Inspiration for 2015

Because larps go much easier if you write them a year in advance, here’s some historical inspiration from Wikipedia for next year:

1990

  • Gulf War I
  • end of the 4th Labour govt in NZ
  • Books: The Eye of the World,
  • Film: Dances With Wolves
  • Worthy but difficult topics: end of Apartheid in South Africa, end of communism in Eastern Europe, German reunification

1975

  • the Fall of Saigon
  • death of P G Wodehouse
  • death of Fransisco Franco
  • Film: Jaws, Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Books: Shogun, the Illuminatus! trilogy

1965

  • Worthy but difficult topics: US civil rights struggle
  • Books: The Black Cauldron, Dune
  • Film: The Sound of Music
  • first episode of Thunderbirds

1915

  • the obvious: lots of WWI stuff
  • the Armenian genocide
  • foundation of the Rosicrucians
  • publication of “Extricating Young Gussie”, the 1st jeeves and Wooster story, and “Somethign Fresh”, the first Blandings Castle novel
  • discovery of Proxima Centauri (an excuse for an SF larp set there?)

1865

  • end of the US Civil War
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
  • foundation of the International Telegraph Union (surely someone can steampunk this?)
  • bith of Robert W. Chambers (King in Yellow larp, anyone?)
  • books: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Hereward the Wake, From the Earth to the Moon

1815

  • the hundred days: Napoleon’s escape from Elba and defeat at Waterloo.
  • the Congress of Vienna ends (its been done, but someone should run it)
  • Books: Emma

1765

  • the Stamp Act and Quartering Act in the pre-revolutionary American colonies
  • the Beast of Gévaudan
  • James Watt produces the first decent steam engine (steampunks ahoy!)

1715

  • Jacobite Rebellions in Scotland

1665

  • start of the Great Plague of London
  • first publication of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
  • Hooke’s Micrographia. 2nd Anglo-Dutch-war. In fact, there’s a great post-Restoration stew there

1265

  • De Montfort’s Parliament and the Second barons’ war
  • first Budweiser brewed in Bohemia (a larp about beer!)
  • birth of Dante

[quote]1765

  • the Beast of Gévaudan[/quote]

Oh My! A “Brotherhood of the Wolf” game! :slight_smile:

Also

[quote]1265

  • first Budweiser brewed in Bohemia (a larp about beer!)
    [/quote]

Does anyone remember Tim Powers’ “The Drawing of the Dark” ?

Huh… Dune…

I am suddenly smitten with this as a possibility.

Anyone else?

[quote=“joker”]Huh… Dune…

I am suddenly smitten with this as a possibility.

Anyone else?[/quote]

I want to play it, but I don’t think I can do it justice as a writer. But if someone wants to do it, I’ll help however I can.

(If you can get it done by August for Armageddon or Chimera that would be great. No pressure :slight_smile:

[quote=“IdiotSavant”][quote=“joker”]Huh… Dune…

I am suddenly smitten with this as a possibility.

Anyone else?[/quote]

I want to play it, but I don’t think I can do it justice as a writer. But if someone wants to do it, I’ll help however I can.

(If you can get it done by August for Armageddon or Chimera that would be great. No pressure :slight_smile:[/quote]

Uh, nope. At least, not me… :slight_smile: