Starting a Live Role-Playing Game

Site: Starting a Live Role-Playing Game

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Submitted by: Wyrdmaster

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Description:

A very well written and extremely useful article on how to set up a LARP.
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It was late September, 1994. I had just played my first Mind's Eye Theatre game at Gen Con, and I was eager to play in more. I discovered that a friend of a friend, Aaron Pavao, had also given The Masquerade a try at Gen Con, and was considering starting a game in Madison, Wisconsin. A few days later when I was introduced to Aaron, my first words to him were, "Let's do it."

Thus began Madison By Night. Two guys with little experience between them started a game that has since grown to over forty players.

We were lucky. We made some good choices early on, we have a great troupe of players who put up with our inexperience and constant refinements, and we acquired a talented staff to keep things under control.

Now we've started receiving requests for advice, mostly through email. Since we want to encourage live role-playing, we've made an effort to answer whatever questions we could. It seems that people starting a new game tend to have similar questions and concerns.

Three more Live Action sites:
Age of Valor Live Roleplaying - Wild Gazeboo Productions - SOLAR

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