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Entries in the 2006 LARPA Small Game Writing Competition.
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Entries in the 2007 LARPA Small Game Writing Competiton.

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Best In Category (5-12), Best Overall - 2007 LARPA Small Game Writing Competition

by Kirt Dankmyer, Jon Lemich Your car has broken down. While you're trying to get to the convention you were headed toward, you keep encountering people of varying degrees of uselessness... This is a "Horde" game: Either you'll be playing one of the people in the car, or you'll play several entertainingly "useless" characters...

Second Place Overall - 2006 LARPA Small Game Writing Competition

By: Anandi Gandolfi

It is said that people make up 90% of their opinions of people they meet in the first two minutes. Well in speed dating you have five!

True love is just a few minutes away. But remember when it comes to finding the perfect match looks can be deceiving, And what you think you want isn't always what you need. Come experience the Trend! the Drama! the Romance! Speed dating.

Best in Category (12-24), Second Place Overall - 2007 LARPA Small Game Writing Competition
by Carol Young, Dan Kolligan, Andrew Zorowitz and the Foam Brain Staff

As members of Old Mimi's cult, you've worked long and hard to bring about the end - and now your plans are finally nearing fruition.

Best Overall - 2006 LARPA Small Game Writing Competition

By Kirt Dankmyer and Jon Lemich

There are some who say that Christopher Marlowe actually wrote Shakespeare's plays. By the year 2020, everyone is too busy backstabbing each other for pocket change to care.

The premise for this game is simple: The plots for Shakespeare's tragedies, as reconfigured for a cyberpunk future. The names may be different, and the powers that be may be cutthroat corporations instead of cutthroat noble houses, but the likes of Romeo, Hamlet, and King Lear will be interacting in a landscape of love, betrayal, high caliber weapons and mirrorshades.

This is a four-hour Theatre-style LARP for people who want to engage in backstabbing intrigue and look badass while doing it.

Third Place Overall - 2007 LARPA Small Game Writing Competition

by Susan Weiner, John D'Agosta
Here’s the underside. Some people are crazy. Some saw things they couldn’t take. Some did things they couldn’t take. Some are dreamers that walked out on the world, and some are poor people the world walked out on. A high-character, low-plot storytelling game that takes place around a hobo campfire.

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Finished Entrant - 2007 LARPA Small Game Writing Competition

by Anandi Gandolfi

Who Am I? This is the eternal question that stands the center of every life. This question leads to others. What separates a hero from a coward? Where is the heart? Why do we struggle day after day to make our lives count? How do we move on when grief threatens to tear us apart? Why do we continue to hope when all hope is gone? There are times in everyone's life that stand out. There are events that bring a smile to our faces or tears to our eyes. These are the moments that shape us, define us, and make even the most exceptional of people, truly human.

Since every moment of our lives redefines every moment that has come before, how can any life be judged until that life is complete?

Every faith has a different theory as to what happens to us when we die. What is the truth and what if they all got it wrong? Only when we pass deaths door can we truly know!

Another life is a theater style game heavily focused on roleplaying and on the exploration of the human condition- the flawed perfection that is the human soul.