SLAW weekend of minigames

Via Sarah Judd by e-mail:

Where: WPI
When: Nov 9-11

[Official player signups are at http://slaw2012.concentral.net/events/708.]

[The event is also looking for games!]

Games can be bid to me at dancesthroughlife@gmail.com by August 27 (or later, if you must)

Send an email with:
1. Name of game
2. Short Description
3. Min/max gender player breakdown
4. Kind of room/rooms you'd like
5. If your game can take last-minute casts and add-ins.
6. Any time constraints you have

"Minigames" here means short probably 1-4 hour games. (Although Sarah says, "I suppose if you want to run a 12 hour larp at slaw, I'd take it," not that anyone should consider that a challenge or anything. ;-)

Summer LARP weekend games?

According to acousticshadow2 on LJ, the previously mentioned summer LARP weekend has a tentative location (Bridgewater, MA) and a tentative timing (a Sunday in August). Now they're looking for games!

Visit the original entry for details and to let them know it you have a game you'd like to run.

[Source: interconlarp]

Across the Sea of Stars run interest?

From vortexofchaos on LiveJournal:

I've been talking to a lot of different LARP people about Across the Sea of Stars of late, and some people have said they'd like to play. Now, I'm not promising anything, but I'd like to gauge interest. Across the Sea of Stars is a ten hour Tale telling LARP for 25 players. I know it's probably a stupid question, but would there be enough interest to fill the game?

Remember, it's ten hours. Two Intercon slots.

Again, I'm not promising anything. It's a behemoth of a game, that costs a lot of time, money, and effort to print and stuff. (Seriously. This is a full-sized LARP, in addition to thirty microLARPs that run multiple times in parallel. One copy fills two 4" notebooks. I kill trees to run it. It's the biggest thing I've ever written, by far.) You'd have to convince my co-GMs to help me run the game - there's no way that I can do this without three or four other insane people. It needs a good size space to run in - and I don't know of a good place to do that, even at Brandeis. OK, where Venezia ran in Usdan would work. A ballroom at the Radisson would work. You also have to convince me to add it to my already insane schedule, probably best late in the summer.

What do you think?

RSVP at the original entry.

[Source: interconlarp]

A Build Your Own Game seminar and more

Via vortexofchaos on LiveJournal:

A Build Your Own Game seminar and more

So you want to learn how to write a LARP? Maybe you've been thinking about it, but you didn't want to do it by yourself? Perhaps you just didn't know how to get started? Or, you've written a LARP or three and just want to get a different perspective on the writing process.

Have I got the opportunity for you.

Join me July 20-22, at the Chelmsford Radisson, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. I'll be speaking on Friday about how to write a LARP. On Saturday, I'll be facilitating another Build Your Own Game effort, where a bunch of people will get together to write a game in 24 hours. There will be other panels about LARP as part of the New England LARP Conference 2012 (which we posted about recently --ed.), but the writing is where the challenge will be - so sign up now!

If you don't want to write, we're looking for proposals for workshops and panels. Let's talk LARP!

[Source: interconlarp]

Boston-area summer LARP event interest?

mllelaurel writes on LiveJournal:

Inquiring minds would like to know...

How would you, Boston-area LARPers, feel about a summer event of some kind? There are a bunch of game-runners, P&C included, who'd be interested in running games over the summer. What do you think? Any dates people are likely to prefer or have a difficult time with? How large an event would you be up for? Single games? A day-long event (probably two games back-to-back)? A weekend?

Comments on the original entry.


[Source: interconlarp]

Look, over in the sidebar -- feeds!

Thanks to a gracious LJ paid account user, we now have a LiveJournal feed, and I've set up a Twitter feed. If there's any other way you'd like me to make this available, comment here or e-mail me and I'll look into it.

Story Wars AU campaign

According to bleemoo, character submissions are open and currently stand at 21 of 30 players for a campaign LARP similar to and run by some of the same people as the Story Wars games which ran at Intercon a few years ago. They're hoping to fill by the end of the month and run first in mid-September. -ed.

Welcome to Story Wars AU (currently a placeholder name). This will be a campaign larp, meeting roughly two to three times per year, as we figure out what we can handle. I will state up front that while we have written other larps, we have not done a campaign before, so expect that there will be a learning curve in some areas and try to bear with us. Thanks!

This is a mash-up game done in the school style. If you have played School For Young Women Specializing in the Arts of Grace and Maidenly Submission or Story Wars: Episode VI Return of the Princess Bride, then you understand the style. For those who haven't, the game will be set in a set of neighboring schools, ones that have a friendly rivalry with each other. Characters will be drawn from various fictional sources and will likely form some kind of theme.

This survey is intended to start the character submission process. We are looking for at least five character ideas from everyone, some on specific themes.

Disclaimer: Submitting a character is not a guarantee that it will be accepted. Nor is it a guarantee of a place in the game. We will be doing a 30 player max. If we find out we can handle more characters later, we may do so, but for the start, 30.

Characters will be accepted based on the following factors: how well we know the character, how well it mixes with other characters submitted (that does not mean everyone is friends, just that they will interact in interesting ways), and how well a character sparks ideas in a GM. The point is to write a cool game that everyone will enjoy. We do that best by picking a set of characters that both excite us and will mix well.

As we do not have a set date for the first game yet, other than vaguely fall, we will be keeping some backup ideas in place just in case what we pick doesn't match who can come to game.

(Via bleemoo.)

Announcing the First New England Larp Conference

Announcing the New England Larp Conference, a multi-tradition conference on the subject of LARP.

What is NELCO?

The New England Larp Conference is a weekend of panels and workshops about LARP. If you've been to the Thursday thing, or Pre-Con at Intercon, that's the idea, only on a weekend, and without Intercon preperations hanging over you. We're looking to have a large number of panels and workshops from all genres of LARP, not just "Intercon Style".

Where is it happening?

At the Chelmsford Radisson, where Intercon L happened earlier this year.

When is it happening?

July 20-22, 2012

How much will it cost?

$20

I've never written a LARP before, is this for me?

Certainly! We've gotten feedback that the panels at Precon have been a great way to learn more about writing games.

I've never played in a LARP before, is this for me?

Honestly, probably not. We're working on some ideas for intro-to-LARP panels leading into a introductory larp for next year's Precon and Intercon, and that's likely a better place to get your feet wet. If you're still interested in coming to NELCO, then, you're certainly welcome.

I hear there's going to be a Build Your Own Game?

Yes, indeed, obvious audience plant, there is going to be a BYOG, coordinated by Jeff Diewald. If you're interested in writing or playing in the BYOG, please sign up on the site, so we can gauge interest. If there's enough interest, we may split into multiple groups and write more than one game.

I've got a great idea for a panel!

Great, we'd love to hear about it. You can make a suggestion for a Panel or Workshop using the proposal form found here. We're looking for new ideas, as well as repeats of panels that went well at Precons in the past.

I'd like to sign up, or I have more questions, do you have a website?

Yes, it's at http://nelco2012.concentral.net.

What is this?

Northeast LARP News is a site for event announcements related to LARPing in the Northeast United States. (I define "the Northeast" roughly and arbitrarily as anything within a day's surface travel of Boston.) So, announcements of conventions, new campaign LARPs, readings of LARP-related books, and other LARP-related events in the area are all fair game -- please e-mail announcements to me at kevinr@free-dissociation.com and I'll post them.