New LARP in Dunedin - Forum here?

Community Larp discussion
#1

Hi guysngals,

There’s a new fortnightly LARP starting up in Dunedin - Lost in Manhattan, a Changeling game set in 1930’s New York. Although not affiliated with nzLARPS at all, would it be possible to set up a game-specific forum here on Diatribe for it? I’m just asking in advance at this stage, I know the guy running it is looking for a forum to post announcements and such things on, but I’m not sure if he’s found one/is going to make one himself yet. The amount of traffic won’t be huge, but it will bring a few of the Dunedin LARPers here that wouldn’t come here otherwise. Is this the sort of thing we can host?

Cheers
Viperion

#2

Absolutely. Diatribe is here to support all NZ larp, it doesn’t matter whether it relates to NZLARPS or not you’ll get exactly the same services. A public forum that the game runners can moderate, any private forums they may want, etc.

When the game runner is decided on what he wants, he can PM DiatribeAdmin with the details.

Diatribe is fairly well ranked on Google, so you may find that having a forum here will attract the occasional extra person in Dunedin who didn’t know about the game until they saw it on Diatribe.

#3

Sweet that’s what I figured :slight_smile: I’ll pass the message on and get the GM to check us out (I don’t think he’s a member currently)

#4

Cool, would be great to have a Dunedin board in the mix here.

More generally, I hear “it’s not an NZLARPS larp” quite a bit, and I think it might be worth clarifying the role of NZLARPS in relation to larp in NZ.

Per the constitution, the mission of the society is to advocate for and support ALL NZ larp. NZLARPS is not a collection of larps that get special treatment, its primary purpose is to promote larp in general.

NZLARPS does run some larps and larp conventions directly: the ones that are Projects of the society. All this means is that those larps run their finances through the society, and they use the gear pool that the society has accumulated using revenue from Project larps. This is really handy, it’s an excellent service that I highly recommend to anyone running a non-profit larp who doesn’t want to front up their own money or wants access to (and to contribute to) a big gear pool. Project larps are awesome, but they are fundamentally just one specific way of promoting larp in NZ in general.

For everything other than money or using the gear library, it makes no difference whether your larp is a Project of NZLARPS or not - the society wants to support you equally. NZLARPS and its minions will happily put banners up on Diatribe for any NZ larp, give you public and private forums, calendarise and help promote your events (within budget limits), and will consider any other kind of appeal for help. Because we want all NZ larps to have the best chance to succeed, regardless of whether they are a project of the society.

At any rate, that’s how I see things and I think it’s how the society’s constitution describes its purpose.

#5

Hi guys, I’m the Storyteller for Lost In Manhattan. Having a forum here sounds like it’d be pretty good, especially as it’ll bring Dunedin LARPers in contact with the rest of New Zealand, and from what Ryan has said Diatribe should meet our needs just fine. I’ll message the admin as soon as I’ve worked out the details. Thanks for the help.

#6

Great to hear.

I’m the administrator at present, will set things up for you when I get the details.