Director: Wayne Melnick

Live Action Role-Playing Games (LARPs) at Dragon*Con 2012 once again built on its consecutive, highly-successful years – once again setting the standard for Live Action Role-Playing. As always, we respond to the input of our attendees by focusing on genres for which there is a strong demand and on production companies that produce the highest quality experience for our attendees.

LARP gaming will once again return to the Hilton for Dragon*Con 2013. LARP gamers will continue to be able to take advantage of the “cat walk” running between the Hilton and the Marriott Marquis giving fast and easy access to Dragon*Con’s other hotels as well as the Peachtree Center food court, all without ever having to attempt to cross Courtland Street.

The LARP division bidding process begins in January of each year. Over the course of the following months, the LARP division evaluates and assesses those games that submit applications to run at Dragon*Con. Preliminary decisions are made in May/June of each year and the games selected to run at Dragon*Con are finalized in July. Because of space limitations, it is recommended that production companies wanting to run LARPs at Dragon*Con contact the LARP Director and submit their application as early in the process as possible.

As for the games themselves, 2012 saw the return of several highly successful LARPs including Dark ConFrontation and Forrest of Doors. Dragon*Con will also feature the 10^th year of Nightfall Productions’ family of LARP games.  Relative new-comers Najha Productions and Sinking Ship also produced highly anticipated and critically lauded horror games, Houses of the Blooded:Blood Aria and Hope’s Exodus, respectfully. Continuing our stated goal of supporting Southeast-based LARP games, we were thrilled to have the Fractured LARP run its first-ever convention “Salon”-style LARP.  Finally, Dagorhir Battle Games built on its string of crowd-drawing boffer-LARP demonstrations.

If you would like more information, please contact the LARP Director, Wayne Melnick, at larps@dragoncon.org. As always, space permitting, we expect to have several “display-only” tables for those LARP games that run continually throughout the year. So, if you want to “live the part” or if you just want to find some information on what exactly Live Action gaming is, join the LARP division for a fun-filled weekend of gaming. All events and scheduling are tentative until scenario production and staff scheduling are complete. Dragon*Con reserves the right to modify the availability and/or times of the games being run.

You can also check out updated information on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/DragonLARP/208955237961 or just search keyword “DragonLARP.”

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