LARP: Personal Entertainment or Shared Project?
When you go to a LARP are you going for some entertainment and a chance to hang out with friends? Are you going to be part of a larger project that you take partial responsibility for? Is it the GMs job to entertain you? Is it your job to entertain your fellow players?
ambug666's YaYoG (You Are Your Own Gamemaster) idea explores these questions, as ( Read more... )
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when at game i do not think liek a GM, when between-games, i do. when in the game, i want ful limmersion, with continuity mattering etc. i feel i am there to be entertained, because i spent a large amoutn of time and money to go there, and thus do not want to do work that is no fun. between games i am more liekly to say "hey wouldn't it be cool if our characters X, how can we set it up" and then figure it out and then implement. but that is because between games i am me, thinkign about what would be fun to do in-character :)
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To the first question: Yes, but that alone is insufficient. If it were, I would still be going to XPI.
To the second: Yes, in different ways based on the character. All of my characters are social and I ALWAYS try to pull people in.
To the third: The GMs provide me with background, stories and scenes. My job is then to immerse myself in how my character would deal with them. Sometimes my actions will create other story at the macro or micro level. At a high level, yes they provide entertainment but I have to launch myself into things to find it. LARP is not passive and the game rarely comes to you.
To the fourth: I try to and have learned a lot over the years about doing so. You have to let others have their scenes too.
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