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Nov. 2nd, 2003 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
learnedaxWell, the Brandeis BYOG is done. All in all, I had a lot of fun doing it, and I would call it a modest success as a game.
I was not entirely satisfied with how the run itself unfolded for a variety of reasons, but we knew there would be sticky spots and everyone seems to have had a good time playing it.
The game was The Rising Flames, a WWII occult-related period piece. We had nine players for about two hours, so it was a pretty small game especially given the number of GMs. There are a lot of things both obvious and subtle that I view as mistakes in retrospect, but in fact I think they were very instructive mistakes for us to have made. I think that the game could be successfully reworked for future runs and be quite viable, and perhaps a bit larger, but that's not really of central importance to me. I personally learned an enormous amount about LARP writing regarding both process and product, I found the experience exhilarating, and I'm very glad to have produced a finished product out of it. The challenge and pressure are what actually mattered to me, and in the end I am not overly invested in the game ever running again, although I'd be happy if it did.
I was not entirely satisfied with how the run itself unfolded for a variety of reasons, but we knew there would be sticky spots and everyone seems to have had a good time playing it.
The game was The Rising Flames, a WWII occult-related period piece. We had nine players for about two hours, so it was a pretty small game especially given the number of GMs. There are a lot of things both obvious and subtle that I view as mistakes in retrospect, but in fact I think they were very instructive mistakes for us to have made. I think that the game could be successfully reworked for future runs and be quite viable, and perhaps a bit larger, but that's not really of central importance to me. I personally learned an enormous amount about LARP writing regarding both process and product, I found the experience exhilarating, and I'm very glad to have produced a finished product out of it. The challenge and pressure are what actually mattered to me, and in the end I am not overly invested in the game ever running again, although I'd be happy if it did.
