Embiggening the hobby of LARP
If you decided to get involved in storytelling for the first time it can be pretty daunting. You’ve got multiple players depending on you to guide them through your world who have wildly different definitions of what entertains them. While I could write thousands and thousands of words about how to run a game I [...]
Books on LARP are notorious for being vague with their mechanics. For as complex and majestic as some settings can be I find time and time again that rules as written (RAW) don’t measure up. As a result a storyteller needs to gain acuity at assessing rules, and making choices that enhance the world their [...]
Let’s say you wanted to run a LARP professionally… is that even possible in North America? I say it is, but that it’s not exactly a career to retire to. That being said there are good ways and bad ways to seek out profit. This article assumes that you’ll be hitting the one-shot convention scene, [...]
Downtime always takes work, but many storytellers don’t make their lives any easier by failing to create protocols for downtime processing and failing to layer meaning in their results. Since they are not returning downtimes that inform the game they are working just as hard to produce substandard results. By creating systems a storyteller creates [...]
It’s the end of the year, so I wanted to “break character” and talk about drLARP as a blog. I hope that I’ve been providing you with content that is relevant to you, either as a player, an ST or someone who just likes thinking about the subject. So far I’ve written 36 articles over [...]
Every player wants to get their way, but some players are better at it than others. Some are more insistent, others are better wordsmiths, but when you are deciding who should be allowed to get what they want you as an ST needs to create a culture of equity. In order to combat this tyranny [...]
Google provides the best value when managing your chronicle. It gives you access to tools that allow you to communicate with your players, enable transparency in your game and maintain numerous game related, indexed documents that are available any time you have connection to the web. If you are still using folders and hard copy [...]
So you just went to your first LARP and had a good time? I’m really glad that you enjoyed yourself. This article is for you. It’s about all of the nagging questions you probably have about what to do next, and offers explanations that you may accidentally not get unless you knew what to ask.
For number twelve two of my keen interests collide — I’m very happy to break the voting tie by writing about how Social Media can be used to improve LARP. Social media, as we know it, has been prominent for ages now and it’s interesting to me to see how different groups have adopted it. [...]
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