Another weekend of LARPing, another weekend where I was left sad and angry and disappointed. There were either issues with the character, or issues with the game, or both. ( Read more... )
An honest account. In response, I have to say that I gave you one of the best characters I wrote for my game. I'm just sorry that I couldn't get the story out in a cohesive fashion. If you do find yourself drawn back to the fold, we ought to request characters that are linked in whatever happens in the future as it occurred to me that we've never played properly linked characters.
Yeah, I was kinda torn about doing this recap. Because I know a lot of my friends like you worked really hard on those games. I don't want to be the guy who goes "I'm hurting, so I'm going to lash out at everyone else so they hurt as well". And like I said, your game was the only one where I got the character and went "This guy is going to be awesome to play!".
Bryn raises the very good point that maybe 3 hour LARPs are not my cup of tea, that I prefer LARPs where I get to make the character and influence their personality and direction. He might be right.
It does sting a little, but trust me, I'm much harsher on myself then you could ever be on me. 10 mins into the game and I started to panic about a whole list of things I assumed would work and didn't. I'm serious about that offer though, you're one of my good friends who I haven't actually properly RPed with (although I'm enjoying working with you in Crucible). For the record, I thought Seda was a badass because of your portrayal (in that I didn't want to fuck with him) and you decisively owned on your opponent in the fight before he was poisoned (so I was going with you as the man to beat). I know it's not any consolation, but I thought I'd say it.
Every time I see you as a character I assume he's important because you're playing him. Obviously that hasn't been the case from quite a number of your experiences, but that's what I think anyway.
Thanks Nick. Yeah, having run a game at last years Hydra, I know about being your own worst critic. I was not really happy with how that played out, but it ran and I got through it and I learned from it.
The fight with Kerry was fun - I certainly feel the work on Sundays helped, wasn't sure if he was just letting me beat him, but I certainly felt that my feints and counters (thanks to the 100 blows exercise) worked well - most blows I landed on him were due to the initial feint. Although as we had Paper-Scissors-Rock'ed before, I wasn't sure if he was just letting me land them. I'm certain he wasn't being as aggressive as he could have been.
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Bryn raises the very good point that maybe 3 hour LARPs are not my cup of tea, that I prefer LARPs where I get to make the character and influence their personality and direction. He might be right.
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Every time I see you as a character I assume he's important because you're playing him. Obviously that hasn't been the case from quite a number of your experiences, but that's what I think anyway.
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The fight with Kerry was fun - I certainly feel the work on Sundays helped, wasn't sure if he was just letting me beat him, but I certainly felt that my feints and counters (thanks to the 100 blows exercise) worked well - most blows I landed on him were due to the initial feint. Although as we had Paper-Scissors-Rock'ed before, I wasn't sure if he was just letting me land them. I'm certain he wasn't being as aggressive as he could have been.
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