You good do Og thing?
- Me good
- Me no good
- No good! You smelly - me bang you rock, make you food!
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I’m thinking it would be fun to run a day-game LARP of the caveman game, Og.
For those of you who dont know, this is a normal RPG where all inter-player communication is limited to a set of 20 words only. You have very simple characters, and most of the fun involves trying to communicate what you actually want people to be doing, and finding out the objectives…
We could LARPify this by making foam boffer clubs, everyone dresses up in tribal gear and skins, we have a number of NPCs and so on. Since dinosaurs (hey, its not supposed to be historically accurate!) are a bit hard to simulate, we can always have 2 tribes, for example.
Characters are basically ‘tough’ (more HP), ‘fast’ (can escape), or ‘smart’ (get an extra skill, like ‘drawing’ - IE, pictionary…)
I cant remember all the words in the vocabulary, but I think they include -
sun, thing, big, smelly, go, bang, hairy, food, you, me, rock, water, fire, small, tree, sleep, cave
(This is the correct list. However we found it impossible without ‘no’, which negates the need for ‘small’. It’s also hard without ‘make’.)
You also cannot use any proper nouns, and cant draw unless you have ‘draw’ skill. I think gestures and grunts are OK.
These people tried it
http://www.skotos.net/about/pr/Sep06b_2000.html