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Last weekend was Kapcon weekend, a great opportunity to catch up with gamer friends and binge on gaming (plus V and pizza). This year I mostly played various Apocalypse World derived games and ran two sessions of the Larp On Display

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This year exiledinpn and I attended the Phoenix LARP convention in Christchurch for the first time. Phoenix differs from Chimera and Hydra in that it's held on the University campus rather than a scout camp. This makes the venue costs a lot cheaper, but does mean you have to organise your own food and accommodation.

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I've just got back from this year's Chimera. Going in, I was expecting that the Larps would be solid but maybe not quite reaching the very high bar set by Hydra. However, the overall quality of the games at Chimera (at least of those I played) equalled those at Hydra, which is great news for the NZ larp scene.
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One of the biggest problems I've found with trying to replicate the Agatha Christie style whodunnit in an RPG is breaking the players out of a CSI type mind-set where they spend all their time looking for physical evidence and obsessing over timelines, and instead get them to focus on the secret motivations of the suspects ( Read more... )

Small Town Folks is a LARP for 12 players by Peaky Games set in a hurricane shelter in a small Nebraska town in 1962. The character gender ratio is reasonable with 4 female, 5 male and 3 gender neutral characters. Of course, Wellington skew being what it is, when we ran all the gender neutral parts were played by females and we still had to have 1 ( Read more... )

Well, my last post was Hydra 2014, so it's been a whole year since I updated. This year looks to be quite busy on the LARP front, so maybe I'll update more frequently (or maybe I'll be too busy).

This year Hydra had a strong line-up, and for the first time I think every game achieved what it set out to do.

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Well it's the day after Hydra and I'm conscious enough to type up a report, so here goes

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Day 1

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This weekend I attended Hydra, Wellington's annual LARP convention. This is Hydra's second year and other than the weather everything went well. Mr Mouse's account can be read here.

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