larp

I just returned from the venue of our next game. The building only started less than a week ago, but it's already looking great. It was like walking through a setting of the nineties sci-fi shows.

But unlike those shows, this is going to be a 360-degree experience. You won't be seeing the film grew if you turn around. Instead, there will just be more ship to see. I can't wait to see the final results. I'm sure our players will be delighted. It's almost a shame I can't play there. There won't be anything close to this available anytime soon.

Today is the day when our traininglarp project gets it final conclusion when we gather together to have a retrospective on the project. We will also go through the player feedback we have received about the game.

Today is also the day we get the keys to the school which, over the next three weeks, we are going to transform into a spaceship. Unfortunately I can't be personally present there from day one, but still its a beginning of the work we have been planning for over a year.

So, after the three months of focused training and character building it is time for the actual game itself. We kick of the game with the challenge the players set for themselves at the beginning of the season. This year there are various goals like running 10k (one player even set her goal to a half marathon), swimming 2km or passing a military obstacle course.

I have probably mentioned it more than a few times before. And there has been a lot of questions about it. So it might be better to explain a bit about what I have been involved myself in.

Traininglarp is a live action roleplaying game concept that combines roleplaying and training. The game is decided in two separate phases. But before that the players will both have their character for the game and their personal goal for the training season.

It has been half a year, even more that we have been planning and preparing for the upcoming weekend. But still, three days before it feels like there is so much still undone.

The panic hits in. Despair creeps closer. It feels like I want to call it off, cancel everything. How can it be so that everything has been left into the last moment? We had plenty of time.

It's hard enough to try to play somebody you are not. It's even harder when that character is trying to hide his personality and also pretends to be somebody else. And then, sometimes you are handed a character who can't even always control when the other person is in charge.