We hear that sssome people are jusst dissscovering that freeform larping exissts.
Yessssss
The Golden Cobra Challenge hass a huge wealth of material dating back to 2014 waiting for those who dare.
Download and try a larp.
You might like it?
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goldencobra.org
Every RPG is a one-page RPG if you only read one page of it
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One of our co-foundersss has a number of larpsss you need to try!!
@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social crows and @goldencobra.bsky.social hisses approvingly and @jmstar.bsky.social is now crowned with fresh laurels.
To turn to LARP coverage is to get into a part of the hobby even more complexly-related to capital (to put it mildly!) so I’m … paying attention.
Correct!!
GOOD DAY
January is the month you should gather in small groups and
PLAY GOLDEN COBRA GAMESSS
Peruse the many entriess here:
www.goldencobra.org
Fight Truck isss Golden Cobra 2015
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This came in during an intense production week so I completely missed it, but my first little LARP got an honorable mention in the Golden Cobra Challenge! You can read it, and many other amazing short LARPS, on their website!
Congrats to all! Especially to 2025 MAS author Peter Hagmann on the win!
Check out all this cool art! I have so much reading material now to prepare me for next year!
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WHAT? @goldencobra.bsky.social invented a special category...for me?! I'm FLOORED. Thank you!
Woo it was a joy to judge for the Golden Cobra Challenge this year!
(Also this might be the first time I’ve live presented a game award? I want to do this more often…)
super congratulations to @luckoftheharbor.com on her Honorable Mention!!!
Omfg I got an honorable mention!! I'm so freaking hyped!! I wrote Final Commencement 🎓
Thanksssssss to the judgesssssssss and congratssss to all the winnerssssss
I want to play this for my next book. And I’m scared to.
Congratssss to all the winnerss, and please participate in our shared month of #GoldenCobraPlay in January 2026!
goldencobra.org
* Game We're Most Excited About
Together, We Are Infinite by Chelsea Riexinger
"Together, We Are Infinite is a celebration and reframing of a ... friendship absent from many adult lives, a life-affirming friendship that maybe we actually need. [It] may spark the embers of that sort of friendship."
* Game The Credit-Card Processors Would Flag For Possible Licentious Content
The Bonds of Fate by Aidan Dawn
"Bonds of Fate is not *exactly* pornographic, just y'know edging that way. Players must physically rope themselves together and then contend with unaddressed issues..."
* Game That Brings Community History Alive
These Walls Talk, Too by Gabe Sopocy
"We invented an award category for this game, since it invited so much intrigue and discussion. A charming all-around entry to a very specific community history by way of embodying walls that gossip."
* Game That Celebrates Play For Its Own Sake
Glory to the Dwarves! by Rob Prag
"Toasting and boasting turn out to be really fun! In Glory to the Dwarves, players take on the roles of dwarves from 3 clans who will naturally create a bustling atmosphere of a medieval fantasy tavern."
* Best Game That’s Easy to Pick Up and Play
Our Tiny Dragon's Tiny Hoard by Peter Hagmann
"We are going to drag this game under our couch and add it to the hoard of larps we want to play. This game is cozy, evocative, whimsical, and a little heartbreaking..."
* Game That Best Incorporates Connection and Community
A Farewell to Kinfolk by Alexander Trott
"The depth of communal worldbuilding and rich emotional potential make the star of this game not the intrepid Youth with an important calling, but the community of Kinfolk that supports them."
Honorable Mentions
Final Commencement by Francine Wildt
Gods of Nothings by Shing Yin Khor
LOOP GAIN by Lin Codega
Our Queenblessed Bodies by Natalie Pudim
Paranormal Parasocial by Hazel Anneke Dixon
WE WILL NOT SPEAK OF THIS by Allison Rassmann
Find them here: www.goldencobra.org/submissions2...
Ssssssss -- The 2025 Golden Cobra Challenge winners announced at Metatopia:
(Thread)
IF YOU ARE THERE AND LIVE THEN QUIT LOOKING AT YOUR PHONE BECAUSSE THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THE THREAD
There are live physsical people at Metatopia presenting the awardsss thiss year.
sssssss tesssting tesssting sssss *mic tap*
