Words and Thoughts

There have been a couple of instances in recent memory where I’ve heard players talking about how much plot they have (or don’t have) in a LARP they’re participating in. This isn’t an uncommon complaint for a player to have, but my experience has been that it’s generally an inaccurate complaint that gets bandied about [...]

Hopefully I’ll get to some more substantiative content in the near future, but I thought it worthwhile to point out that we’ve had a couple of updates on the LARPA site today.

Mike Young’s blog has been added to Planet LARPA! I’d still love to get some more blogs participating in the project, so please [...]

So, as I’ve hinted at in my last few posts, I’ve been doing a goodly amount of work on LARPA’s web properties since Intercon H. In the ideal world I would liked to have gotten this done before Intercon, but had to actually get my share of 10 Bad Modules in 100 Bad Minutes written. [...]

I’m of mixed opinions about writing about The Wire on this blog, especially since since I’m in the process of promoting my LARP blog project (full details coming up in the next day or two, but check out http://blogs.larpaweb.net for a preview). One one hand, The Wire is clearly not a LARP, but on the [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, I ran two events at Intercon H: J. Tuomas Harviainen’s A Serpent of Ash (discussed here), and 10 Bad Modules in 100 Bad Minutes, a campaign-oriented spin-off of Alleged Entertainment’s 10 Bad LARPs franchise that Gordon Olmstead-Dean and I wrote.
10 Bad Modules in 100 Bad Minutes (or 10BM, for short) is, [...]

Intercon H was this past weekend, and I was crazy enough to run two events there. The first of these was J. Tuomas Harviainen’s A Serpent of Ash, which ran on Friday night. Astute readers will recall that this was the same event that I spectacularly failed to run at Intercon Mid-Atlantic this past November; [...]