Ever Wanted to Get Paid to Run LARPs for Schoolkids?

Via Emily Care Boss on the Intercon X Facebook group:

[The Arlington Enrichment Collaborative (AEC) in Arlington, MA] is a nonprofit that provides innovative older youth program afterschool and on weekends. Visit us at www.arlingtonenrichment.org. We enroll 80 youth in our EEC licensed middle school afterschool program as well as workshops for high school students, 50-60 youth a day come to our afterschool program. We have 1 staff member for each 10 youth.

Job Description:
The Live Action Role Playing Coordinator/ or AEC LARP Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the LARP program. We have both middle school and high school enrichment classes that all follow the same gaming system and plot lines. You would coordinate an entire program of 20-40 youth, ages 10-18 and help them develop characters and a world with rules and strategy afterschool.

An ideal candidate is an individual with LARP experience, preferably with youth, who is excited and passionate about developing his/her own LARP curriculum around an already established program. It would also be helpful if the individual had an education or theatrical background. Our youth are very familiar with the NERO rule book currently.

This is considered a full-time 40 hour/week position with some weekends and evenings. We utilize flex hours and the ability to work from home during administrative hours--any time before 2p. We will need you for program from 2-6:30 T-Friday, Wednesdays till 7p

The job requirements and contact info are available on the Craigslist job ad posting.

Bring Your Mechanics to NELCO!

From Laura47 via interconlarp on LJ:

(NELCO is this weekend at the Chelmsford Radisson, we'll talk about LARP writing and running and playing, and people will write a LARP in 24 hours and run it sunday. Details here: http://guestlistapp.com/events/148377 )

***TL;DR: Bring your mechanics to NELCO and we'll work on them with you!***

Do you have a LARP mechanic that doesn't do what you want? Inelegant, too hard for players to understand, requires too much GM intervention? You've tried revising it, but it's never quite what you want? Do you have an idea for a mechanic, but don't know how to finish it? Are you an experiences GM, or still coming up with your first idea?

Bring your LARP mechanics (or mechanic ideas) in need of love to the mechanic workshop, Saturday from 4-6! Led by Peter Litwack, coauthor of the popular Darkwater Combat system, we'll critique and rebuild mechanics. If we run out of mechanics, we'll brainstorm new ones.

You may have seen Peter's mechanics at work in Sky No Longer Blue, A Single Silver Coin, Two Hours in London, Dreams of Peace, Dreams of War, The Road to Impunity, or Lost in the Jungles of Time. Peter believes in elegant mechanics that suit each game's individual needs, don't break immersion, and ideally allow the players to never need to halt game to call over a GM. Come to Peter's talk about mechanics Saturday at 2 to hear more and discuss mechanics and game writing.

***TL;DR: Bring your mechanics to NELCO and we'll work on them with you!***

Seriously, Peter is really good with this stuff. And it's not just combat mechanics either -- any kind of mechanic is fair game.

NELCO Schedule Announced!

From Dave Kapell on Facebook:

The New England Larp Conference 2013 has a Schedule!
I've mentioned NELCO a few times in this group before, and now we've put together a schedule. It's viewable at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnziS_HFDWrgdFlaS0N2X3JFa0RFTTRXYjVQQnBGWHc#gid=0 and descriptions of some of the panels and workshops are available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MrPeTe2X27w4AMjjccEpKY_nKQ9Ag1Cw2CfB_oIWgvg/edit.

There's also a all-weekend Build-your-own-game event which is a great opportunity to work with experienced larp authors to build a game from scratch in a day, then run it on Sunday.

We could use some more panelists for several panels, most notably:

* Designing interesting boffer modules
* Skulduggery and Larp
* Writing compelling stories for boffer larps
* Writing Political Plot

If you're interested in these, or any other panel, please let me know!

The event itself is August 9-11, in Chelmsford, MA

Here is the NELCO website. It's at the Radisson in Chelmsford, the same hotel Intercon happens at.

Occam's Razor Premieres August 31!

From Jacob Mandell via e-mail:

There is more to this world than you know.

Occam's Razor, a boffer LARP using the Accelerant system, is holding
our premier event on August 31st.

In order to allow prospective players and NPCs a taste of what OR has
to offer we are hosting a pair of Adventure Days. Come out and try
playing a game of modern fantasy, horror, conspiracies, and cyberpunk
science-fiction for $35 (which includes dinner), or join us behind the
curtain and NPC (which also includes the same dinner, only it's
free!). Visit occamsrazorlarp.com for more information, including a
gorgeous downloadable rulebook, a topnotch online character generator,
and some in-game teasers.

Bullets and brimstone, cyborgs and spellcasters--the dark corners of
the world hold more secrets than you can imagine.

August 31
$35
10:00am
Camp Sargent
141 Camp Sargent Rd
Merrimack, NH 03054

Sounds like a great way to get in on the ground floor of a new game.

Time Bubble 2013 (RPI) Announced, Wants Games!

With thanks to Stephen Kohler for forwarding this on to me:

Good evening, Time Bubblicans!

I do hope you are all enjoying your summers. It's been rather rainy here in Troy, but we haven't let that put a damper on our LARPing plans.

TIME BUBBLE 2013 will be held October 11-13 (that's Columbus Day Weekend again) in our favorite Carnegie Hall on RPI campus in the beautiful and flooding fast Troy, NY. This is our fourth Weekend of Minigames, and if the previous ones are any indication, we're just getting bigger and better!

We'd like to try something new this year. If you'd like to run a game at Time Bubble 2013, please fill out the attached LARP Submission Form and send it back to us. If you'd like to run a LARP-related *panel*, please email us back directly [at dicebubble@gmail.com -ed.] and we'll talk.

Game and panel submissions are due by noon on Thursday, August 15th. That way we can set everything up early and have about a month and a half for sign-ups.

Please feel free to share this email. Spread the news! Tell your friends! Tell your friends' friends! Tell strangers on the bus! Tell your dentist! Word of mouth is our best friend.

Timetastically yours,
Jenny, Peter, and Rob

Here is the LARP Submission Form.

SLAW @WPI Looking For Games

From Sarah Judd via e-mail:

SLAW will happen again this year!
Dates: Nov 15-17
Location: Salisbury Labs at WPI

If you're interested in running a game, please send the following info to
dancesthroughlife@gmail.com

Name of game
length of game
min/max # of women/men/neutral
room requirements
scheduling requirements
blurb and description
If it's newbie friendly/can it take walk-ons

It mostly takes 2-4 hour games. You can sign up to attend the con at slaw2013.concentral.net.

Here's the Facebook event page.

Sarah says she's particularly looking for newbie-friendly games, although that's not all she's interested in.

Two More Summer LARPS (Dia de los Sobres) in Watertown!

Liliya Benderskaya and Nat Budin have put together another Dia de los Sobres ("Day of the Envelopes") event, this time at Tory Root's house in Watertown. The event is on Saturday, July 13, 2013.

Agent BOBO of the Resistance, by Alleged Entertainment (runs 12 noon - 3p)
10-year-old Billy Oberlin has had it tough lately. Moving, family troubles, and a new school have all thrown his life into a tailspin. It’s hard being a kid, but Billy has one solace: his toy box. Twelve loyal stuffed friends he can take on adventures through his imagination.

In the world of Billy’s creation, a secret Resistance movement fights against evil invading dinosaurs, ninjas and aliens. Now on its riskiest mission yet, the Resistance must travel back in time, to when things were better, to prevent history from going so awry.

Can AGENT Bobo and his toybox friends help Billy find a better future for himself and for the planet? AGENT Bobo of the Resistance is an experimental short larp, which won third place at the Intercon M Iron GM Competition. It combines traditional theatre-style larp structure with player-driven narrative construction. In addition, players will be playing the role of Beanie Babies.


The Other Side of the Glass, by Paranoid and Crotchety (runs 4-8p)
Tacoma, Washington, 2031. Once the world had been much as we know it, with a little magic here and there, until one strange night nineteen years ago, when an unexpected and phenomenally powerful spell cast by an arrogant and careless mage altered reality. Computers stopped working, civilization ground to a halt, and millions died. Yet in balance, magic became far more powerful, those with the talent more common. Hordes of newly-empowered mages set forth to build a new way of living, with magic replacing the lost technology of the past. But it's never been quite as easy as before, and rumors spread of people's reflections coming alive, shadow-monsters in human form, magic run amok in terrible ways that would never have been possible before.

But here, in the Laughing Cat Inn and Pub, people can leave their cares and worries at the door, or drown them in the best home-distilled rum on the Puget Sound. Magically warded and with a policy of turning no customer away, the Laughing Cat has been serving all kinds in this strange new world for years. Especially when storms of magic and glass-shards blown like needles in the wind ravage the countryside; these walls and wards can stand against anything. And the people within will be safe. At least physically. Their messed-up lives and feelings are another matter entirely.

The Other Side of the Glass is a character-driven game about love, gender, identity, and the strange ways in which magic changes them all. This is a highly romantic game, and every character has some degree of romantic involvement. This game contains fairly pervasive disturbing themes and abusive situations, and is recommended for mature players. This is a Paranoid & Crotchety production.

Game signups open at 7p Eastern, Monday, July 1, and spots are limited! I have another thing that weekend, but I will see if I can make time to play one of these games...