Worst LARP Ideas Ever

[Bipolar Bear]

What's more funny than watching people wander around a parking lot pretending to be vampires? What could possibly be more entertaining and embarassing than stumbling upon a fantasy LARP in the park?

Why are there no Superhero LARPS? That would crack me up. Bonus experience points if you actually prevent a real crime. Gamers in spandex: why hasn't this caught on?

Your turn.

[Caudex]

As <I>arcane</I> magazine once put it:

Car Wars.
While it's almost certainly possible to attach Lazer Tag gear to your car and drive around firing it, it's almost certainly illegal.

[javelin98]

F.A.T.A.L.: The LARP.

*shudder*

[Tog]

GURPS: Ogre, the LARP

Human Occupied Landfill the LARP

LARP Synnibarr

[Mechante_Anemone]

Iron Claw: The Bunnyhop
Blue Planet (especially if your character is a cetacean)
Call of Cthulhu. Really.
Mekton Zeta.

[Mechnomancer]

YouTube - Secret Wars Re-Enactment Society

check this out

[Marc A. Vezina]

Why are there no Superhero LARPS? That would crack me up. Bonus experience points if you actually prevent a real crime. Gamers in spandex: why hasn't this caught on?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7041779180793787770&q=Secret+Wars&pl=true

Self-explanatory, I think.

[Oaty_Bars]

F.A.T.A.L.: The LARP.

*shudder*

FUCK!!! NOW I'M GOING TO NEED A LOBOTOMY :eek:

[Mechnomancer]

javascript:ol('http://youtube.com/watch?v%3dYveSHqhOkdo%26amp;search%3dcomic%2520book');

sorry, the damn link didn't copy.

[Uber_Munchkin]

The Camarilla

[Ragnar_Deerslayer]

Dude, Cthulhu would make an awesome LARP.

I wanna make the big paper-mache 10-story Cthulhu . . .


Ragnar

[komradebob]

A super hero LARP where the more over-the-top your costume is, the more effective your character is.

[Mechante_Anemone]

Dude, Cthulhu would make an awesome LARP.

I wanna make the big paper-mache 10-story Cthulhu . . .


Ragnar
No, it's the "reading the books aloud" part I'm afraid of! :p

[mutantraniE]

Dungeons & Dragons LARP. First, build the dungeon.

[Morticutor UK]

Dude, Cthulhu would make an awesome LARP.

I wanna make the big paper-mache 10-story Cthulhu . . .


Ragnar

You never saw the CoC larp book?

Awesome - it had guys on stilts with wings and rubber claws strapped ot them. And a shoggoth made out of a tie-dyed bedsheet.

[TonyLB]

I was chatting with some friends once, and the following idea came up:Waiting for Godot LARP: You list it that way in a convention program. No further explanation, just a room number and a time. Hours before the actual event you litter cards around the room that have fragments of rules ("When you pick this up, you are the Leader, gain +5 to dominate" with no explanation of what "dominate" means).

The absolutely key element of the LARP: No GM, or anyone else who has any sense of what's going on, can be allowed anywhere near the event while it is in play.I personally think that it would simultaneously be one of the best and worst LARP ideas ever, but I'm admittedly biased. I figure, anyone who attends a LARP based on that title? If that's not the kind of thing they expect then they have only themselves to blame.

[komradebob]

You never saw the CoC larp book?

Awesome - it had guys on stilts with wings and rubber claws strapped ot them. And a shoggoth made out of a tie-dyed bedsheet.

Hey, don't forget the Nodens puppet, or the advise on making Yog-Sothoth...

[Q99]

Iron Claw: The Bunnyhop


Unless it was at a furrycon with everyone in suits, that'd actually be a pretty good one. No-one could tell it's not just a fantasy larp, after all. It'd probably make a damned good one, at that.


And if you did it with suits... you're either at a furrycon, and no-one cares, or you're wearing suits so no one can tell who you are anyway ^_^



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Unknown Armies: Mak Attax larp. Such an easy way to get fired from Mickey Ds....

[TonyLB]

Dungeons & Dragons LARP. First, build the dungeon.Been there, done that. With enough tarpaulin and bungee-hook-cords in a sparsely forested grove you can make quite an impressive labyrinth. It takes surprisingly little imagination to translate that into a cavern ... especially when folks in green face-paint are swinging their foam weapons at your head.

[viscount eric]

Dude, Cthulhu would make an awesome LARP.

I wanna make the big paper-mache 10-story Cthulhu . . .


Ragnar

But they already have a Call of Cthulhu LARP. Quite popular here in PA.

Now a Cthulhu LARP where the Great Old Ones would be great. Break out some model train scenery, some garbage bags and slime and away we go! :D

Edit: One customer takes me away from posting and i'm beaten to the punch, curses!

[salamanca]

Cthulhu makes a great LARP. been there, done that.

However, the oen I've been kicking aroundoffering at Origins or Gencon would be this:

Lunch Money Live action role play: Event will be held just after dark in the parking garage. Smack the attendees over the head with a pipe when they hand you their ticket, take their wallet and go back to the dealer room. For for everyone (and with a big turnout, I get my pass reimbursed too.)

[TGerritsen]

Boogie Nights The Larp


Come on, think about it...

[viscount eric]

Boogie Nights The Larp
Come on, think about it...

Dude, I think that's called a swinger's club. :p

[PaladinCA]

Star Wars could get pretty ugly with overweight aging geeks dressed up as Jedi having lightsaber duels (better bring the oxygen) or those same guys running around in Stormtrooper outfits (oxygen would be mandatory).

Gotta love the 300+ pound Star Wars Geek that thinks he looks good in Vader's Suit.

I'm a near 300 pound Star Wars geek myself and there aint no way I'm going to make a fool of myself like that.

I might dress as a Jedi for Halloween though. :D

[StephenO]

As <I>arcane</I> magazine once put it:

Car Wars.
While it's almost certainly possible to attach Lazer Tag gear to your car and drive around firing it, it's almost certainly illegal.

But not on private land...

[Nina]

Snakes on a Plane: the LARP

[PaladinCA]

Snakes on a Plane: the LARP
OH yeah, that would go over well with Homeland Security. :D

[Levi]

Why are there no Superhero LARPS? That would crack me up. Bonus experience points if you actually prevent a real crime. Gamers in spandex: why hasn't this caught on?

Tee hee.

I'll actually be playing in a Superhero LARP this summer - a three-episode run, played in a park.

Character creation consists of picking up a silly piece of costume and an outrageous prop from check-in, and reading the tags attached to each.

The organizers are three very pretty women in their mid-twenties. They'll be wearing tights, with pastel-colored men's briefs on the outside.

It's a joke, yes. But it's also actually happening - I've seen the prop box.

[Nina]

OH yeah, that would go over well with Homeland Security. :DExactly. :D

[David J Prokopetz]

OH yeah, that would go over well with Homeland Security. :DMan, Homeland Security already classifies "wearing a costume in public" as a low-level terrorist activity, so why not go all-out? :p

[Winston Smith]

Call of Cthulhu. Really.


A friend of mine in Sweden told me about a Call of Cthulhu LARP that took place on a submarine. Yes, a real submarine, apparently it's a WWII holdover that's part of a park there. In Sweden, LARPs qualify for support from government arts funding and they got permission to use the sub through that program. From the story I heard, the highlight of the game was when one of the players went outside the sub. In game it was under water, although obviously this was not actually the case. When the character went out the put a big brass diving helm on the player, with the face plate liberally smeared with mud and muck, to limit his visibility. Then they tormented him while he wandered around the deck with this thing on. I was so jealous.

[Brantai'sPuppet]

There was an episode of Bones that featured a superhero LARP.

[Jadasc]

Why are there no Superhero LARPS? That would crack me up.

Go nuts.
http://gallery.avatar-mail.com/SuperLarp3

There's also "A Night at the Dead Fern Bar," which is a supervillain one-shot event that's run a few times on the East Coast. (Of the United States, that is.)

[Mechante_Anemone]

In Sweden, LARPs qualify for support from government arts funding and they got permission to use the sub through that program.
I'm moving to Sweden. :D

[Winston Smith]

I'm moving to Sweden. :D

Yeah, that was pretty much my thought as well.

[Tylorva]

Myself and a friend run LARPS at conventions under the name 'Wylde Deluzion'.

We do quite a few Call of Cthulhu LARPs, utilising a myriad of props and special effects. At one game we had a ten foot tall Azathoth come into the game. It took seven people to operate it. But with the lights dimmed, a strobe light going and some noisy sound effects, the overall effect is genuinely very cool. And I'm sure some of the player screams were genuine! :D

Shameless plug time: We are running a Call of Cthulhu LRP at Gen Con Indy this year. Come and see us! :cool:

Alex - Creative Director, Wylde Deluzion LRP

[Jay Sharp]

I would imagine a Rifts LARP would have the potential to be far lamer than a mere superhero LARP.

[komradebob]

I would imagine a Rifts LARP would have the potential to be far lamer than a mere superhero LARP.

Lame? Good lord man, think of the costuming possibilities!

[David J Prokopetz]

Lame? Good lord man, think of the costuming possibilities!Sure - but if you go that route, how would you tell the difference between a Rifts LARP and your average anime convention? :p

[Matthias Wasser]

I remember playing in an Alma Mater LARP for four whole years.

Man, did it suck.

[Rob Lowry]

Human Occupied Landfill the LARP



Am I bad because I would play HOL LARP?

[Galen_Rasputin]

Car Wars LARP, wow if you had the cash you could rent out one fo those go-cart track places, put the laser tag stuff on the carts, and call it an arena. Run some kind of adventure there with autoduels happening at specific times.

Ideas like this are why I really want to win the lottery, I'd create my own outrageous convention, call it Don Con with me as The Don. ;) But now I'm off topic.

Cyborg Commandos the Larp.

[Galen_Rasputin]

Am I bad because I would play HOL LARP?
No not bad, maybe a little sick and twisted, but that does not make you bad.:D

[Emperor Norton II]

Myself and a friend run LARPS at conventions under the name 'Wylde Deluzion'.

We do quite a few Call of Cthulhu LARPs, utilising a myriad of props and special effects. At one game we had a ten foot tall Azathoth come into the game. It took seven people to operate it. But with the lights dimmed, a strobe light going and some noisy sound effects, the overall effect is genuinely very cool. And I'm sure some of the player screams were genuine! :D

Shameless plug time: We are running a Call of Cthulhu LRP at Gen Con Indy this year. Come and see us! :cool:

Alex - Creative Director, Wylde Deluzion LRP

I'm game!

[Old Geezer]

Star Wars could get pretty ugly with overweight aging geeks dressed up as Jedi having lightsaber duels (better bring the oxygen) or those same guys running around in Stormtrooper outfits (oxygen would be mandatory).




Been there done that.... :o

But the 501st looked good. Trouble was, guard duty is BORING.

The LARP bit, but the costumes were not the reason it sucked.

[Shameless Poser]

I read here about a year ago where someone tried organizing an All Flesh Must Be Eaten LARP that involved taping beef jerky to each of your limbs.

[Bipolar Bear]

I read here about a year ago where someone tried organizing an All Flesh Must Be Eaten LARP that involved taping beef jerky to each of your limbs.

Actually, I think I posted that. It's sort of legendary around Denver.

I also posted (and am reposting) my suggestion for Live Action Battle Cattle. Visualize groups of people wearing cow costumes and armed with paintball guns. Now imagine them showing up unannounced at a Con and disrupting everything.

I'd like to add that several of my friends have apparently been playing "The Office" LARP for several years now. To my knowledge, it's the only LARP that actually gives you a paycheck and has decent benefits.

[daHob]

Hmmm.. I'd have to say the worst LARP idea ever would be any LARP in direct line of sight of the White House.

They have no humour.

[PaladinCA]

Been there done that.... :o

Trouble was, guard duty is BORING.


How did I know that you had already tried this? ;)

OH yeah, lets LARP being on guard duty!

That would suck. :(

[Katsue]

I once had a semi-serious idea for a once-off LARP entitled "The Trial of Juan Maria Alverado". The premise of the LARP was that a woman was on trial for impersonating a man and making a false marriage contract. The twist was, of course, that all the other characters in the LARP were also women impersonating men.

[Shameless Poser]

I had an idea once for a Battle Royale LARP. Since I first saw the movie senior year of high school, I even had an idea for conducting the game on school grounds.

That... obviously didn't get very far.

[Eisenmann]

Star Wars could get pretty ugly with overweight aging geeks dressed up as Jedi having lightsaber duels (better bring the oxygen) or those same guys running around in Stormtrooper outfits (oxygen would be mandatory).

Gotta love the 300+ pound Star Wars Geek that thinks he looks good in Vader's Suit.

I'm a near 300 pound Star Wars geek myself and there aint no way I'm going to make a fool of myself like that.

I might dress as a Jedi for Halloween though. :D


I thought about starting a Star Wars LARP a few years back. After reading your post, I'm still pondering it! ;)

[PaladinCA]

I thought about starting a Star Wars LARP a few years back. After reading your post, I'm still pondering it! ;)
May the Force be with you. :D

[Brandi]

No one's mentioned the Murphy's Rules offering yet?

Live Action Toon...

[komradebob]

No one's mentioned the Murphy's Rules offering yet?

Live Action Toon...

Again, an absolutely brilliant idea.

Except for the dropping of anvils part...

[David J Prokopetz]

Except for the dropping of anvils part...Y'know, I have this ridiculously bigass anvil made of closed-cell stryofoam sitting in my basement.

[komradebob]

Y'know, I have this ridiculously bigass anvil made of closed-cell stryofoam sitting in my basement.

I have an oversized plastic mallet with a squeak toy in the head.
Saaaaayyy.....mebbe this isn't such a bad idea after all...

[Morticutor UK]

I thought about starting a Star Wars LARP a few years back. After reading your post, I'm still pondering it! ;)

I have a collection opf toy lightsabers simply waiting for the opportunity...

[Eisenmann]

May the Force be with you. :D

roflmao

[Eisenmann]

I have a collection opf toy lightsabers simply waiting for the opportunity...

One of the local boffer weapon smiths actually made a boffer lightsaber that looks incredible! I half expected it to hum as he moved it.

[Morticutor UK]

One of the local boffer weapon smiths actually made a boffer lightsaber that looks incredible! I half expected it to hum as he moved it.

Nice. I know a guy who tried, but it didn't come out too well...

[Ambrogino]

There's a bit of an urban legend in my circle that there's a live action Highlander game going on. There's no time out, all players have a list of photo's of the other players, and if they bump into each other in the street they're required to fight. Then get arrested, most likely. We're trying to figure out whether all the players turn up at other, historical, events to run flashbacks.

[Eisenmann]

Nice. I know a guy who tried, but it didn't come out too well...

The guy I know fences with me and he makes boffer stuff with balance, etc. If I could get him to start making things with latex, then his stuff would be world class IMO.

[komradebob]

There's a bit of an urban legend in my circle that there's a live action Highlander game going on. There's no time out, all players have a list of photo's of the other players, and if they bump into each other in the street they're required to fight. Then get arrested, most likely. We're trying to figure out whether all the players turn up at other, historical, events to run flashbacks.

TAG with swords?

[Wildfireceo]

Highlander could get messy...there can be only one.

[David J Prokopetz]

The guy I know fences with me and he makes boffer stuff with balance, etc. If I could get him to start making things with latex, then his stuff would be world class IMO.Y'know, that reminds me: I think an Exalted LARP with full-sized boffer weapons might be feasible. You could put together a grand diaklave as a six-foot-by-one-foot piece of lightweight foam with a flexible plastic plastic core, and stick some weights in the hilt to give it proper balance. If constructed with care, it would be big enough to knock people over, but light enough for your average gamer to wave about, and have such a broad, well-padded contact area that it wouldn't even bruise.

[Vaecrius]

Seven pages and no one's mentioned a kill puppies for satan LARP?

[Eisenmann]

Y'know, that reminds me: I think an Exalted LARP with full-sized boffer weapons might be feasible. You could put together a grand diaklave as a six-foot-by-one-foot piece of lightweight foam with a flexible plastic plastic core, and stick some weights in the hilt to give it proper balance. If constructed with care, it would be big enough to knock people over, but light enough for your average gamer to wave about, and have such a broad, well-padded contact area that it wouldn't even bruise.

Oh, definitely. He made a 7 foot polearm for a fighter that I was playing in a local group. The thing was quick and balanced and definitely did not deliver more wallop than a typical two handed boffer weapon. He uses PVC pipe for the core which is flexible and strong which does the trick beautifully.

[jgants]

I once had a semi-serious idea for a once-off LARP entitled "The Trial of Juan Maria Alverado". The premise of the LARP was that a woman was on trial for impersonating a man and making a false marriage contract. The twist was, of course, that all the other characters in the LARP were also women impersonating men.

Cool - I'm not the only one with a bizarre idea for a LARP. I've always thought about doing a murder mystery set in medieval Rome where the newly-elected Pontiff was murdered and the characters were all members of the College of Cardinals (and suspected each other of killing the Pope so they could gain the power). Sort of a Murder in the Cathedral/Name of the Rose kind of deal.

[Peter Svensson]

IIRC the reason why White Wolf never published an Aberrant LARP was that they did not want to see their target audience wearing spandex. They really didn't.

[CasperLions]

Nobilis The Larp!

"So a bunch of embodied concepts walk into a bar..."

[Winston Smith]

I had an idea once for a Battle Royale LARP. Since I first saw the movie senior year of high school, I even had an idea for conducting the game on school grounds.

That... obviously didn't get very far.

Killer by Steve Jackson Games. Although I understand it's banned on many campuses now.

[Peter Svensson]

Nobilis The Larp!

"So a bunch of embodied concepts walk into a bar..."
You do realize that there is a Nobilis LARP supplement, and that Nobilis is quite LARPable. The Nobilis are also not "embodied concepts" but people granted dominion over a basic primordial force of reality.

[Manaran]

I had an idea once for a Battle Royale LARP. Since I first saw the movie senior year of high school, I even had an idea for conducting the game on school grounds.

That... obviously didn't get very far.


Well. I can say with authority that the MIT Assassins Guild ran a Battle Royale LARP last year. I didn't play in it, but as far as I understand it went pretty well.

[Matthias Wasser]

Well. I can say with authority that the MIT Assassins Guild ran a Battle Royale LARP last year. I didn't play in it, but as far as I understand it went pretty well.
It's MIT. Nobody would expect anything less.

[damion4242]

Man, Homeland Security already classifies "wearing a costume in public" as a low-level terrorist activity, so why not go all-out? :p

I've seen people in costumes that would at least classify as a fuchia level threat. :)

[ChoppedInHalf]

Waiting for Godot LARP
I 8> U.

[teucer]

You never saw the CoC larp book?

Awesome - it had guys on stilts with wings and rubber claws strapped ot them. And a shoggoth made out of a tie-dyed bedsheet.

I'm rather fond of the diagram of the dude dressed as Y'Golonac.

[Peter Svensson]

I've always wanted to hold a BESM Larp at an Anime Convention.

[Oblivious ignorant elf]

I once saw a live-action battle, of course a planned one, between two big SCA-like groups in full gear. And with two buddies we though it they should try re-creating warhammer fantasy battle. With people dressed as orcs, chaos warriors and beastmen. And then we started pondering on squigs and warboars, which sadly is not physically possible.

[CasperLions]

I would so do a WoTG LARP. No costumes, just playing around with fakey kung fu stances and improvised weapons, just like one might of as a kid.

WoTG, LARP fan supplement:

In any battle, the person whose descriptions of moves and poses are the coolest wins. This mechanism works the same for kung fu, secret arts (social fu), and daoist spells (magic fu), just describe and pose appropriately.

Of course the judge of whose descriptions are better (thus who the winner is), is the Wulin Sage, who must be impartial and fair.

Destiny comes in the form of the Wulin Sage tossing out new cool descriptors like "a god weapon that can shoot fire" or "the highest form of your Evil Crane Fist" to players in reward for particularily cool moments.

[Eisenmann]

I would so do a WoTG LARP. No costumes, just playing around with fakey kung fu stances and improvised weapons, just like one might of as a kid.

WoTG, LARP fan supplement:

In any battle, the person whose descriptions of moves and poses are the coolest wins. This mechanism works the same for kung fu, secret arts (social fu), and daoist spells (magic fu), just describe and pose appropriately.

Of course the judge of whose descriptions are better (thus who the winner is), is the Wulin Sage, who must be impartial and fair.

Destiny comes in the form of the Wulin Sage tossing out new cool descriptors like "a god weapon that can shoot fire" or "the highest form of your Evil Crane Fist" to players in reward for particularily cool moments.

Ooh! Sounds like a neat idea!

[DarkThespian]

Waiting for Godot LARP

This is almost as good as the Waiting for Godot Interactive Adventure:

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/6200/waitingforgodot.html

[Chris]

Killer by Steve Jackson Games. Although I understand it's banned on many campuses now.

my friends and i got it banned from our high school. not for doing anything dangerious mind you, i think it was just freaking the teachers out.

mind you, some of the teachers were playing :)

[Armitage]

I've seen people in costumes that would at least classify as a fuchia level threat. :)
http://images.google.com/images?q=%22man+faye%22&hl=en

[Jerrythehun]

I once saw a live-action battle, of course a planned one, between two big SCA-like groups in full gear. And with two buddies we though it they should try re-creating warhammer fantasy battle. With people dressed as orcs, chaos warriors and beastmen. And then we started pondering on squigs and warboars, which sadly is not physically possible.

Why not use terriers as squigs? From watching dog-shows, which seem to be some kind of doggie plot, I would think dogs would love LARPing.

And really, I bet terriers could make pretty darn funny squigs.

[Bipolar Bear]

Y'know, that reminds me: I think an Exalted LARP with full-sized boffer weapons might be feasible. You could put together a grand diaklave as a six-foot-by-one-foot piece of lightweight foam with a flexible plastic plastic core, and stick some weights in the hilt to give it proper balance. If constructed with care, it would be big enough to knock people over, but light enough for your average gamer to wave about, and have such a broad, well-padded contact area that it wouldn't even bruise.

There was a kid at summer camp who had a giant Final Fantasy-esque sword. Bad news, folks, it acts like a wing. When you swing it, it actually forces itself upward or downward. Not even adults could work with that thing. I think eventually, the kid just hid behind it.

[David J Prokopetz]

There was a kid at summer camp who had a giant Final Fantasy-esque sword. Bad news, folks, it acts like a wing. When you swing it, it actually forces itself upward or downward.I imagine the kid in question built it himself, yes? Heh... I may not know much about boffer weapons, but I do know a thing or two about balance and aerodynamics. I'm pretty sure I can come up with a blade profile for a giant boffer sword that's actually swingable.

[egamad]

Oh, definitely. He made a 7 foot polearm for a fighter that I was playing in a local group. The thing was quick and balanced and definitely did not deliver more wallop than a typical two handed boffer weapon. He uses PVC pipe for the core which is flexible and strong which does the trick beautifully.

Very cool. Does this guy have a web site?

[egamad]

There was a kid at summer camp who had a giant Final Fantasy-esque sword. Bad news, folks, it acts like a wing. When you swing it, it actually forces itself upward or downward. Not even adults could work with that thing. I think eventually, the kid just hid behind it.

Some umbrellas have little slits in the fabric so the wind doesn't catch them. What if you made a bunch of holes in the weapon? That might solve the problem.

[JoshShaw]

my friends and i got it banned from our high school. not for doing anything dangerious mind you, i think it was just freaking the teachers out.

mind you, some of the teachers were playing :)

Senior year in college, I ended up one course short to graduate. Had to take a course over the summer. (Ended up taking a interdiciplanery course Art/Chemistry, did a paper on the chemistry of fireworks, very cool) Killer had not been published yet (Yeah, it was that long ago) but a bunch of us had these cool little plastic spring-operated semi-automatic pistols that fired little silvery plastic pellets. Very mild sting when they hit bare flesh, but it was summer and none of us were going to be wearing winter coats for armor.

The damn things are probably illegal by now, some kid could shot another kids eye out, but we spent the summer playing mass murder all over campus. In the halls, in the Student Union, on the quad, everywhere.

There's no feeling like smokeing dope (it was that long ago) in a room full of armed pretend psychopaths, waiting for someone to loose it, or go for it, and start the general meele.

Josh out.

[Nina]

I'd like to add that several of my friends have apparently been playing "The Office" LARP for several years now. To my knowledge, it's the only LARP that actually gives you a paycheck and has decent benefits.Ha!

[The Lord of Nothings]

Nobilis The Larp!

"So a bunch of embodied concepts walk into a bar..."

*shrug* There was a freeform (one-session LARP) about embodied concepts at last weekend's con. Apparently its not the first. It was pretty fun.

My friend brought in a bottle of vodka at yesterday's Unknown Armies game and 'got a Significant charge' (under our varient rules, this involved taking 5 drinks) before the game started. I reckon extending this to everything would make the most screwed up (but fun) LARP ever. It'd be less evil if you disallowed Epideromancers.

Isn't an AFMBE LARP just that 'guy with shotgun shoots up zombie rave'? On a less tasteless note, there's a zombie march next week... should be fun

I reckon EVERYTHING can be LARPed

[The Lord of Nothings]

Oh, and not technically a LARP... but the people at my old university who weren't playing every White Wolf game in existence (even Gypsies), did Live Action Counterstrike. Dressed all in black, captured people by sticking them with masking tape, communicated with walkie-talkies, etc

I suppose if someone printed LARP rules for the new Rainbow Six RPG, it'd be like that

[teucer]

my friends and i got it banned from our high school. not for doing anything dangerious mind you, i think it was just freaking the teachers out.

This is why some versions (such as the rules we play by) have a rule against killing with non-player witnesses.

Avoiding that is tough when you don't know who's a non-player.

[Broin]

Pimp?

Joe.

[komradebob]

Pimp?

Joe.

D'oh! You win.

[azrianni]

Bunnies & Burrows LARP

[bergec]

For the extreme BDSM crowd: Kult LARP.

Because who wouldn't want to Live Action RP a game where magic requires you to fellate an angel while being whipped with barbed wire by a nun?

[LordEsdawgus]

Human Occupied Landfill the LARP



I tried this once. the ensuing chaos almost destroyed the world!!!

[Shameless Poser]

Pimp?

It's imminently playable. And, like all other White Wolf LARPs, it serves the greater purpose of allowing geeks to get laid by cosplayers.

There is the problem of police intervention, though.

[Erik Sieurin]

There's a bit of an urban legend in my circle that there's a live action Highlander game going on. There's no time out, all players have a list of photo's of the other players, and if they bump into each other in the street they're required to fight. Then get arrested, most likely. We're trying to figure out whether all the players turn up at other, historical, events to run flashbacks.

Back When (90-s, I think) there was actually a running Highlander LARP going on in Stockholm. They managed to not get arrested by having a rule that excludes not only sacred ground, but "the dwellings of mere mortals" from Immortal duels - so if you bumped into each other at the Uni or on a crowded street you would perhaps posture and say (to innocent bystanders) weird stuff, but no one broke out the katanas and claymores (who were boffer-stuff, IIRC).

Erik

[Arnino Storm]

Back When (90-s, I think) there was actually a running Highlander LARP going on in Stockholm. They managed to not get arrested by having a rule that excludes not only sacred ground, but "the dwellings of mere mortals" from Immortal duels - so if you bumped into each other at the Uni or on a crowded street you would perhaps posture and say (to innocent bystanders) weird stuff, but no one broke out the katanas and claymores (who were boffer-stuff, IIRC).

Erik

...awesome. If I was into those kind of LARP, I'd have to start one here. As it is, I just might pass the idea to some of the guys I know who are.

And the mention of an Unknown Armies LARP makes me at the same time shudder with fear and fill with excitement.

[momotaro]

Blue Planet (especially if your character is a cetacean)

"Jeez, is Bob gonna spend ANOTHER LARP session in the bath?"

M

[AikiGhost]

Pimp: the backhanding LARP :D

http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue5/pimp1.html

[Litpho]

The oWoD version of Mind's Eye Theatre.

[pawsplay]

Killer by Steve Jackson Games. Although I understand it's banned on many campuses now.

I've actually sat in on a university meaning in which we were informed Killer was banned, because...

[Gavin Lucan]

I've actually sat in on a university meaning in which we were informed Killer was banned, because...

Oh come on, you can't just leave us hanging like that!

Speaking if Killer, when we played in high school a student managed to blow up a teacher by concealing a bomb in a science experiment...

In front of the whole class, most of whom had no idea why the person was hiding under his desk and there was an alarm clock in the fish tank.

The teacher took it fairly well I'm told.:D

[Rezolution]

Dude, Cthulhu would make an awesome LARP.


It does make for an awesome LARP -- I played in a Cthulhu Live LARP at a con once that I really enjoyed.

[cj.23]

Dude, Cthulhu would make an awesome LARP.

I wanna make the big paper-mache 10-story Cthulhu . . .


Ragnar


Well I did make a Dark Young of Shub Niggurath!

http://members.lycos.co.uk/cjr23/larp/daphne.jpg

and rather less successfully a Migo, here seen on the moon,

http://members.lycos.co.uk/cjr23/larp/migo1.jpg

(floodlit quarry, as in Dr Who!)

and dead!

http://members.lycos.co.uk/cjr23/larp/migo2.jpg

Bizarrely they were actually scary to the players in the context of the game, but they look pretty silly! :)

cj x

[Lord Minx]

Seven pages and no one's mentioned a kill puppies for satan LARP?
Though that was my first thought, it'd be nothing against Bacchanal the LARP. :D

Though I think an KPFS LARP would be all kinds of cool. I can see it before me: The players torturing and killing fluffy plush animals in gruesome details and lots of fake blook. And of course, all the kind of people you normally don't want in your LARP would be perfect PC material. :D

Yeah, I'd defenitly play in a KPFS larp.

M

[Destriarch]

You never saw the CoC larp book?

Awesome - it had guys on stilts with wings and rubber claws strapped ot them. And a shoggoth made out of a tie-dyed bedsheet.
I saw a live action Cthulhu game once involving such a thing. The problem was that most of the players didn't associate the shambling 'horror' with something they were supposed to be scared of until it had actually eaten them. Half of them were convinced it was a new kind of mobile bird hide.

Ash

[Sethra007]

Oh come on, you can't just leave us hanging like that!

Speaking if Killer, when we played in high school a student managed to blow up a teacher by concealing a bomb in a science experiment...

In front of the whole class, most of whom had no idea why the person was hiding under his desk and there was an alarm clock in the fish tank.

The teacher took it fairly well I'm told.:D

When I was a junior in high school, my best friend graduated from her high school, and her entire senior class organized an Circle-of-Death-style Assassination game. It was the tradition at that school for the senior class. Everyone kicked in, like, $5.00 to play, the game began at noon the day after graduation, and ended 24 hours later. Player with most kills took the pot.

This was in a small town in rural KY with almost nothing to do, so inevitably the rest of the town got involved, with conspiracies, bribery, and water-gun shoot-outs in the local strip mall not uncommon. One player bribed the mom of his target to let him in the house the morning the game started--when the grandfather clock in the hallway struck noon, he kicked in the door to his target's room (target was of course sleeping off his post-grad-party hangover) and soaked him with a garden hose. Another player got a local police officer to "question" her target while she planted a "bomb" in his car. The whole town basically lost its collective mind for the duration of the game. It was great, and as far as I know, no one ever got injured (accidentally or otherwise).

'Course, these days the whole senior class would be rounded up and fined for some obscure Patriot Act violation.

[theliel]

It's imminently playable. And, like all other White Wolf LARPs, it serves the greater purpose of allowing geeks to get laid by cosplayers.

There is the problem of police intervention, though.

1) pimp the backhanding =esque larp is run every year at dragon con called "street combat' or some such. the combat invovles pencil wars...
- worst idea ever....

Vampire: the Masqurade, which unbeknowlst to the players was actually Amber...

(yha. i played in that one)

[Deamon]

I am currently playing in a LARP called Avatars. You're a normal person with a life who suddenly embodies a percentage of a Hero or God. Nobody can embody more than a certain percentage and the god/hero can embody into more than one mortal (hasn't happened yet). The amount of avatar taken reduces the amount of the original mortal. The downside the more avatar you embody the less likely technology is going to work. Some of our avatars haven't been able to take a hot shower or a phone call for months. Busses and cars won't work if they try and use them. Of course in return you get cool stuff like being able to throw lightning and have incredible strength (thor) be invunerable and good with greek weapons (Achilles) etc. I think we have a core of about 12people.

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[Sethra007]

The Worst LARP Idea I encountered from my own personal experience was the first LARP I ever helped run.

The Head GM approached me, and wanted to do an oWoD Kindred/Garou crossover LARP, with me managing the Garou Side, her husband managing the Kindred side, and her over the whole nine-yards. We came up with a backstory, some plots and goals to get people going, some general character requirements, and began recruiting players. I got one of my good friends--who's forgotten more about WtA than I'll ever learn--to help me run the Garou side of the game.

A., the Head GM, had final approval over characters. And due to work schedules, she was more accessible than myself or my co-Garou-GM in the evenings after 5pm, so she wound up interviewing most of the prospective players.

So imagine our surprised when we started seeing PC types show up that were far outside what we had anticipated. Such as a Gurhal, a Pooka Changeling, a Revenant, and a Dreamspeaker mage.

Turns out that--in her enthusiam for the entire WoD-- A. (the Head GM) was approving anything that wasn't broke. That is, she wasn't letting in characters that were overpowerful, like 5th generation vampires or the like. But she was letting in characters from other oWoD games or supplements, such as Changeling, Changing Breeds, Mage, Wraith, and so forth. Basically, if you went to her with a concept that wasn't overpowerful, and had a good sales pitch, she'd approve it with some limitations (no Master-level magi, for example).

Due to the nature of the backstories we'd constructed and the plots we had in place, most of the characters the Head GM was letting in were a better fit for the Garou side of the game than the Kindred side. Result: my co-Garou-GM and I got stuck with them.

Had I been a more mature gamemaster, I would have said to A., "Absolutely not. You approved them, you deal with them, or you tell them you made a mistake. Standard-issue Garou and Kindred are what we designed this game to handle, and that's all we're allowing in." But I wasn't more mature, and I didn't want to disappoint the players who'd already had their characters approved (and sometimes had even had some casual interaction with other players--A. had also taken to having "interaction only" sessions at her home in the evenings, outside the scheduled game times). So my co-GM and I tried desperately to manage our side of the game as the LARP grew more and more unwieldy.

The Head GM wound up bringing in another Head GM to help her with the Kindred side, which he promptly turned into a mary-sue fest. His PC was an insane Mage who thought he was a Garou--of course, all his magic kept the senior Garou and the Caern spirits from detecting that he was human. He allowed his wife to play a Corax on the Garou side of the game--which would have been fine if he hadn't allowed her to pull Corax rules of Zanzibar's site (the Corax book wasn't out yet, but that mean she should have consulted us, not plucked rules of the 'Net). The wife also played a re-programmed missing HITMark on the Kindred side of the game (the HITMark was, of course, personal bodyguard to his insane-Mage character).

The whole thing eventually imploded when the Head GM and her husband broke up and a lot of things about how the 2nd Head GM chose to run the game (and abuse his authority) came out.

The whole experience left me with a violent distate for crossover, at least in the oWoD. I believe that some crossover in the oWoD, carefully managed, can lead to exciting yet balanced stories. I also believe that just because it exists in the oWoD, doesn't mean that you can have them all together in a game. (Well, maybe you can, but it takes a lot of work, and in this case we'd already designed the game to handle certain character types).

[Gavin Lucan]

*awesome Killer story snipped*

That's freakin' awesome. It makes me want to run Killer again. One of these days... *sigh* :)

[angelicmadrigal]

Survivor the LARP .....ewww

[Redfeild]

The oWoD version of Mind's Eye Theatre.

Which version? The Green book or the Gray book where the Kysid(SP) bloodline had Necromancy?

You know, I some times miss that old Gray Book. Wish WW would reprint it for nostalgia's sake.

[cbeilby]

Been there done that.... :o

But the 501st looked good. Trouble was, guard duty is BORING.

The LARP bit, but the costumes were not the reason it sucked.

The last LARP I played in was a damn good Star Wars LARP, run by someone who had never played the old WEG SW LARP rules. She came up with her own rules, and it was essentially a Murder Mystery. Damn fun game.

And the 501st ALWAYS looks good, OG.

[cbeilby]

Nobilis The Larp!

"So a bunch of embodied concepts walk into a bar..."

Joke you may, but the first (and afaik only) supplement published for the second edition WAS a LARP rulebook.

[Litpho]

Which version? The Green book or the Gray book where the Kysid(SP) bloodline had Necromancy?

You know, I some times miss that old Gray Book. Wish WW would reprint it for nostalgia's sake.The Gray one. It probably worked great for lots of players, but the trait system just felt incredibly clunky (and translating it into dutch didn't help matters much). We played it for about a year and then converted to V:tM 2nd edition and later Revised. In the mostly social context we were playing having dice around didn't matter much anyway.

[Redfeild]

The Gray one. It probably worked great for lots of players, but the trait system just felt incredibly clunky (and translating it into dutch didn't help matters much). We played it for about a year and then converted to V:tM 2nd edition and later Revised. In the mostly social context we were playing having dice around didn't matter much anyway.

I had two characters go from grey to green. It was weird having a larger blood pool and no beast trait. Played them both all the way to the end of LotN.

[Jcollins316]

Worst LARP Ideas.. anything with rock, paper and scissors.

[Requiem_17_23]

I've seen several attempts at LARP daiklaves / daiklave size foam-and-latex weapons.

One fell apart under its own weight the first time it was used. One (built along pretty exact daiklave proportions after the pattern of a Bronze Age broadsword) is currently in use by the guy that made it in our local LARP as a greatsword. One fits almost exactly the proportions of the sword on the front of the Abyssal corebook (six foot curved sword with a blade eight inches across in places), and is balanced such that a seven foot man with the muscles of a gorilla could fence with it one-handed; problem with this one is that the sheer weight of the weapon makes it unsafe in the hands of someone unused to pulling blows with such a heavy weapon.

In general, they're not unsafe unless you use them like Exalted would - anything longer than four feet is going to be impossible to use one-handed for any period of time, and any sword over about five and a half feet is absolutely unmanageable (even double-handed) without half-swording. :cool: Daiklaves et cetera aren't that much bigger than the larger LARP weapons anyway - my foam-and-latex bastard sword is a generous three and a half feet long and the blade is a good four inches wide at the hilt, and I've seen seven-foot double handed swords and five-foot hammers with heads the size of a pair of mating soccer balls.

But I still yearn for Exalted LARP if only I could write a decent (partial-contact boffer) system for it..

[Jerrythehun]

The Cam. I know it's been said, but yeeesh, that was horrible.

And it wasn't the game itself. The game was usually pretty good. It was The Cam that fucked everything up.

[angelicmadrigal]

Navy Seals.....the LARP

[Cessna]

World War One Dreadnought: Engine Room Stoker.

To play, players are locked in a heated bank vault and given a shovel and a bunker full of coal. They must shovel coal as fast as possible continuoisly for three days. Each day the referee rolls a d20. On a roll of "1," their ship is declared sunk and the players are ruled as having drowned. On a "2," their ship is declared to have taken a hit and the players are ruled as having burned to death. Players will play bi-weekly sessions until the war ends.