by PriamNevhausten » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:52 am
I'm not saying it should be confined, exactly--just that if you want ME in there in a flashy-magic setting like D&D, LARP is not the way to keep me around for long. Unless I get to play a martial artist and actually use what I know; then we might be in business.
Also, I don't know the first thing about Laws of the Wild nor V:TM, so I can't speak for that. My opinion is that props are always necessary in LARP, otherwise, why LARP and not just sit at a table and talk-act?
Hammering out a location isn't hard for kids, because kids have locations hammered out for them. Backyards, basements, or otherwise wherever their parents are. Adults, on the other hand, have time constraints and jobs and things, and if they are going to be doing anything on someone else's property they have to get permission whereas children can often just be waved off as "well, they won't cause any real trouble." Adults also typically require much more space than children do, which makes finding an adequate location slightly more difficult.
On the other hand, adults have the capability to get drivers' licensure, which opens up the range of available places greatly.
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru