Hi everyone,
Michael Andrew and I are coordinating the nzLARPS Armageddon effort for this year. This is going to give us huge exposure to a lot of new people, so we want to be on our absolute A-game, and we cannot do this without your help. We need to organise the following:
Pre-Armageddon:
- We will need to make a general what-is-larp pampplet. Jackie wrote a lot of really good text for this for when we did Aether and Iron, so we will just need to adapt to the Armageddon scenario and change the design away from Victorian.
- We will need very nice colour posters for some of our big events, particularly Teonn and Chimera. Any active New Zealand campaign should think about designing and providing a poster.
- We will need to put together more photoboards, for different genres. This takes more time than you’d think so three or four people having a working afternoon on something like this would be ideal.
- We will need to put together a New Zealand larp guide, a black and white publication which should include information on all active larp campaigns, and all upcoming games across the country. It should also include a little bit on general larp information - where to go for help, where to go for costume, how to use Diatribe, things like that. I will need probably two people to assist with the writing of it, and one person to do the prettying of the design.
- Promotional fliers for the post-Armageddon newbie games (see below)
Armageddon:
- Volunteers to dress up in their best costumes and man the stand. This is particularly important for Friday and Monday when we will need students on break to help. We will need many volunteers who are willing to talk to the public about larping.
Post-Armageddon:
- Post Armageddon, we will run two games for the people we managed to get interested at Armageddon. I would like these to be theatreform games, so that anyone interested in live action combat we can funnel straight into the December Teonn. For games, I was thinking of rerunning (with permission) The Flight of the Hindenburg and Reunion. Each game will need a team of three GMs. Work will include liaising with players, answering a lot of newbie questions, casting, and organising to run the games. We will need to book venues soonish to get dates nailed down. These games will need to be run at minimal cost. Ryan, I’m also thinking of having Black Hart of Camelot on offer if you would keen to rerun to it, as a live combat option.
Summary:
- Volunteers to generate the generic what-is-larp pamphlet, text and design
- Volunteers to put together several photboards
- Two fellow writers for the New Zealand larp guide
- One designer for the New Zealand larp guide
- Three GMs for The Flight of the Hindenburg
- Three GMs for Reunion
- Volunteers for poster design
- Volunteers for misc flier design
- Many volunteers to help on the stand
We will probably use them for some of the printing here.
) and/or the what is larp pamphlet if Jackie would like collaborators.
It started off as “a black white and document with all the larps currently running in Auckland” then it turned into “in New Zealand” and then it had “and some stuff for beginners, like definitions of terms, how to use Diatribe, who to ask for help” and then bam, I accidentally stole your concept.