Brewing a New Pot of Tea

Its August, the Redding table top six sided dice-a-rama, Norcon is over. If you missed it, look it up, it's a great little con that some of my fellow Tea Potters (Tea Pottians?) are highly involved in.

However its now Dundracon-Preparation season! Dundracon is in Feburary of next year, so over the next half a year or so, I'll have time to write for our yearly Tempest in a Teapot Dundracon Swash-buckle fest, that is our LARP. Last year we had a lot of extenuating circumstances that tore our teams LARP troope apart right before the con. It's unfortunate, but we live on. I'm pretty sure each one of us is going to be back in the saddle this year in one way or another.

I don't expect we're actually going to be writings down for several months. However while the writing may not start right away, we've got themes and ideas to kick around in our heads. Eventually character assignments to hand out and progress to slowly hack away at. While we are not there yet, but that won't stop me from getting in the writing mood.

So in honor of our coming LARP, I'm tossing the jumper cables on this really stale blogger account and putting words to the page. Actually this is my first foray into the blogosphere, so please bare with me while I get used to the ecology of this new space.

I plan to dig up our old LARP from years past, and dissect them. I'll post character sheets, plot notes, anything I can dig up, then talk about what worked and what didn't, and why we wrote what we wrote. Hopefully after a while, anyone following this blog (which I estimate will be all of 1.2 persons, including myself) will have a complete set of character sheets, plot points, and some helpful tools to let them run their own version of the LARP's we've written in the past.

Why am I doing this? Well I hope that this outlet will keep me energized and excited about LARP writing. Burnout is a real threat for me and my writing. Its very possible this little outlet may just benefit me more than any unfortunate soul reading this after me.

So stay tuned for more ramblings.