Wyrd Con and my larp history

Last weekend I was introduced to Wyrd Con, a interactive storytelling con in southern California now in its third year. It's now listed in my convention reports page. As usual, it's long and over-detailed, being a substitute for my memory.

Wyrd Con 2012 Report

I didn't run anything this time, but I think I might next year. It seems appropriate to make a brief recap of my larp history:

In college and early grad school (early 90s) I ran and wrote several murder mystery games, though we didn't call them larp. I played in a Camarilla larp in Chicago in 1996 (Chicago Requiem). After that I went to my post-doc and I continued RPGs but wasn't interested in larp until I started corresponding with the Knutepunkt crowd in 2004. In 2005, I played in J Li's "Queen of Spades" at DunDraCon and then went to my first Knutepunkt in Norway. After that, I ran and played in several of the Shifting Forest parlor larp series, plus co-GMed a P.G. Woodhouse larp. I started writing my own in 2007:

• Stagecoach
  A larp set in the Firefly/Serenity universe, first run at GenCon Indy 2007. It uses the Parlor Larp system from Shifting Forest story
• Redwood Realms
  A hurriedly-assembled outdoor fantasy larp that I put together for a friend's 13th birthday party in summer 2009.
• A Royal Celebration
  A fantasy larp inspired by The Princess Bride, first run at Pacificon 2009.
• A Hero's Welcome
  A sequel to the prior fantasy larp, first run at Pacificon 2010.
• Reunion Wishes
  A modern-day paranormal larp, first run at KublaCon 2011.
• An Eye for an Eye
  A larp set in the Firefly/Serenity universe, first run at Pacificon 2011.
• Shadow Centurions Assemble
  A 1930's larp about pulp villains, first run at KublaCon 2012.