This page is for me to talk about the smaller LARPs I’ve written and co-written.
Harry Potter Book Club Reunion (tentative title)
- not currently available
Players: 8 | Runtime: 2 hours | Intensity: 3-4/5
This game was co-written with a group as a part of Peaky Midwest 2022.
This is a game where you play a group of queer folks who trapped at the airport after a high school reunion where they failed to reunite. Having bonded around a Harry Potter book group in high school, you end up discussing your complicated feelings about the series now that it hasn’t aged well and the creator has become massively transphobic.
Right now, this game is still in revisions.
Little Saucer on the Prairie
You’ve all been pushed to the edge by the government, a member of a family in crisis. But with hard work, and a little luck, you can be safe and happy. This is a 2-hour game for eight players and at least 2 GMs with strictly timed 20 minute periods, one main puzzle, one main mystery, family conflict, and probably aliens. This game takes place in two locations, represented by two Discord rooms, which becomes integrated into one space during the course of the game.
Little Saucer on the Prairie is a game I co-wrote for the Iron GM 2021 LARP writing competition. I was on a team with Arthur Chu, Gaylord Tang, and Vivian Abraham. It’s very hard to blurb because of spoilers. There are two groups of players who each have very different opinions on the game’s main situation. It was written over the course of 24 hours, and may or may not be improved and run again in the future. We didn’t win any prizes, but players still enjoyed our game!
I created a Discord bot for the game that, when given an audio file and the name of a voice/video channel in Discord, will join that channel, play the sound, and then leave the channel.
Tributaries
Tributaries is a scene-based roleplaying game following the story of a “spotlight character” and featuring a definitive outcome established before play begins. Players use cards to establish the outcome and several scenes that lead into the endpoint. Cards are also used by players filling the roles of side characters in each scene to influence how the scene plays out. The scenes leading up to the outcome are referred to as “tributaries” because they are like smaller rivers flowing into each other, converging at a confluence influenced by all of them.
This game was written as a part of a team (with Lauren Lenzen, Claire Cummins, and Jacki Trelawny) for the Clitical Hits Sex Education Game Jam in 2022.
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a short experimental LARP (live action roleplaying game) playable in a 15 minute to 30 minute period (this may need to be adjusted depending on player styles.) There are three player characters and one NPC. These three people find themselves sitting together in an otherwise empty room. They remember nothing of who they are, how they got there, and have no memories whatsoever. A glowing humanoid entity enters the room. To say much more would spoil the story, but be aware that this game is written in such a way that it will likely provoke in-character arguments about religion.
Content warning: death, religion, violent fundamentalism, murder, harsh interactions, sex work and violence against sex workers, playing as a horrible person (This game will probably be edited to remove some problematic content.)
This game was written quickly as an assignment for a Game Studies class in Fall 2013, and has never been playtested as of the time of upload.
Metatemporal Resonance Interchange
This is a solo LARP about time travel that can only be played while having an MRI, inspired by Marshall Bradshaw’s The MRI Suite and my own flights of imagination while having MRIs done. Play by reading through the narrative before your MRI. Try to remember the story and the emotions you felt while reading when you go through the parallel activities. Embellish them in your mind. Become the character.
Double-Crossed
I wrote this with several other people as a part of a 2 week LARP writing boot camp. The plot revolves around two parallel universes colliding and characters meeting their doubles from very different universes, one ruled by science and one by magic. They have to figure out which of their universes they can save.
Blood Captives
I wrote this with several other people as a part of a 2 week LARP writing boot camp. The plot revolves around space vampires who traffick humans as a source of blood and make ghouls of their “favorite” historical figures, all while trying to hide their dirty deeds from space cops.
See also: In Our Own Wor(l)ds