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[undyingking]

I was sorting out some old files the other day and I came across a game I wrote back in the summer of 1995 (and had completely forgotten about). It's essentially a larp, but set indoors and for just six players, with pregen characters. The working title was (the dreadful) 'Cannes-tasia' - the characters are movie people at the Cannes Film Festival

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[venta]

Cannes Do :)

I'm not entirely sure what the difference is between freeform and your game, and have never larped on any non-rubber-sword context. I'd love to find out if you need players :)

[undyingking]

Cannes Do :)

Ooh, that's gruesome even by my standards…

I'm not entirely sure what the difference is between freeform and your game

Mm, I should probably have done that post first, except I'm still trying to think how some bits of it should go. (Without offending anyone ;-)

[huggyrei]

I'm also curious about your game! H and I have written and played in a number of freeforms, and they cover quite a wide variety of styles and formats (campaigns, one-offs, pre-set charaters, writing your own, heavy or light mechanics, horde games, semi-horde games, entirely intra-personal plots, external events, some scripted outcomes, some not...).

I'm actually not certain what the definitions/distinctions are; I've seen a few groups who insist that their format is the correct one and that other things are not freeforms.

[undyingking]

Mm, it's a problem that people have a natural tendency to want to control the terminology for their own kind of thing.

And of course it's systematically different in other countries, too: eg in the US, the term 'freeform' isn't used at all afaik, they're mostly called 'theatre-style larps'.