I’m not going to get tricked into committing to run something so soon after a con (I’m looking at YOU Idiot) - but I’m toying with running either Project Sparrow or American Gothix (as a LARP) - the two games I wrote and ran at Kapcon.
What I’d LOVE to see run next year is Defense of Nuremberg or something similar. But maybe with a bit more info ahead of time so people know what it’s about. For those who didn’t know, it was designed to introduce players to live combat - and larping in general.
Players were asked (via an IC email) to notate their level of fighting experience, access to weapons, etc … That effectively sorted out who was “crew” and who was a player.
The players were gathered together and given 1 HP, but told they’d get more if they worked together to come up with a shared BG, and personal backgrounds, and a name - for a maximum of 4HP. Players were then left to brainstorm together and it was a fantastic creative process.
Once that was sorted out, weapons training began. This included safety and basic techniques. Half of the training was done IC, with us humble peasants bowing and scraping to those of higher station.
Then the RP began and the peasants were attacked by bandits. It was a great introduction to live combat, allowed people to try all sorts of weapons and ask plenty of questions.
TL;DR it’d be really great to always have a slot filled with something like this at Chimera 2012!