Category: couples
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Imagine, Build, Create Together – Getting Ready for Astra Larp (Full Moon Special #10)
Astra Larp, a twelve day pervasive larp designed and run by the co-alpha and I, starts in exactly seven days, on Wednesday, October 15th. As we near launch time (on the 15th, sometime during the morning), wrap everything that’s left to wrap (err… many things), the Full Moon will slowly start to wane and hide…
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I Could Be Larping, But… (13 Favourite Excuses)
In light of recent events (see bottom), I realized, all over again, that there are a ton of reasons people stay out of larping, be it their own choice or the random acts of life. Some of them deserve to be called excuses, though. Here are just a few, of both varieties. Let’s see where yours fit,…
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The Wolf Book of Larping for Couples (Three Years of Full Moons)
updated Oct 14th, 2017 The pack I used to belong to was a larping one through to its core, along with quite a few others among our friends, and that brought us both excitement and challenges unimaginable in our everyday lives. In this short ebook – a roundup of the Skirts ‘n’ Wolves first article…
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Venture out of the Game (Larping for Couples #8)
Just in case you thought couples who larp together do little to nothing else other than larp – here’s a recap of a member of such a couple’s opinion on the subject. Enjoy the last post in the Larping for Couples SnW series – and a special treat lined up to go live tomorrow, sometimes…
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GMing as a couple (Larping for Couples #7)
GMing – running a game – is altogether in itself a topic for another post series – and not even that could cover everything your players (or fate) might come up with. Here’s just a few tips (I swear, I’m going to have nightmares abut that phrase) for couples who GM together. The co-aplha and…
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Lovers, Friends and Foes (Larping for Couples #6)
There are couples who always play tightly connected lovers at larps, and couples who regularly end up on opposite sides in an ingame conflict. And then there are couples for which you can never guess what they’ll play on the next event. Nevermind which group you belong to, there are a few things to consider when preparing…
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Not Your Family Yurt (Larping for Couples #5)
A lot can be said about the social aspect of larping – and on the idea of, you know, larping as a couple. I’ve listed just a couple of things I seem to keep forgetting myself when larping – or hanging out with larpers, which happens often enough, too. #1 Your relationship is not your…
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Larping for Couples #4: The Heavy Stuff – Immersion, Bleed and PLD as a Shared Experience
Not everyone plays on the same emotional level. Stuff written here is just my take, since both the co-alpha and I like to play on deeper layers – but there’s differences even between the two of us. I really wouldn’t like anyone to get the wrong impression of larping because of something I wrote –…
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Larping for Couples #3: There’s Always Time for the First Time
If you’re new to the Larping for Couples article series on the SnW blog, you won’t be surprised by this article. If, however, you’ve already read some of the articles (listed at the bottom), you’ve already noticed that I assume both (and all) members of your relationship have been larping for some time – be it as…
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Larping for Couples #2: Everything = Talk!
Everything = talk is a tiny reference to Arrow’s Everything – breathe. I solemnly swear I’ll repeat the message of this post infinitely throughout the series – for a reason. #1 Talk before a game and after a game. I honestly cannot say which one is more important – because both are incredibly important. Talk before a game to…
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