for those with an interest in LARPs

[swan_tower]

My friend mikevonkorff has been doing a series of posts about live-action roleplaying games -- their design and execution, what players look for in a game and how they pursue it, etc. Chewy stuff, especially since a lot of his commentators are part of a circle that has played a bunch of games together, but I'm coming from a totally different gaming community. Makes for some very enlightening comparisons.

I'm taking a particular interest in this because kniedzw and I are likely to be running a one-shot LARP based on Changeling: The Dreaming in a few months. (If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, will be around Memorial Day weekend, and think you might like to play, drop me a line.) I haven't done a lot of LARP-running, so it helps to watch other people talk about the stuff you need to consider, and the different ways those topics can be approached. Especially when those people do things very differently than I do.

Anyway, if you have any interest in the topic, check his posts out. And feel free to jump in, even on the older posts; the more perspectives, the merrier.

Comments

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

I so wish I could be there for your game. :) It will be great. :)

[drydem.livejournal.com]

I'll be in London that weekend honeymooning, so unlikely, but if you want an expert eye on LARP running to bounce ideas off of, you crazy kids feel free to drop me a line before then.