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?"(Originally published on Rogue Ramblings) My first ever video game was on an 8k ROM cartridge that cost (this was back in 1983) £30, just think about that, 8k, my VBA scripts are typically bigger than that. I wouldn’t call myself a serious gamer and this list is not a history of games in the […]
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