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The flat face shape of arrowhead only works if it hits square. Hitting at an angle there's the corner. Bouncing delivers more momentum on impact. Coming to a dead stop delivers the least momentum.

larping is stupid but I like your nosferatu mask.

Excuse me, but where have you found these prices? I've checked different online stores but the prices are quite higher

YOur video is so good! I majorly love how you explain everything, it's so clear!

Awesome keep up the videos

That was great, the closest i think I've ever been to being convinced to join the Anarchs! Lore by night sent me

so at 40 years old i finally decided to try out my first larp evebt. I found an incredibly kind clan that recruited me during a con, in june it will be my firdt larp ever, 5 days camping out, 1300+ people. Very excited and nervous about it but cant wait, i stumbled on your video looking for tips, thanks !

A Very good informative and important video to any Larper that wants to use Arrows.

Great job on the show it's fun to see what you do

This really helped a lot. Thank you very much for the suggestions.

These videos have been very helpful thank you

Sorry for your loss. I understand there's a sort of grieving process when creative projects like this don't get realized, and I'm honestly grateful for the insight. Was recently re-tasked to finish a project that was basically dead this time last year, but now have another shot at it. Your advice is something I needed to hear, Thank you, and best of luck in your future endeavors!

Just because I saw how you weren't quite sure how the poundage for bows works: The pounds of the bow (usually written on the lower limb) describe the draw strength of the bow at 28 inches draw length. (From pivot point to your fingers) For kids it can be 24 inches or less. Depends on what age group the bow is made for. The potential energy stored in the bow is the integral of the strength of the bow over the draw length. Depending on the type of the bow more or less energy can be stored. Recurve stores more than longbow, compound stores the most. That means that more energy is converted into the kinetic energy the arrow flies away with. The higher the kinetic energy the faster the arrow. So a compound bow with 30lbs and 28" draw shoots the arrow far faster than a longbow with 30lbs and 28" draw.

I own an archery range and plan to organize some matches with LARP arrows in the future. Until now I have done pletny of shooting, I'm an instructor myself and we have a 3D archery range, but I have no experience with LARP at all. I would be interested in hearing recommendations. Like what would be a good group size? Security wise I would require safety glasses or painball helmets in addition to the safety tips for the arrows. Any other recommendations? What could be good match rules? Anything not obvious?

For pouches, if you're having budget issues look at the crafting kits for them, it might take a bit more time to assemble the pouch, but they end up costing less for a better look

i played this game when i was a teen alot of fun I dont remember it enough but it was loads of fun we played at a book store at night (fwb fl)

excellent video, I am new to Larping and the info you shared here was amazingly helpful!

Long time VTM Storyteller here, I stumbled over this by chance in my recommendations. This is fantastic!!! Its a great summary, from a perspective of a kindred outside of the Clan. I was laughing my ass off by the sheer hillarity 🤣I'd really love more of this especially considering that there are a lot off clans that have a stick up their ass, even if they try to look nice or dignified like the toreador, the ministry or the tremere. Also that twerk... 🤣🤣🤣

I'm Still here, good video a lot of good advice

Ha. I've been following the channel since it was called Southampton Vampire By Night. Incidentally I discovered your channel when looking up stuff about Mind's Eye Theatre when I became interested in White Wolf and their various role playing games.

Found your channel by chance of Luck. Like and comment to push the YT-Alg - you rock Mike. + no headhits/shots at all - since 2004 in germany as far as i can tell. + you can sew the rubber flights to the wooden shaft and with a drop of glue on the sewing thread you are good to go. Cost is next to nothing, makes your flights real durable and recognizeable at the same time.

How about playing a real game like chess.

Really useful advices in this one! Sometimes it does take some guts to get a place, but once you have it...

Need a 10 hour remix :D

Really enjoying these. Thank you!

I remember one time a LARP owner proudly talked about how dark and mature his LARP was, where nobody had to limit their behaviour. So I told him I wanted to melt the dick off of someone who expressed interest in seeing me get raped. Suddenly the no-limit LARP gained limits.

Hi everyone, who is watching this. I have not shared this video on reddit, Facebook, etc to hopefully allow you my lovely viewers an opportunity to do so. The video series How NOT to make a Larp is struggling to find traction (very small view count but high watch time) so I am hoping that the community can help me out by sharing it and maybe even others in the series. Looking for a little support to keep me motivated to continue the series.

Very interesting ideas, although as a potential international player, I was left thinking 'well, this sounds like a fun strategic game but where's the roleplay?' That may just be me though as someone who's not particularly into wargames/board games etc, and just wants to rolepay - ie be in character and interact.

In my experience, people do read codes of conduct but then pretty much forget about them becasue they asume they are always acting the right way, wich is understandable, everyone always thinks they are the good guys. For example safety tools are in almost all larps currently but don't get used. The larps in wich i've seen people using them are only the larps that actually train their players to use them, making meetings in wich the players are required to use safety tools multiple times in order to be able to participate in the game. I've found this the best way to inforce a code of conduct and to quickly learn of any potential problems (or problem-players) you might find before the game starts. Talking about how players should behave during a briefiing or putting a code on conduct in a piece of paper will only be usefull to save your ass when crap hits the fan (or sentence you, depending on the situation). IMO you have to actually train them to behave properly, so it becomes muscle memory (wich is very usefull to have when your brain is way deep in character).

How big was your larp 8 story tellers seems crazy big

We had a bad experience with a code of conduct. There was a group of players that tried to weaponize it. They would ride the line harassing players but never explicitly cross the boundaries, meanwhile they would pounce whenever one of their perceived "enemies" crossed any kind of line and try to get them kicked from the game. We moved to a benevolent dictatorship model where the guiding ethos is "Don't be a Fuck". The premise is that everyone generally DOES know what's appropriate and what isn't, but even if they're not, people get a warning. if they persist after the warning, its possible they'll be kicked.

And so, we all greet the night because Caine was vegan.😮 😂😂😂

You're to be celebrated as well. You're saving several people a lot of trouble if they would just watch these and give it all their own swing. Projects rise and fall. For ours it was Covid that killed the first and then lives moved on by the time we could relaunch. One thing on the videos though: there is a lot of audio level differences between one to the other. On this one your voice is quite soft and the outro then hits like a truck.

As someone starting a larp project here in argentina. This is the best resource out there. Thank you so much for sharing your experience

That first website looked cool, but oh my.... the amount of usability issues with it, XD

i would add, for any prospective larp builders or managers out there trying to launch a new game in their areas. A.) do not reference your gaming group on paper with any owned intellectual property. like for instance, if you are building a game based on VtM using their ruleset as the basis, do not referency your game by anything known in that property. pick something generically benign that still convey's the focus of the game. and run with that. a simple protection in case a snippy IP comes crawling around demanding restitution for playing their tabeltop roleplaying game. B.) if you have attained any level of meager success with your larp, register for a non-profit status with your local governments to protect your game from outside litigation. Non-profit doesn't mean you are not taking in a profit, it is a basic legal protection that states that a majority of the funding gained is utilized to host/create further gameplay encounters at a later time or utilized for other non profit reasons (charity, maintenance on site rental places, ect.). this trick has worked for the SCA reenactment society for over 50 years and counting. it can work for you.

Coincidentally I just posted a video with a similar legal bent about Chronicles of Darkness and Paradox. Weird how White Wolf doesn’t really exist and is instead this World of Darkness business entity.

Thank you. Another good video with sensible advice. Some parts of this I hadn't completely thought out and it was good to hear your experience.

Copyright and trademark licensing can be a real headache! I agree that it's almost always better to use a public domain or original setting.

Las Vegas has a VTM LARP that's pretty big.

history is always a wise teacher, and a broad ocean from which to draw inspiraton from. In this day and age, i would say the greatest assest to any larp or member of a larp would be their local Public Library. there, one can utilize resources to research history or find inspiration upon its shelves for lots of different reasons. yeah, the internet exists, but does not compare to wealth of specific information one might find in a library that may not always exist online. besides, where else can you freely walk in wearing your persona clothes while inquiring to the librarians about locating books on 5th century living without drawing ire? (seriously, librarians have just about seen it all) you'd get sussy side eye walking into a bookstore without buying anything. At least in a library you have a greater chance of meeting individuals who may share your same passions. yep, libraries are oft underated as places of interest.

I feel like you made this video just for me. Great video. Lots of good advice. Thank you for this. It is much appreciated

machiaevellian. that's the word i think you are looking for. a Games master needs to be partially somewhat machiaevellian in certain aspects of a game to maintain playability. game goes soft, GM sneakily entices outside cluster to invade for resources while making it look like another faction encouraged the behaviors. wheels within wheels and tangible rewards to entice those who maybe hesitant to PvP another group or game hold point. game goes too intensly hard, Gm needs to balance the anger and enthusiasm with something non combat related to diffuse the tension in the air (while still making it look like someone else did it. like i said, Machiaevellian...if you do it right, it looks like you are not doing anything at all. and that adds an element of fright and complexity to any game.) the thing that always confused me about certain versions of vampire larps is the subtle fact that all rules are not set into stone. just because a publisher reprinted, updated, and re-released their product rulesets in an attempt to be more modern does not mean it is holy writ gospel. all the GM's actively running a particular ruleset can hold a player congress amongst themselves to discuss the rule changes and summarily agree or dissagree to run certain aspects of the updated rulebooks because it does or does not work as a functional guide for overall gameplay. this is the power of the players, and is oft overlooked, because games publishers tend to forget that their games thrive on the will of the players and not the other way round. if gameplay no longer suits the will of the group, change it to something that does, and agree across all active larp chapters and branches of that particular game. training days....i cannot stress enough about the need for training days. you want PvP in your game? a GM needs to schedule training days for it's playerbase to actively practice the format, rules, and structure of physical combat. can't count on fingers and toes the number of times i've seen PvP where one side knows the rules but chooses to fudge them, while the other side is happy go lucky newbies who may not know how to preform safe combat within the rulesets only for all combat to eventually devolve into a gilly brawl with people getting hurt, feelings getting hurt, and people packing up their toys and leaving because no one either taught the rules of combat to the group as a whole, nor enforced the combat rules as written. Training days are important, forgoing that, having a mandatory 1 or 2 hour combat training session at the start of any event weekend can mean all the difference between a good time, and a shouty angry butthurt time. give a babybat a dagger and they'll play for a day, teach a babybat the forms of combat and they'll eventually take over and rule the world (if only for a weekend).

About the first point: I bought a 1,80m long Naginata and only after it arrived did I think to check if it fits into my car. Luckily it does

The first and only larp I'd ever been to was a "By Night" Vampire Masquerade game run by my friends over a decade ago. I could never get into it because of some limitations of the game and my own difficulties with operating in crowds (big or small). I couldn't keep up with the politics or the fact the game runners said I couldn't play a character opposite to my gender. I still have the hardcover manuals for the game though... I think they're even the White Wolf version... Fast forward, now I'm helping to build a new fantasy larp that I kind of fell into by accident. The hardest part, right now, is trying to get players when no one knows who you are. We might even have to cancel our first play-test because we can't get enough people. ): That whole thing you mentioned with the mapped buildings and post-codes is amazing! That's a huge amount of work. It's a shame it didn't get used.

personal advice? "show, don't tell". communities are built from social media by demonstrating gameplay, lore, arts n crafts, and how-to's showcasing one's particular shard of larp, generating interest over time from the curious and casuals who observe intreguing videos that showcase the best of a particular larp. that how you build communities and general gameplay from the ground up. hour long waffles about "why my lurp is better than your lurp" is generally a massive turn off for casuals or the curious into further digging into one's gaming hobby, and there seems to be a lot of those floating around in social media. and you're right, too many people spend entirely too much time making negative video content for their brand, instead of showcasing the absolute best of their social circle. is the slow spiraling death knell for any gaming movement. almost ever gaming community over the last 50 years has eventually had (is currently having) their old school gerigoths vs. babybats moments with new versions vs. old. the bridges come from individuals who look at all the dumb shite and say "eh, feck this...i want to play everything." and do so. but these are my opinons and should be taken with a grain of salt (user experiences may vary from creature to creature.) funny anecdote to me: "that weird moment you dip into an online vampire conversation and after reading the flaming gamut of passioned debates over clan and species...casually dropping in a "I'm Talamascan" into the feed, then watching the entire conversation explode into absolute chaos with curses, death threats, and some humorously creative uses for stakes and orifices. ahh, fun times....sometimes i do so miss my youth." heh, but yeah, in conclusion....larp social media should be a showcase of the creativity of the circle you are playing in, and less grumbling about the negatives. there is always room in the sandbox for more toys, just don't forget to show off your shinies for all the new people.

At events without catering my group usually splits the tasks for mealprep. We do have a designated cook as well, who is an absolute life saver, but of course, he doesn't do everything on his own. Having a good sized group also minimises waste and storage issues. Also we split who brings and prepares what. That does create the issue that we have to take differing budgets and transportation options into account, but so far we have always managed to find a common solution.

To give you the opportunity to learn from a mistake I made in the past: don't promise costume changes in game. My character is slowly mutating into a beastfolk-raven. At one event, I wore a bandana, with the ingame explanation that I had to protect the feathers that were slowly growing in. That meant I had forced myself to finish the headpiece before the next event. I managed to do it, but had something gone wrong, I would have had to come up with a ln in game explanation. So I would suggest to leave room for costume changes coming later than expected. Better yet, if you want to have the character play that comes with your character knowing they will change in some way, prepare the costume changes beforehand. You can always leave the additional pieces at home

in my experience, larpers in general are hard to herd.