Inspiration for 2019

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

Just out of copyright (in NZ)

  • Gormenghast (and everything by Mervyn Peake)
  • The Jungle (and everything by Upton Sinclair)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (and everything by John Steinbeck)
  • The Famous Five (and everything by Enid Blyton)

1994

  • Film: The Lion King, Interview With A Vampire
  • TV: B5 begins, TNG ends
  • Games: XCom / UFO: Enemy Unknown

1969

  • The Moon landing
  • Stonewall riots
  • Woodstock
  • The first ARPANET message is sent (the internet is born!)
  • Books: The Left hand of Darkness, Dune Messiah, Master and Commander, The Godfather, Flashman, Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
  • TV: Scooby Doo. Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Sesame Street. Looney Tunes / Merry Melodies ends

1944

  • Film: Gaslight
  • Births: Terry Brooks (Shanarra)

1919

  • The Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles
  • Women’s Suffrage in the US
  • Births: Isaac Asimov
  • Deaths: L. Frank Baum (Wizard of Oz)

1894

  • The Dreyfus Affair
  • Books: The Jungle Book, The Great God Pan
  • Deaths: Robert Louis Stevenson

1869

  • Books: War and Peace

1844

  • The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
  • YMCA founded

1819

  • Peterloo Massacre
  • First steamship crosses the Atlantic
  • Books: The Vampyre, Ivanhoe

1769

  • James Cook lands in New Zealand, at Poverty Bay

1719

  • Books: Robinson Crusoe

519

  • Foundation of the Kingdom of Wessex