On a recent car-trip we mulled over the question: What if great literary writers of the last 200 years had penned Twilight? For starters, Cormac McCarthy's version would begin with necrophilia.
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There are infinity-jillion roleplaying games, but you can talk about all of them using just three words: gamism, simulationism, narrativism. Find out what these mean and more in the first post in my "Larp Theory for Laypeople" series, in which I read the classics so you don't have to.
... Read MoreEthan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms has endorsed Leaving Mundania. Lizzie Stark isn’t afraid to walk the goblin walk, talk the in-character talk, wear the make-up, and wield the boffer sword. With verve, wit and candor, Leaving Mundania provides [...]... Read More
The experts guide you through the sticky wicket of character creation in this first-timers guide.
... Read MoreEsteemed game designer and sci-fi author Greg Costikyan had some kind words for Leaving Mundania: [Stark] shows us what larp is, from the inside — playing long-term boffer larps, staging her own theatrical larp, and journeying to the Nordic countries– to show us the compelling theater/game hybrids that the intellectual and even scholarly communities have [...]... Read More
My grandmother has a 149-year old piece of cheese. This, and other tales of culinary heirlooms and the agrarian utopias they evoke, at least for the Stark household.
... Read More"Larp" sounds weird and gets a bum rap from pop culture. But you should use it anyway. Viva la "larp"!
... Read MoreI’m delighted to announce that Samuel Freedman, author of six meticulously-researched nonfiction books, including Letters to a Young Journalist, has endorsed Leaving Mundania. He writes: No reader could ask for better company than Lizzie Stark for a fascinating trip through the looking glass and into the subculture of larp. Stark gives us both the magic [...]... Read More
Behold! The cover of Leaving Mundania has been unveiled. Release date is May 1, 2012. Feel free to mark your calendars.... Read More
