Battlecry LARP/ Role-Playing Panels

Auckland
#1

So, I’ve just returned from the National Sci-fi Con, and got along to a few of the panels there… and have decided that what Battlecry needs is some panels. Of course, the panels at a sci-fi con aren’t quite the same ones as the sorts of panels that would interest a gaming con, so figured I would put it to the various groups and see what they would like panels and workshops on…
Panels are discussion groups with three or so speakers leading a discussion around a topic, who have a little bit of experience on the subject.
Workshops tend to be a bit more hands-on with 1-2 people instructing people on a topic, possibly with some form of output at the end.
Both need to be an hour in length.
There are two sides to panels as I can see… there needs to be a demand for people to want to discuss a topic for an hour.
There also needs to be people who are willing to talk about a topic for an hour, and lead the conversation.
I am curious as to what people would be interested in attending for LARP panels, and who would be interested in leading these panels…
some suggested panels to me, and other panel ideas have been
LARPing

  • Special Effects and Make Up for Larping
  • Improvising Costumes for All Occasions on a Larper’s Budget
  • How to Build Weapons and Shields for Live Action Combat
  • Writing Theatreform Games
  • Suspension of Disbelief: The Merits and Detractions of What You See Is What You Get;
  • How To Organise A Larp
  • Roleplaying Tips and How to be the Player Everyone Likes to RP With (inc. how to write a playable character)
  • Taking Risks in Larps
  • Costume design
  • Campaign gaming
  • One off games
  • From Tabletop to LARP
  • Suspension of Disbelief
  • How critical is background stories
  • Random or Planned Character backgrounds
  • Against your better judgement – when it’s better out of character do something that your character wouldn’t do
  • Immersion
    Role-playing
  • Gming
  • Systemless games
  • How to make a better evil overlord
  • Characters and Flaws
  • Game Size – Where is a good place to limit it
  • Knowing your own limits as a player or gm

Thanks for your time

#2

Assuming you could get a few bums on seats I would be happy to demonstrate the fundamentals for making larp safe weapons.

#3

Assuming you could get a few bums on seats I would be happy to demonstrate the fundamentals for making larp safe weapons.[/quote]

i’d put my bum on a seat… :slight_smile:

#4

I would go to some or all of those.
Although I’m not going to be at BattleCry, so it’s a moot point.

#5

Weapons, Make up & "Roleplaying Tips and How to be the Player Everyone Likes to RP With"
Are ones i’d sit down for :smiling_imp:

#6

[quote=“TazzyD”]Weapons, Make up & "Roleplaying Tips and How to be the Player Everyone Likes to RP With"
Are ones i’d sit down for :smiling_imp:[/quote]

I reckon all three of those are workshops, not talks. So get up, try it out yourself, come away with a product or a personal memory of some interactions worked for you.

The last one would be particularly curious as a workshop. If you had a couple of skilled, experienced roleplayers, you could provide some interesting hands-on experiences with creating/interpreting/playing an interesting character. Might work best as a short, simple pregen larp with lots of stops throughout to discuss how things could be improved.