The Original 1903 LARP — "An Evening With Clarence"

RPG system: LARP
Participants: 17-32 players

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Description

In 1903 the first LARP ever - An Evening With Clarence, an Entertainment for Six to Twelve Gay Couples - premiered at the Cleveland Hotel. At the time it was a brilliant entertainment. A hundred years and three major revisions later, it is a hopelessly dated and unplayable nightmare. "Clarence" is a LARP for by and about LARPers.

If you enjoy the interplay of player and GM, the folly of bad rules, weddings, time travellers, vampires, and other canned plots - in short pastiche of everything LARPish, this is the game for you. If you've played some of the "classic" LARPs so many times that you know each character by heart, this is the game for you.

"Clarence" is not a freewheeling anti-game in the style of Hose-a-Rama or Flog-a-Thon, but rather an elaborate pastiche, requiring players to engage in a lively amount of cooperative metagaming in order to maintain conflicts and tension, while attempting to play the game. It is intended to be amusing and light, not a mechanics heavy "salvage the game" scenario.

For more details, see the Clarence website.

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Links

• Homepage for the scenario