How to Avoid Bad LARPs 

Honestly same. If a game has a ton of weird rules, its just not fun to attend. Some rules make sense, like safety and boundary rules, and general guidlines for the story. But if it gets much more its so annoying

In CZE we call it "Šatrh". And it is great way to play. I really like it. And on top of all, it is immersive as hell.

Yeah, this. I was a Camarilla Fan Club LARPer back in the 1990s and 2000s and it was a wonderful time that, yes, was a horror PVP game at heart. Fortunately, we had other venues as well, such as Changeling LARP and so on, which are much less heavy on the PVP element. People who have a difficult time with the content that comes up in horror games, or who do not want to engage in PVP, are going to have a hard time at those games, and tracking known triggers (or even content people simply dislike) would have been difficult with as many people playing as there were. Which is one reason why we would use what we called 'Venue Style Sheets' or VSSes, which basically laid out all the content on a 1 to 5 or 1 to 10 scale, and the players could self-select themselves in or out based on their preferences. The club has changed a lot over the decades though, it has become more institutionalized overall AND the players treat it like a 'Company Providing A Service' rather than a 'Club Run By Volunteers Who Are Your Friends', which creates a lot of toxicity in both the storytelling staff and the player base. I ran a Sabbat game a few years back (not my preference, I prefer Changeling and Wraith, but they needed an ST) for the club in Colorado and immediately found the entire experience SUPER exhausting within three sessions because people saw me as a Service Provider instead of a Fellow Gameplayer and would Karen the fuck out of me and the other storytelling team members, would demand that I be the one to address benign behaviors that they found irritating (i.e., small stuff, not the serious stuff we would direct to Coordinators) because they did not want to have adult-to-adult conversations themselves, et cetera. I tried and tried and tried to impress upon people that we were friends volunteering our time and emotional labor so we could all have a local game to attend, but they consistently tried to squeeze us into this weird space where they could see us as 'Staff' instead. So the scene overall has changed a lot. I'm not really sure that I would go back to Cam/MES at this point.

@@AuntieHauntieGames Interesting. Seems like the scene really has changed a lot. As for the problem you describe. "ST gets payed a lot = a lot of service" and "ST gets payed nothing = dear player be happy with what you get". The concept shouldn't be that hard to grasp. Were the players perhaps young and not able to understand the work you put in or was there perhaps something in how the game and club was organized and presented itself?

I tried it some year ago. They have a problème of hazing, they are horrible to New people and dont understand why they dont stay.

Waypoint in Muskegon is a very high fantasy game, but has some excellent medieval elements, and a solid team of staff.

@@navarrduphoenixx Thank you, that is super helpful.

Yep, we have to do some reshoots though.

@@DavvyChappy ah okay, thanks for the update.

Who knows

Absolutely bring a friend/safety anchor that wants to try a new experience. Larp encounters and scenes run the gamut from mild to “overwhelming even for NTs, and disassociating individuals.” I’ve had immersive joys, laughed until my face hurt, and sang and danced with friends. I’ve also had immersive lows that were powerful and profound, evoking emotions that I could appreciate later as being “real” even though the situation was completely make-believe. Many larps run from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. I make plans to attend as much as I can handle, and then I leave because I know my limits, and if that means I larp for three hours on a Saturday afternoon, I enjoy that time, and then I politely excuse myself and go home because any more socializing would make me uncomfortable. Find what works for you. Take it slow, and never hesitate to walk away.

Bringing a friend is a good idea. Also try to join an existing group, makes the beginning much easier and you can get support from them as well. I assume being autistic can make a larp extremely overwhelming with all those changing situations and all those different people playing different characters. So maybe start slow. In the other hand larp is great, as long as you play you can do nothing wrong, unlike really where not being social and not behaving in a certain way can make your life hard. Many people find that quite liberating.

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People ask for more larp videos because there are surprisingly not that much beginner focused larp content in general.

I was burned out by D&D, and I was feeling like I'd talked all I could about it anyways, so I decided to bite the bullet and make videos about this super niche thing that I actually care about.

@@DavvyChappy great decision! Will you make reviews for other rpgs or will there just be larp vids

@@moderncrusader5128 Just larping for now. I've got to decide how I'm gonna move forward with these in the first place. It's warming up, and I want to take advantage of that.

@@DavvyChappy you got me inspired to check out a larp in my city of Toronto. It’s called Underworld and it’s a Dark fantasy larp akin to Diablo and Dark Souls