Nervous but keen: Any tips for a noob LARPer

Hi all,

I’ve always heard about LARP but never really knew much about it until a few weeks ago. It is safe to say that it has really caught my imagination and that I have been bitten by the bug. I’ve always had a thing for fantsy, recently DMing to a Dungeons and Dragon campaign, and love the intricacies of fantasy worlds. Empire LARP especially seems to be all about the details which, frankly, is amazing. Unfortunately, due to money and university workload, it would be difficult for me to go to the Spring equinox event next year; but I am aiming to go to the Summer solstice event.

To this extent, I was wondering if there were any Urizen healer about that could give me any tips, techniques and equipment ideas? the Urizen people seem right up my street and a good fit with the character I have in my head. But I can get my head around the different healing methods? Additionally, if anyone knows of any spires that may be recruiting around summer time next year I would greatly appreciate getting in contact with them.

Also, any tips on getting equipment on a low budget would be very well received, I’ve started the process of making bags and tool rolls from what I can find in charity shops but any other tips would be great.

Last but not least, if anyone could give any links to recent events in the Empire and Urizen that would be helpfull/ what advice would you give a new player in trying to get up to speed on the events of the world.

Many thanks and I really look forward to the summer.

As an Urizeni Physick, mage and Priest I tend to use a mix of pressure points and traditional surgery but I also use light to help focus things on occassion.

For basic medical tools my go to suggestion is a cheap set of clay working tools and a pencil case fabric roll. Both can be found on ebay for under a tenner.

If you go to the wiki and to recent history and read the most recent winds of war and winds of fortune those describe the motions of the imperial armies and other major things in the world. Of particular interest would be the grendel invasion of redoubt, reconquest of Spiral and druj invaasion of Zenith as well as the long period when the stars vanished.

Kit wise, urizeni love robes, simple cottons in layers are perfect (Blue tends to be the primary colour in various hues and shades). Simple robes can be made simply with a sowing machine and 2nd hand stores are a good place to check out for some simple decoration.