An idea hatched at the early hours of the last Mordavia game. A LARP based on the X-Men where player manifest powers and try to master and control them. In a wolrd where they are hated and feared.
Problem: Who would want to play a boring old homo sapien when you could be a homo superior?? Everyone would want to be a mutant!
Any ideas on how to physrep energy powers e.g. Cyclops’s optic blast or Bishop’s kinetic energy pulse?
I say stick to well known mutants, with clearly defined powers.
A mutant game would rock. Can’t wait to get into my spandex!
Based on is the key here. Any super powers LARP would be good. Though they will require copious amounts of imagination from everyone involved.
That night, in the engine room…
CREW: "IT’S NOT WORKING CAPTAIN"
CAPTAIN: "COME ON MEN, PILE ON THE IMAGINATION!"
CREW: “GRRRRR!!!”
You could adapt this to the LARP medium so that it wouldn’t require so much… imagination.
Have powers that manifest invisibly. Rather than throwing lighting around, have a telekinetic power that allows you withstand bullets and repel people. Which I guess would make you Objectionable Body Odour Man!
That would work more easily in a LARP, less need to imagine stuff that isn’t there. Mordavia is pretty rubbish in terms of LARP adaptation, don’t use it as model. It has too much stuff that characters can see but their players can’t.
You could do it more subtley, more Unbreakable than X-Men.
Unless it’s the yellow and blue jumpsuits you’re really after.
No spandex is entirely optional.
Terry Pratchet time! sorry, but that body odour thing… yeah.
Hey, how about a Terry Pratchett LARP?
Discworld LARP has certainly been suggested many a time, and doubtless been run somewhere. Quite a lot of the LARPS equipment would suit it, given that it’s kinda medievalish fantasy. And we have a very Discworld troll costume. It would make a fairly easy LARPS project to run.
The hard part, as with any existing work of fiction in another medium, would be adaptation.
Has anybody read “The Tick” comics?
Also spawned spin-off series - “Man Eating Cow” and “Paul the Samurai”
Its a good, funny super hero series that none of the super heroes manifest powers very overtly. The Tick is really strong bullet proof but really not very bright. Other heros like “Hand-Grenade Man” (“Whats your superpower?” “I don’t have one, but you’d be surprised how much you can get acccomplised when people know you have a hand-grenade”) Captain Lemming (Runs and jumps lots) adn groups like “The Civic Minded Five”
Has much more potential than a regular superhero larp, and has that odd, silly humour twist too.
Here’s some samples of characters
Super Heroes - http://www.thetick.ws/tvheroes.html
Super Villians - http://www.thetick.ws/tvvillains.html
Gotta love the names!
Bi-Polar Bear - "This looks like a job for Bi-Polar Bear! But I just can’t get out of bed this month…"
Multiple Santa - “It’s a Yule Tide!!!”
YES! Oh god yes. A Tick style superheroes LARP is the best idea ever. I actually have a bunch of appropriate characters I made up myself.
Heroes
Gassinator - wears a gas mask, throws gas bombs and then punches people in the crotch during the confusion. Is only a superhero so he doesn’t get arrested.
Captain Windmill - with all the powers of a windmill.
Standing in Doorways Man - Invinsible whilst standing in doorways, has x-ray gogles to see doors through walls.
Battinator - with a shout of “bats!” the portals to the bat demension just inside his sleeves open and a torrent of bats bursts out and does his bidding. Is also the master of fighting with bats - baseball etc.
Villians
Dr Kiwi,The Eternal Loser - tried to become the patriotic hero of NZ by fusing his DNA with that of a Kiwi. The superpowers of a kiwi made him weaker than when he was a man and all the other superheroes laughed at him. Now he tries to take over NZ but fails.
Mole Man - can dig really well, summon moles from the earth to do his bidding and has big awesome claws. He’s also legally blind.
Anarcist - can cause small pockets of pure anarchy to manifest.
I also have many others but can’t think of them right now.
Standing in Doorways man is your best yet, methinks. we have already had so many jokes about him, without ever using the guy. so cool
gasp for air
reduced to giggling heap
That would be so. Much. FUN!
Count me in… I’ll just have to come up with an interesting superhero.
Here’s a continuation . . .
Heroes
The Cricketer - uses cricket to fight crime. Has grenade cricket balls, wickets and a bat to fight in melee with, Kevlar cricket padding. Fights crime because he’s disgruntled with the rep NZ cricket gets and because the team sucks.
Morepork - NZ answer to batman. Wears cool night vision goggles.
Wetaman - can grow exoskelatal armour and feelers at will. Can jump great distances and stick to walls.
ANZAC - our patriotic wartime hero.
Villians
The Seducer - Can seduce anyone.
Dr Nuclear - increases anyones chance of getting cancer by 5% at will.