Leaving Mundania (37 page)

6
. Daniel Martin and Gary Alan Fine, “Satanic Cults, Satanic Play: Is ‘Dungeons & Dragons' a Breeding Ground for the Devil?,”
The Satanism Scare,
James T. Richardson, Joel Best, and David G. Bromley, eds. (New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1991), 109.

CHAPTER 9: LARP AS TRAINING TOOL

1
. Stephen Balzac, “Reality from Fantasy: Using Predictive Scenarios to Explore Ethical Dilemmas” from Schrier, Karen, and David Gibson, eds.
Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values Through Play
(IGI Global, 2010), 291–310.

CHAPTER 12: A WEEK IN DENMARK

1
.
www.danceaffair.com
.

2
. Doubt (2007) by Fredrik Axelzon and Tobias Wrigstad is available for download at
http://jeepen.org/games
, Accessed Nov. 2011.

3
.
www.nordiclarptalks.org
, Accessed Nov. 2011.

4
.
http://fate.laiv.org/in_fate.htm
, Accessed Nov. 2011.

5. Peter Munthe-Kaas,
“System Danmarc” Nordic Larp,
Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros, eds. (Stockholm: Fea Livia, 2010), 214.

CHAPTER 13: KNUDEPUNKT BLEW MY MIND

1
. Bjarke Pedersen, “Delirium,”
Nordic Larp,
288–297.

2
. Tor Kjetil Edland, Trine Lise Lindahl, and Margerete Raaum, “Mad About the Boy,”
Do Larp: Documentary Writings from KP2011,
(Copenhagen: Rollespilsakademiet, 2011), 92–107.

3
.
http://nordiclarptalks.org/post/576668918/introduction-to-nor-dic-larp
, Accessed Nov. 2011.

4
. Dogma 99 manifesto is available here:
http://fate.laiv.org/dogme99/en/dogma99_en.htm
, Accessed Nov. 2011.

5
. Turku manifesto by Mike Pohjola is available here: www2.uiah.fi/~mpohjola/turku/manifesto.html, Accessed Nov. 2011.

6
. Eirik Fatland,
“1942
-
Noen a stole pa,” Nordic Larp,
90–99.

7
.
http://playgroundmagazine.net
, Accessed Nov. 2011.

8
. Emma Wieslander, “Rules of Engagement,”
Beyond Role and Play: Tools, Toys and Theory for Harnessing the Imagination,
Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros, eds. (Helsinki: Ropecon ry, 2004), 181–186.

9
. Ibid., 183.

10
. Jaakko Stenros,
“Mellan himmel och hav,” Nordic harp,
158–167.

EPILOGUE

1
.
www.techspot.com/news/43696-the-us-legally-recognizes-video-games-as-an-art-form.html
and
http://arts.gov/grants/apply/AIM-presentation.html
, Accessed Nov. 2011.

2
.
http://playgroundrole-playingmagazine.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/u-s-funds-doomsday-scenario
, Accessed Nov. 2011.

3
. Jaakko Stenros, “Nordic Larp: Theatre, Art, and Game,”
Nordic harp,
312, caption.

FURTHER READING

Bowman, Sarah Lynne.
The Functions of Role-playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems, and Explore Identity.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.

Brown, Stuart, with Christopher Vaughn.
Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul.
New York: Avery, 2009.

Caillois, Roger.
Man, Play and Games.
Tr. Meyer Barash. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1958.

Fine, Gary Alan.
Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Gilsdorf, Ethan.
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2009.

Horwitz, Tony.
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War.
New York: Vintage, 1999.

Huizinga, Johan.
Homo Ludens.
Oxon, UK: Routledge, 1949.

Mackay, Daniel.
The Fantasy Role-playing Game: A New Performing Art
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.

Montola, Markus, and Jaakko Stenros.
Nordic Larp.
Stockholm: Fëa Livia, 2010.

KNUTEBOOKS

Andresen, Lars, Charles Bo Nielsen, Luisa Carbonelli, Jesper Heeboll-Christensen, eds.
Do Larp: Documentary Writings from KP2011.
Copenhagen: Rollespils Akademiet, 2011. http:// rollespilsakademiet.dk/kpbooks.

Bøckman, Petter, and Ragnhild Hutchinson, eds.
Dissecting Larp: Collected Papers for Knutepunkt 2005.
Oslo: Knutepunkt 2005, 2005.
http://knutepunkt.laiv.org/kp05
.

Donnis, Jesper, and Morten Gade Line Thorup, eds.
Lifelike.
Copenhagen: Projektgruppen KP07, Landsforeningen for Levende Rollespil, 2007.
www.liveforum.dk/kp07book
.

Fritzon, Thorbiörn, and Tobias Wrigstad, eds.
Role, Play, Art: Collected Experiences of Role-playing.
Stockholm: Föreningen Knutpunkt, 2006.
www.jeepen.org/kpbook
.

Henriksen, Thomas Duus, Christian Bierlich, Kasper Friis Hansen, and Valdemar Kolle, eds.
Think Larp: Academic Writings from Kp2011.
Copenhagen: Rollespils Akademiet, 2011.
www.rollespilsakademiet.dk/kpbooks
.

Holter, Matthijs, Eirik Fatland, and Even Tomte, eds.
Larp, the Universe and Everything.
Oslo: Knutepunkt 2009.
http://knutepunkt
.laiv.org/2009/book.

Gade, Morten, Line Thorup, and Mikkel Sander, eds.
As Larp Grows Up: Theory and Methods in Larp.
Copenhagen: Projektgruppen KP03, 2003.
www.liveforum.dk/kp03_book
.

Larsson, Elge, ed.
Playing Reality: Articles on Live Action Role-playing.
Stockholm: Interacting Arts, 2010.
www.knutpunkt.se/book
.

Montola, Markus, and Jaakko Stenros, eds.
Beyond Role and Play: Tools, Toys and Theory for Harnessing The Imagination.
Helsinki: Ropecon ry, 2004.
www.ropecon.fi/brap
.

____
.
Playground Worlds: Creating and Evaluating Experiences of Role-playing Games.
Helsinki: Ropecon ry, 2008.
http://2008.solmukohta.org/index.php/Book/Book
.

Raasted, Claus, ed.
Talk Larp: Provocative Writings from KP2011.
Copenhagen: Rollespils Akademiet, 2011.
www.rollespilsakademiet.dk/kpbooks
.

US-BASED LARP GROUPS

Camp HalfBlood—
http://web.mac.com/camphalfblood/Camphalfblood.com

Dagorhir—
www.dagorhir.com

Dystopia Rising—
www.dystopiarising.com

Knight Realms—
www.knightrealms.com

LAIRE—
www.laire.com

NERO—
www.nerolarp.com

One World By Night—
http://oneworldbynight.org

CONVENTIONS

Double Exposure (runs DEXCON and DREAMATION)—
www.dexposure.com

Fastaval—
www.fastaval.dk

Intercon—
http://intercon.larpaweb.net

Lunacon—
www.lunacon.org

Wyrd Con—
www.wyrdcon.com

Solmukohta—
www.solmukohta.org

OTHER RESOURCES

Dance Affair—
www.danceaffair.org

Fëa Livia—
www.fealivia.se

The Forge Forums—
www.indie-rpgs.com/forge

International Journal of Role-play—
http://journalofrole-playing.org

Jeep or Vi Aker Jeep (We Go by Jeep)—
http://jeepen.org

LARP Alliance—
www.larpalliance.net

LARPA—
www.larpaweb.net

Nordic Larp—
http://nordiclarp.wordpress.com

Nordic Larp Talks—
http://nordiclarptalks.org

RPG.net—
www.rpg.net

RPGA—
www.wizards.com/rpga

Shade's LARP List—
www.larplist.com/list.php

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH SOURCES CONSULTED

Anglo, Sydney.
Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

Baker, Simon, and Hillary Hinds, eds.
The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama.
London: Routledge, 2003.

Bergeron, David M.
Practicing Renaissance Scholarship.
Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2000.

Fine, Gary Alan.
Shared Fantasy: Role-playing Games as Social Worlds.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Haynes, Alan.
The White Bear: Robert Dudley, the Elizabethan Earl of Leicester.
London: Peter Owen, 1987.

Hollander, John.
An Entertainment for Elizabeth: English Literary Renaissance Monographs, vol. 1.
Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, 1972.

Kipling, Gordon. “Wonderfull Spectacles: Theater and Civic Culture.” From
A New History of Early English Drama.
John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 153-171.

Palmer, Daryl W.
Hospitable Performances: Dramatic Genre and Cultural Practices in Early Modern England.
West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1992.

Parry, Graham. “Entertainments at Court.” From
A New History of Early English Drama.
195-211.

Reay, Barry.
Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750.
New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.

Schechner, Richard.
Performance Studies: An Introduction.
London: Routledge, 2002.

Shaw, Catherine. “‘Some Vanity of Mine Art': The Masque in English Renaissance Drama,” from
Jacobean Drama Studies,
James Hogs, ed. Austria: Institut Für Anglistik un Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1979.

Victor, Jeffrey S.
Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend.
Chicago: Open Court, 1993.

Weimann, Robert.
Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Arneson, Dave,
40–41

Ars Amandi
,
219–21

Assassins' Guild,
47
,
148

Atzor larp,
38–39

Avatar System larp,
3
,
7–8
,
10–18

Axelzon, Fredrik,
204

Balzac, Stephen R.,
147–54

Beaman-Martinez, Kate (Cody),
8–9
,
13
,
16–17

Bean, Rob,
51
,
53–54

bleed,
122–23
,
204–5

boffers and boffer games,
xiv
,
46–47
,
70–71
,
129–30

Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons (BADD),
94
,
95
,
96

Braunstein game,
40

Brian (closeted gamer, pseudonym),
102–5
,
216

Bruun, Jesper,
197

CACTF (Combined Arms Collective Training Facility),
141–43

campaign larps,
xiii
,
55
,
70–71
,
162–63

Camp HalfBlood,
226

character development: in campaign larps,
71
,
162–63
; in Nordic larp,
197–98
,
200
,
222
; prewritten characters,
176–81
; process of,
13
,
51–53
,
75
,
111–13
; in SCA vs. larp,
43–44

character-driven plots,
61

Christian fundamentalists,
96–97

Combat Lifesaver Training,
137–39

Condon, Brody,
228

cosplay,
174

costuming,
113
,
119–20
,
127
,
133
,
163–64
,
174
,
215