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Game-a-thon
« on: March 12, 2006, 08:47:36 AM »
I just spent all day yesterday playing (in order) Shadowrun, Star Wars, and an Onderron LARP.  Much fun.
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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2006, 05:13:11 AM »
damn, that's a whole lotta roleplaying. I couldn't do that, lol.
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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2006, 10:37:45 AM »
Well except for the LARP, I'd like to give it a try.

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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2006, 05:09:16 AM »
not me. I do not larp. I'm not dressin up like some fairy throw bean bags at people while yelling fireball
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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2006, 10:31:57 AM »
Yeah. He only does that for home movies. ;D

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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2006, 10:34:32 AM »
I would love to get into a LARP, but none of the people I game with have the maturity to RP normally.

All of our games are treated as analog video games.
An experiment in number crunching. Everyone is meta-aware, and there is no line separating in-game knowledge from out of game knowledge. . .

Sad, but it can't be changed.
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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2006, 10:39:41 AM »
Well, you're a college student, right Curris?

It's actually pretty easy to find people who want to try a game. Problem is, you'd probably have to run it. What I've found (through years of experience and lots of different groups) is that you can change a lot of things about a group, but the GM is most of the flavor.

If you have a GM who likes High-Power, then everything will be High-Powered. If you have a GM who likes weather, weather will always get mentioned. If you have a GM like me, who prefers low-power, then you constantly have all your neat toys taken away from you, because I prefer it that way.

It's up to you- if you're with a group of friends, buy a module or something, and offer to run it. Lie and say you want to GM to get your feet wet. Whatever. And then once you're in control of the game, run it the way you would like it to be run when you play.

That would be my .02Y

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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2006, 11:42:38 AM »
Well my solution is this. I could start a new group at my college. I am not opposed to running, rather than playing, so that's no big deal. My problem is lack of free time, (I'm an Engineering Major), so scheduling would be difficult.

Although one of my friends in Chicago runs games and LARPS for everything from Vampire : Masquerade, to Shadowrun, to DnD, to Homebrew stuff. He specializes in White Wolf, but he does everything. And he's content to run everything (something that I would need more sleep to do effectively. . .) Anyway, I plan on moving back to Chicago after I get my degree, so I have that solved, I just need patience.

Or I can play as a "temporary" character, and go nuts, and not have to worry about such mundane details as "consequences", whatever they are. . . ::)

Incidentally, the only LARP I ever ran was a Paranoia game. With players that had never LARPed before, never played Paranoia before.

It is both my greatest achievement and most dismal failure, for the same reasons. Everyone had a blast though. . .
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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2006, 12:05:32 AM »
Well, the  LARPs that group does tend to be heavier on role playing than combat: negotiating treaties, espionage, backstabbing, that kind of thing.
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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2006, 11:02:00 PM »
Well, that could be because the guy who wants to play the huge fighter with a strength of 18/100 (2nd edition D&D- work with me here, people!) is usually the skinny kid who can't fight his way out of a paper bag.

I mean, I play with a group of college-aged kids, and that still mostly holds true. I'm probably the best fighter in the group, and I tend to play thieves and tricksters.

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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2006, 05:56:06 AM »
And he looks the best in tights running around the woods.  :o

The only LARP I would ever even consider is an SR LARP, and I've NEVER heard of one of those around here. Shich makes sense as it would really have to be played in an urban setting for any kind of realism.

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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2006, 07:15:15 AM »
We set one up (more or less) a few years ago.
went ok, but it took immense amounts of preparations, and even then it was on a pretty small scale.
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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2006, 12:52:03 PM »
I've seen some postings of a holland (I think) based SR LARP that looked pretty fun, but I don't really think a trip to Holland to pretend to be a one-armed elf is a good use of my money. :-\

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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2006, 01:46:06 PM »
They have shadowrun larps all over the place.

it's called 'paintball'

look into it.

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Re:Game-a-thon
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2006, 02:29:53 PM »
First Con I ever went to had a Shadowrun LARP.  Somebody actually killed the Johnson...who happened to be a dragon.
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