From Editor's Introduction:
Issue #5 of Playground magazine explores what happens when we mix story and game. We are not interested in discussing whether roleplaying events can be stories or can be games. Most of they time they are a bit of both, and none of the above, which is what makes them so cool.
Highlights
Guide to stories & games: What's the story and what's the game?
A peek into the box: Pictorial from Blackbox CPH
On alibi and ecstasy: A tool to creating better LARPs
The perfect alibi: Why LARPers shouldn't date
Lance Weiler and new media: Look into cutting-edge games
Jim Babb: Stuff happens
Why not reruns? - A happy little family game.
10 Ways to manipulate your players
8 Ways to hack the larp
Review: Leaving Mundania: Journalist investigates American LARPers
LARPing in Russia