Programme 2025

Speed dating

(in English and in French)First Night Speed Dating at BEta Larp is the perfect opportunity to break the ice, have a laugh, and connect with the roguelike community in a great atmosphere. Whether you're here to expand your social circle,...

Memento

(In French) The grandfather·mother is dead. He·She was hardly unanimous in his·her family, which is now reunited by his·her death. There's the remorse, the resentment, the unspoken words and the explosions of the past; there's what we've kept quiet, what...

Larp Quiz

(In French) For the 3rd year running, the Larp Quiz is back to make you laugh! Fun| Lux Saturday, November 15, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

De l’usage du meme pour transformer le blues post-GN en fun post-GN

(In French) The use of LARP server discords has become widespread, and with it a certain pre- and post-LARP community life, often much more so than on Facebook. And what happens in a community? Memes! Funny, tragic, acidic, or sometimes...

“On-Site Player Support”, un modèle pour les safers et les safe rooms

(In Fench)In Belgium, we call them “Safers” and say that their role is “emotional security”. But in truth, Safers often find themselves taking on a multiplicity of roles: there's emotional support, of course, but they'll also find menstrual protection or...

Introduction à l’antifascisme pour la communauté GNiste

(In French)We're in a complex political situation, whether in France or Belgium, with the rise of fascism. What is fascism? What is anti-fascism? How do you implement this in your organizations? In your games? Here's an overview of what we're...

Larp Awards

(In French)You dreamed of it? We did it. Here is the third edition of the Larp Awards, where we humorously and unpretentiously present the Belgian (and French-speaking) Larp Awards, based on your votes. Whether it's Best Documentation, Best Logistics, or...

How to train your larp: faire d’une idée de jeu un projet construit

(In Fench) There's no shortage of ideas for LARPs! A medieval fantasy political LARP, an alien convention in hiding, or a dance marathon—there's plenty to choose from! But a good idea is like a baby dragon: if you don't train...

“Je préfère qu’on reste ami·es” – Let’s be friend instead

(In English)This talk will discuss the difficulty of organizing LARPs with friends and the even greater difficulty of stopping organizing LARPs with friends, to avoid them no longer being friends afterwards. Among other things... Conférence| Justine Saturday, November 15,...

PMR + surdité en GN, c’est POSSIBLE !

It is highly likely that you have encountered me in LARP. It is also highly likely that you have wondered how to include a deaf, hard of hearing, or disabled person in LARP. This interactive conference is designed to raise...

On échange nos personnages ?

(In French) What if players swapped characters during the game? Once you've received your instructions, take on several characters in a mini-scenario over the course of an hour. Afterwards, a debriefing will allow us to look back on the activity...

Drag in Larp : Retour d’expérience

(In Fench) Why do LARP in drag, how does it work, and what is it like? A look back at four games for a drag queen. Conference| Damien / Cendorine Sunday, November 16, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Opening lecture

(In English and in Fench) The team of volunteers organizing BEta Larp 2025 will kick things off. To whet the appetite of curious minds and set the tone, several experiences and concrete examples will be presented to illustrate what the...

LARPing Down Under Voices from Australian LARP

I went to Australia and lived to tell the tale! Well – barely. My personal “Australian LARP experience” consisted of three short sessions as an NPC and one as a player... Hardly the stuff you could write ethnographies from. So...

Reflection on a player’s journey

(In Engels)In this talk I'd like to invite you to reflect on the transforming experiences players can go through when venturing from beginner to seasoned, through different kinds of LARPs, through different countries and LARP cultures amd perspectives. Conference|...

Playing for Resilience: Building Communities and Hope in Palestine through LARP

This speech explores the journey of building communities, hope, and resilience in Palestine through Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) and games. It reflects on the struggles faced in creating and sustaining such a community—challenges of resources, recognition, and the realities of...

Playful Palestinian Workshop With Seen Network

Join Seen Youth Network for a playful and interactive workshop that brings people together through the joy of games and storytelling. In this session, participants will experience tiny LARPs and Palestinian mini-games, designed to spark imagination, laughter, and connection. Through...

Discord or Facebook? Neither, you moron!

A multilingual brawl on where to recreate the larping community, by Anne Marchadier and Mo Holkar With the enshittification and growing right-wingisation of FB, the larping communities have been split, between those staying on because there is not one platform...

Informal talk on Play Energy

Please help Dutch larp designer Karijn figure some things out for a theory she's working on! Play energy (spelenergie) is the way attention goes around during a larp, and relates to things like playing to lift, player burnout and sharing...

Formation BWAT

(In French)Take advantage of BEta Larp to brush up on your knowledge of the Belgian Weapon Approval Team - the BWAT! The different types of LARP weapons will be discussed, and their respective safety criteria explained. You'll also have the...

Poissonnière, morue et mégère : du typecast à la zone de confort ?

(In French)When your friends rightly complain about being trapped in the roles of young, romanceable girl, but you've been stringing together those of Gargouillax, Princess Gargouille for years, where's the line between typecast orga and personal fear of coming out...

Speed dating générationnel

(in French)Transforming the industry also means seeing the orgas teams change from year to year. But there's no denying that there's a gulf between a generation of organizers who have a wealth of experience but no longer launch games, and...

Pourquoi vous ne devriez pas utiliser d’IA pour vos jeux

(In French)The use of LLMs is growing in society, and all the more so in the world of LARP. But this use is not without its problems, be they social, environmental, technical or otherwise. Here's a brief overview of why...

Sculpter les histoires : le GN en tant qu’objet culturel et artistique

(In French)Life-size role-playing has always been at the heart of a wide range of artistic practices, from writing to set design, costume design to music. It is, by its very nature, on the borderline between improvisational theater and identification play....

En finir avec l’hétéromance

(This workshop about diversity in romance is open to English speaking people) What to make of the well-established concept of “romance” in today's LARP? How can we reflect the diversity (homo, bi, trans, non-binary, ace, ...) of orientations and identities?...

Designing for hope in a hopeless world

When we're talking about larping for transformation, it feels like the focus is far too often on the experiences lived through suffering. We change perspectives by embodying stories that give us insights in why people commit horrible acts, in how...

La langue des signes : une langue vivante en transformation perpétuelle !

(In French)With the ultimate aim of making LARP accessible to deaf signers, I invite you to transform your view of sign language and start learning it through this participatory conference! Everyone's heard of sign language. But do you know the...

Produire de la fête, de la violence, de l’intimité : une diatribe sur le travail invisible

(In French) En Anglais, on appelle ça un « pet peeve » : un sujet duquel on ne résiste jamais à se plaindre. Moi, c’est la production d’affects en GN. On dit qu’on veut une fête; mais qui >produit< la fête ?...

TechnoLarp : objets de jeu interactifs à portée de toustes (In French)

(In French)Following our first presentation of Technolarp at BEtaLarp 2021, we're back with a finalized project. TechnoLarp is a "turnkey" device design project aimed at making it possible for any organizer to integrate interactive game objects or scenery into their...

Larp and intimacy : transformative play in sex larps

I'll be presenting a collection of testimonials and feedback from participants and organizers of events combining larp with sensuality and/or sexuality. Mystery, and often rejection, surrounds these events, which are often organized on a confidential basis. Many people talk about...

What if ? Deux runs d’un GN – deux ambiances

(In French)Have you ever finished a LARP and thought “What if I'd done it differently...?” Or “Why did the group go off in this direction?” “At what point did the collective scenario branch off this way?” Have you ever rewatched...

The improvised Workshop

Let's have an improvised workshop! What will it be about? No idea! The workshop will literally be improvised for its entirety, and it will grow and adapt according to the needs, wishes and input of the participants. We'll be co-creating...

Playrasmus : sois le héros de ta propre histoire !

(In French) This is feedback on an Erasmus + project carried out at the secondary school in the Paris suburbs where I teach French. The initial idea was to enable pupils who had more or less broken away from the...

Initiation au GN par l’escrime ludique

(In French)La Riddle of Steel has been organizing scripted sessions for several years now. In this way, we introduce potential new players to the world of LARP. The workshop introduces the concept and puts it into practice by putting ourselves...

À quoi servent les règles ? Divagations théoriques de game design

From Mass Larp and its skill sheets to Romanesque "without rules" but with a few anyway, let's reflect on the recent evolutions of these formats, and try to understand what the rules are for in a LARP! Round Table|...

Et si j’ai pas envie d’être le héros de ma propre histoire ?

(In French)We've all heard it, everywhere and at every moment, in the world of role-playing, whether on the table or in one LARP: every PC must be the hero/heroine of his/her own story! And why not, the good guy of...

Générer de meilleurs conflits

(In French)Generating memorable conflicts that involve and have meaning for several people, and that arouse lasting emotions in-game, is not something that happens “by chance”. Increasing the interest and frequency of these conflicts in LARP is a skill that can...