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Larper, role-player and data guy.

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I'm going to be serialising some of the old A.I. assisted Quarter Crown Chronicles stories from Empire LRP that can't make it back onto the field over on Dreamwidth if anyone wants to read along? I'm starting with the work that inspired it all... Olyvar's Dangerous Path - Baths of Betrayal

05.02.2025 21:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The BMJ journal Archive of Disease in Childhood has just published the epidemiological study done by York university that was commissioned as part of the Cass review into gender clinics in the UK.

It contains some STARTLING (and yet, unsurprising) revelations. 1/n

29.01.2025 05:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 821    ๐Ÿ” 404    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 62
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Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House President Donald Trump has hinted at the possibility of somehow serving a third term in office.

Well, that was faster than I expected.
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/t...

24.01.2025 20:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Transformative Role-playing Game Design | Scholarly books from Uppsala University Publications This textbook describes theory and practice in analog role-playing game (RPG) design that encourage specific transformative impacts in participants, including tabletop, live action role-playing (larp), and Nordic and American freeform. We describe three types of transformative RPGs: transformative leisure, therapeutic, and educational. We present our model of nano-game design, offering recommendations for designing transformative goals; framing activities such as workshops and debriefs; narrative and culture design.

Potentially of interests of plenty of RPD designers and therapists here:

The Transformative Role-playing Game Design textbook is now available for download and print on demand!

books.uu.se/uup/catalog/...

24.01.2025 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've just read a few bits about the Magic the Gathering set and I'm strangely drawn to the idea of a plane hopping magical death race set in the MTG universe. D&D would be funny, but only really does the fighting well and you kind of want the politics and the relationships too. Maybe something PBTA?

22.01.2025 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Westminster is debating PR on 30th January. Tell your MP to be there. Over 21 million votes cast in 2024 were ignored or wasted. After the most disproportionate election ever, there is a crucial parliamentary debate on 30th Jan on changing the voting system. Donโ€™t let ...

Over 21 million votes cast in 2024 were ignored or wasted. After the most disproportionate election ever, there is a parliamentary debate on 30th Jan on changing the voting system.

Donโ€™t let your MP sit this one out - demand they attend to support fair votes and Electoral Reform.

21.01.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, that's cool. I'll check them out.

16.01.2025 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I dunno, if you made using a phone app that let you push info and plot to people you might be able to do it. Going low tech is actually one of the big limiting factors in fantasy larp.

14.01.2025 21:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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