Browsing Category Mandala’s Minion

  • Behind the Scenes 1

    Prepping Monsters

    Large systems often ask players to monster for a bit, to provide more crew for encounters or plot. This is entirely reasonable. Kitting up large numbers of monsters ...

    On July 13, 2015 / By
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    R&R characters at fest games

    At Mandala events our crew get 4 hours sleep a night and have to hot bunk. We do feed them and keep them hydrated and we ask them ...

    On July 6, 2015 / By
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    Mindless Zombies

    I quite often listen to the LARPbook Podcast, and they’re doing video now as well. It’s a fortnightly LRP podcast that has a tendency towards tangents, but it’s worth ...

    On June 15, 2015 / By
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    Something Curious

    This weekend I went to Curious Pastimes (CP). CP is the first fest system I played in, in 2003, and this is the first time I wasn’t going ...

    On June 8, 2015 / By
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    Well, that was excellent.

    There has been some confusion as to who I am. I am Leah Tardivel. I am a part of the cooperative called Mandala Studios. I am female and I ...

    On June 1, 2015 / By
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    LRP is a stupid hobby

    We spend weekends in the mud and the rain. It’s cold, uncomfortable, and we’re paying people to make our lives difficult. The toilets don’t work, the person in ...

    On May 18, 2015 / By
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    Finding Events

    The UK has a wide and varied LRP scene. There are a wide range of small games of different styles that happen across the country. Most of them ...

    On May 11, 2015 / By
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    Interesting Times

    I design eLearning, and we talk a lot about gamification, open badges, and designing scenarios. The scenarios are very close to LRP game design. You’re trying to get ...

    On April 13, 2015 / By