Design vs Writing of LARPs

A roundtable exploring the process of game creation, particularly the relationship between designing the overall structure of the game and writing the actual text.

Long Description

We often lump LARP creation together as a single "writing" process, but there are really at least two aspects to that:

• Designing it (coming up with plot webs, factions, and other such outlines).
• Actually writing character sheets, bluesheets and other such final text.

In this roundtable, we will talk about the different ways to handle this process, and explore questions such as:

• Do different approaches work better for different sizes of games?
• How does the game concept affect the process?
• What are the benefits and drawbacks of different approaches?
• Do you iterate between designing and writing, and if so, how do you manage it?
• What other dimensions are there in the game-creation process, and how do they fit in?

We are going to try to avoid side-tracking too much into the thousand different aspects of creating a game, and mainly focus on the details of the creative process, and how different teams approach it.