u/baltinerdist

Hi all, this may be a long shot but I’m hoping maybe some church pastor with a really imaginative congregation or someone with access to a rec center can help.

I’m a part of a LARP (live action roleplaying) organization. Our third anniversary is about to hit in December where we would want to celebrate by inviting the other chapters in the area to come join us for a day event. Ideally this would be like 9-6 on a Saturday with approximately 60-80 people. We normally meet in a park at CCBC but December weather makes this potentially very tricky. It could be gorgeous and 60, it could be miserable and 20. So I’m looking to see what I can figure out for indoor space.

A perfect location for this would have an indoor space and tables for attendees, a yard of some nature where we could do outdoor activities if the weather is cooperative, and a kitchen (or at least a prep kitchen) where we could set up for a pot luck. A bit of a bonus would be a couple of extra rooms or spaces where we could do breakout arts and crafts workshops and similar.

Our bank account is next to nothing, so I expect I might have to just pay out of pocket, so cost is a factor I have to be mindful of.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. I appreciate it!

It seems exceedingly odd to me that there are so many posts and memes bellyaching about Anthropic giving more resets and extending Fable. Somebody wanna make it make sense?

After Mark passed last year, I really missed the weekly hang aspect of the 360Vegas podcast. I was very glad to see the new endeavor come across my feeds with Keren, Tony, and Josh (aka JayDubs). The new show called The Neon Lounge still has the Vegas friends hangout vibe and a lot of the same banter, told from the perspective of a local, a near-local, and a regular visitor.

Wanted to give them a shout here in case you unsubscribed after Mark's passing and hadn't heard!

I'll be a little selfish here and say, I'd love for you to try the LARP I'm a part of - Amtgard, with 330 chapters across the US and Canada - but you're almost certainly going to find a LARP somewhere near you!

Any other Dropout LARPers in the subreddit?

There's a post circulating in one Amtgard kingdom where they are trying to create an accountability process for misbehaving knights. My knight asked us what we thought of it and my answer was as follows. This is largely informed by, of all things, my time being a mod here on Reddit.

On the one hand, I regularly observe that Amtgard has trouble removing problems from the game. We're too inclined to allow broken stairs to remain broken, vs realizing that this is a wholly optional hobby and if someone is making it a worse place to be, just tell them to leave. We tend to want to rehabilitate nerds because they don't have anywhere else to go, but Amtgard is not responsible for turning you into a better person. It is not responsible for babysitting you while you improve yourself. If 20 people are at a dinner table and 1 of them is being a dick, you don't make the dick get up and leave in the hopes that they'll correct their behavior, you do it so the other 19 have a better dinner. The dick can go through a drive-thru on the way home.

On a weird middle hand I've manifested thanks to gamma radiation, I recognize that the culture of knighthood is significant and important to people. That it represents something significant in their lives and in the game as a whole. That we do expect knights to behave in a certain manner and we should hold them accountable to maintain that decorum.

On the other hand, this reads like an HR manual from a cult. It's documentation of how utterly overly seriously everyone takes this. We need five steps to get someone to stop being a dick? Really? One warning. One. Maybe two. If you're problematic enough to need this kind of intervention, you get one warning, two tops, and then you get asked to leave. Keep your belt, who cares. But you're not a knight anymore because you're not an Amtgarder anymore. Instead, you're gonna form a whole committee and set forth this PIP concept like you're all middle managers at a cubicle farm.

3000 weekly players. That's all this game has. This kind of bureaucracy instead of just sacking up and telling someone to behave or get out is one of the myriad reasons we're not bigger than we are.

What's your take?

Am I correct that Pennsic doesn't do the shopping pass thing anymore? I live close enough that I could do a daytrip reasonably and I'd love to get up there and spend some money with vendors instead of Amazon, but I can't justify paying for a week that I won't use.