LARP report
The first of the Larp-A-Month events went off pretty well, or so it seemed to me. Everyone who has said anything to me about it said they had fun and looked forward to the next LARP.
There was some panic when theadana and her guests were late because of some confusion (and my inability to directly contact her, now fixed). If they hadn't arrived, we might have had to rearrange who was playing who. But they arrived a bit late and we had the game.
Which seemed to mostly work, though it went really, really fast. Not the hour or two that I expect from these things. More like half hour to forty-five minutes. Once people started getting shot, things quickly went in interesting directions and then quickly resolved themselves.
As always, some totally unexpected stuff happened in the game (a robber deciding to take another robber hostage as he left the bank)band some expected stuff (the pregnant lady subplot worked perfectly for the involved characters) and some totally awesome stuff happened. And that's just the half or so of the game I was able to see happen: the downstairs portion of the game apparently had a bunch of other stuff happen.
I'll try to post the complete character information in the next few days, if anyone is interested. If I were to run it again, some rewriting of the lead robber might help the game go on a bit longer. Or maybe it wouldn't extend anything, but would make the game more fun.
I'll have to think some to figure out what I learned that can be usefully applied to the next LARP. And I will have to figure out what the next LARP is going to be about, too. And then schedule it and write it in the next couple weeks. If I can continue doing this well, it should be good. If anyone has constructive feedback on how to improve for the next game, I'd like to hear that, too.
After the unexpectedly short LARP, we sat around and chatted and played Are You a Werewolf?, because it turned out that we had about fourteen people who all liked that game and rarely got to play.
There was some panic when theadana and her guests were late because of some confusion (and my inability to directly contact her, now fixed). If they hadn't arrived, we might have had to rearrange who was playing who. But they arrived a bit late and we had the game.
Which seemed to mostly work, though it went really, really fast. Not the hour or two that I expect from these things. More like half hour to forty-five minutes. Once people started getting shot, things quickly went in interesting directions and then quickly resolved themselves.
As always, some totally unexpected stuff happened in the game (a robber deciding to take another robber hostage as he left the bank)band some expected stuff (the pregnant lady subplot worked perfectly for the involved characters) and some totally awesome stuff happened. And that's just the half or so of the game I was able to see happen: the downstairs portion of the game apparently had a bunch of other stuff happen.
I'll try to post the complete character information in the next few days, if anyone is interested. If I were to run it again, some rewriting of the lead robber might help the game go on a bit longer. Or maybe it wouldn't extend anything, but would make the game more fun.
I'll have to think some to figure out what I learned that can be usefully applied to the next LARP. And I will have to figure out what the next LARP is going to be about, too. And then schedule it and write it in the next couple weeks. If I can continue doing this well, it should be good. If anyone has constructive feedback on how to improve for the next game, I'd like to hear that, too.
After the unexpectedly short LARP, we sat around and chatted and played Are You a Werewolf?, because it turned out that we had about fourteen people who all liked that game and rarely got to play.