I have to admit I have almost no experience with long-running LARPs. The norm here in Norway is for larps to be a single event, held once. To the degree that we have “campigns”, they often come in the form of a five-day larp every year or two years, usually set to a different in-game place and time from the previous time and with only some overlap between characters. So, in practice, they’re single serving larps with some continuity. When writing in English, I fall back on my Norwegian habits, so “a larp” usually refers to a single event, as does the Norwegian “laiv”.

But this blog has an international scope, so I hope you’ll feel free to comment on how different things discussed here apply (or don’t apply) to long-running LARPs.

rgrds,
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