Tara Clapper

I’ve been writing, storytelling, and spellcrafting for decades, and many of you reading this have probably been doing at least one of those things for at least as long as I have. Maybe, like me, you’re also a human with an imperfect body telling imperfect stories and doing the best you can when you set your intentions into the universe. If you’re left-of-center like me in the US, you’ve probably run into this concept that perfection is compulsory in all that you do.

chariot larp Many of our friends and fellow larpers (live action role players) are familiar with CHARIOT LARP, our groundbreaking digital larp adventure. Since its initial launch, we’ve always wanted to run a significant in-person CHARIOT event. Now, we have the chance. We’ve partnered with Adventure Pub in Arlington, MA to run an in-person event – as we also run an event online.

The military has been using video games to help veterans with their recovery from physical and emotional trauma. To most gamers, this probably won’t come as a huge surprise: video games enable us to do what we can’t do in the real world; they provide us with an escape and permit us to make achievable benchmarks at our own pace.