Thinking about stories and games and larp
tl;dr – unless you’re pathologically interested in stories of What I Did, and What My Character Was Thinking, I’d avoid. This is just a long stream of me-me-me.
Continue reading “Fairweather Manor 5: Story first.”
I had the good fortune to be cast alongside Sebastian Gerstl at Fairweather Manor 5: he had some thoughts on the Expert experience on Facebook I wanted to be able to find again, and he’s OK with them posted here, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
Continue reading “Experts have no Easy mode: guest post by Sebastian Gerstl”
I’m a bit of a fan of the College Of Wizardry as I’ve previously frothed here. Or rather, I’m a bit of a fan of a particular style of CoW – it’s a sandbox larp, and the style of play I like about it is far from the only one. Robin Steen of Dziobak Studios kicked off a lovely thread on the many playstyles – “Which element of CoW was your favourite, the first time you went?” Continue reading ““Alien” characters and making them work: guest post by Robin Steen”
Another scrap of stuff that was on Facebook, and is now somewhere I can find it. This is what I can remember of a speech Minos used to give before big, important fights at Odyssey, and what it meant… Continue reading “Minos’ speech.”
Came across this in a failed Facebook search to find something else. Leaving it here in case anyone asks.
This from Gail Poulton particularly resonates because I’ve just been part of the delivery team for a larp which had some level of positive public feedback, but which I know had flaws that I’d like to explore. This seems like a damned good way of doing that. Also, I have a terrible weakness for Things Described As Manifestos.
I’ve played Death Unto Darkness a couple of times: loved it and hated it, then recently I crewed it and it’s really strong now. Friend of mine lost a character last event, and said some stuff I thought worth remembering.
Continue reading “Memories and making it work better next time.”
I’m not myself a fan of the term “stab safe”. Nothing is really safe, but it’s usage makes it so. Nothing need be dangerous, if handled correctly. I’ve had fights that felt perfectly safe using metal weapons, I’ve seen concussion delivered by a badly used latex/foam thing.
But…
Another bit of wisdom from Facebook. I’ve been thinking much more about accessibility at larp recently – on account of being a bit more responsible for it than previous at Wing and a Prayer and All For One. There’s so much I don’t know. Wiser heads were clear on how accessible Wing And A Prayer is: much of the action is entirely accessible sitting down, for example. For All For One, where what started as a straight “The event is not accessible. We’re sorry.” got much more granular about how the event was inaccessible, thanks to some overheard wisdom from Emma Round. As a result we hope more folk might consider it could be for them.
Anyway. More wisdom below.
Continue reading “Access and Aspirations: clashing philosophies for larp and life: guest post by Jessie Cattes”
