…you’re my only hope.
I’ve agreed to run a kind of larp for my niece’s birthday tomorrow. She and her friends are around 9 years old.
She wanted a party themed on Pixar’s movie Brave. So Scottish adventurous princess with bow and her little friends.
The key to my concept is that they make their way around a “map” choosing their destinations off it, and the places are represented by areas of their backyard (re-used), solving problems and things as they go. 3 or 4 adults will play their guides and stuff they encounter.
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I’m pretty happy with the adventure I’ve got planned. They’ve even going to have little foams and bows and things.
There’s one spot on the map that I can’t seem to figure out though… and that’s where your brilliance is needed.
See where it says “Forest of Something Terrible”? My plan is to tell them that people go in there and never come out, so there must be something terrible in there but nobody knows what it is. I thought it could be a good “facing your fears” encounter that turns out okay. But now I can’t figure out what should be in there. They may need to go in there to help find ingredients for a potion, if that helps. I need something that either uses things I have, or doesn’t need anything special. Also, it would be nice to have an encounter where the birthday girl gets to shoot her bow to solve something. Finally, it’s okay if your idea requires some special items - the kids will have some.
Other roles in the game so far include the King and Queen, a woodsman who helps them, numerous raiders to fight, a Scottish dwarf whose clan is “always being overlooked” because the King “doesn’t think they measure up” and the witch who they’re gathering the potion for to remove a curse. One encounter involves them crossing a river that turns people to stone, by jumping from rock to rock (blue tarp for the river). In another they’ll have to creep past sleeping raiders silently to rescue the King. Just to give you a flavour of my thinking - it’s natural puzzles rather than artificial ones. Another is social problem solving, pacifying the bitter dwarf Shorty McShort (of clan MyShort).
Go!