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Live Action Role Playing is now in its fifth year. Considered the embarrassing lovechild of Drama and Gaming, LARP is somewhat maligned by the larger student body. Participants take on the role of a fantasy character, and act out stories and adventures in real time. Two years ago, the well-loved Mr. Pennywise served as LARP's sponsor, where he would pretend to be a king who had gone mad in his old age, handing out ridiculous proclamations and ranting at his put-upon knights.

After some begging, Mr. Elmasry was convinced to step up last year. Upon the "death" of King Pennywise, his young son and only heir assumed throne! Mr. Elmasry has grown more comfortable as the club's sponsor, and upgraded himself to a more sparkly crown this year.

LARP is sponsored by Mr. Elmasry. It meets every Saturday from 4–6 PM.

PLAYINGLARP club is intended to be accessible for students and is based loosely upon a heavily homebrewed d20 3.5. Emphasis is placed upon roleplaying and storytelling over number crunching, so conflict and other checks are typically settled with a few throws of Rock, Paper, Scissors. When combat comes up, if it's played out, it's fought with fake padded or foam weapons (though many of them look very realistic) and spell packets in place of actual magic. Highly dedicated club members, past and present, have left the club with an impressive treasury of costume pieces, props, accessories and weapons, and students are encouraged to go all out on their characters' iconic looks.

Each club member may have one Player Character in the club's primary setting of the Kingdom of Logan. Player Characters have a name, race, class (based on 3.5 D&D), and at least some backstory. From time to time, when not otherwise participating in a scene, students may be asked to fill NPC roles like foot soldier, monster or shopkeeper (if you'd like, you can solely play NPCs). Students may at any time drop their Player Character and roll a new one, although there is an expectation among club members that you will play this switch out in character; for instance, by killing off your old character.

When roleplaying, players will occasionally receive or find cards with plot hooks on them. Green cards are optional - you can opt to carry out the hook listed. A Green Card might say something like, "You see the bloody footprints of a large animal leading off the trail." Orange cards, on the other hand, are unavoidable plot hooks - "You are enchanted by the sound of singing coming from a nearby stream and are compelled to investigate," for instance. These cards are brought to a Moderator (see below) to complete the Module.

(OOC NOTE: All of this is primarily for in character reference of how sessions go. I will handle all items that need "moderation" or RNG rolling. From time to time, if people are threading in the club IC/OOC, I will drop a green or orange card on them to react to. This'll be kind of similar to spooks and ghost encounters from last year's end game. If you would like to suggest a module, please drop box it here or email me.)

THE SETTINGFor the vast majority of the year, LARP club follows one contiguous storyline set in the Kingdom of Logan. Logan is a high fantasy setting - in the vein of Faerun - which plays host to a wide variety of fantastic creatures. LARP club, hoping to keep it interesting and fun for everyone, has a policy of generally letting people play what they want, provided it's not hurting or ruining anyone else's fun.

The Kingdom of Logan is ruled by King Elmasry, only son of the previous mad King Pennywise. King Elmasry is a fair and just ruler, and not nearly as goofy as his predecessor, but still liable to hand out the occasional odd proclamation from time to time.

In order to keep the action flowing, club members are asked to split themselves into two primary factions. Players can switch factions at any time, but standard roleplaying etiquette applies - swap back and forth too many times and people might get annoyed and stop interacting with you. Other, smaller factions have sprung up as needed or simply because players wanted them, but the two overarching factions are:
The Court of Logan is the more Good and Lawful of the two options and is comprised of those in service to King Elmasry. The Court of Logan is generally where new club members who aren't sure what they want to do are placed. Within the club, it's jokingly referred to as the goody two-shoes faction.
The Onyx Syndicate is, as the name implies, the faction for all the edgelords in the audience. The Onyx Syndicate is something of a smuggling/piracy/crime ring that is, from time to time, in direct opposition to King Elmasry and his court. Though not necessarily "evil" or "bad," the Onyx Syndicate is generally full of scoundrels. Its members usually seek more chaotic and selfish resolutions to plots.

From time to time, LARPers may take a break from their A Storyline to try out different systems and plots as one shots: murder mysteries, sci fi or Vampire, the Masquerade, for instance.

TERMS

MODERATOR is an In Character title, and basically means that the student may be occasionally tasked with "running a module" - overseeing a battle, prompting a scene, etc. Predominantly seniors and juniors are moderators.

NPC is any non-plot-centric character, such as a shopkeep, a city guard, a corpse. Club members may from time to time be asked to NPC for other people when they aren't otherwise tied up in a scene. Usually freshmen are made to do it, but you can career NPC if you want.

ORANGE CARD is an orange index card with a plot hook written on it. The understanding with orange cards is that you are required to pursue the plot hook if you receive one.

GREEN CARD
is a green index card with a plot hook written on it. Your character is not required to pursue hooks written on green cards.

MODULE is, basically, a term for a scene. The LARP equivalent of a thread. We're incepted as fuck at this point, folks.

CHARACTER SHEET

Hey so if you want to go all out and make a more detailed character write up with history and personality and relationships, please do, by all means. I just wanted to keep the basics simple so it's not too intimidating to complete. Please post the completed character form below under this heading.
STUDENT NAME:
MODERATOR?: Y/N - see above for details
NPC?: Y/N, you can elaborate here. For example, a character ONLY plays NPCs (you can skip all the character stuff below) or doesn’t LIKE playing NPCs but does anyway
PLAY STYLE?: Please give me a brief idea of how your character … plays their character. How serious are they? Are they shy? Etc. Just a sentence or two is fine.

CHARACTER NAME: Your character’s character’s name. This goes deep, everyone.
RACE/CLASS: Any race or base class (no prestige classes plz) from D&D 3.5e core + splat books is acceptable.
HOOK: Gimme a 1 – 2 sentence rundown of your character’s character.
FACTION(S): Court of Logan / Onyx Syndicate and then any subsequent groups they may be a part of.
ANYTHING ELSE?:

<b>STUDENT NAME:</b> <b>MODERATOR?:</b> Y/N - see above for details <b>NPC?:</b> Y/N, you can elaborate here. For example, a character ONLY plays NPCs (you can skip all the character stuff below) or doesn’t LIKE playing NPCs but does anyway <b>PLAY STYLE?:</b> Please give me a brief idea of how your character … plays their character. How serious are they? Are they shy? Etc. Just a sentence or two is fine. <b>CHARACTER NAME:</b> Your character’s character’s name. This goes deep, everyone. <b>RACE/CLASS:</b> Any race or base class (no prestige classes plz) from D&D 3.5e core + splat books is acceptable. <b>HOOK:</b> Gimme a 1 – 2 sentence rundown of your character’s character. <b>FACTION(S):</b> Court of Logan / Onyx Syndicate and then any subsequent groups they may be a part of. <b>ANYTHING ELSE?:</b>