Playstyle of Gothic
Our larp is a place for collaborative storytelling. Rather than trying to best our co-players, we aim to engage in mutually fulfilling play. This means there will be situations in which you will come out on top and others where your role will be to suffer a dramatic loss. The most gratifying stories are a good mix of failure and success.
Dos
- Slowly escalate into physical touch.
- State your boundaries in negotiations
- Say “Yes and”…
- Use the safety and game mechanics provided by the organisers.
- Respect your co-players for who they are.
- Involve people in your play.
Don’ts
- Touch people who haven’t indicated their enthusiastic and ongoing consent.
- Use any safety or game mechanics NOT in the game design.
- Exclude players based on their physical appearance, quality of costume, age, or gender.
Violence, intimacy and other intense play will always be opt-in and therefore we ask our players to slowly escalate these scenes (using escalation and deescalation mechanics). We will workshop and make space for pre-negotiation, all parties involved must always be comfortable to end the scene or to call for a calibration.