Warning: The following is probably only relavant if you are a fellow LARPer.. With the dawn of a new decade I’ve seen a few friends post about their last decade in both life and LARP, I posted my one about life a while ago on Facebook around New Year but my LARP one is a […]
Read more "My decade in LARP, 2010 – 2019"This is slightly tweaked version of the original post I put on Facebook on Sunday July 21st 2019, regarding my thoughts on the recent Finnish LARP, Odysseus that ran over July 4-6 2019 in Helsinki. “It’s not enough to survive, one has to be worthy of survival.” Commander Adama, Battlestar Galactica* * I’d already decided […]
Read more "Odysseus / A Retrospective"30 years ago a little-seen and mostly-forgotten tv series premiered on BBC2. It was an attempt at a telling stories within a realistic setting only 40 years in future. This is was “Star Cops”, the brainchild of Chris Boucher (writer of Doctor Who and script editor of Blakes 7 for the entire run). He would […]
Read more "A View of the Future"I’ve been wrestling with a touch writers block just recently in terms of my next couple of LRP events. It doesn’t matter the subject matter but there’s been a couple of plot points that I’ve been trying to rationalise with myself as I know my players would pick up on it. It took a couple […]
Read more "Why do we run LRP events?"Most people pick skills for their LRP characters that they would not normally be able to do in their normal lives, such as being a surgeon, flying a spaceship, wielding mystical energies and so on. But how to simulate these skills within a believable framework? Arguably one of the harder aspects of your system will be how […]
Read more "Real World Skills vs Roleplay Skills"Live Action Role-Play, Live Role-Play, LARP, LRP, whatever you call this hobby it is all ultimately the same thing. People engaging in fantasy worlds to resolve situations, this is what seperates us from those who produce fantastic costumes and then just stand around in them at conventions (not that there’s anything wrong with that). LARPers will […]
Read more "Skill Design in your LARP Adventure"TV is a funny old business, you get engaged with a tv show only to be robbed as it fails to be renewed after a single series, sometimes by design, sometimes deservedly so, other times not. This post is about 5 of my favourite tv series that you probably haven’t even heard of let alone […]
Read more "The 5 Best TV Shows you’ve probably never heard of"So #fourrpgs was a popular topic a while ago and, like most people, it was a great nostalgia trip seeing so many old systems referenced so fondly. Someone just posted their own list and I realised I hadn’t done the same, so here we go. The four tabletop RPG systems that have influenced me the […]
Read more "#fourrpgs"In my experience there are two kinds of LARPers, those who are there for the journey and those who are there for the destination. Let me elaborate; LARPers who are there for the journey are there for the experience and to enjoy the story that their characters are on. LARPers who are their for the […]
Read more "LARP: Is it all about the Journey or the Destination?"I first head the term “killer app” in the early 1980’s at the beginning of the home computer revolution. It basically referred to software so good or so useful that people would buy (at the time) expensive computer hardware just to run it. Examples like Visicalc on the Apple II, Lotus 123 on the IBM […]
Read more "Character Builder: Was this the “killer app” of D&D 4th Edition?"
Critical Path 