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"We get all the blood bags and steering wheels we can eat"
We Roleplayed the End of the World with 4000 Other People (People Make Games Youtube video) showcases Wasteland's fully immersive Mad Max inspired vibe. Start with Quintin's poor preparation and imminent heat stroke, stay for Chris "the most adorable and earnest war boy I've ever seen!" This is an exception to the rule, you should read the comments under the video.
comments my husband made on muckraker, fondly I will say:
"He looks like an adolescent war boy"
"He's not a war boy he's a newsboy"
"He's precious"
"He is a little war brother"
😂❤
comments my husband made on muckraker, fondly I will say:
"He looks like an adolescent war boy"
"He's not a war boy he's a newsboy"
"He's precious"
"He is a little war brother"
😂❤
No hookups; yes Jubensha
Equal parts Murder Mystery Party, Escape Room, and Parlour LARP, Jubensha are the Chinese gaming experiences that you've probably never heard of. (NYT) [more inside]
[it looks better] in the dark, which is a compliment I receive a lot too
"When I started this, I thought this video was going to be like a chill travelog, that was like 30 minutes long, and, uh, it didn't turn out to be that." Jenny Nicholson does a fascinating four hours (almost) on the history and status (as of 2021) of Evermore, a Theme Park/Live Action Role Play experience. [more inside]
Silverwolf
Were the group “Victorian cultists?” Were they LARPers? Were they con artists preying on emotionally immature women? Were they a game studio with a very unusual front? Or was there, as one embarrassed Irish reporter asked, “almost a gay element to the activities here?” Answers were not then forthcoming. Few are even today. [more inside]
To be understood, we need to communicate.
Sign is a game about Nicaraguan Sign Language, which was invented by children at Nicaraugua's first school for the deaf in the 1970's and 80's. In the game, players act as the children struggling and then learning to communicate with one another, creating signs to convey their history, hopes, and fears. Notably, the players abandon spoken language for the duration of the game, and mark their hands whenever they make 'compromises' in their communication. Proceeds from printed copies go to the Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, but there's also a free pdf [booklet and cards]. [more inside]
How The World's Biggest Wizard School Lost Its Magic
On March 5, 2019, Dziobak abruptly shut down. To many of the College of Wizardry larpers, the news came as a shock. But to Rain, and to anyone else who had worked with Dziobak, it had always been a question of when, not if, the seemingly robust studio would fold. Allegations of financial mismanagement, worker mistreatment, and sexual harassment had dogged Dziobak and its CEO Claus Raasted for years. Dziobak was no castle built of stone, but a house of cards.
Murder, They Scripted
“I only found out at the end — I killed the wrong person,” Wang tells Sixth Tone. “Not only that, all the people I thought were human turned out to be robots."
Wang, a Shanghai-based news editor, had been playing a game of jubensha, or “script murder,” a role-playing murder mystery activity that has become highly popular among young urban Chinese. [more inside]
Myth #1: Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
Goat. LARP.
The Jibe-iT goat farm in Redding, CT, USA, is hosting what may be the world's first GOAT LARP this June. Not a Live Action Role Playing game (LARP) where you play a goat, but a LARP for the goats: "Goat Larp is a 1 day live action roleplaying event at a goat farm in southern Connecticut. Attend in-costume as any character you want and help run live adventures for the goats."
Swords and Sarcasm
Comedian Ben Elton explores fantasy RPGs and LARP on the 80s documentary series South of Watford (1, 2, 3) (mlyt) [more inside]
Hugos in Helsinki
Women swept nearly every category at the 2017 Hugo Awards - the annual SF award won an award of its own and managed to be largely free of the slating problems of recent years, whose instigators have largely moved on to the Dragon Awards. Worldcon, host of the Hugo Awrds, was without some controversy though, with the withdrawal of A Home for the Old (dropbox PDF) a planned LARP dealing with Alzheimer's disease.
A LARP where everyone forgot their character sheets
Dogme '99
"We wanted to kill the game," says Eirik Fatland, a Norwegian interaction designer who has spent over twenty years creating, participating in, and theorizing about these types of forward-thinking LARPs. In 1999, he and some others started a movement called Dogma 99. Modeled after Lars Von Trier's Dogme 95 and Jerzy Grotowski's minimalist, impulse-driven notion of a "poor theatre," the movement included a ten-point "vow of chastity" intended to maximize LARP's dramatic immersion, while removing pretty much everything else.
The most perfidious thing about Dungeons and Dragons is ...
Boing Boing looks back on the truth behind the D&D Steam Tunnel tragedy Jason Louv writes for BoingBoing and outlines the truth behind the tabloid sensationalism of the D&D Steam Tunnel tragedy and what really happened to James Dallas. Note - it's far more complicated and tragic than was reported at the time. [more inside]
Fallout: New Jersey
"When Dystopia Rising went well, there were moments that felt natural, perfect. My first night was filled with gang warfare and hunts for a cult of radiation-worshipping Social Darwinists, but one of the parts I remember best was sitting next to a busker who played me a song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, gave a mythologized retelling of the musical, and ended up explaining the origins of a group I believe was called the Church of Daft Punk" -- The Verge on playing in the massively complex post-apocalyptic LARP ( Live Action Role Playing) game, Dystopia Rising.
Beat the Cheat
Nicholas J. Johnson is a no good dirty rotten cheat. So when he invites you to play an incredible new game that he’s invented, you probably shouldn’t come…
Archery skill measured in Legolases.
Mad About The Boy
During the first weekend of October, at a Connecticut campground, a group of women gathered. As part of a pilot program organized by the federal government, these women, self-arranged into groups of three called "triads," were finalists for an experimental parenting program. Two of the triads would be selected for the right to be artificially inseminated, the resulting child to be raised by all three women as equal co-parents. While no one was certain how the experiment might turn out, every one agreed that something had to be tried since all of the men were dead. [more inside]
Lighting bolt. Lighting bolt. Lighting bolt.
Minecraft: Live Action Role Play
Your new corporate home and personal hell
Synergon is a fully-playable ruleset for BLARPing (Business Live-Action Role-Playing).
Do: real armour, don't: real weapons
LARP - what is it? - a comprehensive guide in comicbook form.
Portrait of The Na'vi People of Hometree Wisconsin
LARP (Live Avatar Role Playing) (SLYT)
... Do not look to the horizon of the eye drops.
Moopsball and its Children
Lasting 3 days and involving up to three hundred and twenty four participants, the game of Moopsball debuted in Damon Knight's Orbit 18. Once part of the geek canon (not to mention the favored game of Illuminati University), Moopsball is slowly being forgotten. Still, there are those who are following in its footsteps. [more inside]
Some Digital Doritos for a lazy Thursday afternoon.
IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR. And for those who finish watching that video thinking "A lawful evil Paladin? WTF?", here's a video response. And, just because it's too good not to share... honor! [more inside]
"They're dead, they're... they're all messed up."
In the grand tradition of Killer comes Humans Vs. Zombies, a campus game that's growing in popularity. From its origins at Goucher, it's spread to a reported two dozen colleges. An interview with the game's moderator is here, and you can watch the 45-minute documentary from one of the games on Google Video
Burn it! Tear it down! Hail Kotos!
Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! LIGHTNING BOLT! THE MOVIE. (qt) - the alternate trailer. (and the original in case you lost it)
Cerveaux...
When there's no more room in hell, the nerds will walk the earth. LARP nerds vs. zombies
Another entry in the long tradition of nerd mashups
(via boing boing)
Yeah, I'm a geek - but I've got company!
Don't Forget to Pack the Scimitar (NYT Link): Mainstream media covers
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This hasn't been posted here?
Goblins in upstate NY! Brought to you by Adventures in Midland. They have a very indepth, Live Action Roleplaying website. Funny pictures and all that. Go Too much too look at in one sitting... I feel like this has been posted here already, apologies if that's true.
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