New Affiliate: Freeform Games

nzLARPS
#1

The society’s newest affiliate is Freeform Games, a publisher of murder-mystery games. Mike Curtis has played one of their games, and he confirms that it was really a larp with roleplaying (unlike the How to Host a Murder games) and that it was good.

Click here to see a list of the available games, in a wide range of genres

In addition to providing a good source pre-written larp scenarios to NZ larpers, this affiliation also means that the society will get a 20% commission on the cost of all scenarios sold via the [size=75]NZ[/size]LARPS website.

These scenarios are suitable for new players. The idea of “murder mystery dinner games” is popular with the general public, so we recommend these games as a great way to introduce your non-larper friends to larp.

Cheers,

Ryan

#2

I purchased and ran one of the Freeform Games scenarios for family last night, and it worked really well even though they’re not gamers.

I used Curse of the Pharaoh, which is available on the NZLARPS website:

nzlarps.org/freeformgames.php

I found that there was a reasonable bit of preparation needed, so it’s probably best not to try to do it all on the day like I did. Better if you can give people their characters a few days in advance so they’ve got time to digest the info.

Curse of the Pharaoh had a nice pulp theme and some cool twists. People did a surprising good job of costuming given the zero notice, even the Egyptians looked pretty groovy.

Can definitely recommend these games now. They are totally larps, and it strongly reminded me of the style of Flight of the Hindenburg in Wellington. There’s only one thing to be aware of for larpers - there are lots of “social” abilities that let you get information and secrets out of each other. This works really well for people who haven’t larped, but more experienced people might be able to do away with it somewhat. It worked, though.

#3

I’ve had a look at our earnings from Freeform Games. NZLARPS has earned £26.47 from our banner.

We recently spent $9.95 of that on renewing the Mordavia domain, and £11.49 on buying a hardcopy of The Final Voyage of the Mary Celeste, that was used at Chimera.

The nice thing about the earnings (besides the fact that we get a whopping 20% of the sale price) is that they go into PayPal, so can be used to buy a variety of things online.