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Useful Websites

General LARP

Marcus’s Tripod Site – the original Blades website, with all the original silliness.
LARP Hacks – Tumblr where people can ask questions on any larp subject and get useful answers.
Ladies Who LARP – A celebration of Ladies Who LARP. Includes such things as how to make make-up stay put for a day in the field.
Gamesmastery 101 – Technically about tabletop but a lot of the articles can be extrapolated to larp.
access:LARP – A relatively new group working on accessibility issues (physical and mental) in LARP and how to resolve them, both for organisers and players.
larprambles – Thoughts on aspects of LARP from a relatively new LARPer, very much worth a read.

RPGNet – General website for all aspects of roleplaying, interesting articles and sometimes useful advice.
GMB – guides to sorting out physical fitness between games, especially useful for heavy warriors!

Antimony & Lace – A number of useful simple sewing projects like long vests and pirate shirts.
Alleycat Scratch – Meant for making LotR cosplay kit, a lot of useful projects and tips for everything from clay and metal to leather and fabric.
Choly Knight – Technically about making plushies but the Tutorials section is useful for a budding costume maker.
Clothing Patterns 101 – How to do full tailoring and pattern design from scratch for your particular body shape.
Cosplay Tutorial – Tutorials for any aspect of cosplay, from costume to prosthetics to makeup.
How to Make Your Own Dress Form – Four different ways to make a dress form that fits your body
Draft Your Own Corsetry Binder – How to draft and make an adapted Elizabethan corset for a masculine silhouette.
Cut Out & Keep – Instructions for making all sorts of things, including clothing and jewellery.
Tumblr – Vincent Briggs – While more focussed on 1700s sewing, some really nice tutorials for various bits and bobs (like a really straightforward fitted hood)

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This to That – Helpful advice on the best glue for sticking a named material to a different named material.
How to Make a Dwarven Beard – What it says, how to make a Dwarven style beard out of yarn.

Manly Makeup – a tutorial on how to make female faces look male, up to a point.
MaskWorld Make-up Tutorials – A selection of tutorials primarily meant for using the MaskWorld range but useful for ideas and tips nonetheless.

Seventh Sanctum – Generators of names, ideas and other randomness.
Random.Org – Random number generation.
Fantasy Name Generator – Comes up with names on a specific vocal types
Chaotic Shiny – more generators, including some very good ones for creating character bases and guilds/factions.