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Demo LARP Event for Los Angeles Players
This is an event put on by Blade Olsen for the LA area and is a demo for friends and coworkers interested in trying out LARP and learning the FANWAR game system.
Live Action Role Playing is a tremendous teaching tool and capable of dynamic, physically driven learning that transcends the usual boundaries of standard education. Due to the interactive, dramatic, hands on methods used in LARP, teaching is often effortless and fun. Players explore concepts from history, linguistics, political studies, geography, psychology, literature, mythology, engineering, science, mathematics, fine arts, team building, and much, much more in a single session and often don’t even realize they are learning due to the fact that they are the active participant in the process, not the passive receiver.
This event trains players in the game, as well as continues an ongoing story the players themselves are involved in creating. The session expands upon other events, challenging players to follow through on their projects and connect to those of others. This class provides an after school activity that is social, physical, and mentally challenging in a time when kids and adults more and more are finding sedentary, electronic alternatives to real human interactions. The sessions involve players making and role playing as characters in a shared imaginary world that spans the Bay Area and has hundreds of players continuously involved in collaborating on the process of storytelling and adventure. These events also tie into the weekend events and other leagues which have been a tradition in the area for the past nine years. Players must learn to battle with safe LARP weaponry, solve intricate story elements, role play as a wide variety of monsters and creatures of the world, and manage their resources carefully. LARP is helping transform the lives of children and adults all across the Bay Area and beyond.
For more on Why LARP is a tremendous teaching tool, check out the links below!