As one of the people who initially suggested to the Chicago-con organisers that they could run The Broken Council as their featured LARP#, I think it would be a great shame if it failed to go ahead.
For everyone's information, with less than a month to go to RQ Con Down Under last year, we had *just over half* the players required for our 82-player LARP, Home of The Bold. We were about 40 players short (almost the total number required for The Broken Council), with around 77 Con registrations at that point.
Although this caused HotB designers David Hall & Kevin Jacklin a little consternation, Andrew Bean, John Hughes and I were confident we could do it and so we went on with our final recruiting push:
In the end, we had 131 people attending the con and we even needed a waiting list for people wanting to get into HotB on the day!
So, based on our experience at RQ Con Down Under, it may not be impossible to get enough punters for a second run of The Broken Council, even at this late stage.
For the record, I was invited to attend GloranthaCon IV and was keen to go, but am unable to take time off work at this period. I'm sure that everyone who attends will have a great time, whether or no BC actually runs!
#my advice to the Chicago organisers was to pick up the Broken Council LARP rather than trying to write one of their own *and* plan a con at the same time, just as we imported the Reaching Moon boys to run HotB. I haven't heard - is the White Bull LARP still happening? Perhaps the disappointed BCers can get into that if there are places?
Cheers
MOB PS Peter Metcalfe: Your "does he come from a fading land, I wonder?" reference to Sir Gorgonpaste of Losklam (my last Note from Nochet, V4 #58) eludes my feeble, work-addled brain this Friday evening. Do tell...
End of Glorantha Digest V4 #61
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