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 [...]
Maybe you’re a maniac like me and are thinking of running a LARP. You’re probably wondering why you’d ever want to do something like that, given the amount of commitment required to run a game. There are a lot of reasons why you’d want to pull the trigger and start something, because running a LARP [...]
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 [...]
Are you enjoying the game(s) that you play? There are a lot of reasons for not liking a game, and sadly very few of those reasons are things that you, as a player, have much control over. Unless there’s only one LARP in town you have a choice, so choose the game that best fits [...]
In my day job I work in sales for a SaaS-based tech company. Why is this relevant? The SaaS business model depends on recurring subscriptions to your product in order to be prosperous… there is a low cost to start using your product, and a low cost to leave it. Does this sound familiar to [...]
I think a lot of LARPs get downtime wrong, so I wanted to talk about it. The principle purpose of downtime is to give players something to talk about and do at sessions, but many games I see insist on keeping downtime separate so that their players seem to be playing a LARP once or [...]
