[Boston, Convention, Arisia] LARPs and Tabletop Gaming at Arisia!

[Umbran]

Update: The Larp descriptions here still hold. A few posts down, you can find the tabletop gaming schedule

For those of you in the Boston area interested in Live Action Roleplaying, there are some excellent games coming up soon - Arisia (for the three or four of you who may not already be familiar with it) is a great big fun multi-genre convention taking place here, January 21-23rd at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. There will be 3 live action games running at the con, as well as a demo session by NERO.

If you're an experienced gamer, we'd love to have you; if you're new, this is an excellent chance to start.

For more information about the convention, you can go to Arisia's Web page

City Council of Hound's Teeth
Friday Night, 9pm-midnight
Theatre-style horde game

The City Council of Hound's Teeth is meeting tonight, and everyone from the surrounding are has a complaint. Between zombies in the fields, adventurers who want their law-breaking party-member returned, a loose mage's apprentice playing pranks, and many other complaints, will anything get done at this meeting? A horde LARP based on every table-top fantasy city council meeting.

To sign up for this game, email emp42 at brandeis dot edu


Long Ago and Far Away
Saturday 11am-3pm
Theatre-style game

Did you feel like wolves and dragons always got a bad rap? Think the princesses were too prissy? Wanna see those evil viscounts and stepmothers get what's coming to them? Or maybe come out on top for a change? Join us for Long Ago and Far Away, a short LARP based in a world of fractured and intersecting fairy tales, where magic is real, the
animals talk, and "happily ever after" isn't guaranteed.

To sign up for this game, email long-ago-gms at mit dot edu


Cold Storage
Saturday 3pm-6pm
Theatre-style game

Passengers travelling from Earth to the troubled Jovian colonies are kept in cryostasis; never meeting while a minimal crew supervises the four-month flight. Unfortunately, things seem to have gone disastrously wrong aboard the P.T.S. Caledonia and the passengers have woken up en route to discover a dead crew, a disabled ship and companions who may not be what they claim. As the tensions mount, can they manage to trust each other long enough to find out what happened and survive?

To sign up for this game, go to http://jducoeur.org/ColdStorage/

 

[Piratecat]

How much tabletop gaming does Arisia have? My buddy is treasurer of Arisia this year, so I may have an extra incentive to show up.

(Also: Umbran, will you please check in on the Boston Gameday thread? I have a question for you.)

 

[Umbran]

I know the gent in charge of tabletop gaming this year. He has not, to my knowledge, handed in the official tabletop schedule, so I don't know exactly how much there will be. I can go ask, however.

 

[Umbran]

Other Games at Arisia

Okay, there are something like 10 scheduled tabletop RPG events scheduled at Arisia, and another 10 events fo other games (card games, Loony Labs games, and so on).

A schedule and descriptions of them can be found below. This page will be edited as changes are made in the schedule:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/arisia/22473.html#cutid1

There's a couple of D&D games, a couple White Wolf games, and some official Shadowrun events, among other things going on.