[UA] Immersive Larp

[James O'Rance]

Cassady Toles <Con_Job at excite.com> said:

 >>>The problem with LARPS is the same problem with movies and theatre, a 
huge percentage of them are just bad games.<<<

The solution to this is the same: write more good ones. I'm pursuing this 
topic not because I'll ever play a UA larp written by any of you guys (there 
are at least three different continents represented on this list) but 
because I think good larp/freeforms should be encouraged.

 >>>Further, most LARPs only have the most limited character screening 
process, i.e. they check for if your points add up and if you're legally 
made for the correct game and that's about it.  They don't stop to look at 
the character sheet and say, "Does this belong here?"<<<

In my opinion, character design is best left in the hads of the person 
designing the freeform. This is not the MET model, I know, but it's always 
worked much better for me. Player submissions subject the game to any random 
stuff (some brilliant, some crap) that takes 10x the work to integrate 
nicely.

 >>>A UA one-shot larp (like the Fly to Heaven scenario 
discussed--alternitively Jailbreak could work really well for this too if 
you could get ahold of an old farmhouse) could work brilliantly<<<

100% agreement. Running a series of one shot UA larps at cons or as social 
events will be more fun and more successful than a campaign-style thing. You 
can keep some of the characters between games if you want, but make each 
game a discreet entity. You have more freedom, and you can stop whenever you 
want to - no-one can expect you to keep flogging a dead horse just because 
people have invested so much time in ongoing plotlines.



James O’Rance
“Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of hand.”
- The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)

http://www.geocities.com/dragon-dreamer/



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