocide, legacy, erasure, reclamation, and the complex fractures between ancestors and descendants.

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Final Playtest: Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building

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Join us on December 6, 2025

“I walked in there and I was absolutely terrified because everyone was in leather, head to toe. And I was the only one who was wearing Levis and a regular shirt. []…I was terrified, visually, at what I was seeing, excited at the same time–tremendously excited…”
–Ellis Chan on July 19 1996, recalling The Brig

Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building is a larp about intimacy and community connection through kink, set in the underground gay men’s leather scene in the 1980s under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Continue reading “Final Playtest: Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building”

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Salon du Larp House: Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building

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“I walked in there and I was absolutely terrified because everyone was in leather, head to toe. And I was the only one who was wearing Levis and a regular shirt. []…I was terrified, visually, at what I was seeing, excited at the same time–tremendously excited…”
–Ellis Chan on July 19 1996, recalling The Brig

Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building is a larp about intimacy and community connection through kink, set in the underground gay men’s leather scene in the 1980s under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Continue reading “Salon du Larp House: Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building”

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Salon du Larp House: Echo Caprese in The Silver Moon Directive

Echo Caprese in The Silver Moon Directive

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In the latest adventure in the Echo Caprese series, our intrepid detective is once again on the case against a shadowy corporate entity, tangled deep in the web when they are accidentally delivered the wrong datachip. It’s Act IV of V when Echo needs to use their hacked credentials to get the prototype out of the cybervault, but before that, they must make a stop at a district office to get the correct form. You work at or are otherwise present at this district office, and you have to make sure Echo Caprese gets that form. Otherwise how will the Player ever finish the game?

Echo Caprese is a comedy larp about the constraints of video game logic and the preposterous world of FMV adventure games. Continue reading “Salon du Larp House: Echo Caprese in The Silver Moon Directive”

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Rosenstrasse: Now On Kickstarter

The latest game in the War Birds series, Rosenstrasse is an immersive freeform tabletop game in the scenario festival tradition. Starting in 1933 Berlin, it explores marriages between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans during the rise of Nazism, culminating in the 1943 Rosenstraße protest. Rosenstrasse has been playtested by historians and Holocaust educators, has been played to critical acclaim at game festivals, and is now being made available as a ready-to-play publication. Please take a look at this important title!

Rosenstrasse: A War Birds Story of Love & Survival. Berlin: 1933 – 1943 on Kickstarter