Three folder is not so silly model .

larp need representation with simple model. Every art has is own language, it's intersting to make a similar language for reasoning.

 Let me present to you ACTION / PRETENDING / PERFORMING .

Seeking for a model don't have to blind you all of what are LARP actually. Even the three folder theory doesn't represent all kind of LARP : gamist, dramatist, and immersionist are emotions from which player obtain satisfaction.

The player is the brick from which the LARP is made.  Each player is spectator and actor : he sees "play act" of other players and make his acting out inside the game.

Acting out reflect a game of actions : taking account of what could be made. Constraint, relations, emotions and obtained result are "immersion part of action".

The organization of LARP gather constraint, relation, emotion into a character sheet. The story tall is an item for a player like rules for the gamist, like the feeling for the immersionnist and aim for the dramatist.

If you are character centric you can separate three melted themes :

ACTING , PRETENDING , and PERFORMING

ACTING : action inside a context given by the game of LARP, acting out inside a representation , a safe representation into a game (reading " Des jeux et des Hommes" ) 

• You can stop the action, it's during for a defined time, and an aim is the constraint.

PRETENDING : you pretend a role, not a character. The role is a structure made with dramatic mecanism and game rules and perhaps a insolite situation made by organization of the LARP.

• This constraint depend on the will of the player. The player decide how he pretends.

PERFORMING : you perform a "character" with his romance, his mood and what the player decide to perform into the "scenescape" : the stage.

• Playing act respect the psychology defined by the organization of the LARP and the player who is not a professionnal actor should respect it.

This three model representation is a view from the player. The organization should concentrate on these in order to qualify the LARP. And with this model , the LARPIST will succeed in the operation of a game. If they concentrate on GAME, DRAMA, and IMMERSION they sees the game as a fixed operation , they will try to control by invented rules and games laws.  But the rules of a character is playing out and living his fate no more needed to give a good LARP.

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