Thursday 16 February 2017

Skippy's Larp


This being a list of things that the author has been banned from doing when writing or running larps.
  1. May not entirely fill a room with giant inflatable eyeballs
  2. May not nail PCs in coffins and conduct mock burials
  3. May not include anything that involves the phrases "bathtub literally full of fake blood" and "near-naked crew member with a snorkle"
  4. May not require players to throw darts at a board as a central character generation mechanic.
  5. Not to make PCs literally sign contacts in their own actual blood
  6. Not to call TIME OUT, then have plot continuing to roll out for a further ten minutes.
  7. May not include roleplay effects of "you believe that you are turning into a giant bee"
  8. "COVERED IN BEES" is not to be a valid system call
  9. May not write plot purely as an excuse to reference Wolf Drop
  10. Not to approve the "Redneck Toreador" bloodline
  11. "Stamford Prison Experiment: The LARP" is not to be run
  12. Not to write NPCs purely to make bad psychoanalysis jokes
  13. No sneaky references to Oglaf
  14. It is unreasonable to have a crew member hide in a cupboard for an entire event, dressed as a skeleton, just on the off chance that the players open it.
  15. May not require PCs to literally burn their actual clothes.
  16. May not institute thinly disguised system of ref bribes for bonus XP
  17. May not run a mega-game that is literally a pyramid scheme.
  18. May not include a "reading your bullshit novella of a background" surcharge in booking.
  19. Pay2Win is not a good model for LARP.
  20. May not name system "Interminable Arguments"
  21. Or "Historically Accurate LARP Productions"
  22. May not ban hard-skill social skills.
  23. The existence of the "MAN DOWN" call to indicate OOC injuries does not require there to also be a "MAN UP" call to indicate those injuries are considered trivial enough to continue play.
  24. Not to deliberately schedule events to clash with those run by people I don't like
  25. May not name a deity "He-who-is-Longer-than-He-is-Wide"
  26. Book-mutilation is not to be a central mechanic of any system
  27. May not base game mechanics around Pacman.
  28. May not chase players with a remote control tarantula
  29. May not advocate tobacco smoke enemas as an IC healing method, no matter how historically accurate it may be
  30. "Murder Circus LRP" is not to be run.

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