When folk say "My, your costume is ace!" I usually say two things. One "Ah, yes, I cheat - my wife is a costume designer and she tells me what to wear. And a Wardrobe Mistress, so she can point me at where to hire things I can't buy..."One of the things she says is... Continue Reading →
All for spreadsheets: the organised one.
This is so I can always find it. Remember the other day I said "I thought it’d be OK. I’m glad it was. Thanks to Rachel Thomas and her amazing sheaf of spreadsheets which made it be."
Thoughts on playing confrontational characters at LARP: a guest conversation by Kelly Jane Poole and Charlie Holdway.
Kelly Jane Poole and Charlie Holdway had this back and forth on confrontational characters the other day. There were some other folk saying good stuff too, but this I can see as filmed as a head to head somewhere. Or something. Anyway. Here it is. Confrontational characters... This is inspired by a conversation I've seen... Continue Reading →
All for me: the (most) self-indulgent one.
I am really proud of All For One. Six years ago Rich Smith started a Facebook group called "H runs a musketeers game." 30 months ago, Bill Thomas signed up to do prop. build on game. (I'd cruelly deceived him by saying it was the Dogtanian version.) 2 years ago Ian and Rachel Thomas said... Continue Reading →
All for design: the thoughtful one
I was going to get round to writing a design post for All For One.Now Ian Thomas has, and I don't need to. It's ace, and it's here. I've since written something that covers the same journey, but brings learning from All For One and Wing And A Prayer together.It's over here.
Responding in a positive way: guest post by Helly Bean
You know the drill: saw something on Facebook, thought it was gold, asked permission, posted here. This is from Helly Bean of The Quota fame, now with Carcosa Dreams - who run Alba, Tenement 67, Forsaken, and Sisyphus.They've got some general advice as to what to do during an event if you're "feeling not engaged... Continue Reading →
All for froth: guest post by many hands.
We got a lot of useful feedback after the event, some of which I'm using to comment on my own Design post and a Learning post elsewhere.This is really just the froth. I say "just", it's lovely to hear people praise something you've spent best part of 5 years working on on and off, so...... Continue Reading →
All For Cinedrama: mostly a guest post by Claire Sheridan
Cinedrama is pulp film-style as larp practise. It comes straight out of the Crooked House playbook; notably Dick Britton and the Voice of the Seraph in 2005. As an attitude to play, it sits somewhere between a UK "LARP is just for fun" instinct I don't entirely subscribe to, the "Win by losing" playstyle I... Continue Reading →
All for encryption
I can't recall the first time I used cryptography in a larp, but it was a good 20 years ago. Some players like the puzzle solving, some don't, no-one likes struggling with something that for plot reasons is actually impossible. Tricksy.Experience suggests the simplest cipher - the Caesar - is easily breakable in a field... Continue Reading →
“tl;dr You have a downtime skill, but you probably don’t know what it is, or what it does.”: guest post by Jamie Hall
I say, "guest post", but really it just floated past sunning itself, and myself and Andy Raff and myself fought it out to see who'd get to re-publish...