Category: five by five
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Making Your First Larp Outfit (5×5 #13)
You’ve already been larping for a while, you’ve had your fill of improvised larping outfits, you’re ready for something more… something bigger… handmade outfits! Made by you, of course. What are you waiting for? One / The bare necessities #1 Dare, time and patience While starting out in making your larp outfits yourself, a step…
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When Things Go Boom in Larp (5×5 #8)
(Yeah, yeah, now I’ve got Leelo’s Badda Big Boom! in my head too, thank you very much.) The three weeks I’ve not written a word for the SnW blog had me writing 3-4 articles for work per week, on average, prepping and playing the second TESC larp event, sewing absolutely no seam I can recall and…
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Surviving the Experience of Running a Pervasive Larp (5×5 #7)
New month, new Monday – new compilation of 25 hints, tips and tricks about larping. Before we dig in, though, let’s just keep in mind that I’ve only played two pervasive larps so far and co-GMed one (Astra Larp) – so this is definitely just a start. Still, while the Astra experience is fresh, I…
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Let Your Outfit Collection Grow (5×5 #6)
Outfit collections for larping need love, lots and lots of love, and not a small amount of storage space. Once you’re slowly going to more events, and your first outfit doesn’t fit the characters you play any more, what are you going to do..? The approach to fantasy outdoor larping, or costume genre larping overall is as…
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Staying Inspired in Larping (Five by Five #5)
The currents of a larp scene flow steady and slow, and slow and steady stuff changes. From time to time there’s a boom (like what happened in Croatia couple of years back, due to a few wonderful enthusiasts), where the rest of us larping fish have to change direction in a matter of seconds, but most of the…
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Put Your Pack In a Tent And You’ll Be Fine (Five by Five #4)
For some reason, quite a few of my fellow larpers seem totally lost when it comes to getting and setting up a tent. While I’m by no means an expert, I do boast with an eye for correctly strung guy lines and an deeply ingrown allergy to touching the sides of your tent at any…
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A Quintet of Larping Prejudice (Five by Five #3)
Fighting prejudice about larp is something I never intended to do quite so obviously – but shit adds up. Three years of hearing and reading shit about larp – from muggles and larpers alike – is a lot of shit. So enjoy this monday roundup of – you know. Maybe a bit of it sticks if…
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Five by Five #2 – The Seams of Destiny a.k.a. Your First Larp Outfit
Recently there’s been a new influx of newbie players in the Croatian larp scene – or, to be honest, the influx has taken up again. There are things that new players think of that more experienced ones would never even imagine – more on the good than on the bad side, but still… One of…
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Five by Five #1 – Hungry Pandas a.k.a. Weekend Larps
Note: Five by Five is a new feature on Skirts ‘n’ Wolves, which will run on the first Monday of every month. I’m a huge lover of all sorts of lists, and larp-related ones fit right in. Come to think of it – got a great larp list idea? I’d love to hear about it…
Vesna Kurilic 