Thinking about stories and games and larp
The Peckforten Papers is a collection of writing about UK larp published by the Wychwood Press. You can buy it on Lulu should you wish, or get the pdf here.I wrote a bit for it in a stream-of-conscious sort of way, and it's down here so I don't lose it... I am sat where it... Continue Reading →
This floated past on Facebook the very day I'd been That Guy. Twice. (I'd essentially said "That's the game. You can choose not to play." about a bit of game which isn't terribly inclusive. And I'd assumed a game's players weren't mostly male without counting.) So. This bears repeating at me, and here it is... Continue Reading →
I was at a larp called Daemon recently - more here. These are just the "scientific" papers I variously plagiarised, invented, and gratefully received from others. There here so I can find them later, or if anyone who ends up playing the larp could find any use for them. I guess this a Pullman fanfic.... Continue Reading →
Daemon was a larp set in the world of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, after the events of the books. There’s heavy spoilers in the post, which might matter because there will be re-runs, and you might not want to know much of Professor Rowan McMillen; with Cecilia his snake daemon. There’s more at the... Continue Reading →
(Or “The Poetical Effusions of Harley Widdicombe, of the Oxfordshire Widdicombes.) (Or “Balls, and what I did there.”)
Twice in one day something I want to have to refer back to has appeared on Facebook. This is good advice from Aquarion of Carcosa Dreams about what to do if you just aren't getting the fun you were expecting out of a larp event. I'd only add that as a game runner, if you... Continue Reading →
I've not had anything new worth saying for ages, and there's a lot of good stuff being said on Facebook and I stash some of it here so I can find it later. This is a lovely piece of advice from Monica G. on the Empire game, and how Imperial Title holders think. There's more... Continue Reading →
I don't have much to say about larp right now. I've not played for a while, and I've written about the bit of writing I did for "Meet at the Midwinter Feast" already. What I can do, though, is amplify the voices of others when I come across something - usually on Facebook - that... Continue Reading →
I've said before how much I enjoy the "Tavern Quest" games run by Omen Star. It's the most marvellous lightweight lockdown experience of mutually agreed storytelling, based on some sketchy tropes nailed together with so much plagiarism that it counts as research. Your characters meet up the night before some momentous event, and play what... Continue Reading →
Last night was "Meet at the Graveyard" an online roleplay thingy from Omen Star, held over Discord video call. The character brief had Caprizant the Hungry Ghoul as a chef who seasons with extracted emotions, rather than some beast who eats the dead. "You distil the fear, the hopelessness and the despair into a fine... Continue Reading →
Kat Quatermass spotted that Søren Lyng Ebbehøj was looking for speakers who'd thought about designing for competence at Knutepunkt this year. The Wing and a Prayer team certainly had. I couldn't be there in person, but wrote a script and made a quick recording of it. Søren was kind enough to accept it... This was... Continue Reading →
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