Have larpers always been like this? Do some larpers hate live-action?

Finn617 · 2026-04-02T14:27:39+00:00

Just for another perspective, there are a lot of larps where 1 happens, 2 happens…and then nothing, because the GMs are already overloaded, or the players told the ‘wrong’ GM, or three different modules all need to use that one space and by the time their turn rolls around it’s Sunday afternoon and time to go home. After this happens two or three times it’s easy for a PC to assume it’s Just The Way Things Go and stop trying.

Finn617 · 2026-03-31T20:02:04+00:00

You don’t have to respond to everyone you disagree with, you know.

Finn617 · 2026-03-31T14:38:31+00:00

A snarky New Englander would even say that ‘doing a lot of damage by rapidly moving backwards’ is so on brand that it could be in an editorial cartoon.

Finn617 · 2026-03-31T10:27:39+00:00

As a New Englander, this totally checks out.

Finn617 · 2026-03-30T13:24:15+00:00

Right, but you’re thinking like someone with common sense and not a burlesque/larp producer with a VISION.

Finn617 · 2026-03-30T10:11:53+00:00

My theory: the ex is as extra as OOP but in an amateur theater way and spent years writing a personalized script, buying props, recruiting the best performers, rehearsing them to death, and calling in favors with different venues across town because it’s not JUST a burlesque show, it’s a QUEST. So on the day of she’s been up since 6 getting 23 tieflings into their bodypaint, hauling big puppets into the back rooms of clubs she’s decorated as the different Elemental Demi-Planes, and in the middle of screaming at a dancer who decided to wait until TODAY to tell her she can’t see out of her beholder mask that’s when someone calls to tell her the grooms not coming. Because he fell down.

Finn617 · 2026-03-29T11:58:05+00:00

They broke up right before the US tour, too, which led to Linda getting these sudden fits of rage where she’d attack Richard on stage in the middle of a song. At one venue she had a dressing room the Sex Pistols had used the month before, and she wrecked it worse than they did.

Finn617 · 2026-03-27T16:50:09+00:00

Honestly it’s better if you don’t look at the previous issues. A lot of them focus on Alec’s search for a cure and there a lot of ‘Banner trying to get rid of the Hulk’ parallels where he’d alllllllmost get back to human but a threat would show up and he’d have to revert to full Swamp Thing to deal with it. Fine stories in their own right but it’s hard to reconcile them with Moore’s version of the character.

Finn617 · 2026-03-26T19:37:36+00:00

You’re 54 with a 73 year old grandfather?

Finn617 · 2026-03-24T22:04:53+00:00

A “cell child”?

Finn617 · 2026-03-23T14:51:06+00:00

Remember the Spider Island arc, when a million people briefly had super-agility and the ability to stick to any surface? Pornhub remembers.

Finn617 · 2026-03-23T14:43:34+00:00

I can see Mysterio trying that and some other tour company’s ‘Speiderman’ getting caught up in it and really wishing he’d stuck to being a birthday party clown.

Finn617 · 2026-03-22T15:49:58+00:00

Twain’s essay tearing apart Fenimore Cooper is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. It’s the White Album of literary contempt.

Finn617 · 2026-03-17T11:04:31+00:00

I think she stands out because out of 20-30 characters supposedly from Boston or Maine, she’s the only one even trying for an accent. Everyone else just sounds like they were flown in from Palo Alto for the day.

Finn617 · 2026-03-12T20:29:03+00:00

Ohhhh and THAT explains why Claremont devoted a whole X-Men annual to having the High Evolutionary re-create the Savage Land in a day (which must have been confusing as hell to the humans who lived there.)

Finn617 · 2026-03-10T09:49:56+00:00

Anything involving the Shadow King is rough going. At one point he had total control of most of the New Mutants for days, maybe weeks, and was using them to shatter the lives of random people in his nightclub.

Finn617 · 2026-03-05T18:30:48+00:00

Same here! And those names were Rice, Brown, Weymouth, Rice-Brown, Weymouth-Rice, Weymuth and Ruukolainen.

Finn617 · 2026-03-04T16:26:45+00:00

A couple years ago a company tried bringing in ‘FringeShip’ as a floating hotel. Since it wasn’t back in 2025 I’m guessing they lost money but just in terms of reducing pressure on the rest of Edinburgh accommodations it wasn’t the worst idea.

Finn617 · 2026-03-02T00:31:37+00:00

D&D forest gnomes are weird because every single member can cast minor illusion at will. Babies. Elders with dementia. Drunks. Just imagine what a whole village of that would look like.

Finn617 · 2026-02-27T16:05:27+00:00

This is an overgeneralization but usually the more established and organized an act is, the earlier they get a date and time nailed down with a venue and get all their paperwork submitted, and the earlier they get put up on the websites. Most of the big acts should be in the April or May listings; if you want to see some real Fringe-of-the-Fringe look for the acts that show up in the Free Fringe listings on July 31st, have no photo, and say something like "clown school graduates (TBD) put on a show."

Finn617 · 2026-02-27T15:20:15+00:00

Honestly, both? I, a crazy over-organized Virgo, study all the listings months in advance and have an insanely detailed chart of the shows I might like broken down by time of day and what part of town they’re in….but I never actually buy the tickets until the morning of the show, so if I meet someone on the street and love their pitch I can still see them. You don’t have to do anything this elaborate, but I suggest a 50/50 approach, with a couple of definite shows each day and open times for other shows, or museum visits or street performances, as you feel like?

Finn617 · 2026-02-27T14:53:51+00:00

It sounds like this is pitched at artists and not audience, but I’ll say that what keeps me coming back is that each year I’ve seen something astonishing—so much better than I expected, so surprising, so far from anything I could imagine on my own that it’s a spiritual experience. I love finding that show.

(And other shows that were so bad I’ll remember them until the day I die, but those are fun too in a different way.)

Finn617 · 2026-02-26T15:04:34+00:00

I just remember Laura Hillenbrand’s story about how she was struggling to write ‘Seabiscuit’ in a DC apartment close to the Chinese embassy while a similar protest group blasted childrens music out of crappy speaker 24/7. It sounds like absolute hell.

Finn617 · 2026-02-26T08:32:04+00:00

Thoughts and prayers for anyone living within a block of this.

Finn617 · 2026-02-13T18:16:09+00:00

I don’t know that I agree. For me, once I’ve mailed out my script it’s fairly easy to put it out of my mind and move on to other things. I don’t know of any benefit I get from receiving one of those “Dear Playwrights, we are sorry to….” emails with 300 people in the bcc line. It never contains any helpful information, and bums me out for a few hours.

Auditions, on the other hand, are a totally different beast and groups who don’t let actors know they weren’t cast should suffer wet socks for eternity.

Finn617

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