[UA] Disinterest is for Sissies (was UA LARP)

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

That certainly is a good idea and one I've
experimented with.  I did a game called Echelons a
while back where there were two levels of players
-those who gave the orders and those who had the power
over the world.  The ones with power over the world
could only make changes if someone who gave the orders
told them to.  It kind of worked and kind of didn't. 
I think maybe if I'd had the Invisible Clergy angle to
it, the whole thing would have made more sense.

And I fully agree with getting rid of the
dissinterested moderator.  When I first picked got
into LARP (swinging my sock-flails at other middle
school chivalry-heads), that's what I thought it was
all going to be about -spotting clues the GMs wouldn't
normally let you spot, going where ever you wanted,
reading other people rather than the GM all the time. 
It wasn't like that at all and it never has been.

--- Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com> wrote:
> One idea I had for the UA alrp was the elminiation
> of the disinterested
> moderator. 
> 
> Now, the idea I had for the UA LARP is that there
> would be two types of
> players.  One group would be playing normal PC
> types, with their individual
> goals.  The other group -- the people who would
> normally be moderators --
> would also have intangible goals they hope to
> achieve in the course of the
> scenario.  These moderators would be ablet to
> determine anything in their
> immediate radius of influence, adjudicating whether
> a given spell worked or
> whether a gunshot hit, but they wouldn't be able to
> be in the same room.
> 
> They would, of course, be playing members of the
> Invisible Clergy.

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