Casting Off Tyranny

RPG system: LARP

By

✏️	Jennifer Allaway
✏️	Katherine Belisle

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	Scenario [English]	(1.2 MB)

Scenario [English]

(1.2 MB)

Description

http://www.jhallaway.com

Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Letter Writing, Arts & Crafts

Casting off Tyranny is a play-by-mail keepsake game where players are citizens of a country while it is being invaded by an occupying force. In order to fight back and defend their homeland, players will collect information from newspapers, knit secret codes into garments to communicate that information, and mail it to another player who needs to know. Players will then use the information they decode from sending secret messages to take actions to liberate their home country. The game ends when either the occupying army takes the whole country, or when the resistance has driven the occupying army entirely from their lands.

Tags: knitting, keepsake, play-by-mail, resistance

Played at

Golden Cobra Challenge (2022)

Awards

Golden Cobra Challenge (2022)

Winner, Games We're Most Excited About

Can you encode secret messages in your knitting? Casting Off Tyranny lets us exercise our knitting skills while also saving our fictional Homeland. Drawing on some of the best aspects of recent keepsake and "lonely fun" games, Casting Off Tyranny hit us in the gut on so many levels: how to communicate with others, how to resist fascism, how to use what's at hand to achieve your goals. Let us all knit beautiful works while trying to save the things that we all share and love.