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Joined: Jul 07, 2003 Posts: 606 Location: Mikkeli, Finland
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:43 am Post subject: Introduce Yourself
Even if we have the member profiles, they have limited potential. So introduce yourself here if you like to. You can always say "Hi! I'm new here" in this topic. Hopely I didn't take matters too much in my own hands here...
Introduction :
Jupe Rantalainen
As you can see from my member profile, I'm student of cultural history. I've been larping since 1997, gamemastered over 40 events and worked as cook, driver etc. in some more. My own LARPs have been mostly fantasy, but I have also done some WOD, horror, cyberpunk, scifi and such.
I represent the finnish school of GM-written characters, light rules, less simulation... From games I expect strong emotions and passionate playing. I am really satisfied with a game I cry during it... Or if my players cry... (Not because the game sucked). I also like to use misinformation as a GM tool.
Current LARP projects :
Druid 3 (Or Druid - LARP, event 3), 1115AD (third and fourth parts of my organizations medieval LARP), unnamed cyberpunk campaign, DragonBane, Internation LARP project and some others...
LARP kitchen is also near my heart, as you can see from my signature. '
I also do tabletop RPG's, mostly as a gamemaster. Currently I do Hârnmaster, 7th Sea and occasional Palladium Fantasy as a gamemaster, Rolemaster-MERP , occasional 7th Sea, Gurps & Palladium fantasy as a player. Also done lot's of Hell on Eart - Wasted West, Paranoia, RuneQuest, Cyberpunk, CoC, 2300AD, Twilight2000, Pendragon (4th edition) and many others... I usually play a social monster, but warriors and some spellcasters are also my style. You won't see me shouting "Fireball! Fireball!!!"... _________________ Very few rules, very good games and ... Awesome food.
Joined: May 07, 2003 Posts: 97 Location: Kentucky, USA
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 10:18 am Post subject: Good idea, Jupe!
Hi everybody.
My name is Jason Hosler, and I am the Creative Director for Fortune's Landing in Lexington, KY. I've also played WoD, Dark Confrontations, Shattered Isles, and King's Gate. In boffer larps I prefer to play NPCs because I tend to get bored playing one character too long.
I also GM/play tabletops such as Dark Conspiracy, AD&D(2nd ed.), Spelljammer, Shadowrun, GURPS, Hol, CoC, Champions, Star Wars (West End edition), and some others I can't think of at the moment. _________________ Administrator, Raging Gargoyle Games, LLC
Brett Moore here, originator of NARA Canada's first (to my knowledge) LARP back some 15-16 years ago.. Since then I have worked on the GLARE international Larp project and now settling down with a new game; Fantasy Alive in Ontario Canada.
Beyond this I have Played NERO and another local LARP by the name of Underworld, bumbed in and out of the SCA and fencing clubs, currently developing the Canadian Association of Boffer combat, to help alieviate some of the insurance cost burdens facecd by many north american games... I am a IT professor turned farmer (go figure) as well a amature author, have had a number of magazine articles and stories published but have yet drummed up the energy to finish a book
Played just just about everything imaginable when it comes to table top. I run an on going D&D d20 game these days, but find it is the story not the system that makes a game...
When not doing something useful I'm usually found playing computer games, brewing mead, weaving chainmail or blacksmithing...
Joined: Jan 03, 2002 Posts: 313 Location: Ohio, USA
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 7:07 am Post subject:
I'm Joe Santocildes, webmaster and benevolent dictator of this website
I've started LARPing in 1994 in a WOD LARP called Columbus By Night at the Ohio State University. in 1995, I started the web version of Shade's LARP List, which used to be posted on the Usenet Newsgroups by Nik Palmer (originalShade). After graduating, I started playing in other types of LARPs. I've branched out in my LARP experience including fantasy, sci-fi (Star Wars), cyberpunk, etc.
I'm a mechanical engineer working for a large engineering, procurement, construction company. I tend to travel a lot across the USA and abroad for different engineering projects.
I'm also into the martial arts (Karate, Ju-jitsu, Arnis, Judo, Kobudo, Chanbara, and such). I am a referee in the Ju-Jitsu International Federation. This year, I'll be going to the Ju-jitsu World Cup in Spain.
I still do tabletop roleplaying games. I GM games such as Star Wars (WoTC), Lord of the Rings, Marvel SuperHeroes (TSR) and others.
Current LARP Projects:
I'm working on a Medieval Japan LARP (working off a previous medieval Japan boffer LARP I did a while ago). It will lean more into role playing the politics than combat.
Joined: Jun 14, 2003 Posts: 152 Location: Southwest Florida
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:24 pm Post subject: How-de-do.
This is a popular thread on many LARP boards:
I'm Bill Edwards, and I'm not as angry as angry bill implies, I'm just, um, opinionated - yeah that's it.
I'm a 29 year old free-lance (er, unemployed ) wood-worker from south-east Michigan.
I've been LARPing since '92 and have played and ran just about every genre imaginable. Most of my LARP experience comes from WoD (Vampire) and two bopper LARPs: Kanar and K2.
I'm a convert to the Finnish school of LARP thinking - less rules, more story!!! And right now I'm a big fan of Mordavia, excepting the fact that their game runs in the wrong hemisphere ...
I'm a gamer at heart - though LARPing has lessened my interest in taple-top roleplaying. I am a huge devotee of Shadowrun 2nd edition. Also, I like the Palladium games, Cthulu, and Stormbringer.
Board games - Settlers of Catan, Axis and Allies, and the new Game of Thrones. And the king of games - chess. 1. d4 Anyone?
Minis - Warhammer 40k and old school Battletech. Or any historicals - like Clear for Action.
Cards - I'm a recovering magic addict - been sober for 6 years. But I'll play poker or euchre anytime.
Outside of being a gamer, what there's life outside of games? I love sports - I'd rather play than watch - especially hockey. Go Red Wings! I'll read anything you put in front of me. I've just started to get into homebrewing, Skulik, we'll have to talk about mead!
Current LARP projects:
I'll be putting on a one-day game based on 7th Sea later this summer - I'll update here with the info. Also, work continues (albeit, slowly) on ressurecting Fantasy LARP Discussions in a more user-friendly form. And lastly I'm trying to pitch in on Jupe's International LARP project. (I know, I know - stop posting and get writing!)
Bill _________________ "Friends are people who know the words to the song in your heart, and sing them back to you when you have forgotten them." -Anonymous
Joined: Jul 07, 2003 Posts: 606 Location: Mikkeli, Finland
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject:
Is our next topic "Brewing?" ... I'm no pro, but have been known to succeed in doing honey mead... I also do great non-alcoholic (ok, maybe 0.1-0.5%) finnish Vappu-Sima (sima = mead), usually drunk only during 1st of may. _________________ Very few rules, very good games and ... Awesome food.
Joined: Jun 14, 2003 Posts: 152 Location: Southwest Florida
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject: Beer.
I'm all in favor of brewing as a topic.
Bill _________________ "Friends are people who know the words to the song in your heart, and sing them back to you when you have forgotten them." -Anonymous
Joined: Feb 09, 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Enfield, NH
Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 11:39 am Post subject:
Original Shade.... AKA Dr. Nik or RangerSage or....
I started role playing table top and mini's back in the late 70's and early 80's. I was hep to Classic BattleTech and 1st & 2nd Edition D&D.
Eventually I branched out into other RPG's and became a Palladium Fan (Living outside of detroit, michigan and being a TMNTurltles fan in the early 80's made that very easy to do).
I ran Palladium games through High school and was involved in Live Action Role playing from the standpoint of: HAUNTED HOUSES! I was an "expert ghoul" and specialized in terrorizing Haunted House Mazes. I worked with on the leading houses in Cleveland, Ohio and enjoyed the play acting and horror quite a bit.
When I got to college, I started following the rise of Live Action Role Playing, both Boffer and Otherwise and in the early 90's started a list of all ongoing games, since no one else had. I started traveling for weekend games with friends, heading to Baltimore and Phillie, and other points east and south to play in various LARPS, since nothing much was happening with Columbus, Ohio.
Enter Vampire.... Suddenly Larping is all the rage and I passed off the Larplist the the Ever Capable new Shade (JS!), who "took it to the next level" that you enjoy today.
I continue to write, run, and participate in both Live action and Table top RPG's but mostly Table Top. I currently have a ALMOST ENDED 2 year d20 campaign and am working on a "History of the World For Gamers" with my friend and co-author.
Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 4:11 pm Post subject: Hi There!
My “about me” resume isn’t as impressive as some of the others here, but hey. My name is Eric Tetreault and I am a 34-year-old gaming geek.
I have been table-topping since 1976 and LARPing since 1986 at over 15 different sci-fi and fantasy games. I have assisted in the creation of three live game systems and am now co-owner of Mythical Journeys (www.mythicaljourneys.com) based in Connecticut, USA.
In the real world I served in the military for six years and now do computer technical support and field services engineering. I am co-owner of New England’s second largest Renaissance Faire, The Connecticut Renaissance Faire (www.ctfaire.com). I enjoy website design, programming, photography, graphic design and martial arts as hobbies.
As for current LARP projects our team at Mythical Journeys is currently using eight year’s experience, customer feedback, proven results and technology to redesign our game system. Our goal is to create an exciting new system that will again raise the bar on LARPing and challenge other games to follow suit. While this may seem altruistic our motive is to see other high-quality games out there that we can play instead of always running them! Woo hoo! Playing rules
My name is Patrick Hedges, and Im a LARP newbie. Ihve only been to one larp event, but because the nearest LARP group is over 30 miles away (and i dont have a drivers liscence) I havent been able to do any larping, so most of what I know comes from chatting with other LARPers and talking on message forums.
Im in the process of trying to start my own LARP called "They Walk Among Us." (www.geocities.com/zombielarp) It arose from a conversation on the 'Homepage of the Dead' (www.homepageofthedead.com) forums about coming up with a way to do reinactments of Romero's Dead movies (i.e Night of the Living Dead). I started thinking, then figured "why not just make a whole roleplaying game set in that universe?" Thats what I did, and soon (within the next 2 weeks) I will begin play testing. I found that im more of a rules-centric person, and need to work on my storytelling skils some more. _________________ Where were you when they began to walk?
They Walk Among Us
"You are what you eat....And I'm a human"
"Having a Paladin tell a monster to go screw himself doesn't exactly constitute roleplaying"
My name is Juho Reivo and I usually go by the nick StarMan.
I'm an event producer, project planner and freelance security/bouncer.
I've larped since 1996 and I've participated in all aspects of game making. My primary work lately has consentrated around general game production issues.
I was just given the responcibilities of national security coordinator by Finland's national larp organization (Suomen live-roolipelaajat ry.).
t:* _________________ * Your reality is what you imagine it to be *
Joined: Jun 20, 2002 Posts: 48 Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA, home of original D&D
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 2:28 am Post subject:
I am Lord Grey. I have been since before the beginning. I was there at the creation. I belonged to the "Castle & Crusade Society" of the International Federation of Wargaming lo these many, many years ago. It was through the auspices of the C&C Society that the two Charismatic leaders of Mid-west USA wargaming, David Lance Arneson and Gary Gygax began to cross-pollinate the ideas for the original Dungeons & Dragons. I knew both fellows, and they both knew me.
I was playing RPG before the publication of D&D back in 1973. I have a first edition, first-printing of the original rules. I was playing back when the rules were new or the rules did not exist and we had to think for our selves And if you search the printed scenarios by David Lance Arneson himself, you may, if your eyes are sharp and your wits are keen, find me as an NPC, but as I know where the bodies are burried, the description may not be deemed as flattering.
Along the way of life I also met the inventors of Ars Magica, one of the pair was Mark Rein Hagen -- inventor of the Vampire universe. The pair enjoyed what I was able to bring to Ars Magica, and took my own invented character into their pack of pre-generated NPC for use at conventions, et cetera. By the way, Jonathan Tweed, the other of the Ars Magica duo, is now the chief editor for AD&D.
There was the time as I stood in line for a major war game convention near San Fransico, when I outlined for some fellows from the Seattle area
an idea for a game based upon decks of collectable trading cards. I wonder what ever happend to those guys?
Much have I studied as to the varieties of cultures, their folkways and their ken. But I feel as if I know nothing. There is so much out there.
I have studied Physics and Metaphysics, the Psychological and the Parapsychological. I have loved playing Call of Cthulu, though I think I am one of the few players who could actualy quality, in real life, to represent themselves as a Detective, a Journalist, a Soldier, a Diliatante, a Novelist, or a Parapsychologist. I once played a Novelist who ... well, that is a tale for another time.
I was trained by the US Army in aspects of Military Intelligence and Psychological Warfare. When I served the policy was to NOT torture, but to use other methods to ellicite information form our sources. In a sense it was LARPing for real.
A wise philosopher once said that a man must now his own limitations. I know I am not a good game master. I have done some, and the reports in feedback say that the innovaitons introduced by this writer, tha care to details and description of scene, rendered that which I presented as the acme of the RPG experience. But such effort is taxing.
My health now fails. Said but true. I fear the shadow of death approaches and life now grows slow and painful. But as the abilities of the body diminish, some aspects of the mind stay lucid, as long as I can remain focused.
My ill-health keeps me isolated, apart, and thus I do not LARP hardly at all any more. And the LARP I do is of the sort of limited actual combat, more of the sort where the mind is the tool of choice.
I would love to play, if asked, but can not promise to be able to get my self to your location. But if you can transport me, this Soul is willing even if the Body threatens to fail.
Forgive me if I remain semi-obscured. Let me go back to the healling slumber -- may sleep refesh you. Keep FIGHTING as long as you can. We will meet in Vahalla.
Is that the sound of battle in the distance? I think I hear the horns calling me. Help me to stand and hand me a sword!
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Joined: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 121 Location: the Netherlands
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 2:56 am Post subject:
Introduction
Sander Burger, 23, student Cognitive Artificial Intelligence and hopefully done next year. I have a job as Helpdesk at a local IT company and a lovely larpin' girlfriend with an unhealthy love for Skaven.
I've been larping since... well, last year, actually. I have taken to larp like a fish to water though with 27 events and counting at this moment. I am a gamemaster for my own club, Cauldron (see our vid trailer elsewhere on this forum), with 2 fantasy events of about 250 peeps under my belt and a third coming up early June. I've larped fantasy mostly, with a splash of WoD and a Cyberlive in the planning.
In both playing and gamesmastering I'm a "White Wolf"-class gamer, with story and drama going before rules. My plots deal a lot with backgrounds and player emotions. If I play myself I expect the same, my best larpmoment is still the time I cried at an IC funeral of a friend while reciting the words of an epic poem.
As so many larpers I am an avid gamer, with Dark Ages: Vampire and Warhammer still being an all-time favorites. I play in two D&D parties as well, one in the Forgotten Realms playing my Sun Elf wizard/loremaster and the other in a D20 Stargate campaign as a civilian engineer.
As for style, in both larp and gaming I go for the support casters and the roleplayers.
If I play a wizard, expect my incantations, arcane gestures and material components present at all times, even when the setting does not require them. I have several Spellbooks I carry around at all times, though none of my wizards carry a staff. A nice wand is far more subtle.
As a non-caster I usually am the consumate diplomat. I do a lot of talking and try to make sense at the same time. I've had succes to the point of getting the Drow House place a priestess and four warriors under the command of my male human lawful good Paladin. Still quite proud of that one, since it has cost me quite a few hours of careful negociation.
And lastly, as a priest I like to actually play one. Too many play priests like the healing variants of mages and that just irks me. I hold sermons for my deity, including singing, incense and whatnot, pray at dinner and invoke the name of my deity at every oppertunity. That has also paid off, with my faith being the biggest player-attented faith in the setting, currently. Woohoo!
It has to be said though that I also like a good fight. There are weekends where I don't touch a blade, but few things are as satisfying is holding a rousing speech, drawing forth your longsword and storming down a mountain with eighty people following you chanting the name of your faction... the only thing more satisfying was the look on the face of the opponents as we crashed into their battle lines.
My next project will probably be a ranger or druid, since I have never played either, but I still have to find a larp to play him. Ah well, so many people to kill, so little time. _________________ Whoever said "Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder" never played D&D
Joined: Jul 07, 2003 Posts: 606 Location: Mikkeli, Finland
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:37 am Post subject:
Lord_Grey : Sad to hear this... I shall drink with you in Valhalla when the time comes. We are all clad to have your experience and razorsharp mind here to educate us. _________________ Very few rules, very good games and ... Awesome food.
Well, apparently I'm new to this compared to most of the regulars.
I first got into the rpg in 1995 and larps in 1999. I've played mostly fantasy and cyberpunk larps, allthough I've been in a few post apocalyptical scifi larps.
I currently study to be a mechanical engineer in the Helsinki University of Technology , though game theory, ethics, and political history are of great intrest to me and I think I'll either change my major, or try to get 2 masters degrees (then I'd get a well paying job, and study what I like).
When I started playing rpg in -95, we played Cyberpunk, Call of Chtulhu, Middle Earth rpg, vampire and werewolf. I've allways been a fan of narrative play, so I don't really enjoy games, where characters are limited by too much rules. Nowdays I play a lot of DnD 3.5, with varying groups, even though the system is a tad limited and does not allow normal people, just adventurerers as PCs. In -99 I got into Larping and have played with about 30-40 games or so since. Previosly I liked playing characters which are always active in a game, so I won't have a boring moment, but lately I've seen that characters that are just chilling at the scene, not saving the kingdom, are actually more fun to play, as one can Just sit back, relax, and create an athmosphere of a real setting, where there are normal people( to the given world mind you ) _________________ "There is Master moralism, and then there is Slave moralism" -Friedrich Nietzsche
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