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Hypnotic Roleplaying Webinar Audio Recording

by Brian David Phillips • September 23, 2012

On 23 September 2012, Brian David Phillips conducted an online guided meditation on HYPNOROLEPLAY: eXperiential Hypnosis and LARP/RPG Play via online webinar chat. The HYPNOROLEPLAY online webinar is an introduction to concepts related to hypnotically enhancing character identification and the experience of roleplaying games, live and table top. Of particular interest is the use of…

Reality Rendering RPG Hypnosis

by Brian David Phillips • September 22, 2012

Reality Rendering David Brager This piece was originally written and posted to his Srypnosis site by David Brager many years ago. It is reproduced here by permission. His roleplay related pieces were formerly archived on my old related site and since that site is now defunct, I have moved them here for obvious reasons. I…

Hypnotic Roleplaying with Hypno-RPG Adventuring

by Brian David Phillips • September 21, 2012

Hypno-Adventuring:Role Playing Games in Trance David Brager This piece was originally written and posted to his Srypnosis site by David Brager many years ago. It is reproduced here by permission. His roleplay related pieces were formerly archived on my old related site and since that site is now defunct, I have moved them here for…

SLEEP NO MORE = Interactive Drama LARP + Shakespeare + Absinthe + Orgy Masks with or without Gossip Girls

by Brian David Phillips • November 18, 2011

The folks at Punchdrunk (http://www.punchdrunk.org.uk/) have created an intriguing thrillride of an interactive drama production in Sleep No More (http://sleepnomorenyc.com/) which the very good folks at io9 have called LARP plus Shakespeare plus Absinthe plus Orgy Masks with a very strong reccommendation for folks to give it a go. Their full review can be found…

Beertown Interactive Theatre Experience

by Brian David Phillips • November 18, 2011

The folks at the Dog and Pony theatre troupe in Washington, DC, have created a fresh interactive theatre experience in their new production of Beertown that sounds like it is a real blast. See the review at http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/dog-and-pony-dcs-beertown-a-fun-place-to-visit/2011/11/14/gIQA5T2FMN_story.html for an intriguing look at this piece of interactive theatre. All the best, Brian

Dragon Age Redemption Trailer with Felicia Day

by Brian David Phillips • October 5, 2011

The live action trailer for the new Dragon Age game has been released so fanboys and fangirls can enjoy seeing fan favorite Felicia Day run around in Elven garb kicking demon butt. Told you. 🙂 – Brian

Captain Robert of Abney Park talks Steampunk and RPGs at the League of STEAM

by Brian David Phillips • September 30, 2011

Captain Robert (Robert Brown) of the steampunk band Abney Park (http://www.abneypark.com) visits the League of STEAM podcast to discuss the crossover of stampunk music with roleplaying games. The tabletop RPG, AIRSHIP PIRATES, was recently released and is based upon the music of Abney Park (I have my autographed copy in front of me, ooooh luvely…

One Word at a Time Improvisational Language Structure with Roddy McDowall and Carol Burnett

by Brian David Phillips • August 18, 2011

As many readers here know, I teach Communication as well as Acting at the university. One of the innovations I use in my English as a Foreign Language courses is a set of interactive games known as Improvisational Language Structures (ILS) which are a series of activities I have adapted from theatre games and improvisational…

Community Makes D&D Cool

by Brian David Phillips • February 5, 2011

Yet another special episode of Community kicks more than a whole lot of butt. Seriously, fun episode. Makes me want to get out the dice and play D&D again . . . perhaps we will too. See discussion of the episode at io9 at http://io9.com/#!5752137/how-community-exposed-the-world-to-the-imaginative-wonderland-of-dungeons–dragons. Seriously, really gets me goin’ on starting up some D&D…

Are Dragons gay, Phil?

by Brian David Phillips • January 28, 2011

They most certain are not and Moss should know. – Brian

D&D and the Tomb of Horrors Reunion and Massive Funness

by Brian David Phillips • January 9, 2011

Well, yesterday, Lorraine and I went over to our friend Michael’s to play a game of D&D with his wife Beatrice and our friend Tom who is visiting Taiwan for a week or two. Long ago – twelve years ago, actually – Tom was our DM for a Dungeons and Dragons game we had going…

DARK KAMELOT Live Action Roleplaying Game for New Year’s Day

by Brian David Phillips • November 16, 2010

DARK KAMELOT An Afternoon of Interactive Drama http://www.interactivedramas.info/tdarkkamelot1.htm directed by Brian David Phillips and Lorraine Phillips 1 January 2011, 3:00pm http://www.interactivedramas.info/tdarkkamelot1.htm followed immediately by Pot-Luck Dinner/Game Party 6:30pm-ish to whenever folks leave join us for costume roleplay fun in a Dark World of Arthurian Alternate History Weirdness An afternoon of improvisational interactive drama roleplaying games!…

The Big Bad Thyng

by Brian David Phillips • October 27, 2010

I just added more players to the cast list of THE BIG BAD THYNG for this weekend . . . there’s still some time to join us for this interactive drama live action roleplaying game costume party pot luck thingie . . . but please contact me soon. See http://www.interactivedramas.info/tbadthyng.htm for complete details. – Brian

THE BIG BAD THYNG 實境RPG (角色扮演遊戲真人版)

by Brian David Phillips • October 1, 2010

Please email director@interactivedramas.info with your character request for this upcoming THE BIG BAD THYNG Halloween-themed interactive drama session. You are more likely to get what your request if you sign up and confirm earlier rather than later. Chinese correspondence goes to lorraine@briandavidphillips.com (since it’s Halloween, we’re loosening things up so the session is open to…

Journal of Interactive Drama seeking Submissions

by Brian David Phillips • September 20, 2010

JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE DRAMA A Multi-Discipline Peer-Reviewed Journal of Scenario-Based Theatre-Style Interactive Drama Freeform Live Action Roleplaying Games Call for Papers The Journal of Interactive Drama is an online peer-reviewed journal on scenario-based interactive drama freeform live action roleplaying games which provides a forum for serious discussion of live roleplaying game theory, design, and practice. Two…

Paradise Lost photos Up . . .that was fun so let’s do it again!

by Brian David Phillips • September 19, 2010

Thank you to everyone who participated in the performance of PARADISE LOST our first official reboot scenario for the Taiwan Interactive Theatre Society after an overlong hiatus. Glad to hear you all enjoyed it. Congratulations to Michael Cheng for winning the Best Roleplayer Award and Beatrice Wang for snagging Best Costume! We had a blast…

Wasteland Weekend Roadwarrior Re-Enactors

by Brian David Phillips • August 31, 2010

Awesome and a half . . . take a whole bunch of fans of the Mad Max Road Warrior films, put ’em into costume, hack some cars, and you’ve got yourself an awesome looking experience . . . oh yes! WASTELAND WEEKEND looks like it’s got a whole lot of goodness goin’ on. See http://wastelandweekend.com…

Critical Strategies of LARP and Interactive Drama

by Brian David Phillips • August 23, 2010

Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montol present their paper on “Critical Strategies of LARP“ to the Nordic LARP Talks (http://nordiclarptalks.org): About the Presenters: Markus Montola (M.Soc.Sc.) has worked as a researcher both at University of Tampere and at Nokia Research Center, with role-playing and pervasive games as main research interests. Currently he is a doctoral candidate…

Introduction to Nordic Interactive Drama

by Brian David Phillips • August 1, 2010

Johanna Klojonen presents an Introduction to Nordic LARPs as her presentation at the Nordic LARP Talks conference. See http://nordiclarptalks.org for more. Honestly, I think the entire conference concept is absolutely inspiring . . . methinks it may even be something worth pursuing here – perhaps as an activity adjunct with the Journal of Interactive Drama at…

Zombies versus Humans . . . university LARPing goes viral

by Brian David Phillips • July 27, 2010

The Zombies versus Humans games have started picking up on even more university campuses . . . basically TAG (The Assassination Game) or Killer with a zombie twist . . . this is an excellent example of a game starting on one campus and picking up on others and then spreading all over the place.…

Interactive Drama? LARPing?

by Brian David Phillips • July 25, 2010

As you know . . . well, as regular readers know . . . I recently updated the Interactive Dramas webpages at http://www.interactivedramas.info and have posted a few announcements for upcoming events with the Taiwan troupe. So . . . what is this interactive drama stuff? Essentially, interactive drama is theatre-style live roleplaying games with an emphasis…

PARADISE LOST Interactive Drama (Live Action RPG) and PotLuck

by Brian David Phillips • July 23, 2010

PARADISE LOSTLei'd to Rest science fiction murder mystery whodunitfreeform interactive drama live action roleplaying scenario written by DeAnna Knippling adapted and directed by Brian David Phillips, Ph.D, C.H.18 September 2010, 6:30pm http://www.interactivedramas.info/tparadise.htm Aloha! The sun-drenched beaches of Planet Paradisio have been a paradise for millennia, isolated and exotic . . . long before the first human colonization…

FLASHTRAINS Interactive Drama (Live Action RPG) and PotLuck

by Brian David Phillips • July 20, 2010

F . L . A . S . H . T . R . A . I . N . SBending Reality, Twisting Minds an originalnear future cyberpunkish science fantasy gothic horrorfreeform interactive drama live action roleplaying scenario written by Brian David Phillips, Ph.D, C.H.27 November 2010, 6:30pm http://www.interactivedramas.info/tflashtrains.htm 27 Nov. 2023Today's USA Today had an interesting…

Star Wars Subway Car

by Brian David Phillips • July 16, 2010

I Hit it with my AXE as Porn Stars Play D&D

by Brian David Phillips • March 19, 2010

Let's see . . . like porn? Check, big time. Like Dungeons and Dragons? Check, big time. Like hypnosis? Check, uberbigtime. Hmmm, porn stars playing Dungeons and Dragons with a hypnotic twist? Now, THAT'S entertainment! "I Hit It With My Axe" via Escapist Magazine . . . Oh, "we're just cute little girls and we're sorry?" Yeah, right. "Featuring adult film performers Kimberly…