Het Larporatorium

This amazing experiment began when the three of us started writing larps in our student time. Now a few years later we have managed to assemble this beautiful creation. 

The storytellers are reachable by email through info@dumpsterpyre.nl. 

We also have a Discord if you want to talk to us and your (future) fellow participants.

Mick

Ever since I started this hobby at 11 years old, I’ve loved exploring different perspectives in larps. I love stepping in someone else’s shoes and experiencing all the small moments that constitute their life. Immersion and emotion are the core draws of this hobby for me. If I’ve cried at least once at a larp, I’ve definitely had a good time.

I organise recurring larp de Kabouterlarp, and have organised many one-shot larps. As well as previous runs of Dumpster Pyre, of course. What unites them is a focus on “small” play and personal experiences. Characters are flawed and emotional people rather than problem-solving superheroes, and larger-than-life events (if present at all) exist to cause tension rather than to be solved.

Joost

I started writing larps eight years ago after an accidental brainstorming session. This escalated into running one-shot events for eight years. I really enjoy the collaborative writing process and the emergent storytelling in the larp genre and love to see ways to push the medium further.

I have worked on previous runs of Dumpster Pyre and written a variety of one-shot larps for my local group

Arnoud

I’ve been writing stories and settings for about 20 years, and running tabletop and larp games for about 10. I love deep-immersion play and the feeling of climbing into a complex different life when I tend towards meaningfully different choices than in my real life. Whatever I’m playing has to feel like a part of a world and make sense in its context.

I organise a monthly intrigue-and-drama chamber larp Countdown, previous runs of Dumpster Pyre and another larp oneshot. I’ve also contributed to a number of smaller scale larp-adjacent games. I’ve been running long-term tabletops consistently since 2015.