What Your Casting Questionnaire Tells Me About You, 2011 edition: part 1

[hazliya]

I sent out questionnaires for the Intercon run of Better off Dead yesterday. I've gotten over half of them back. Already, I'm seeing some interesting things.

First off, there have been a number of people who do not want key elements of the game in their casting. Like being disliked at all. Or dressing up (the game has the word "prom" in the damn title!).

Know what that tells me about you? That you either a) did not read the game description, b) do not remember what it was like to be a teenager, or c) grew up in a bubble.

This game is set at a high school prom. Of course there is going to be drama, and of course no one is liked by everyone. They're teenagers, for fuck's sake! This is not the High School of Peace and Love. If you want to play someone loved by everyone, go play in the goddamn Rainbow-Brite larp.

Second, if you give them the option, 80% of male players will list "sexy librarian" as a character they'd be interested in playing. I approve.

Comments

[acousticshadow2.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain... I know exactly what it is like to list a game then have the players write “I don’t want to be the main points of this game”

I think if you wrote a game where the blurb said “in the end everyone dies” at least one player would say “I’d rather not die if possible.”

I’ve actually thought about writing a larp called the “Happy Fluffy Bunny Rainbow LARP” where nothing happens to anyone except happy fluffy bunnies rainbow stuff and everybody loves everybody and nothing bad happens.

[hazliya.livejournal.com]

Were I not moving to a foreign country, I would totally write Rainbow-Brite, The LARP with you.

[acousticshadow2.livejournal.com]

How long you gonna be in Japan? We could write it via the interwebs then run it in #years when you get back.