Hi

i realize it's kinda randomly asking but does anybody know a good website to watch new series online ?

@Cruz Otto thank you, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) I appreciate it !!

@Gary Ira Happy to help xD

Best nation. Good choice.

did you ever go?

Thanks Holly! Want to link to this video and show a short clip in another video about Empire (Answering questions/tips). Hope that's okay?

That sounds absolutely brilliant! Please go right ahead.

Thankyou Mark and Holly, me and a group of 6 friends are seriously looking into joining.Thankyou for these videos. This is all so Exciting!!

Empire and Larping community in general is super amazing when it comes to looking out and supporting people with anxiety and similar issues. On site there are several safe zones where people can take a moment to come out of character and relax a bit , and online you can become a member of the 'spoonie and disabled empire larpers' Facebook group, where you can vent about your mental state while larping. The community has got your back. There a lot of larpers who deal with psychological conditions so a lot of people know how real the struggle is! All you need is just a LITTLE little self-confidence to help you take the first step.

So ... 6 years have passed ... did you do it yet?

Thank you ever so much! More is on the way - Including another Empire video (What every Imperial Citizen knows), then after that I shall be creating a series of videos explaining the comprehensive What, When, Where, Why and How of Larp.

As someone who is looking to get into this these videos are something im looking forward too! love the video style

@@HollytheSmall when is this vid happenig its been 2 years

I'd be more than happy to!

Yay!

It's the best isn't it? If I run a tabletop game I often use costume bits and props to help play and look the part for the players. Also some of the groups I've been in as a player have had special days where we dress up in our character costumes to wear as we play. No shame here, if it's good for a laugh its good for me!

A good kind of surreal I hope! So glad you liked the video. The enthusiasm I think comes from a place of empathy, as I know all too well how hard it can for Empire to be your first LARP game. So I wanted to make something I would of liked to of seen when I first started. I hope I see you on the field after COVID finally fecks off.

Such a delight to hear! My hope was to make Empire and larp in general seem less intimidating so I'm so glad you found this useful.

Gosh mate! That means the world to me, thank you. So cool to hear that there's a Larping scene all the way over in Israel too!

That's incredibly awesome to hear! (Such Wisdom and Ambition. YOU MAKE THE EMPIRE PROUD.) I'm delighted that this was of use to you and your friends and I hope you all have a splendid time in 2018! What nation are you guys going to play?

Thank you. We've been playing D&D for years so Larp seems amazing. Im surprised it took us this long to see if there was any we could go to. We're going as Wintermark, we each picked top 3 so we could all be in the same group and it was our combined favourite on average. Still stuck on a group name though, we're never very good at that, still haven't named our adventuring party and we're almost about to end this campaign and start a new one... Any suggestions?

Sounds very compromising. Here's a few questions to ponder that might help you find a name: - Which of the three peoples in Wintermark do your character's originate from? - How was your group/ hall formed in your backstory? - Do you have a favourite animals or mythical beast that's Empire/Wintermark themed? - Are you guys specialising in a particular skill together? - What is your group's primary resource? (As in, did you guys pick the same resource in character creation?) - Does your group run a unique business back home? Are they candle-makers, hunters, rangers, innkeepers etc? Hopefully in answering these questions you will find some inspiration!

Oh it's definitely terrifying! BUT SO WORTH IT! I hope you're able to come one day, you'll be welcomed with open arms!

Thank you, that's wonderful to hear! I hope you enjoy yourselves. Oh hey! I'm running an IC tour of Anvil next season. If you're interested in coming along, look up Empire LRP: The Wanderer's Post on Facebook for updates and information.

Curse bites

Hang on that's the job of the nation psychopaths and Draughir lol

fucking mascot

I now wanna call it a mascot so I can see wat happens. Better work on my shield!

@@hailey4696 I cannot imagine what would happen if someone told Grandmother Varushka that she is a mascot... I suspect a good cautionary tale would come of it though

That's fantastic to hear! We'd be happy to have you! If you do plan to come over, I'd highly recommend introducing yourself to the Facebook community or Forums. Sure many returning players would be happy to show you around and make you feel welcome!

You are more than welcome!

it really is!

Glad to hear it!

Pleasure to meet you Jordan. Glad your first Empire was a success!

That means a lot, thank you DPP!

Holly the Small No worries. Sorry 'DPP'?

DPP = Dancing Pot Plant!

Holly the Small lol of course ☺

Thank you very much for the compliments! I'm far from a professional but there's nothing like the looming pressure of a Master's deadline to get a performance out of you! I've always fancied voice acting mind you, (I do a bang-up impression of Babs from Chicken Run).

Walrus that would be amazing. In the mean time you could search online to see if you have any sizeable larps close to you, or see if you can find a smaller local larp you and your buds could go to, local groups could always use extra hands monstering or playing NPCs. Dwarves are awesome, have yet to play one myself though, its on the list. Thank you ever so much for the sub!

Oh that's grand!

Aaw, glad to hear it. I sincerely hope you have a splendid time! What nation are you thinking of playing? I'm not sure about Thursday mini buses. I know they definitely run on Fridays. You could check the Empire Travel Facebook to see if anyone else is taking the train and carpool from the station? Carrying all your larpkit sounds mad!

The minibus is available on Thursday and Friday. www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/Dadford_Road_Campsite#Minibus_from_Banbury

Thank you so much Mo mo! This video is getting on a bit but I'm glad it still holds up! This was the final piece for my Masters in Illustration and Animation, and I cited you as one of my inspirations and sources in my accompanying report. So do forgive me if a scream in joy for a bit

I wish I had Empire in my area too (Canada, Newfoundland)

You have something just as good (so i've heard and 'Holly the small' said in another post) it's called 'Bicolline'. The event is a 'LARP event' meets 'ren fair'. Check the youtuber 'Mo Mo O'Brien' video on her visit. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kJhzqKx2qsi7oac.html

Thank you very much! It was my Master's Degree final project. It's amazing how much I got got away with researching Larp for a Illustration and Animation degree.

Thank you! There's more slowly on the way (real life obligations permitting) I share updates and behind the scenes stuff in my discord.

Maybe you could go to Bicolline in Montreal with Voyage North?

I'll check it out. Thank you for letting me know about this.

Don't do it dude, it's a humongous rip off going with TVN. Source - Attended Bico in 2016 with TVN, they charge 3x the cost of what it would be to go without them.

Oh man. Right, so my understanding of the Voyage North is that it is just the program that sends a bus to your area to pick you up right? If that is the case, I'll just drive. Thanks, mate. As someone who went there, do you know that admission price? I can't find a hard number anywhere. It's strange considering how big a LARP it is and that any other LARP's price is shown right off the bat.

Not quite, TVN gets you your Bico ticket, food for the week, shared tent sleeping for the week, membership into a guild, and a community (an extremely toxic one albeit) to interact with before the event. It doesnt send a bus to your area at all, theres just a shuttle to and from Montreal airport. It costs $1500 for TVN, but for everything that TVN provides you could get independently for about $600. However, Bicolline isnt really a LARP tbh. Its mostly a renaissance fair crossed with a music festival unless you join the geopolitical game, which is nigh impossible without a large guild. All in all, Bicolline just isnt worth it. I'd recommend waiting until November/March and buying a ticket to Collage of Wizardry or something. Now THATS an amazing LARP experience.

I'll definitely consider it! I have a lot of stories to tell from my years of playing.

Holly the Small Hell yeah!! :) I wanna LARP but im still waiting til I graduate hs. I don’t wanna spend too much on one but I kinda have to since it’s usually the fighting ones that are cheaper

@@screaminberries9046 Take your time! it's not going anywhere any time soon.

That's wonderful mate, maybe I'll see you around! Welcome to Empire!

Take your time mate! The wiki is like an encyclopedia, there for people to dip in and out of to get the info they want - and also to aid in arguments over correct spelling.

Thanks for replying, i think i've read through what i need to on the wiki to start out. I'm on the forum and a couple of fb pages for it. I saw the photographs from the Spring event, the photographers are amazing btw. Everyone seems so welcoming and friendly, at least OOC :). I am looking forward to when I can go. Thanks for the video as well, it helped me understand the basics.

Out-of-character DEFINITELY! In character, eeeeehhhh... no guarantees there. Glad you enjoyed the video!

Wonderful! I sincerely hope you enjoy your first event! I would highly recommend you go onto Facebook and find your nation's page and introduce yourself! Let people know that you're unsure how to enter the game and people would be more than happy to help you.

@@HollytheSmall Thank you so much! :) I've been on the Brass Coast page since about 2020! Yet to introduce myself though so definitely a good next step, thanks for reminding me to do that haha :')

Hope to see you there@@hikaruxkaoruxlol !

@@HollytheSmall Absolutely!!! Likewise!

Nerd on my friend.

How it works is that all the players meet at the official events currently run in Silverstone four times a year. However there are also plenty of mini Player/Sanctioned events going on all over the UK as well. Check out the websites for all the deets!

Thank you! Great vid btw

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Hi Josh! I just popped in an annotation over the scene you're referring to. Hopefully that should help new larping folks avoid damaging their weapons.

+Holly the Small Is the Empire LARP in the US by chance? Or is it in the UK

Empire events are just in the UK sadly.

Hi there Leo! I hope to see you on the field and I hope you have a wonderful time this E3! New Player meetings are now at 2PM and 5PM on the Friday. Good thing you asked! Sadly annotations are no longer a thing so I haven't been able to update the information.

I think I see what you mean, but could you possibly expand on which rules you're referring to? Otherwise I totally understand if you prefer a system that plops you directly into the command seat, rather than being one part of a massive whole. That's what makes tabletop and local systems so great.

Holly: I feel like he means he'd rather be a gear in the machine rather than be in an undisciplined peasant mob loosely following orders. Either that or he would really prefer to just be a commander.

One way around that is that you can ask to carpool on the 'empire lrp: travel arrangements' facebook group, a lot of people agree to take a taxi together and split the cost.

Well there's plenty of battles, skirmishes and tournaments to stick your teeth into - and more!

Cool,one day I'm going to join

Sad to hear that. If it's a matter of distance I'm sure there's another system not TOO far away from you. Take it from Mo Mo O'Brien and have a search online.

Holly the Small it also a matter of money as well as location and transportation. But I'll definitely try find something.

Start on the wiki, look at the main plot on the plot summary page. Then look at the nations. See which one you think will enjoy the most, get to know the existing players on the forums and Facebook groups and/or see if you can drag some friends in. Finally, register on the main website and start plotting a character!

Thanks dude!

Lets hope you do! I don't blame you for worrying about going solo, I'd recommend saying hi to your chosen nation online. I'm sure someone would be more than happy to take you under their wing!

I know this is like 6 months old but as much as I don't blame you for being scared to travel solo... Brave it go and Suprise yourself for what you can do :) I know I probably won't find any friends outside larp to begin with if I go ( IM in damn Australia) so if I do and can (cost wise) go then I have to try to ​seek for people already playing. Like Holly said :) There has to be someone in nations looking for people to take under there wing.

I'm kind of adorable by default, I have a condition.

Hi Grace. I'm currently working on the next video - it's a biggun so it's just going to take a while. However I have planned to make a podcast series to go inbetween uploads. I have a possible co-host lined up and I've got the very talented Nelward to make me a theme tune. Check out his stuff!

Hey congratulations! You're the 200th comment! XP

Holly the Small thanks

I'm afraid I don't! If you DO find anything however on your quest, I'd love to know.

Warsong runs in Brisbane, but if you want large LARP you're probably gonna have to do Swordcraft Quest in Victoria (swordcraft.com.au/) though less RP focused as this is (growing out of a battlegame).

I think so

Oh absolutely! But they're just not presented in a traditional way. It's very open world where you find quest like scenarios, OR you make your own trouble-- I mean fun. If you like combat there's the main battles and the skirmishes. Otherwise there are NPC's walking around the camp you can chat to and potentially source some game from!

Or you can make your own objectives. That's largely what I do.

Thank you! Trust me though, I think Matt is very aware of this by now XD

TRUST ME! I want to. But I've been very busy! I'm a full time freelancer now working for people like Flashgitz.

Which Nation's Egregore is that? D'8

Imperial Orc

Hi AE! Who knows, maybe you will one day! Don't give up hope. To answer your question - have boat loads of musicians! They're all players though, PD doesn't hire anyone to play music, players provide their own instruments and talent. It's beautiful thing too - you can hear people practising all through out the day during time in, and when it gets dark later on you can hear people putting on full on performances either in tents or around camp fires. There's no musician skill in the gaming sense though, no bard classes or anything like that. If you can't play an instrument in real life it's best not to play a character who's musically included in Empire. Unless your character is incredibly deluded in his own ability xp

Haha, I was guessing that one was gonna get the second portion of that as I figured I made my question a bit odd. But thanks, its one of those things that I love about roleplaying because music is real no matter what it is and it just adds to the setting but I have never heard anyone talk about it. So thank you, awesome to know there's plethora of folks who do play music like that at larps or at least at Empire! ^^ Thank you for the response! :D

Oh wow Harvey 8O That IS good idea for a video! I think I will sometime down the line!

That's right! There's lore explaining Anvil's existence too.

No, muskets are not allowed.

Yeah sorry mate, muskets are not featured in this particular setting.

Not a dumb question at all! Truth is at Empire it doesn't matter about your nationality. Sure the nations are inspired by a few different countries and their history/mythology but where your from in real life doesn't really matter. You can be a Dawnishman, Freeborn or Imperial Orc with a Norwegian accent all you want my friend!

That's great news! Thanks for responding.

Not a problem! Anytime! Hope to see you on the field!

There's also foreign nations in the world of Empire, that speak non-English real world languages. Knowing non-English languages can occasionally be helpful there.

Hi Catt. Typically changing depends on where you're staying, if you're in a hotel, you change there, if you're camping you change in your tent. You could change in the showers if you wanted too. When it's time-in people try to be in costume in the in-character area by then, but if it's time out or you're in a out-of-character area it's totally fine to be out of costume. There are A TON of people interested in magic. Lots of covens dotted about all over the nations, the best way to get involved I'd say is either investigate in character around Anvil or at the Conclave, or you can ask on the forums and Nation Facebook pages before-hand to see if a coven is looking for a new member (or are willing to let you be an apprentice if you just want to try out being a ritualist without spending the XP) Darling you can ask as many questions as you like! You can ask me, or the rest of the community on FB or the PD Forum.

Thank you!! Really helpful :)

Hey it's what I do.