Minnesota roleplay collective
Just A Little Lovin’ – USA 2017
Nordic Larp in the United States
Just a Little Lovin’ is a live action roleplaying event about the gay scene in New York from 1982 through 1984, as the HIV/AIDS epidemic erupted.
Just A Little Lovin’ is a critically-acclaimed Nordic larp, coming to the USA for the first time on August 7th to August 12th 2017. The 6-day larp will be held near Minneapolis, Minnesota. Registration for the larp is open now through March 21st.
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
Documentation for Contrapposto by Andrew Larimer, a short larp about an art heist played in an actual museum.
Organized by Jon Cole for Larp House.
Played in the Minneapolis of Art in November 2016 for 3 players.
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
Documentation for College of Neraidology, a larp by ivan nevill about graduate students presenting their findings on local fairy activity, and Crow Funeral, a larp by Tim Hutchings
about opinionated crows discussing the cause of death of one of their number. You can click the title of each to find the rules text (College of Neraidology is part of the 200 Word RPG anthology).
Organized by Tom Fendt with 6 people on a gorgeous October day in St. Paul, MN.
We also have a video of Jon Cole Quintinius Lope’s dissertation on one of the local fairy inhabitants: sneeple (snake people). Check it out!
On a pleasant fall afternoon why not play 1 or 2 low key larps about paying attention to the outdoors?
Crow Funeral is about opinionated crows arguing the cause of death of a
member of their murder. If ever there’s doubt about who should be
speaking its everyone’s responsibility to go “hey! hey! hey!” until the
issue is resolved. What more draw do you need than that!
Royal College of Neraidology is about, well, its just 200 words have a read yourself:
Dear participant,
You have been invited to take part in a field trip to determine the nature of
faerie activity in a public garden, parkland or cultural site. You will be given one full hour to investigate the location and gather data.
Data may take many forms and we recognize that creative extrapolation is a key part of the scientific method in regard to neraidology. In particular, we
wish to know:
Once the hour is complete, all participants are expected to present their findings to each other and form a cohesive theory to present to the College. We expect that the work of all participants be given equal weight and
recommend rewarding yourselves with a picnic afterward.
We look forward to seeing your results,
Sincerely,
Sir Francis Cobblesworth
Dean of Neraidology
(Faerie Studies)
Continue reading “Larp House Presents: An Afternoon at the Park”
LARPSHACK is a group of amazing people interested in playing and promoting live action roleplaying in central North Carolina, with an emphasis on freeform, Nordic-inspired, and short-form parlor larp styles.
This community is being started by friends of Larp House, Kate Hill and Jason Morningstar. If you’re in the area, check ‘em out.
Also, we can’t help but take a little pride in their seemingly derivative name!