In the most recent conventions, you’ll also see panels, workshops, and discussions. Just look at the pictures of this article. I gotta say… I would play a lot of the characters this “LARP” generated.). Then I get to listen to the GMs are Bastards rant.) Steve Hendricks publications, Avatar’s (Al Cofrin) publi... specializing in bring pieces out of original art work into life. As a driven high priest, I submitted to the dark god and helped keep him from being banished while gaining power and influence. I can’t overstate the importance of theme music in my game. There were drinks and dancing and mysterious dark magic afoot, and the players really took the costuming guidelines to heart.

They are summarized in the table below, and you can follow the links to see more about those cons. It says something nice about a LARP when feelings of camaraderie among in-game factions last past the end of it. I n a parallel story for one of the players (same setting, same game, different character, lower mortality…) I use Evanescence’s “My Immortal.”. The second was a scoundrel in an admiral hat. Make the players interact and find out what makes the NPC a character before they get their information, clue, or object. Fur trimmed boots are pretty common in the cartoons, so I think my footwear suited the aesthetics well. The other players had to interact and find out what would change a reticent character’s mind to learn the clue.

The altar (mihraab) of mosques is generally a deeper part of the wall facing Mecca, but the exact shape of it is variable, as are the decorations.

The foil character is not a “one shot kill and be done” NPC.

I planned to wear the bear arms over whatever tight, spandex-y leggings and tops I could pull out of my closet, but discovered a problem — most of such clothing I own is black, because I often use it for NPCing boffer LARPs. I use it to introduce thematic elements in the game as well…just a little something to unify the story and make it feel more complete. Bring your NPCs to life by having them mentioned in the media or as an active part of their community. But I also really enjoy NPCing, so it wasn’t a large sacrifice. The index cards allowed me to be more verbose and clear than I could on a character sheet. While creating a temple description and depiction of a god, roleplay the architect, artist, sculptor, etc. Intercon's LiveJournal: Okay, in just a few days Intercon O begins. In about two weeks, it is time for Intercon O! Syncretism is a cyberpunk LARP, which uses a new combat system (still in development, at least when it ran at Intercon P.) This was another LARP where I mostly played crunchy enemies for the PCs to fight, and I had very little idea about what the PCs got up to. E-mail it to [email protected] – thanks! This costume was a lot easier — all black with a Cobra Command decal stuck to my shirt. — but there were a few in particular that I’d like to play, including one creepy character who started the LARP with her mouth sewn shut. Joe series of LARPs, G.I Joe: Pirates. Even more fun.

I played in Reunions, a LARP with a simple premise: a small group of friends hanging out at convention deciding what events to attend on the schedule, and then again getting together again for a second scene at a birthday party. Most word processing software has templates for business cards. I sign up for this series whenever I can — it’s guranteed to be a fun, lighthearted note to end the con on, even if your brain is fuzzy from lack of sleep, thanks to the ridiculous, adorably poorly animated source material. Consider it like that little bit you’d get at the beginning of the X-Files just before the credits. It’s going to be a great weekend! Change ). All depictions should share some of the god’s aspects and attributes (lightning bolt in the Zeus example), but there are even different ways of drawing a lightning bolt! Having an extra brain to help contribute witty comebacks and combat tactics is usually a good thing. The all LARP convention in Warwick, RI. Before the next game I might create cards for all the different combat maneuvers you can make during combat, such as charging, grappling, disarming, and give them to all the players. Someone wrote a few issues ago they had problems with making the transition from socializing at the beginning of the game to starting the game and getting in-character.

(It wavers between Russian-ish and German-ish in the cartoon.). Another nice thing about the high NPC numbers was that I felt able to duck out and say hello to the cast and horde of Alison Drinks Alone a few times.