Terra Incognita

[smokingboot]

After a couple of weeks’ break, the Vampire campaign resumed last night, full of vibrant colour and twisty-bendy. Once again I find myself comparing table-top role play and LARP, and finding myself actively preferring TT. It’s not even the physical convenience, it’s the conquest of imagination over Eye (and I). Kit and a field full of campers is fun in a less intense way. As a roleplaying exercise, I find LARP’s not about creativity as much as it is about resourcefulness, about using what you’ve got. Though it’s perfectly viable and I enjoy it, my preference is to bimble around the landscapes of other people’s minds, haplessly falling into plot pot-holes. Of course, it could be that I am just very lucky with my TT refs!

Other subjects: The dentist finally got back to me. He has found a dentist who will use gas. In Bolton.

I never missed London so much as when I heard this. Bolton? For a fecking dentist?

I’ve clearly fallen off the edge of the map.

Comments

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

I find I fall asleep most of the time I do table top. It doesn't matter how good it is, or whether or not I'm bored, I just drop off unless it's really noisy and active. Annoys me, and I should expect it annoys the GM even more, which is one of the many reasons I don't do it anymore. Much prefer LRP myself, but then I have no imagination!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

LARP seldom lives up to the pictures in my head. No deserts, no oceans, no real forests, cos they can’t be physrepped.In the end, everywhere looks like mud in a field with some trees on either side: I do my best, but it’s seldom the Shire, never mind Lothlorien! I guess this is where my own lack of imagination comes into play...

In fairness, I must say that the two TT campaigns I’m in right now could not affect me more strongly if they were LARP. Or at least, I hope they couldn’t. Talk about emotional intensity! And none of it is my fault!

[evilwillow.livejournal.com]

Nope.. some of it is my fault, some of it is Chris' and the rest belongs to the rest of the players.. not forgetting the demonic GMs we have :)

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Tcha! This liberal attitude of yours will get us nowhere! We must land all the blame squarely on the dark,leather-winged shoulders of Satan and Mephisto (I don't pretend to know which is which) We wouldn't be in this mess if they were normal GMs instead of Princes of the Pit!]:-)