Diversity in LARP: Character Design, Tips & Practical Instructions – Die LARPzeit #88
What enriches a LARP? What exactly makes this hobby so unique, and what can we do to ensure that it remains diverse and always full of new discoveries? Your characters are at the heart of the stories: In this issue, we introduce you to a drow whose costume and backstory have been created with a lot of love. Caroline Zell also gives you an overview of the possibilities of playing with clichés and stereotypes to quickly make characters tangible.
In addition, this issue includes sewing instructions for a practical bottle bag, tips for young LARPers, and much more!
LARPzeit – Das Live-Rollenspiel-Magazin (September 2025 to March 2026) is published as a print magazine in 210 x 297 mm (8.27 x 11.69 inches) format, is produced in full color using high-quality offset printing, and has 80 pages.
Contents:
Tips
•Better LARPing: With a toddler at a convention – How it all began...
•LARP location: Interview with Sword and Magic – LARP locations with ambitions
•Better LARPing: Improvisational theater Part 4 – Clichés and archetypes
•Larp location: CVJM Feriendorf Herbstein – One site, many worlds
Do it yourself
•Cooking corner: Landsknecht cookbook – Strauben
•Sewing corner: Hand-sewn bottle bag – A practical companion for on the go
•Do it yourself: Light angel and arm candlestick – Aids for fighting in the dark
In conversation
•Column: Why do we LARP? – Conflicts in LARP
•Better LARPing: Stories from the Bard – “Reunion”
•Bardic Songs: A Trade – Winning Song from Thjallik's Bardic Contest – Tollgund 505
•Better LARPing: Choose your family! – A LARP experience report
•The path to a great convention: Organizing with an umbrella association – Advantages for organizers
•Questioned. Helmet requirement in LARP – Restriction or protection?
Concepts
•Character concept: Character highlight – Portrayal of a drow
•Larp concept: Interview with Vergessene Welten e.V. – An association with diversity
•Larp concept: Murder on the Orbit Express – A corpse for dessert in space
•Larp concept: Camp of the Epic Empires – Camp of the Elves
•Larp concept: 25 years of the Quiriner Warrior Academy – A quarter of a century of fighting spirit and camaraderie
•LARP concept: The Border Guard – Season opening in style
Events
•Con report: Tollgund 2025 – Cohesion and adventure
•LARP International: Language as adventure – Communication in LARP
•Con report: The Chronicles of Ebenfels 2.2 – Under the Thunder Dome
•Con report: Murder, Magic, and Carrots – The World of the Condemned in a Gothic Setting
•Larp International: Krigslive – A Danish Combat LARP
•Con Report: Kwenn V – A Heart of Kyber
Scope: 80 pages
Language: German
Scope of delivery: 1x magazine LARPzeit #88
