Winter's Bite Event Review

[Hannick]

Pros

-The NPC make up and costuming, it's a lot better than I've experienced for the most part, barring a few major NPCs
-The level of danger, I never really felt safe, dying both by other players allowing me to bleed out and monsters murdering me felt really real. Often I had to run, and I had to utilize the big front liners so I could support them or look for people to stabilize.
-The level of loot felt appropriate for the danger.
-The variety of mods, instamods, and random loot scattered was lovely.
-Monster/NPC diversity
-The build up of the last fight, slowly, more and more ice wolves, a bit of a break, then the final battle was staged amazingly.
-I at one point, ran after an ice wolf stupidly, and they lead me into an ambush. They broke all my armour and if I hadn't had a bolster on, they would have actually knocked me out (I TRICKED THEM HA), I REALLY loved that little sequence.
-Bad things happening to those I care about, makes me RP with them. While I am sad IG and OOG for what happens, I love conflict to RP about.
-Exploring the site was lots of fun.
-The tavern food was great.
-Letting PCs lead in many scenarios, feels like we have a lot of autonomy, and seeing these examples makes me feel that if Hannick wanted to, he could lead some stuff too as it is not driven purely by NPCs.
-The ability to collect things for the farmers was really cool, encourages leaving town center.
-The warm cabins.
-Personal plots that I got to tag along to.
-I enjoy having day mods, regardless of the weather. Tavern nights are fun, but get boring quickly for me.

Cons

-The start was a little slow for me, but as it was the first time on site, it was also kind of nice to walk around a little.
-I feel like I missed a few mods, though I believe this is in part to me trying to stay warm and therefor missing the hooks.
-I also feel like I didn't understand why a lot of things were happening, particularly with the attacking Winter Court Fey. (ah, I read the thing Brittany said - if it is undecided and requires digging, good. I didn't look too much into it anyways, so if we were meant to dig, I don't deserve to know).
-STARVING farmers selling potatoes. Maybe sell something else that is not food. I found this more amusing to be fair.
-Lack of hand sanitizer.
-Perhaps, too many instamods, if the NPCs were stretched so thin. Not that i experienced this, as I was unlucky and found none, but I heard some people complain that they waited a good bit.

Note about the Wardens:

I enjoy having the Wardens being player driven. LARP is not D&D, especially Underworld - the objective OOG is not co-operative, it is determined by IG actions. It's not meant to easily be a fun and happy place (if all the PCs strive for it sure then). You should have to connive and bribe and kiss ass to get in with other PCs/NPCs, it should be given to people who actively seek it out.
Ted gave a speech at a Jericho tavern night, about how UWL was founded because they wanted PCs to have the ability to choose to be bad if they wanted to. To me UWL is about autonomy, if players want to ABUSE the law (not that they have that I have seen yet), let them, deal with it in game. Just because you sat by passively and did nothing IG, doesn't mean that them building relationships with PCs should be made meaningless. Them buddying up to the person who chose the other Wardens is a result of IG action and thus deserves reward. PERHAPS, it should have been that only people who applied would be considered, but I didn't see anything about that.