The Lofty Beacons
RPG system: LARP
Participants: 8-16 players
By
| ✏️ | Jonathan Walton |
Description
(Freeform larp)
http://www.goldencobra.org/pdf/2015/TheLoftyBeacons-102815_JonathanWalton.pdf
One or more crews of 2-4 players serve on unlit mountaintop warning beacons for several years, dealing with a variety of situations in a post-apocalyptic setting.
Tags: Post-apocalyptic, Mountain, Service, Multiple groups
Website: jwalton.media
In a post-apocalyptic future, everyone has been killed by zombies or the death-cults of the waste. A few communities of survivors have holed-up in the mountains. Your crew has been sent to maintain one of the Lofty Beacons: a chain of remote mountaintop signal fires, kept unlit. You will serve for several years, lighting your beacon if enemies march on the mountains or if a neighboring beacon is lit.
Some fans have already begun jokingly calling the game “Waiting for Gondor,” though unlike a Beckett play, there’s some actual things that happen during the game, including a series of challenges facing the crew of sentinels.
This version of the game won the “Crew Pick” Honorable Mention award in the 2015 Golden Cobra design competition.
Played at
| Golden Cobra Challenge (2014) | |
| ♻ | QueerCon (2019) |
Awards
Golden Cobra Challenge (2015)
Nominated, Cobra Crew Pick
This game promises such fun and delivers it in such an already polished way
that it was a favorite with the Crew. However, looks like it would truly shine with more than 4
participants. Stands on its own, and will clearly have a place at the table for many groups.
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