Winter's Bite Event Review

[Gustav Von Schattenkrieger]

As someone who has been town Sheriff of Jericho for a year as my first PC players having positions of authority don't ruin games. Be a smart criminal and nothing changes. Be a law abiding citizen....and nothing changes. The Wardens become corrupt and/unbearable......get some people together and final them all. Most of the game world that effects PCs should be in the hands of PCs with a minimal amount of NPC interaction outside of merchants, monsters, and other roles needed to run the game. In my opinion that is. And it works. 9 years at UW I have seen the good and bad in PC governments and authority figures. PCs DO NOT have to listen to the Wardens or the PC government if they don't want to. They just have to be prepared to deal with any consequences which may or may not arise.

As for taxes.....they add a touch of realism to the game. Nothing is free in the real world nor in our make believe world. LARP is not a tabletop or video game where the only things that cost you coin are weapons, armour, scrolls, and potions.

Suck it up or move along. (Yes, I am aware saying so is likely to get me verbally slapped)

Now on to my review.

Cons:

As stated before there seemed to be no overarching story for the event which hurts it.

Hunting and killing animals always has and always will be a point of 0 interest unless there is a key reason to doing so other than put food in your bellies. I did so once out of boredom

Wandering the paths and woods the first 40 minutes of the game and at various other times and not having encountered a single roving band of NPCs. Might just be bad timing on my part, wrong place at the wrong time, but stuff like this tends to make players stick to their camps or town center until Plot sends hooks to get them out of there.

Weather isn't your doing

Pros:

Well statted and well looted NPCs. Thank you for this. The reward definitely felt worth the risk.

NPCs that didn't just run into the PC amoeba just to die. A number of times I saw NPCs showing tactics and survival instincts. Bravo

Glad I brought my heater to supplement the one provider by the owners. The two kept the Saper cabin nice and warm for the PCs. Thank you for not constantly sending NPCs in there to constantly kill the wamrth by attacking the PCs in there.

Interactions with the PCs of Ralinwood, new and old, and of Jericho, as a character most are not used to seeing or interact with, as has been the trend over the last couple of years for me made the game worth it to me. The RP for everyone was great and little to no being drawn OOG by OOG chat. Thank you all.

Final mod was very entertaining. Needed to be more like that throughout the day. Two more times earlier in the day would have been ideal.