Post originally by Kelly MacDougal at 2003-11-12 18:50:43
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I will start by saying that while I do not work for Interactivities Inc. I do know the authors of this book and we are friends. I was a playtester for the elevator game and the reviewer is right about needing good role-players for it. It would have been a very different game if I had been with other players - but then this is true of most LARPs I think. I have run or played in one particular LARP close to a dozen times and it is distincly different each time it is run. I would like to see that a distinction made though - good role-players does not necessarily mean experienced ones. I've met some people who have LARPed for years and they may be very nice people but they aren't very good at it. On the other hand I've been in games with fabulous people and been surprised to hear that it was their first game ever. So, just because a game is small and doesn't come with thirty pounds of support material doesn't mean it isn't a good game.