Combining all of the fun of a Festival weekend and the rich detail of an established larp/lrp campaign world. read on >
The events cater equally for veteran LARP role players and those with little or no role-playing experience. read on >
BEGIN YOUR LARP ADVENTURE
Herofest is a low hit and low fantasy LARP system, which is easy to master, no prior experience is required. read on >
The first Larping event with Herofest is free to the first 25 new players to book the catering option on each event. read on >
NEWS FROM HEROFEST LARP/LRP
The first Herofest larp weekend was May 2008. I am writing this for the website in September 2008 having also run a July weekend and in the run up to the October 24-26th recruitment event.
I started Herofest because we wanted to try running a very simple player vs player low hit larp system and to have a festival style event where there would always be something for your character to do.
I have been larping myself continuously since1983 and have attended many other larp fest style events all of which I enjoyed. However there were two common complaints especially about the larger events. Firstly that if you were a member of a large faction you often did not know what was going on and found it hard to be fully involved in the plot. Secondly, and I think this has a lot to do with the first problem, that there was never enough to keep people occupied throughout the event.
So how to solve these problems; we decided that Herofest will never have more than 300 players. We think this is the maximum size we can run the style of larp event we are aiming for and still achieve our aims.
Also we will limit all the larp factions to 20 players maximum. Should the situation arise where people want to bring more than 20 people to a Herofest event then they can set up 2 or even more factions. This means that by the end of your first live action roleplaying event you will know all your faction.
Every Herofest larp faction will have a faction representative a leader and a second in command. We will ensure that all 3 of these people work with their faction making sure that everyone knows what is going on and that each member of the faction can be as involved in the larp plot as they want.
We then set about making sure that every larp faction has its own political agenda and aims for every Herofest event. Each event also has its own regular plot and hidden plot as well as numerous competitions and games.
To add to all this we give each faction a large number of larping missions to attempt to achieve throughout the event. For the May larp each faction had 20 to start with and another 40 available throughout the event.
Our larp events so far have been very successful with 90% return bookings. I hope that you will come to one of our weekends and take part in the fun.
We now have a larping route finder to get you from your post code directly to Candleston. See the top of the page for more details.
October 2008.
Our Third and last event of 2008 went very well and we are now planning the three larping events for 2009. See the plot page for more information.
Our first Herofest-Larp event of 2009 is booked and confirmed for April 23-26. More details are on the plot page. We are now taking bookings so please let me know asap if you would like a place or places.
April 2009
A great start to the year, ten factions represented and lots of action throughout. It looks like we have now got just the right balance between combat missions and non combat missions to keep everyone busy. The addition of faction monster attacks also went down very well particularly for those playing non combatant charcaters who wanted just the odd fight for a bit of fun.
The new yurts at candleston were good and added to the atmosphere in the camps. Top marks to everyone for making the effort with their faction areas in particular the Wizards Concillium and the Dymwan.
Looking forward to July and the Interplanar Fayre next.
