LARP Game Idea
I am of course an old retired member of the Camarilla, from the old World of Darkness games in Seattle/Everett area. Not played any of the new Vampire the Requiem or any of those games, and haven't even played LARP since those days. Still roleplay tabletop of course, and sometimes have online, but at times miss my LARP days and characters.
Was having lunch with my friend and also former Cammie Pauline. We talked of course about our old characters and some of the friends from the Cam who we never see or hear from, as well as their characters. She brought up the idea of how different some of those characters might be now if you could get them together and roleplay. Her particular character Dicken, her crazy Toreador, she would love to play again. I have a few old characters it might be fun to resurrect and play again. Would be fun though to do a one session game, socialization primarily of old world of darkness characters, brought together again to interact and catch up after years apart.
It would be nigh impossible to find all of our favorite former Cammies to join us for such a game, but still like the idea. It got me thinking of some of the online games where you can play any character and interact in some freeforall roleplay scene. Which got the idea together.
My idea is a LARP game, where you can resurrect and re-play any character that you formerly played before. Ideally old World of Darkness vampires/werewolves/mages work wonderfully, but why limit to just WoD characters? If someone misses their favorite ShadowRun character or D&D character, and feel comfortable roleplaying them LARP style, can find a way to make it work for said game. The idea I have is that these characters need a resolution, ideally a good ending. People should expand on what has happened to this character and decide what would be the best possible ending that this character could have. May also have to decide what are the terrible endings possible for the character also. All of the PC's are brought to the location by some powerful being (Umbrood or Demon or whatever works for plot device) and compete for the ideal ending (of which there would be limited such prizes). Mostly the competition the characters have to go through isn't through combat, but is through great confessions or internal realizations made public to those gathered. Does your character grow or change or admit something of value is what truly wins the happy ending prize at the end of the evening.
Clearly have to refine the concept somewhat but the idea is basically there. Right now all of this is just a fancy idea. Still, what fun it would be to resurrect a couple of dead characters and interact as them now with other people. See how differently you might project or act compared to then. See how other people would act or roleplay out those characters now. Might be a bit different if there are dozens of characters from different genres/roleplaying games, but still. I think it could be a fun evening of nostalgic roleplay.
Was having lunch with my friend and also former Cammie Pauline. We talked of course about our old characters and some of the friends from the Cam who we never see or hear from, as well as their characters. She brought up the idea of how different some of those characters might be now if you could get them together and roleplay. Her particular character Dicken, her crazy Toreador, she would love to play again. I have a few old characters it might be fun to resurrect and play again. Would be fun though to do a one session game, socialization primarily of old world of darkness characters, brought together again to interact and catch up after years apart.
It would be nigh impossible to find all of our favorite former Cammies to join us for such a game, but still like the idea. It got me thinking of some of the online games where you can play any character and interact in some freeforall roleplay scene. Which got the idea together.
My idea is a LARP game, where you can resurrect and re-play any character that you formerly played before. Ideally old World of Darkness vampires/werewolves/mages work wonderfully, but why limit to just WoD characters? If someone misses their favorite ShadowRun character or D&D character, and feel comfortable roleplaying them LARP style, can find a way to make it work for said game. The idea I have is that these characters need a resolution, ideally a good ending. People should expand on what has happened to this character and decide what would be the best possible ending that this character could have. May also have to decide what are the terrible endings possible for the character also. All of the PC's are brought to the location by some powerful being (Umbrood or Demon or whatever works for plot device) and compete for the ideal ending (of which there would be limited such prizes). Mostly the competition the characters have to go through isn't through combat, but is through great confessions or internal realizations made public to those gathered. Does your character grow or change or admit something of value is what truly wins the happy ending prize at the end of the evening.
Clearly have to refine the concept somewhat but the idea is basically there. Right now all of this is just a fancy idea. Still, what fun it would be to resurrect a couple of dead characters and interact as them now with other people. See how differently you might project or act compared to then. See how other people would act or roleplay out those characters now. Might be a bit different if there are dozens of characters from different genres/roleplaying games, but still. I think it could be a fun evening of nostalgic roleplay.