This is a guest post by Sarah Lynne Bowman, Ph.D. is a role-playing studies scholar and adjunct professor in English, Communication, and Humanities. Historically, one of the most common worries about role-playing games has involved concerns about their psychological effects. In the past, alarmist parents and other non-gamers have complained that RPGs might negatively impact […]
These people were thrown into a real-life sci-fi adventure
Have you ever watched a TV show and just felt the characters did everything wrong? As a gamer you’d navigate the dangers of the plot far better than they did? Users of Chatroulette – where you log in to have a video chat with a random stranger – found themselves thrown deep into a first […]
Props and art from the House of the Necromancer
Looking for some wicked handouts to worry your players with? Geek Native’s featured Necronomicon fragments from Zarono before, some years back, but the House of the Necromancer is still alive and still wonderfully scary. You can check out the House of the Necromancer store at Etsy. Cthulhu LARP Nyarylathotep ritual scrolls I fancy this Cthulhu […]
Pictures from the giant Lord of the Rings LARP at Bitva o Fort
Bitva o Fort is home to a very large LARP that’s loosely based on LoRT and has a special interest in large scale, realistic action, around Minas Morgul. A huge number of LARPs made the event in the Czech Republic and you can read the details and access more pictures over at LARPing.org. Alternatively, skip […]
How to make a green fire Jack o’Lantern
Want your Halloween pumpkin to burn with mystic green flames? I think YouTube user Anne Helmenstine has the best collection of videos. This how-to video for making your own green flame Jack o’Lantern is dead easy to follow. Why stop there? What about rainbow flames for your Halloween carving? As ever, when messing around with […]
Adding a dragon to your armour
Etsy retailer Makosla Creations makes dragons. They’re forged from polymer clay and many of them like to sit on your shoulder. The dragons ship worldwide from Canada but are fragile. They’re not really suited to LARPing and I think you’d be a brave cosplayer, or expecting a quiet con, to try and make it through […]
Steampunk style Warhammer Witch Hunter Hat
Vin Diesel and Elijah Wood have a movie called the Last Witch Hunter coming up. I have to wonder whether we’ll see any iconic “witch hunter hats”. I rather like this one from Spanish Etsy store PropCornShop. [I need this] My first glance of this hat made me think steampunk but it’s actually a Warhammer […]
ViewScream merges virtual tabletop with LARP
Rafael Chandler is a game writer and designer who’s worked on computer games like MAG, Rainbow Six: Lockdown and SOCOM 4. On the tabletop RPG front he has Lusus Naturae and No Salvation for Witches in his credits. ViewScream is different; mixing the growing popularity of Google Hangouts powered virtual tabletops, with LARP and with […]
Fancy a monster sound system?
Who would buy this? A geeky musical festival, a well funded LARP, or perhaps computer games company throwing a party? [I neeeeeeed] Etsy retailer “HandPaintedGarments” describe this as “big, green and unique”. I’d say they’re right. The handmade system is composed of fibre glass, leather, rope, metal, wood and even crystal. You can see the […]
Top 5 Worst Character Backstories for LARP
Kristin Brumley is the creator and executive producer of Basic Adventuring 101, a webseries about Live Action Role Play (LARP). The series highlights women in the hobby as well as in the Indiefilm world, and is currently looking for audience support on their Seed&Spark campaign. Whether you are in a LARP, playing a game of […]
