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Agenda for the LARP Writers' Workshop 2011
Details
Date:
- Saturday, 1 October, 11am to 6pm
Venue:
Bring:
- A small plate of snacks.
- Items for the agenda.
Facebook event:
Agenda
- Types of LARPs
- Boffer LARPs
- Murder mystery dinners
- Theatre-style LARPs
- Overview of a LARP-writing process
- Planning and plotting
- Writing character sheets
- Polishing
- Playtesting and running
- Planning
- Number of players
- Selecting the setting
- Selecting the situation
- Containment
- Tight plotting vs character acting
- Layering large LARPs
- Comparing LARPs to other forms of storytelling
- Novels, movies, tabletop RPGs
- Avoiding writing for a single ending
- Ensemble cast
- Every character must be interesting to play
- LARP gimmicks
- Cards
- Items (with or without powers)
- Telepathy
- Magic
- NPCs
- Deliberate power imbalances
- LARP combat
- RPS, dice, ability cards, playing cards
- Conveying combat ability
- Common LARP tropes
- Auction
- Funeral or wedding
- Seeking shelter
- Political negotiation
- Dinner
- Anti-tropes (things that are trickier than they appear)
- Hostage LARPs
- Character changing mid-LARP
- Major paradigm shifts (aka "Cthulhu arrives")
- Other anti-tropes?
- Controlling pacing
- Locks (interactions that can't take place until other events have
occurred)
- Timed events
- NPCs
- Sanity-checking characters
- Which plot lines are characters connected to?
- Number of concurrent plots?
- Likelihood of a character being drawn into plots?
- How are characters connected?
- Character motivations?
- How many allies does a character have?
- Does the character have too little to do?
- Does the character have too much to do?
- Writing character sheets
- Structure of character sheets
- Working background information into character sheets
- Conveying which information is important in-LARP
- Conveying achievability of goals
- Using deliberate inconsistencies
- All important information should be in at least two character
sheets
- Writing a blurb
- Running a LARP
- Venue
- Physical venue
- Imagined venue
- Closed-off rooms
- Write a four-person LARP in 30 minutes. :)
- Aim to start at 16:00 at the latest
- LARP idea: four people in a coffee shop
- Split into groups of four
- Plot and write character sheets
- Switch LARPs and playtest
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