The Addams Family: Til Death

RPG system: LARP
Participants: 8-16 players

By

✏️	Vivien Grimm
	Vivien Grimm

Description

The Addams Family clashes with the seemingly ‘normal’ family of their daughter’s fiance. Will the two families ever get along? Or will it be a feud for the ages? They’re scary and they’re spooky-

This will be a mostly light-hearted romp with genuine feelings as you play two over-the-top families going through some serious culture shock. Expect family expectations, disagreements, and questioning what it means to be an outsider. Some frightening or horrific elements may be discussed (after all, what did Auntie Forcible do with all her ex-husbands?), but there will not be gore on screen.

You will larp as either a member of the Addams Family or a member of the fiance’s family. No canon Addamses will be appearing as player characters. (ie. you won’t be Gomez or Morticia, you’ll be original Addamses.) Playing a member of the Normal Family will also be fun- you get to be the ‘straight man’ for a lot of the jokes, as well as having some juicy backstories of your own. Who knows, at the end you might decide you like the Addams more.

The larp will be played in a series of timed ‘episodes’ to capture that sitcom feeling. The kids break the news, the families meet, they celebrate a holiday together, they go on a family vacation. It ends with the re-hearse-al and the wedding!

We will use larp calibration and safety techniques. Costuming encouraged.


Content Warnings

Some frightening or horrific elements may be discussed, as the Addams Family has members that have been serial killers, monsters, or other related things. They often threaten to kill or injure each other for fun. A player character may be getting poisoned. If you will find this kind of dark humor distressing, this might not be the game for you!

Family drama, familial expectations, cults & cult behavior, death and dying, vying for inheritance, dark humor, threats of violence and general creepy and unsettling vibes. Self-harm in that Addamses are all sadistic/mascohistic in some way and they enjoy it. Incest in that several Addamses have married other Addamses, they are a little confused about their family trees, but they are distant cousins at worst.

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