Tabletop Office Hours with Dr. Emily Friedman - Week 13: What is LARP? (playing THE ARCHIVE)
Channel: Critical Prof
Date: 2023-11-10

This fall, as I have for the last several years, I am teaching a college course on Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Narratives. www.ecfriedman.com/gamecourse  My students play games in and out of class, watch Actual Plays, do scholarly reading and research, talk to all kind of folks involved in TTRPGs, and ultimately, get to design their own final "UnEssays."

It's an active learning classroom, so when students are absent, there's no lecture to go back and watch. So in the past, I've come home, recorded short recaps, & posted them on this channel. My students didn't use them much, but many of my fellow educators (and awesome TTRPG nerds) did.

This time, I'm trying something a little different: I'll be recording my recaps live (usually about 15-20 minutes), and answering any questions I've gotten on my socials, in comments, or from chat.

Today I'll be recapping our play-through of recent Golden Cobra Challenge larp THE ARCHIVE, which crams THIRTY prior games into its experience of being archeologists & archivists asking the question: What WAS LARP?