Wyrd Con

Wyrd Con!
June 11-13, 2010
www.wyrdcon.com

Wyrd Con is a new convention in Costa Mesa, California that is 100% LARP focused! The first 100% LARP focused convention on the West Coast that I have ever heard of!

There are hundreds and thousands of LARPs out there in the world, and our community is growing. More people are becoming aware of LARP and want to participate. Wyrd Con is a place for both experienced veterans of the LARP community and newbies who are interested in discovering LARP.

For those like me who have a true passion for LARP there are many opportunities at Wyrd Con. I can participate in many different LARPs and genres to discover which ones are my favorites. I can simply hang out in the Tavern and watch performers and even get up and perform myself. And you can be sure I won't forget to have a good drink! Also the entire convention is one big excuse to dress up. Costuming! Garbing up in my favorite costumes and participating in games or even in the costume contest.

For those who appreciate LARP theory or want to hear from other experienced LARP owners and designers, there are many panels and they are all about LARP and its many aspects.

For the child in all of us, there are games, games, and more games!

For the fighters! There will be an on going fighting circle and I know that there will always be someone available to take on. And you know where there is a fighter's circle there must be tournaments.

No matter what kind of LARPer you are there is something for you at Wyrd Con.

Wyrd Con!
June 11-13, 2010
www.wyrdcon.com

And so it began......

Dawn breaks, war looms, the evil Lord is gathering his armies to wage a campaign of destruction upon the free peoples of the world. It is up to I, Sir Maximilan Pegasus to stop him, with my trusted band of adventurers we must gather the enchanted sword of Tek, the Shield of Way-Lem and the amulet of Subsidence and together we shall slay this abomination! “TIME FREEZE” And bam, the fantasy world fades away, the enchanted sword of Tek in my hand is a rubber sword smothered in coloured ribbons with a laminated card cable tied to the hilt, I look down and I’m wearing plastic armour and unflattering heropants, and the magical world of my imagination washes away to reveal a field in Wigan, but you know what? It’s larp and I’m a larper, it’s what I do.
I started larping when I was 17, I’d never role-played before, I’d never played D&D or Warhammer, never played WoW or any form of online game, I’d never even read Lord of the Rings, I feel somewhat privileged that I hadn’t done any of those things, I think it gave me an untainted attitude towards what larp could be, I had no preconceptions about saving the maiden fair, slaying the dragon or smiting the liche, to me it was just a new thing to try.
It was cold, really cold, 10am on a September morning, the rain was battering down and I’d been given a faux fur tunic, a mouldy old sword and been pointed towards a man and told, “You’re monstering, there’s the ref he’ll tell you what to do.” I obeyed, I played wave after wave of zombies, orcs and various line monsters and to be honest, was cold, bored and hungry. That is, until lunchtime, the teams switched sides, I got into the kit I’d scrounged up, as with most first timers, a black trenchcoat. I took the mouldy old sword, stood with my fellow adventurers and it hit me, I’m a god damn hero!
Pow, there it was, a new larper was born.