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Jan. 25th, 2010 01:01 amIt hurt my soul a little bit to play a changeling in a Vampire game -- but man, it was fun getting to LARP again last night.
The problem is that all the nearby games I know about -- where "nearby" is generously described as "within a half-hour drive" -- are One World By Night Vampire games, and it really isn't my genre. Their politics make me want to spork my eyes out, and the alternative to politics is generally Superheroes With Fangs, as they send out boot parties to take down whatever ridiculously overpowered beastie is causing trouble now. Despite that, I'd still probably play in the San Francisco game, except they play outside and it being San Francisco, I froze my toes off the one time I went.
I froze last night, too, but apparently I'll do that for Changeling, when I won't do it for Vampire. (The truth of the matter is that I was told the game had a partially-indoor location; what nobody told me was that it would turn out to be 43 degrees that night and the heat had, as near as I can tell, been turned off.)![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kniedzw having recently become the Changeling Coord for OWbN, he agreed to go up to Santa Rosa to help them finish off a faerie plot that's been going on there. And when he asked me if I'd be interested in joining him . . . hell yeah! I miss LARPing. amysun and zunger's murder mysteries have been my only other fix since I moved out here, aside from my one attempt at the SF OWbN game; that's three games in nearly a year and a half. I like tabletop gaming, too, but LARPs have a theatrical element that I really enjoy: costumes and body language and physical interaction, the spatial arrangement of a scene.
So I got to cameo as a Liam baroness, negotiating with a group of vampires whose previous leader was stupid enough to let himself be manipulated by a Balor Shadow Court operative into trying to assassinate me. It's a pretty well-constructed plot, if by "well-constructed" I mean certain characters will be screwed if they make the wrong choice, and others will be screwed no matter what happens. <g> (Those in the latter category brought it upon themselves; the stupidity of the previous leader goes well beyond the nutshell description given above. People: DON'T SWEAR OATHS WITH FAERIES.) Negotiations did not go well, but they aren't over yet; they have a chance to redeem themselves, and I may have a chance to play the baroness again.
Need moar LARPing. I have a closetful of costumes going to waste. <sigh>
The problem is that all the nearby games I know about -- where "nearby" is generously described as "within a half-hour drive" -- are One World By Night Vampire games, and it really isn't my genre. Their politics make me want to spork my eyes out, and the alternative to politics is generally Superheroes With Fangs, as they send out boot parties to take down whatever ridiculously overpowered beastie is causing trouble now. Despite that, I'd still probably play in the San Francisco game, except they play outside and it being San Francisco, I froze my toes off the one time I went.
I froze last night, too, but apparently I'll do that for Changeling, when I won't do it for Vampire. (The truth of the matter is that I was told the game had a partially-indoor location; what nobody told me was that it would turn out to be 43 degrees that night and the heat had, as near as I can tell, been turned off.)
kniedzw having recently become the Changeling Coord for OWbN, he agreed to go up to Santa Rosa to help them finish off a faerie plot that's been going on there. And when he asked me if I'd be interested in joining him . . . hell yeah! I miss LARPing. amysun and zunger's murder mysteries have been my only other fix since I moved out here, aside from my one attempt at the SF OWbN game; that's three games in nearly a year and a half. I like tabletop gaming, too, but LARPs have a theatrical element that I really enjoy: costumes and body language and physical interaction, the spatial arrangement of a scene.So I got to cameo as a Liam baroness, negotiating with a group of vampires whose previous leader was stupid enough to let himself be manipulated by a Balor Shadow Court operative into trying to assassinate me. It's a pretty well-constructed plot, if by "well-constructed" I mean certain characters will be screwed if they make the wrong choice, and others will be screwed no matter what happens. <g> (Those in the latter category brought it upon themselves; the stupidity of the previous leader goes well beyond the nutshell description given above. People: DON'T SWEAR OATHS WITH FAERIES.) Negotiations did not go well, but they aren't over yet; they have a chance to redeem themselves, and I may have a chance to play the baroness again.
Need moar LARPing. I have a closetful of costumes going to waste. <sigh>
