Comments | lunacow: Another Update, Finally

lunacow

Another Update, Finally

Apr 11, 2011 15:45

Well, my plan to post a monthly update didn't quite work out, but two-plus months later, here I am again. ( This is what's been going on. )

conferences, the extent of the damage, knitting, procrastination, writing, swimming, exercise

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vito_excalibur April 12 2011, 04:08:18 UTC

I did not know that about prescription goggles!

Yeah, with LARPing, secret actions are kind of a complicated issue! If you do them too well, it can end up like you're just playing a game by yourself and not interacting with your fellow players! But if you do them poorly, then all your goals get thwarted. You definitely want to play a meta-game where the goal is to have fun and have the game as a whole be enjoyable, as well as the game where your character's goal is whatever your character's goal is.

mamagotcha April 12 2011, 20:59:20 UTC

I thought my comment on your last was a gentle nag, but I see it was only a few days after you posted, not the required week, so it didn't count.

Prescription goggles! What a great idea!

I've always kinda been interested in LARPing, but I'd need to know people involved. I'd like to hear more about your explorations if you do play more.

lunacow April 13 2011, 05:25:01 UTC

Okay, true enough, you did request a knitting update, but yeah, I guess it was before I started feeling guilty about not having done it yet! Soon, soon...

(I leave the internet for a week and suddenly everyone's posting things with my name in them...) desireearmfeldt April 13 2011, 15:44:45 UTC

Re: seeing & acting on what you see in LARPs: My first reaction to your description is to boggle, because it's a case of you and the other player not knowing something about how the game works that is deeply ingrained in my understanding of what LARP is. Namely, it's not scripted, it's not a performance, no one should be pulling the characters' strings, it's a "simulation" in which the ideal is that what you see is what you get and each character acts as if a real person in the real world (in the sense that you perceive what you perceive and are free to interpret and respond ( ... )

Re: (I leave the internet for a week and suddenly everyone's posting things with my name in them...) lunacow April 16 2011, 19:08:06 UTC

I can see why you'd find that interaction surprising, and I wrote about it because I figured it was an interesting example of newbie play ( ... )

Re: (I leave the internet for a week and suddenly everyone's posting things with my name in them...) desireearmfeldt April 16 2011, 19:37:10 UTC

Yeah, different games/GMs handle the "social abilities" thing in different ways, and different LARPing communities have different average/default ways of looking at it. (One of the games I played at Intercon this year gave everyone a fistful of social abilities, and some players were using them some; I looked at mine and said "these are useful, but in a 4-hour game I don't want to devote the brainpower to thinking about using them..." And, it's weird and character-breaking to interrupt one's use of real-life social powers to insert use of an ability card.)