Table Top you would like to LARP?

[Redfeild]

Having seen the poor response to 'what table top have you LARPed' I thought I'd change focus to what would you like to LARP.

Me, I'd like to run Deliria as a LARP. In fact, I may not even use it as table top at all. The world just seems so LARPible. As for systems, still not there yet. I keep spending my free time here instead of reading. Going to have to change that.

[Shawn]

I'd be cool with an Iron Kingdoms larp, so long as everyone involved spent a rediculous amount of money making cool and suitable costumes.

And of course, I'd need a rediculous amount of money laying around first.

[nos4artu]

FATAL! :D What? ;) Yes I'm joking... no really, please don't hurt me, I want to circle jerk with the guys to Screwdriver before we make our <rock,paper, scissors> combined rape, anal hit point damage and castration tests...

On a serious note probably Unknown Armies.:cool:

[Tao Jones]

Someone always says Unknown Armies, but I just can't see a situation where you'd have the entire Occult Underground hanging out in one room. You could set something up, but it'd either be contrived or very short-term.

I always wanted a Starchildren LARP, but that's mainliy just to give people an excuse to shop for clothes. The Deadlands LARP events at GenCons past were always fun, but I figured they'd only be good as one-shots. But watching Deadwood makes me think otherwise; if ever there was a show that was basically a LARP put to film, that would be it.

[daHob]

Paranoia as a con LARP.

Illuminati, if I could ever figure out how to make it work.

[Tao Jones]

Paranoia as a con LARP.

Illuminati, if I could ever figure out how to make it work.
I've kinda wanted to do a "street-level Illuminati" game using the social merit and downtime system from MET, but without any supernatural stuff at all.

Then I realized my Requiem chronicle is pretty much that way already.

[Uberxael]

Unknown Armies as a one-shot where everyone freaks out or dies at the end.

Nobilis. I've actually got Game of Powers, so this is on the list of stuff to do.

[Tao Jones]

Unknown Armies as a one-shot where everyone freaks out or dies at the end.
The UA LARP I thought would be fun would have to take place at a game convention. The McGuffin would be an RPG suppliment that everyone hears contains an actual ritual. The game would take place across the entire convention, especially in the exhibit hall, where everyone's trying to find the booth that's selling it. Mainly, I'd be amused at what groups like TNI and the Sleepers would do when confronted with gamers en masse. The Mak Attax cabals would have a slight advantage, since a fair number of them probably play D&D or something.

[Lollo]

Having seen the poor response to 'what table top have you LARPed' I thought I'd change focus to what would you like to LARP.

Well... a long list.

Unknown Armies.
Deadlands (or DitV).
Nobilis (well, I LARPed it twice, but still want more). :)
Babylon 5.
Castle Falkenstein.
Everything that gets you wear some nice costume (but not spending too much money).

Ciao
LT

[Ambrogino]

But watching Deadwood makes me think otherwise; if ever there was a show that was basically a LARP put to film, that would be it.

Yup, my experience of larp tends to contain lots of swearing.

I'm meant to be helping write a Deadlands Hell on earth LRP, so I'd better include that. I've always wanted to see a superheroes larp done well, but never done it for fear of it sucking. Took part in a Streetfighter (or close enough) LRP that went very well.

[Kid Entropy]

Took part in a Streetfighter (or close enough) LRP that went very well.
That sounds awesome. How did it work, exactly? Did you use modified WoD rules or something completely different?

[salamanca]

Couple of comments on above thoughts

Deleria is very LARP supported by the creative staff. Hit the website and they will link you to all sorts of plans and support they have for Deleria LARP play. (I've seen it run at Origins and it works out great.


Origins is also home to Megaparanoia: A live version of the game. It's not so much a LARP as 4-6 hours of contained insanity. (We don't like the connotation of the phrase LARP in Megaparanoia) Game traditionally runs at midnight on saturday into the wee hours of sunday morning. 100+ clones on a mission with unlimited clones and a very creative GM squad. ANd as usual, you are not cleared to know the rules so it's easy to learn.

[JimJim]

I'd love to run something short-term with Sorcerer, but as was mentioned above regarding Unknown Armies, I'm not sure that I'd have a feasible plot excuse to get all those sorcerers into one place at one time.

[Ineti]

Dogs in the Vineyard!

The Book of Mormon in one hand, my trusty six-gun in the other. I'll get this country cleaned up in no time. If I can't preach the Word of God to the sinners, I'll send 'em to God and they can discuss it personally with Him. :)


Oh wait. You said LARP. Um....nothing I can think of.

[Eggwhite]

I'd love to run something short-term with Sorcerer, but as was mentioned above regarding Unknown Armies, I'm not sure that I'd have a feasible plot excuse to get all those sorcerers into one place at one time.

Then don't. Get a couple of co-GMs and start with a couple of smaller groups, then let those groups interact as and when it's appropriate. Then they can merge over time if desired, or stay separate and just contact each other when required, as determined by IC pressures.

It's the trick that's working for me with UA LARP. Because the groups I started with were pretty small they merged pretty quickly, mainly because each group required expertise and knowledge only held by the other. With larger groups, or a greater number of groups, this convergence would probably have taken longer.

It's very easy to fall into the "must get everyone round a table" mentality when you're converting a TT to a LARP... You don't need to. Separate rooms for separate groups works quite well, as does having occasional scenes in completely different places...

[Eisenmann]

Dogs in the Vineyard!

The Book of Mormon in one hand, my trusty six-gun in the other. I'll get this country cleaned up in no time. If I can't preach the Word of God to the sinners, I'll send 'em to God and they can discuss it personally with Him. :)


Oh wait. You said LARP. Um....nothing I can think of.

lmao *tries to read the rest of the posts through tears of laughter*

[Tao Jones]

Yup, my experience of larp tends to contain lots of swearing.
And political maneuvering, social bluffs, intimidation tactics, personal relationships and character development.

But swearing...yeah, take what you will.

[Baron Karza II]

Serenity aka Firefly

I hear they have a few open spaces for new cast members :cool:

[David Goodner]

I'd love to get to actually play Passion Play or to have the money, energy, and space to set up a Cthulu Live! game that ran once or twice a year with all the props and everything. Star Wars LARP might be fun, too.

For games that don't already have LARPs (as opposed to ones that do, but are seldom/never played because they're not MET) I'll second (or third, or whatever) Dileria. Falkenstein LARP could be cool (and it only sort of has LARP rules).

Hmm... what else...

To me, the best LARPs are ones where a large gathering of "PC" characters is logical. Vampire always worked well because it's not hard to figure that a Prince who really likes to keep an eye on everyone has periodic Courts or something. Really cool settings don't always LARP well, though. UA is a good example, since most UA characters are pretty antisocial. But you can work around it sometimes. (I LOVE the game convention idea. The supplement is, of course, vaporware. But the designer attended and he's on a do-it-yourself publishing pannel at 3:30 or so on Sunday)

You could do cool things with Pendragon, 7th Sea, or L5R.

I've had brief dreams of doing a Cyberpunk or Shadowrun LARP with a big staff of NPCs and several runner teams.

I'd really like to avoid superhero LARPs. My friends in spandex are the stuff of nightmares.

David G.

[Craig Oxbrow]

Paranoia as a con LARP.
This is a good one, especially if you can get a couple dozen people in to play the Infrared Masses, the Communist Hordes and other faceless crowds (promises of comedy work in my experience).

Breaking The Ice



... What?


Er, okay, how about Buffy? It's been done, even in an ongoing Series format.

[Redfeild]

That sounds awesome. How did it work, exactly? Did you use modified WoD rules or something completely different?

The best thing about a Street Fighter LARP is getting strangers to spontaneously participate. :D

[Redfeild]

I'd love to get to actually play Passion Play or to have the money, energy, and space to set up a Cthulu Live! game that ran once or twice a year with all the props and everything. Star Wars LARP might be fun, too.

David G.

Met a guy at a con that had created a SW boffer LARP. Sounded interesting but boffer is not my style. But you should have seen his light saber! You could remove the 'blade' and just carry the hilt.

Hope he got players. It looked like he spent a lot of time on his rule book.

[travisjhall]

Paranoia as a con LARP.
I've played that.

[Ambrogino]

That sounds awesome. How did it work, exactly? Did you use modified WoD rules or something completely different?

Totally different. Basically fights were determined beforehand while the "fighters" were in the dressing room by playing a game of cards, basically playing attack, defense and any special cards you'd gained over the course of the weekend. The you went out with a predetermined winner and just fought (semi-contact) for as long as you wanted. Tournament was elimination, with cards available for medics and agents able to do things between matches, and things like grudge matches and special challenges so if you lost your first fight you weren't out for the weekend.

Plus the refs sorted out enough for the non-combat players and had a hidden end-of-the world (TM) plot going on in the background. It was a blast.

[Ambrogino]

Met a guy at a con that had created a SW boffer LARP. Sounded interesting but boffer is not my style. But you should have seen his light saber! You could remove the 'blade' and just carry the hilt.

Hope he got players. It looked like he spent a lot of time on his rule book.

I've seena few of those sabers. The problem is, in order to thread the core and screw the blade on your core needs to be metal, and you end up with the section where the two cores screw together deforming and hitting people with unpadded metal rather than padded carbon-fibre if you're not careful.

But they're still kinda cool. And my main system uses wood and metal replica flintlocks, so I'm used to having to trust the people I play with not to actually pistol-whip me.

[uncle_wilf]

Twenty-five posts and still nobody has mentioned Macho Women with Guns... :eek:

Gordon

[The Lord of Nothings]

You could have a varient LARP system for UA minor charges: you actually have to do the charging ritual in real life to get the charge. It admittedly encourages certain schools and discourages others, but i want in-game power for that 4 hours i had to spend observing a city street for a university assignment, dammit.

Seriously, since UA is so tied to the real world just kinda... full immersion LARPing it would be fun. Do it like those VR games. You plan out one day and one location-- say Newtown. You've got to meet a Mac Attax contact- its a guy sitting in McDonalds or, if you've got one in the game, real McDonald's employee/gamer who passes you a slip of paper. Run down to the goth club to talk to your goth contact, dressed appropriatly. Get the party Dipsomancer to buy you all drinks.
Etc

Probably freaky, possibly sanity damaging, but kinda fun. Gain in-game power for watching your favorite TV show or flucking a signed book!

[The Lord of Nothings]

The UA LARP I thought would be fun would have to take place at a game convention. The McGuffin would be an RPG suppliment that everyone hears contains an actual ritual. The game would take place across the entire convention, especially in the exhibit hall, where everyone's trying to find the booth that's selling it. Mainly, I'd be amused at what groups like TNI and the Sleepers would do when confronted with gamers en masse. The Mak Attax cabals would have a slight advantage, since a fair number of them probably play D&D or something.

Somebody REALLY needs to do a good 'roleplayer' school. Probably limit it to D&D, since thats the only one thats popular enough (and it gives you a unified theme for the charging and spells). Combine the Jack Chick tract, the Creepy Gamer thread, and the actual good stuff about roleplaying, stir to taste, and BAM!
If my group can have somebody who charges up by beating people in Unreal Tournament 2006 it should have somebody who charges up by playing D&D

[MonsterMash]

Paranoia as a con LARP.

Illuminati, if I could ever figure out how to make it work.
The trouble is RL could be the biggest Illuminati LARP of all time.
;)

Actually Illuminati would be very cool as a LARP, but I'd worry about getting nicked by the cops on consipiracy charges.

[SPFS]

Seriously, since UA is so tied to the real world just kinda... full immersion LARPing it would be fun. Do it like those VR games. You plan out one day and one location-- say Newtown. You've got to meet a Mac Attax contact- its a guy sitting in McDonalds or, if you've got one in the game, real McDonald's employee/gamer who passes you a slip of paper. Run down to the goth club to talk to your goth contact, dressed appropriatly. Get the party Dipsomancer to buy you all drinks.
Etc

That reminds me, I need to write up the coffee shop scene for the Actual Play thread for the UA LARP we ran the other week... :)

[David Goodner]

Met a guy at a con that had created a SW boffer LARP. Sounded interesting but boffer is not my style. But you should have seen his light saber! You could remove the 'blade' and just carry the hilt.

Hope he got players. It looked like he spent a lot of time on his rule book.

There's an official Star Wars LARP rulebook, too. I have it. My favorite bit was the section on how to customize the toy blasters available at the time of publication to make them look more realistic (as opposed to day-glo camoflauge, which is the color they came in).


Twenty-five posts and still nobody has mentioned Macho Women with Guns... :eek:

Gordon

Heh. I was just thinking of posting that when I logged in this morning.

I wouldn't really want to play, but I'd pay to watch. :)

David G.

[Matt-M-McElroy]

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[plosiguant]

Don't have time to read through the entire thread, but here are the LARPs I have played (all are one shots, as is the standard in South Africa, using pre-generated characters)

Paranoia
Vampire
Legend of the Five Rings

I also know of a 7th Sea LARP, and acouple of CoC LARPs, but I have not had a chance to play in them yet

RPGs I would like to LARP:

Over the Edge
Unknown Armies
Witchcraft

[Merten]

Fading Suns (with adapted Passion Play)
Aberrant (or just general superhero-stuff)
Hârn (with detail that's in line with what's published about the game)

[StumpyDave]

AFMBE, I just need the hundred or so people to monster for me.

[Matt-M-McElroy]

AFMBE, I just need the hundred or so people to monster for me.

Sounds like fun...

I ran a short AFMBE LARP with about 20 people. I started out with 3 zombies and they managed to "infect" 12 more or so before the survivors managed to put them all down for good.

Regards,

Matt

[Jackob]

From a LiveJournal post of mine some months back:

What I'd like to do:
Warhammer (I already have an idea)
I'd really like to do a Cyberpunk one, but that'd need some serious thinking to avoid too much violence.
A Wild West LARP could be cool, 'specially with the costumes. Dunno if it should be Deadlands (or Deadlands inspired), Western Movies inspired or more straightline Wild West.
LARPs set in the middle ages are always fun, but... no more Dark Ages: Vampire from me, so I'll need to figure a different setting.
And finally, I think it would be cool to make some kind of LARP where every type of costume would be acceptable. Like "Crossroads Tavern" (An old LARP of mine). I just need to get a good idea for setting. *G*
Some kind of sci-fi. No, not Firefly/Serenity. *G* But some kind of sci-fi would be interesting.


LARPs Id like to do but that wouldn't work

Dogs in the Vineyard - great setting, great potentials for conflict, but it'd only be the Dogs and the people who'd be opposed to them who'd get any real play.
Adventure! - incredible setting, but Adventure! thrives on action and on people getting to be cool with their Knacks and defeated hordes of goons and... just wouldn't work.
A superhero LARP. Mainly to see the crazy-ass costumes and make-up, but no, I couldn't get that to work, even though it has potential for fun.
A wrestling LARP... now I'm pushing it. *G*

[Morticutor UK]

WFRP. But that's more to do with my general dislike of high fantasy, so gritty and muddy would be my preference. Also, York looks like part of the Old World, so that would be cool location...

And the CoC-style latex chaos beasties would be awesome...

[Jackob]

WFRP. But that's more to do with my general dislike of high fantasy, so gritty and muddy would be my preference. Also, York looks like part of the Old World, so that would be cool location...


When I do my WFRP LARP, you're welcome to come and participate.

[Rezolution]

I think a WFRP LARP would be a blast, myself.

[Craig Oxbrow]

AFMBE, I just need the hundred or so people to monster for me.
I took part in a ZOMBIES!!!! LARP once. Roped in as many conventiongoers as possible for the game, starting at midnight, with only six actual players and a whole heap of zombies... No makeup, sadly. We'd need to get a Zombie March (http://www.needcoffee.com/updates/2005/08/20/american-idol-wannabes-vs-zombie-hordes/) going for it to really work...

[Participant-Observer]

Also, York looks like part of the Old World, so that would be cool location...


Are you thinking of the Shambles?

Paranoia would have to be done in a Laser Tag arena, IMO.

Meanwhile, although not a LARPer myself, if someone would provide the studio set, I think that a "one-week in jumpspace game" for Traveller might be fun. Especially if you have crew members and passengers with secrets to hide, and some suspicious cargo in the hold.

Ummm ... I guess that would make it the pilot episode of Firefly. :o

[Samaritan]

Hmm.... Weapons of the Gods actually seems like it could be cool- you've got props (padded weapons- imagine the creativity that you'd see!); a mechanic for relationships, politics- and kung fu!

Shadowrun might be cool, too- hacking, sneaking around, etc.

[Morticutor UK]

Are you thinking of the Shambles?


The riverside estate, actually - you know, where the ghost walk starts, by Yates'. There's lots of steps for duelling on :D

[Morticutor UK]

When I do my WFRP LARP, you're welcome to come and participate.

Tempting - I wanted an excuse to go back to Denmark :cool:

Of course, there is one problem - I only speak two languages - English, and Bad English :D

[Ambrogino]

Morticutor, are you actually in York? I've been living here for the last 2 years and am still having to go back down south to get any gaming going. Though I'm crewing a game at the Murton Viking Village next weekend. (So obviously your WFRP game'll have to journey to Norsca at some [point)

[Ryan Paddy]

Follow this link for discussion and photos from a Warhammer Fantasy Battle larp in Denmark:

http://www.larplist.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=835

I'm helping a guy set up a WFRP game here in NZ, mixing the battle element with more intimate roleplay across a campaign.

[invisible_al]

K3wl, do you still have tables for random character career choice, it's not proper WFRP unless it's unfair to everyone :). Best games of WFRP must involve groups like rat catcher, agitator, smuggler and a student trying not to be hideously murdered and eaten.


Oh and my choice for Tabletop to LRP is Tribe 8, you'd have to play with Synthesis a bit but what a background. Also I would love to see a live-action Fatima :D

[Lukas Sjöström]

When I do my WFRP LARP, you're welcome to come and participate.

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[Jackob]

Tempting - I wanted an excuse to go back to Denmark :cool:

Of course, there is one problem - I only speak two languages - English, and Bad English :D

My LARPs tend to be international, so language won't be a problem.

As long as you speak Bad German. *lol*

[Jackob]

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Tempting, but my summer's kinda booked and if I was to go to Sweden, several other people have claims to my presence. *G*

[Arnino Storm]

I'd like to do Trinity, but that's kind of impossible. Still, it's a dream.

An UA would probably an awesome LARP.

[Craig Oxbrow]

I'd like to do Trinity, but that's kind of impossible. Still, it's a dream.
Well, the big crashing spectacle of Vampire or Werewolf would be equally difficult, but with a suitable location (a local tech-heavy university has the right feel of grey corridors, striplights and glass for an Aliens-style base) and the practical side of 2120s fashion... hmm.

[Wiseblood]

Con-X
Ars Magica

[Morticutor UK]

Morticutor, are you actually in York? I've been living here for the last 2 years and am still having to go back down south to get any gaming going. Though I'm crewing a game at the Murton Viking Village next weekend. (So obviously your WFRP game'll have to journey to Norsca at some [point)

Actually, I'm in Leeds - and haven't been gaming since I got here because it all happens on my college nights. :(

[Morticutor UK]

My LARPs tend to be international, so language won't be a problem.

As long as you speak Bad German. *lol*

Alll my German is learnt from singing along to Lacrimosa and Rammstein. But I can try :p

Actually, that's not totally true, but it's been so long since I did my GCSE they represent my most recent attempts.

[Redfeild]

I've seena few of those sabers. The problem is, in order to thread the core and screw the blade on your core needs to be metal, and you end up with the section where the two cores screw together deforming and hitting people with unpadded metal rather than padded carbon-fibre if you're not careful.

But they're still kinda cool. And my main system uses wood and metal replica flintlocks, so I'm used to having to trust the people I play with not to actually pistol-whip me.

Actualy this guys light sabers had a wood core inside the padding. The hilt was that plastic pipeing that I can not think of the name of right now. The blade was that round long wood you get at some hobby shops w/ padding wraped in duct tape. He had some how riged the blade to be pined into the hilt with metal pins. I never knew what those pins were called ether.
Where is my brain this morning? I was up late playing Requium LARP.

[theliel]

Con X
old school.