The Newbie's Guide to Survivng a Larp...

[glingle_feegle]

Note:  Yes I know this is something like my fifth blog post of the day, but frankly I haven't got anything better to do and there's lots I feel like writing.  So there.

I'd never attended a LARP before this weekend, and so I was told I was the perfect guinea pig to use as a 'what went right/wrong' guide with regards to people like myself who've

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[fractalgeek]

That's a pretty good guide :-)

I try and differentiate when I am reading my sheet over goals I really need to do, and those that are just for character; It's metagaming, but rule 1 for me is "It's not about beating everyone, but having fun". In this game, "the safetys were on" until Sunday, so it was very unlikely you would have succeeded immediately. So do you go for a quick kill, implicate yourself and set up angst, use slow poison - then spend time trying to reverse it, or just feel relieved when you learn the "real" facts that you didn't set it in motion? A good game will allow for all 3, but sometimes I will either ask the GMs for a hint...

[glingle_feegle]

I know everyone goes about their goals differently, I just wrote what happened to mine :P It wasn't until I got home and got my brain back that I could've gone complete drama queen and started yelling "You're not my mother!" and then killed her anyway :P

[fractalgeek]

It's often the sign of a good game, that you come back and thinking "I could have played that completely differently, and how would things have been different", not as "I got it wrong and missed an opportunity".

For my first big game, I had LOTs of those, and it is still my #1 game - years later, I replayed as a different character. It is still up there, and I still had those sorts of thoughts.

[glingle_feegle]

Things could've turned out completely differently if the vampire that wanted to use my soul to speak with Diablo had found me! It would've been interesting to become the first vampire mistress of France, famous opera singer and notable female doctor :P

Ah well, there's always next time XD

[queenortart]

This is an excellent list

Would you mind if we quoted it on the Consequences website with a couple of changes to take out some of the specific Masquerade references?

[glingle_feegle]

Of course not! It's there to help people after all :)

[wingedkami]

I'll have to look up this group some time. Sounds like fun, and very different to my usual combat-and-healing fests.