My plan for Festival

[breakinglight11]

Have a number of things to say about this weekend, but I'll start with my Festival musing.

I have played in or am running... nine out of twenty-two games on the schedule. Okay, that's not as many as I thought, but it still limits my options. Friday night, the slot I care most about having filled, unfortunately has only two games I haven't played, but unfortunately neither of them really appeal to me. I can't tell if Three Nations is supposed to be silly politics-themed or more straight-up politics, a genre of larp I'm not very good at. The other is Kind Friends Together, which despite the good reviews, is not my kind of game. I may go for Three Nations just to have something to play that night, but I haven't decided yet.

Saturday morning I'm running Oz. Sign up if you haven't played! It's a good game, and I'm probably not going to run it again for a while. Not retiring it forever, of course, but I think after this run, market saturation will have hit until I let some time pass.

Saturday afternoon I think I'm going to have to leave free. I have resolved to not pack my schedule as tightly as I did last year, or this past Intercon. The downtime will do me good, I think.

Saturday evening I'm running Alice. Again, sign up if you haven't played! Also like Oz, it is a great game that needs a little cooldown period before it comes out again, so this may be your last chance for a while. Certainly not forever, but like Oz it needs a bit of a rest.

Sunday morning I may actually break my rule and play a game. Partially because they don't start very early in the morning, and partially because I really want to play DIamond Geezers. It's a Brit game, which tend to be uniformly good, and I've heard some excellent reviews.

So... that is roughly my plan. Here's hoping things work out.

Comments

[laura47.livejournal.com]

really it's sunday afternoon, not morning, at that point. :-) i'm torn between diamond geezers and c-section. i'm sure the latter will run a million times, but i am eager to play it asap.

[lisefrac.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask you if you still wanted to help run LXHS - but I also don't want to deprive you of playing in something in that slot, since you are pretty busy already this weekend running Alice and Oz.

[offside7.livejournal.com]

I once heard someone who was running Three Nations mention how surprised he was that people come into the game not realizing they're playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, the LARP. This puts me under the impression it's a silly game... I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been made more explicit in the blurb.

[nennivian.livejournal.com]

Having absolutely zero experience with this sort of thing, I wouldn't mind some advice on what I should sign up for as a first-timer. Since I can't do Alice, I should like to do Oz for obvious reasons, and Camp David is the only one I could do on Sat. afternoon or evening, timing-wise. Any suggestions beyond that? Would Oz and Camp David be acceptable for a beginner to attempt?

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

Oz will definitely work as a good beginner game. As for Camp David, I'm not sure, I don't actually know the game.

Are you not able to play Friday or Sunday? If you can, I recommend LHXS, Trial of the Big Bad Wolf, and Welcome to Scearbridge on Friday, and pretty much anything on Sunday, since Sunday games tend to be very light and fluffy.

[nennivian.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I can play Friday and Sunday, yes.

[natbudin.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try to get into at least one of your games! Preferably Oz, I think, since it's more my style of game, but either one really.

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

Yay! *Bounces*