[Deptheads] Banned game "The Assassination Game" - revisiting an idea

[Nekojin]

I wouldn't call it a *sudden* interest - I've been interested in
meta-gaming for a long, long time. I organized TAG games at my high school,
and I've run scavenger hunts at Strategicon conventions a few times.

The general idea here is that I'd run it as a LARP, under the LARP banner,
and it would be a day-long event over the entire convention grounds.
Players would be trying to bump off specific targets *covertly*, without
anyone else nearby becoming aware that anything out-of-the-ordinary had
happened. Slipping someone a note "bomb", pinning a colored "poison dot" to
their badge, things along those lines. Players who made a spectacle of
their assassination attempt would have the "kill" nullified.

More rules to flesh it out, but suffice it to say that the very rules would
preclude people running down the hall yelling at each other and waving toy
guns.


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:11 AM, <J0KERtm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well it is our last con there. What are they gonna do, never let us back?
> But, in all seriousness, why the sudden interest?
>
> Just curious,
>  - Nick
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 14, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Nekojin <nekojin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I know that "The Assassination Game" (or TAG, for short) has been banned
> from the convention for excessive disruption (kids running around with toy
> guns is not a good mental image, after all). Would it be worth opening a
> discussion about this with rules set up to minimize disruption among the
> convention? I've got a rule-set in mind that should help keep the
> disruption to a minimum, and absolutely prevent kids running through the
> halls (any more than they already do, anyway).
> >
> > Just for clarification, I'm not talking about doing this at Gamex -
> there's too little lead time on it. I'm considering doing it at Gateway.
> >
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"Would you like another drink, sir?" asked the bartender.
"I think not," replied Descartes, and promptly vanished.
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