Communist NZ LARP

Hi, I’ve found out that there’s a Larp in Canada that’s a little like what you want to do with your idea. It’s the same basic idea, an alternate furure where Communism has won the day, but the setting is 1,000 years in the future.

The background and rules are in french so I’ll resume them a little here:
It’s a dystopic vision of the evolution of humanity where a staline like state control a pan galactic empire who’s oppressing its citizens, crushing any toughts or initiatives, and the players are members of factions (kgb, military, labourers, etc.) that vie to take control of the government.

The group is Imagika and their LARP is called Protokol. You can see some photos of their activities here.

That’s pretty funky looking. Quite a SF twist to it.

imagika.org/Protokol/Protokol/Race_photos.htm

imagika.org/Protokol/Protokol/Parti_photos.htm

imagika.org/Protokol/Protokol/T% … photos.htm

Sounds a similair concept to an old RPG called ReichStar

It was a sci-fi RPG set in 2134 of an alternate history where the Third Reich won WWII and dominated the world. The Third Reich and the Empire of Nippon are in the midst of an age-old Cold War with each other, even as they expand their empires to other star systems. The player characters are revolutionaries trying to overthrow the Third Reich and restore freedom and democracy to Erde and its colonies.

[quote=“Scotty”]Sounds a similair concept to an old RPG called ReichStar

It was a sci-fi RPG set in 2134 of an alternate history where the Third Reich won WWII and dominated the world. The Third Reich and the Empire of Nippon are in the midst of an age-old Cold War with each other, even as they expand their empires to other star systems. The player characters are revolutionaries trying to overthrow the Third Reich and restore freedom and democracy to Erde and its colonies.[/quote]

Yes similar but with a fundamental difference, in this LARP the players are members of the establishment and will do all they can to preserve the totalitarian state and ensure their position of power over those that are oppress.

Also what I didn’t see the first time I’ve read the background text is that the Union (the name of the communist galactic empire) is in a losing war with an insectoid race that is threatening the very existence of humanity. So the enemies are inside and outside of the Union and you must preserve it, even if it’s not perfect.

I’ve found links to web sites of some of the in-game factions.
the Politicians
the Military
the Cosmonauts
the Industrialists

Anyway, I hope it will help you a little in your project.

I’ll happily be one of the prisoners. I’d be impressed if anyone could convince me to rat on anyone I liked . . . then again if there was someone I wasn’t too fond of maybe it wouldn’t take them as much work.

Its rather an interesting idea especialy since the guards presumably wouldn’t want to kill you before the televised spectacle.

yeah, thats true, but they have uber weapons that knock everyone prisoner in the room out, which gives them a kind of advantage in that way. However the weapons would be designed with flaws, but I’m obviously not going to reveal that.