Embiggening the hobby of LARP
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 [...]
Just because you have a low powered character doesn’t mean you can’t carve out a meaningful existence for that character in a game. The trick is to create a character that finds ways to interact with the game that mitigate your general lack of power, insert yourself into a position with authority and then press [...]
If you are a storyteller burnout is inevitable. Managing the expectations of dozens of players is psychologically trying at the best of times and is murderously destructive at the worst. What I notice, though, is that most storytellers take actions that bring burnout onto themselves.
