Performed combat
A game about pretending together
The sword is foam.
The courage is real.
A collection of small, changing games about the human work beneath fantasy play: committing to the bit, reading the room, and making an imagined world real for someone else.
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Currently in development
01 / The premise
Every epic battle has
a parking lot beneath it.
A knight is wounded. A ritual fails. Two rival houses meet. But look closer: someone missed a cue, a rule is remembered two different ways, and a friend is deciding whether to help or let the moment breathe.
on larping is interested in that second story—the generous, awkward, deeply human activity that makes the first one possible.
02 / Three layers, one scene
What happened
depends where
you were standing.
- In the fiction
A knight falls.
A poisoned blade. A ruined oath. The kingdom holds its breath.
I - In the performance
A friend misses the cue.
Was that a dramatic pause, a forgotten line, or a signal to step in?
II - Between the people
Someone makes room.
The heroic act is imaginary. The attention that makes it matter is not.
III
03 / How it plays
Not one big quest.
Many small acts
of belief.
Each scene finds a different way into the activity: performing, remembering, negotiating, waiting, crafting, interpreting, and recovering.
See where the game is atIncantation
Commit before you know who will join in.
Rules call
Choose what matters when no answer serves everything.
Scene rescue
Help without taking the story away.
A working principle
“Make-believe is not something we escape into. It is something we do for one another.”
The next scene is being built