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	'''The Freeform Book''' is an early introduction to "freeform" or [[theatre-style]] live action roleplaying. It was published by The Australian Games Group in 1989. The book includes chapters on playing, running and writing freeforms, as well as simple dice-based mechanics.		'''The Freeform Book''' is an early introduction to "freeform" or [[theatre-style]] live action roleplaying. It was published by The Australian Games Group in 1989. The book includes chapters on playing, running and writing freeforms, as well as simple dice-based mechanics.

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	And that's just what a Freeform is. The players are the actors. They set about achieving their [sic] objectives of the characters. The script is all ad-lib... A little character background is given... to get the players going, and of course, the objectives each players hopes to achieve. Thus the freeform is born.<ref>Morgana Cowling, ''The Freeform book'' (TAGG, 1989), p. 5.</ref></blockquote>		And that's just what a Freeform is. The players are the actors. They set about achieving their [sic] objectives of the characters. The script is all ad-lib... A little character background is given... to get the players going, and of course, the objectives each players hopes to achieve. Thus the freeform is born.<ref>Morgana Cowling, ''The Freeform book'' (TAGG, 1989), p. 5.</ref></blockquote>

	Cowling suggests three broad types of game: "the whodunnit", where the players must identify the murderer(s); "plot, subplot, scheme and scandal" ~~focuse don~~ politics and negotiation; and "the common denominator" in which every character is pursuing the same (or one of a limited set of) goal.		Cowling suggests three broad types of game: "the whodunnit", where the players must identify the murderer(s); "plot, subplot, scheme and scandal" focused on politics and negotiation; and "the common denominator" in which every character is pursuing the same (or one of a limited set of) goal.

	==Games==		==Games==

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	'''The Freeform Book''' is an early introduction to 'freeform" or [[theatre-style]] live action roleplaying. It was published by The Australian Games Group in 1989. The book includes chapters on playing, running and writing freeforms, as well as simple dice-based mechanics.		'''The Freeform Book''' is an early introduction to "freeform" or [[theatre-style]] live action roleplaying. It was published by The Australian Games Group in 1989. The book includes chapters on playing, running and writing freeforms, as well as simple dice-based mechanics.

	==Definition of "freeform"==		==Definition of "freeform"==

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{{Book |image=TheFreeformBookCover.jpg |name=The Freeform Book |year=1989 |author=[[Morgana Cowling]] |publisher=The Australian Games Group |isbn=1-875280-00-6 |pages=100 }}
'''The Freeform Book''' is an early introduction to 'freeform" or [[theatre-style]] live action roleplaying. It was published by The Australian Games Group in 1989. The book includes chapters on playing, running and writing freeforms, as well as simple dice-based mechanics.

==Definition of "freeform"==
''The Freeform Book'' includes one of the first definitons of a freeform or theatre-style larp, comparing it to a play where the actors know a little bit about their characters but have lost the script:
<blockquote>
And that's just what a Freeform is. The players are the actors. They set about achieving their [sic] objectives of the characters. The script is all ad-lib... A little character background is given... to get the players going, and of course, the objectives each players hopes to achieve. Thus the freeform is born.<ref>Morgana Cowling, ''The Freeform book'' (TAGG, 1989), p. 5.</ref></blockquote>

Cowling suggests three broad types of game: "the whodunnit", where the players must identify the murderer(s); "plot, subplot, scheme and scandal" focuse don politics and negotiation; and "the common denominator" in which every character is pursuing the same (or one of a limited set of) goal.

==Games==
''The Freeform Book'' includes three small games:
* Lunch With Mason (11 players)
* Temple of the Winds (15 players)
* By Royal Appointment (14 players)

All three games use the dice-based mechanics featured earlier in the book.

==References==
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