Embiggening the hobby of LARP
In order to hit a home run with your villain you need to make your players love to hate them. In order to get your players shaking their fists focus on opportunities for distinctness. Bob the villain who dresses in flannel and doesn’t talk much is anti-climactic. Instead make certain that you use the precious [...]
As players we’re only human. Since we create our characters we tend to do so with a certain consistency. We have a security blanket of habits and values that we wrap ourselves in, and seldom stray out into the scary, unpredictable world of roles that challenge us as actors. Once we come to know our [...]
Why do you play the kind of characters that you do? One of the things I notice being a wily veteran of LARP is that certain players are able to create fresh ideas to distinguish their characters from one another and others, well… they aren’t. Most people aren’t even aware that other players cannot distinguish between [...]
