Over on another thread, someone mentioned Howick Historical Village:
I’d never heard about this before.
I reckon, opportunism is the better part of creativity. I’ve always wanted a better evironment for a LARP in a different milieu, and there one is on our doorstep. A really immersive NZ 1850’s environement.
So I reckon we should seize the opportunity and run some games in that era, by getting LARPS to work out some sort of deal with the village to run a couple of events a year. I think funding would be available if it was culturally educational (which just means giving a feel of the time to the participants). LARPS could build up a wardrobe of suitable NZ 1850’s gear to compliment all the medieval fantasy stuff we have at the moment.
We could do straight-up historical drama with colonists and Maori. We could do ghost stories. We could history with Maori legend worked in. The Nightmare Circle could run Cthulhu gaslight. I could run Tryst in a historical setting.
There are heaps of possibilities for such a great environment, and it’s something that could only be done here in NZ.