LARPs have gone far too long without equal representation.
Let’s change that together. By normalizing practices that bring attention to the lack of representation and inclusion in LARP, Tabletop, and other interactive storytelling mediums, we can encourage more diversity. If we proactively educate the creators that build fantasy, sci-fi, and other fictional worlds, we can create an environment that encourages and supports marginalized groups. The first step starts with your choice to pay attention, get involved, educate yourself and expect higher standards from game organizers. LARPing In Color strives to provide free resources for representation, a directory of diversity coaches, and quick tips on ways you can make your local LARP more inclusive.
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Wall of Diversity
Below you will find a gallery of photos submitted by LARPers of all kinds, all over the world. We are not one color, shape, or size, nor do we adhere to one preference in who or how we love, where we LARP, what beliefs we hold, or how we present ourselves. This gallery exists to show the vast diversity of people that participate in this fantastic hobby, and how unique we all are.
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Raven // I am a six year larp vet. Full time archer and some time sword wielder. My pronouns are she/her. I play Dagorhir as Master Assassin and Swordbrother Raven of House Nystrom; and Conflict of Ithea as Queen Artemis of Silverglade. I am also known as Raziya al Shiraziyya in the Kingdom of Meridies (SCA). All my personas are Persian based with elven flavor (minus SCA). I prefer medieval larps but I would like to try post apocalyptic larps or something more structured in nature. Mostly if I am able to use my archery equipment or a nerf gun! Anything team based and competitive. I network with people in the US and Internationally. It is what I enjoy the most about larp.
Acelin Low // My pronouns are they/them and my home LARP is a medieval fantasy game where I play a musical elf with a thing for eyeballs. I'm queer and nonbinary, and LARP has given me the space to explore.
Zwey Washerton -He/him // I dig fantasy larps specifically. I am a big guy, and would like to help get more plus size folks into kits that are both cost effective and actually fit.
Curtis J. Elwood. He/Him. // Doctor, Writer, Stuart of Positivity, Pacifist. Interdimensional Traveler of Nexuses. <3 The Magistrate. Get off my lawn.
Desany /Socials: @sirenvoyager (Instagram, fb, yt etc.) // My pronouns are She/Her. I run a LARP in Melbourne, Australia called "The Hobbit's Hoedown", a game focused on the wellbeing and support of others in and out of character. The setting is a Hobbit's Party that runs over the course of a weekend, it includes 7 meals a day, baking, brewing & craft competitions, party/lawn games and a big dance hall at night. I love mostly narrative focused LARPs, because I am intensely interested in collaborative storytelling. As an Asian woman it's been hard to feel like my voice has been heard in any LARP I've been part of. Creating my own meant creating space not only for myself, but for everyone else who might've felt similarly elsewhere. I've not seen women of colour in Director positions in LARPs, so I decided to be the one. As far as I know, I'm the first WoC to run a LARP in Australia. I hope it leads to more.
Quentin Stephens - He/Him I'm a Dystopia Rising LARPer, I'm currently the Visual Design Director for the Florida chapter. I'm also the co-creator of the Fantasy LARP Echoes of Eternity (we're hoping to do live games when it's safe)
Ulfric Adalwulf // I'm 34 and currently I play in a Medieval fantasy LARP.
Tara M. Clapper // she/her // I'm Tara, a disabled larper with multiple chronic (usually invisible) illnesses and creator of The Geek Initiative Larps, designing and running largely accessible digital / online live action experiences, always striving for inclusion. In the larger larp community, we can design for and achieve physically, emotionally, and financially accessible larps for the majority of people. It's my mission to remind others that pain is not always visible or even physical, and safety, empathy, and inclusion can create safer spaces for everyone.
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