This being a list of things that the author has been banned from doing when writing or running larps.
- May not entirely fill a room with giant inflatable eyeballs
- May not nail PCs in coffins and conduct mock burials
- May not include anything that involves the phrases "bathtub literally full of fake blood" and "near-naked crew member with a snorkle"
- May not require players to throw darts at a board as a central character generation mechanic.
- Not to make PCs literally sign contacts in their own actual blood
- Not to call TIME OUT, then have plot continuing to roll out for a further ten minutes.
- May not include roleplay effects of "you believe that you are turning into a giant bee"
- "COVERED IN BEES" is not to be a valid system call
- May not write plot purely as an excuse to reference Wolf Drop
- Not to approve the "Redneck Toreador" bloodline
- "Stamford Prison Experiment: The LARP" is not to be run
- Not to write NPCs purely to make bad psychoanalysis jokes
- No sneaky references to Oglaf
- 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.
- May not require PCs to literally burn their actual clothes.
- May not institute thinly disguised system of ref bribes for bonus XP
- May not run a mega-game that is literally a pyramid scheme.
- May not include a "reading your bullshit novella of a background" surcharge in booking.
- Pay2Win is not a good model for LARP.
- May not name system "Interminable Arguments"
- Or "Historically Accurate LARP Productions"
- May not ban hard-skill social skills.
- 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.
- Not to deliberately schedule events to clash with those run by people I don't like
- May not name a deity "He-who-is-Longer-than-He-is-Wide"
- Book-mutilation is not to be a central mechanic of any system
- May not base game mechanics around Pacman.
- May not chase players with a remote control tarantula
- May not advocate tobacco smoke enemas as an IC healing method, no matter how historically accurate it may be
- "Murder Circus LRP" is not to be run.
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