another discussion subject.

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So there is an interesting discussion I came across in a podcast and i thought i would run it past my Laping homies. Now the vast majority of us play in long running campaigns. I was wondering if any of you had any thoughts on one shots. There is a school of thought that says an inclosed single event story can be more effective. While you may not get as involved in your characters the story can be very compelling if it has a well defined begining and end is very structured. I can honestly say some of my more memoriable larp moments came from one shot convention games. I still have people who talk to me about Uncle Vito and that was years ago. I was wondering what yall thought though. With all the continueing Larps people play, how many of you are actually fans of One Shot games.

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my 2 cents

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Having participated in the running of both, I prefer the campaign form. For a one shot to really be attractive to me, there has to be something else going on as well.

For instance, at a convention, a one-shot is fine. Specificly because I dont have a lot invested in it. If I want to drop out of character to go catch a panel, or something, no big loss.

If a short one shot was held at a really good resturant for instance, and ran the lenght of the meal. That would interest me.

If I were dating a larper, a bed-and-breakfast type game would interest me.

But all in all, outside of hanging out with friends (btw we could put together a really sweet party for what some of these one-shots cost to put together). They seem like a zero-sum game.