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Larp

The Outsiders website

… And this is the website that Cat and I (again, mostly her) put together for The Outsiders, which we ran at Consequences 2013. This is a bit different from the Oh dear! website because, as well as the player-facing pages explaining how the game’s going to work and who the characters are and so […]

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Larp

Oh dear! website

I wanted to do a separate post about the player website that we (where by ‘we’ I mean ‘mostly Cat’) put together for our run of Oh dear! We seem to have run out of time… at Consequences 2014. We wanted to explain to the players what the game was about and how it worked, […]

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Larp

None but the Brave

It’s been a quiet night so far in the Elmridge fire station. The members of Red Watch are chatting, playing cards, drinking tea and attempting to relax. But the peace won’t last… None but the Brave takes a look at bravery and heroism under extreme circumstances. When the flames are raging, who can be relied […]

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Conventions Larp

Consequences

The UK’s national chamber larp convention took place at the end of November as usual – this was the 8th edition. 150 people, 28 different larps, over three days. The standard slot is four hours, and the games ranged from 4 to 32 players – a mix of the traditional UK-style, some American, Nordic and other […]

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Board games

Sentinels of the Multiverse, Darjeeling, Saboteur

The day after Dragonmeet I met up with friends and played some boardgames. Just capturing a few impressions here. Sentinels of the Multiverse A co-op card game in which a troop of superheroes battle a villain plus cohorts. You each choose which hero you’d like to play (from a cast of several), with each having […]