Larp House Presents: Contrapposto

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

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Larp House Presents: I Say A Little Prayer

“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

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Documentation for Top Secret Admirer

Top Secret Admirer Drink List

  • Drone Strike
  • Manhattan Project
  • Blackberry Budget
  • HUMINT Julip

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

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The Lazy Guide to Larping

This weekend we have a guest post from Alex Roberts! When you think of live-action roleplaying, you might think of foam-padded weapons, vampire politics, or an evening of mystery with elaborate costumes. Those are well-known and popular styles of larp for a reason ? they?re a ton of fun! I encourage you to learn more about established forms of larp, and track down a local event! But what if, like me, you find a long-running game with elaborate setup more ?

Larp House Presents: Villa Air-Bel

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

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Larp House Presents: Top Secret Admirer

Top Secret Admirer is a [redacted] freeform larp about looking for love and intrigue in the intelligence community. The game is set at an exclusive singles event in Reston, Virginia.  Everyone attending has at least a Top Secret-level security clearance. Here, you might discover a little Nicholas Sparks or E.L. James in your usual Tom Clancy lives.

WHAT:A freeform larp for 3-8 players
Written by Daniel Eison and Sam Zeitlin
Organized by Arnold Cassell, Jon Cole, and Rebecca Gold

Presented by Larp House in partnership with the Macalester Gaming Society
WHEN:
7:00 pm — 9pm on Friday, February 12th
GENRE:
Light-hearted, dating, spy stuff

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Larp House Presents: Games Within Games

“When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage against him, your punishment will be that you find your suspicions true.”

—Elbert Hubbard

Two spies in Cold War Berlin circle each other in a mole-hunt. They betray each other’s trust and struggle with their inner demons.

Games Within Games centers on the fear and anxiety of two people who depend on anonymity and deception to avoid being killed. The two spies have the most to fear from each other. The person who they depend on most is the person whose betrayal would be the most shattering. This scenario is about vulnerable people concealing their weaknesses, and failing.

WHAT:A freeform larp playtest for 4 players

Written by Jon Cole and Kevin McIntyre

Organized by Jon Cole and Kevin McIntyre

Presented by the Larp House in partnership with the Geek Partnership Society

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