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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Mar 4^th, 2014 at 12:13am	Print Post
	Okay, a few years back, I was checking out Live Action Roleplaying, "Fantasy Division" and found that there were too many obstacles to participating, not the least of which was expense (participating in NERO games runs into serious money), distance (the IFGS operates out west and not this far east last I looked) and that the rules many times tended to be cumbersome in the extreme. I was poking around in my LARP bookmarks and deleting dead links (LOTS of those) and decided to check out my all time favorite tabletop roleplaying system and LO! When I wasn't looking, they developed a SUPERHERO LIVE ACTION ROLEPLAYING GAME!! Yes, I broke the sound barrier getting out my plastic and I'm now eagerly awaiting delivery of my rulebook! Details as they become available! DEFINITELY gonna have to get a "spandex worthy" body going here....
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #1 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 2:50am	Print Post
	"Champions: The Live Action Roleplaying Game" arrived today. It's a small tome [6 by 9 inches and 154 pages] that gives you the bare bones to get started playing. It mentions things like props and weapons [since some superheroes use them, Green Arrow and Hawkeye are examples and most agents/minions are armed in some way] but doesn't give instructions for constructing safe weapons or on how to modify toy store finds for use in a game. I suspected that might be the case so I've been downloading PDFs of the rule books of those LARP games I can find online to see how they do it. Fortunately, "boffer weapon" construction is pretty standardized so I can put together a "construction manual" for my own use that should be compatible with the "industry standard." I think that the post/ongoing zombie apocalypse LARP that I ran across has rules for using NERF weapons so I'll be checking them out too.�I've got a copy of the extremely rare STAR WARS LARP that I'll be digging up and culling for information.� The Champions LARP is also somewhat light on "rules" so that would have to be addressed before starting up a game. After I've finished reading it, I'm going to post on the HERO Fan Group facebook page to see if anyone there has experience with it. It came out in 2012 so there "should" be someone out there who's played it.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #2 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 5:52am	Print Post
	I am currently trying to figure out how one can have a "classic" superhero brawl when "physical contact" is forbidden. Either I'm missing something or the authors dropped the ball on this one 'cause they DO mention it. Personally, I've seen too many superheroes go toe-to-toe (especially the "super" martial artists) with the villains to see how they can cut out "close quarters combat." Must keep reading.....


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #3 - Mar 27^th, 2014 at 4:21am	Print Post
	I've been poking around facebook tonight and it looks like the Indiana chapter of NERO might be on "life-support." If so, that means that only "Dystopia Rising" (a post zombie apocalypse game) is the only LARP in the southern half of Indiana. There's a "full contact" combat game that operates out of Indianapolis (name escapes me at the moment) but they don't do a lot of roleplaying which is what I'd like to do since running around whacking people with swords, while attractive, isn't something I can do with my knees the way they are. I'd need to be a Non-Player Character [supporting cast] and/or costumer and/or propmaker. Guess I'm going to have to keep an eye on the situation.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #4 - Mar 27^th, 2014 at 5:35pm	Print Post
	I've found another LARP, this one headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. I was able to get a decent deal on the rulebook so I've ordered it and I should get it on the 2nd since Amazon is filling the order and their main shipping hub is in Louisville with a secondary hub in Whitestown, IN. This group is just getting started so this could be a chance to get in on the ground floor. I'll see anyway.
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #5 - Mar 27^th, 2014 at 7:37pm	Print Post
	I've been lurking around looking at places where larps could be staged and I must say that I'm drooling. Unfortunately, the coolest looking place is in Ohio, curse the luck. But I can dream...


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #6 - Mar 31^st, 2014 at 9:49pm	Print Post
	Just got the notification that the copy of the Mind's Eye Theater's Rules for Playing Vampires: Revised is on the way. I want to see how they handle "live action" vampires as player characters. Yes, I'm in "research mode" at the moment.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #7 - Mar 31^st, 2014 at 9:54pm	Print Post
	Another thing I'm doing is making notes for a LARP set in Samgara. I don't know if anything can or will come of it but the ideas are pinging around in my head like overexcited gas molecules and if I don't get them out of my head and into a file somewhere, I'm not going to be able to think of or do anything else and I really NEED to!


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #8 - Mar 31^st, 2014 at 11:02pm	Print Post
	Okay. Just found out that the outfit I'm looking at hasn't expanded beyond their first group. They have however, incorporated so one would expect that expansion is in their plans. I'm about to ask a whole bunch of questions that they may not have answers for.... yet.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #9 - Apr 8^th, 2014 at 12:01am	Print Post
	Currently on the hunt for a good how to "beginner's" book on "creature" makeup. Nothing relentlessly gory or complicated -- that can come later! I've realized that if we're going to get into LARP -- and the idea looks damned attractive -- we're going to need "how to" books on a variety of "theatrical-type" topics as well as gaming topics and I'm trying to assemble a small reference library to that end. I've sent an email query about what's involved in setting up a licensed branch of that LARP headquartered in Cincinnati. [My post on their forum was pretty much ignored except for people telling me to email this one guy.] Once I hear back from that, we'll know whether we will be going with them or on our own. Either way, we'll need the books!


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #10 - Apr 8^th, 2014 at 4:56pm	Print Post
	No reply to my email yet. On the "book front" one book is "out for delivery" and the last two in this particular series have been ordered and shipped. I "should" have them by next week if the shippers remember to take them to the Post Office. I got kinda snarky with that guy yesterday. I know that he'd gotten the shipping label on the 3rd and just hadn't taken it to the post office but when I sent him an email late on the 6th, telling him that it hadn't shown up in USPS tracking and suggesting that he check on it, he gave me a song and dance about how the Post Office does a good job but they sometimes lose stuff. This did not sit well and I informed him that my husband WORKS for the post office and that I knew that scans were sometimes missed and that I ALSO knew how long it took for a package to get here from anywhere in the country once it was in the system. The next time I checked the tracking, the package had been "received" in Cincinnati. It got to Indianapolis last night, was transferred to the Martinsville truck on the dock. Since yesterday, I've gotten three more emails from this guy that I haven't even opened and probably won't. I'll just send him a note when I have the package and ignore the rest.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #11 - Apr 8^th, 2014 at 6:51pm	Print Post
	Have the book. I now have instructions on how to build all sorts of "interesting" things. Still no response to my email. sigh "The clock is ticking, dude..."


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #12 - Apr 8^th, 2014 at 9:46pm	Print Post
	Found and ordered a very basic stage makeup book. It will do to get started with and more books and techniques can be added later after I've had the chance to poke around in Barnes and Nobel or the Indianapolis Public Library.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #13 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 1:55am	Print Post
	Still no answer to my email. This does not bode well.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #14 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 4:44am	Print Post
	Telling Skywise what I'm finding out about the various LARP systems -- aside from wholesale plagiarism -- and how I'd want to do it differently. And STILL no reply to my email....
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #15 - Apr 9^th, 2014 at 6:21pm	Print Post
	Got an answer. They'll talking about it. More waiting.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #16 - Apr 11^th, 2014 at 6:07pm	Print Post
	sigh Still waiting on an answer. It seems pretty obvious that my questions came out of left field as far as they're concerned. While I'm waiting, more books are on the way (one could arrive today, another "could" be here tomorrow. Monday at the latest.) and I'm working on "The Reader's Guide to Samgara and Keyholder's Castle" which with the addition of "game specific" material, could easily be a "Player's Guild to Samgara." No matter what happens, I will at least have a definitive guide to Samgara that will help me keep things straight. One thing I'm going to have to do is get out the map I made (which is HUGE!) and start breaking it down into manageable pieces rather like a Rand McNally Road Atlas.... THAT should keep me out of trouble for a while....


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #17 - Apr 11^th, 2014 at 9:15pm	Print Post
	Found two more books that "should" be helpful in starting and running a larp group. They aren't about "larp", they're about the ins and outs of amateur theatrical production which when you break it down is what larp is -- improvisational theater within a set but loose framework performed without an audience. Post # 32,567
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #18 - Apr 12^th, 2014 at 12:19am	Print Post
	Brought the subject up on the 31st, since that didn't get a response I sent an email on the 7th. sigh Can anyone blame me for being just a tad impatient? They really should have had some ideas about expansion before they went "public".


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #19 - Apr 12^th, 2014 at 4:34am	Print Post
	Checked the email one last time. Nothing. sigh Maybe tomorrow.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #20 - Apr 12^th, 2014 at 6:44pm	Print Post
	Got another of the books I ordered. My "theatrical production" library is growing. I do wish the basic stage makeup books I ordered would get here. I want to know what they cover so I know what "specialty" subjects I need to look for. And no email yet.....


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #21 - Apr 13^th, 2014 at 4:26am	Print Post
	I got the book on basic costuming I ordered. Ordinary "human" clothes I have down cold but this book has instructions for things like centaur costumes as well as some other things that will look good without costing a fortune or taking hours to make. And still no email .....


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #22 - Apr 15^th, 2014 at 5:30pm	Print Post
	The basic "makeup" book has arrived. I will NOT be making vampire fangs from boiled and bleached bones from a butcher shop. Yes, this book was written before DIY vampire fang kits were readily available at Hot Topics.... Still no email....


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #23 - Apr 17^th, 2014 at 11:38pm	Print Post
	STILL no email and since they have an event that starts tomorrow, if I hear nothing tonight I don't expect too until after the weekend. On the plus side, I've ordered some prop money through amazon and if it works out, I'll order more. I'll need representations of all the denominations in the monetary system but the larger gold and silver coins have been the hardest to find. Fortunately, on Samgara if the coin is standard weight it is accepted regardless of where it was minted. And if it ends up that we aren't playing on Samgara, prop money is STILL going to be needed although playing in Samgara is looking more likely by the day.....


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Thinking about getting in trouble... STOP LAUGHING! Reply #24 - Apr 18^th, 2014 at 7:46pm	Print Post
	Doing the boring "not fun" stuff of organizing. Right now, having decided on how to compensate members who donate stuff to the group, I have the list on the desktop and every time I think of something that we'd need that could be donated, I put it on the list with the number of points that the donor would get in exchange. So far I have lists for Heavy, medium and light manual labor, costume, props and weapons donations and donations of office supplies, makeup, clerical work and the use of personal vehicles and storage space. Definitely not as much fun as thwacking someone with a boffer sword but it has to be done for things to run smoothly. Rule One: Get thy ducks in a row BEFORE you start recruiting players!


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