Planet LARPA

We will not have flying rigs at LoB 3.

I have written a column expanding on Young's Law (Games are sold by word of mouth).

You can read it at: http://www.mortalisrpg.com/forum/index.php?topic=232.0

In other life news, LoB 3 is going really well. Plotting is happening and the game is still sold out.

I have printed all of Slash and TRNT for Intercon J. Character Packet stuffing happens tonight.

Tickets are still available for Urinetown. Watch me pee on stage!

This week there's a guest columnist, Mike Young, and he'll be discussing Young's Law or why word of mouth is an important part of growing and advertising a LARP. And now Mike ...

LARP Is Sold By Word of Mouth

I first spoke those words in the ear...

I’m here to tell a story. Some time ago, a group of people who for the purposes of this entry shall remain anonymous wrote a highly successful LARP which shall not be mentioned here. That is not the story I tell today. Today, I tell the story of the LARP they almost wrote. The LARP that should never have been considered. The LARP that should never be spoken of, for fear of angering the elder gods of LARP.

I take great personal risk in writing even this much, so I apologize for the lack of detail in what follows. But I have recently come into possession of an artifact that should not exist, from where I cannot say. In fact, many will claim that it cannot exist. All records of the LARP in question were burned in purifying fire; we know that. All of the authors are under a magically enforced geas to never speak or write of it again. And yet, somehow, this exists:

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