[UA] UA larp

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

I've played in a couple Cthulhu live LARPs.  The game
isn't bad and what you said about doing a with
randomizers seems to be right on the mark.  The basic
rules are very easy to grasp (so easy, in fact, that I
ran a couple tabletop gaming using the Cthulhu Live
rules instead of the normal CoC things.  It made
creating a replacement character a whole lot less
painful.)

The problem, though, is that Cthulhu Live has a
complex combat system which simply demands to have a 
GM present.  This combat system also encompasses the
way players can run away from monsters.  As a result,
the GM has to be there for every single scary event in
the game -the games I was in tended to run a lot more
like being led through a haunted house (the maze-like
ones with guides we sometimes have here in the US)
than playing an RPG.  It was kind of like being
Railroaded in real time.

--- James O'Rance <jorance at hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Gareth Hanrahan" <hanrahag at iol.ie> said:
> Interesting and workable ideas can be found by
> discarding your assumptions. 
> Cthulhu Live discarded randomisers (either you're
> good enough to succeed or 
> you're not), and it seems like it would work. I've
> thrown away ideas of 
> "game balance" in freeforms as largely irrelevant,
> and been quite 
> successful.

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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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