2016 Fall in Review
Fall 2016 Much like how game is supposed to start at 10pm but by midnight you’re hastily duct...
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Thou Shall Not! – Fight with Short Claws
The Red Rocket. The Hound of Glory. The Dog Dick of Shame. The dreaded 24” short claw. Never, ever use these. I know, I know, these things wash up in Monster Camps and tend to stick there like the idea that tacos and beans will make a great Saturday meal; throw them away.
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2016 Preview
And speaking of 2016, there are a whole host of new offerings on the horizon! Even with a number of games winding down, it seems that this year may break a record for new LARPs starting up.
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2015 Year in Review
The hobby has grown too damn large for me to reliably keep track of (dangling participle). For every shout-out I’d give games like NERO Mass for running a 150+ attendee National Event or Madrigal for concluding a 16 year plot-arc, I’d probably overlook Mythical Journeys contribution as a key entry-point into the hobby as a whole or Dystopia Rising’s 17 event season (ok, it’s more like 12…but that’s a LOT of events).
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Crowdfunding – The rising trend in Kickstarter & GoFundMe campaigns
If there’s one thing LARPing in New England showed us this past year was that the hobby is growing and fracturing at an increasingly frenetic pace, and also that crowd-funding your game is the space to be in.
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Latex Weapon Fighting
Actual Fighting There was little actual combat at the Arcane events in comparison with a...
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Latex Weapons (aka the first that Latex has actually made something less safe)
Latex Weapons and You… My experiences in Buying, Using and Abusing Latex Weapons for the very first time! (aka the first that Latex has actually made something less safe)
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Larp Injuries
So what are the most serious injuries you have ever seen in your 15 years of LARPing? Generally, people wrenching their knees, ankles or backs before the start of game. Another chap made a leaping, diving attack and landed wrong on his arm, breaking it (or was it a wrist?). Oh, someone wearing shorts tore through a mass of brambles and cut up his legs pretty good.
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Saturday Night Shitshow
The Saturday Night Shitshow- Sometime after about 10pm on Saturday night of a standard event, combat politeness begins to deteriorate. People are hyped up and yet tired. Environmental concerns like cold, wet, and even heat begin to pile up and exhaustion begins to set in. As the event naturally builds to a climax, the stakes are raised.
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Larp Weapon Safety
What about weapons? In a DIY hobby, shouldn’t weapons be checked and re-checked at every event? Nope. Primarily, weapon checks are an unsustainable fallacy.
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Latex Weapons – Unboxing
The sword looked cool. It *felt* cool. I looked good holding it, it looked good being pretend-scabbarded at my side. And then Xephyr hit me in the neck/back/shoulder/hip with the giant head of a giant goddamn mace that was, I kid you not, more than a foot in width and covered in spikes because fuck you, NPCs.
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