Home from the Sea

[roseembolism]

We survived the convention, and the LARP was a success, though a disorganized mess of a success.  My freinds had fun, and I nearly passed out from laughter, so that was the important thing.  I'm honopred to know such brilliant, creative people.

I'm ready for a rest from conventions though; everything is heightened at a convention, emotions, relationships, drama.  Especially drama.  I guess the point of having a good time at a convention is to not let the drama control you, and in a sense, the apocalyptic daydreams I had before the con actually served me well.  But, I am ready to avoid drama for a while.

In other news, I have a few ideas I'm tossing around, LARPwise.  Something simple, fun, and yet dramatic.  *sigh*, and so it goes....

Comments

[iamradar.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed to hear that there was drama, and I hope that despite it, you had a good time this weekend. I'm sorry I couldn't be there to share in it...dancingshaman's anecdotes as to what happened in the LARPS were hilarious!

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

It wasn't so bad- based on my experience with cons, I think I can safely say there will ALWAYS be drama of one sort or another, and the important thing is how one deals with it. In my case, I think I need to build up a more robust support system if I'm going to be running a LARP.

And yes, the players were hilarious; I had trouble at times adjucating, since I was literally falling down with laughter.

[ratontheroad.livejournal.com]

How'd the rules work out for you? Feedback and fixes?

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Overall, the rules worked very well, and people grasped them quickly. One nice thing is that I could quickly add on alternative resolution systems- for example, in the arm wrestling contest, instead of a normal opposed roll, I had both contestants roll three times, and added up the totals.

I also used a "stat+3" resistance value instead of the "stat+4" you recommended. In this case, it seemed to work well, since thee were still plenty of people rolling low.

I had a few problems simply from my implementation- I tended to stat people a little high, and some of the characters, such as He-Man, She-Ra and Megatron had stacked abilities that turned them into monsters as far as physical stats went. Some characters like Jerica/Jem and Cobra Commander were equally as monstrous when came to social stats.

We had a few interesting new unique abilities: Brainy Smurf had "Smurf in the Machine" which let him reprogram nearly anything. I was surprised at how quickly that resulted in Megatron being released from his gun form. Also, Pizaz had a unique trait called "Don't Give a Damn 'bout my Bad Reputation", which allowed her to automatically succeed on a social test, at the cost of failing on her next test.

Overall, I'm enthusiastic about the system, and would like to use it in the next LARP I work on. Since that looks to be a much lower-powered one, it'll be interesting to see how it works out.

I'll also be sending you a copy of the modifications I did to the abilities- which wasn't much.