Running the numbers of Dragonbane, the one that took four years to prep and cost half a million Euro, charged 145 Euro for it's 500 participants (only 325 players), which is... (calculator...) 72,500 euros. That's a big, big loss. I asked about it, and it was funded by grants. Where's my socialist paradise!??!?
I thought probably grants were partially responsible for reconciling the huuuuuge losses that most of the games would have had if the budget and fees were the only parts of the equation. I also wondered if player expenses were included in budget, or if that only included the direct expenses of the organizers.
Not all Nordic style larps are GR or Fat Man Down or Hamlet or Kapo, some sound like super-fun
Actually, Hamlet almost made my list. That also reminds me of a funny (to me) detail from that chapter. "The use of pornography is highly problematic, even if it is vintage; in my opinion far more so than (semi) public sex by consenting adults, which was criticized after the larp." I wondered if somehow America and Scandinavia had swapped places. This was a game in which they fired guns with blanks, but a little porn is the troublesome thing?
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I thought probably grants were partially responsible for reconciling the huuuuuge losses that most of the games would have had if the budget and fees were the only parts of the equation. I also wondered if player expenses were included in budget, or if that only included the direct expenses of the organizers.
Not all Nordic style larps are GR or Fat Man Down or Hamlet or Kapo, some sound like super-fun
Actually, Hamlet almost made my list. That also reminds me of a funny (to me) detail from that chapter. "The use of pornography is highly problematic, even if it is vintage; in my opinion far more so than (semi) public sex by consenting adults, which was criticized after the larp." I wondered if somehow America and Scandinavia had swapped places. This was a game in which they fired guns with blanks, but a little porn is the troublesome thing?