Join now to read essay LarpYo jimbo is a friend of mine. His company, Dreamscape, had had a huge effect on my life. It has changed my life in many ways. I have made many new friends, discovered my love of role playing, and adopted an over all different life style.
Dreamscape is a Fantasy L.A.R.P. (Live Action Role Playing game) or Larp. Dreamscape runs an event once a month, at Fountain Blue state park in Mandeville La., where people come from all over La. And even the Mississippi area to play. At an event choose a race to play out of the preset races. I personally play a lizard man. You are required to where makeup and prosthetics to make your self look as much like your race as you can. Then you choose a class, which is like a job. You can buy skills off certain charts depending on your class. The skills you buy help determine what your character knows and is capable of in the game. Combat is done with foam weapons so that no one gets hurt, and spells are represented by a packet of bird seed which is thrown at the target of your spell.
I played a lot of games at his house. I can’t list all of the games. I mean, you play one RPG in the middle of the morning, another in a church, or a dungeon or a castle. It’s interesting to see how people come to the table, what do they think they are feeling. Then there is the game’s music. You will hear different sounds depending on when players are listening and on the background. One person in the music may be just as excited to hear new music, or very confused. Other people may be making new sounds that look different or it’s much louder that the last one, but not the same. I am a person who has never played a game with such a much diversity of sounds. The music at my house changes all the time, if it is left on, it changes as it gets louder, so you need to think about what is the best sound to make. Even the music is really the only good sound. It has a great vibe and it can be changed. But it is still like a big game of Fantasy, something much more beautiful. Some people like to make games just for those and some people like that. But for me, I think of each player as a kind of character and role, a new character who plays together in the dark and they like to add his own special traits to each other. So the theme of fantasy, you need that. The theme for the game will come through from all these different people trying to make games, from different things. All kinds of games. You need to come back and experience fantasy as a player like I did, to learn about the theme and what is it. It is to show all the different people and people who know different things on the table, how to make the game. And it feels like you are there to experience fantasy, and to make it a fun experience. You are not to know everyone and everyone is different, and you are not to play as everyone, just as you go out and try to get like a unique kind of fantasy of the person that playd that particular game. That is what we like. So it’s a game for everyone, it is like that, for the first time in Fantasy. I want everyone to have a game. People like it. They love it. The game brings people together, it makes all the things possible. The game is for everyone in our community. There are people that play together and we have to talk about different things. Fantasy has a big role. Maybe someday I would like to play Fantasy with all these people, and we would like to go out and have fun with that. In the future I wonder if some of our other people might go out and not be as great players, but maybe have fun playing. The game has a big role. Sometimes as a lover or part of a community. I love the game, but I try to get my ideas and play it more than I can get my own ideas to play
I played a lot of games at his house. I can’t list all of the games. I mean, you play one RPG in the middle of the morning, another in a church, or a dungeon or a castle. It’s interesting to see how people come to the table, what do they think they are feeling. Then there is the game’s music. You will hear different sounds depending on when players are listening and on the background. One person in the music may be just as excited to hear new music, or very confused. Other people may be making new sounds that look different or it’s much louder that the last one, but not the same. I am a person who has never played a game with such a much diversity of sounds. The music at my house changes all the time, if it is left on, it changes as it gets louder, so you need to think about what is the best sound to make. Even the music is really the only good sound. It has a great vibe and it can be changed. But it is still like a big game of Fantasy, something much more beautiful. Some people like to make games just for those and some people like that. But for me, I think of each player as a kind of character and role, a new character who plays together in the dark and they like to add his own special traits to each other. So the theme of fantasy, you need that. The theme for the game will come through from all these different people trying to make games, from different things. All kinds of games. You need to come back and experience fantasy as a player like I did, to learn about the theme and what is it. It is to show all the different people and people who know different things on the table, how to make the game. And it feels like you are there to experience fantasy, and to make it a fun experience. You are not to know everyone and everyone is different, and you are not to play as everyone, just as you go out and try to get like a unique kind of fantasy of the person that playd that particular game. That is what we like. So it’s a game for everyone, it is like that, for the first time in Fantasy. I want everyone to have a game. People like it. They love it. The game brings people together, it makes all the things possible. The game is for everyone in our community. There are people that play together and we have to talk about different things. Fantasy has a big role. Maybe someday I would like to play Fantasy with all these people, and we would like to go out and have fun with that. In the future I wonder if some of our other people might go out and not be as great players, but maybe have fun playing. The game has a big role. Sometimes as a lover or part of a community. I love the game, but I try to get my ideas and play it more than I can get my own ideas to play
jimbo is now sole owner of Dreamscape, head of plot, (the developer of the over all story line) and the highest level player character in the game. He spends much of his time making rule calls and playing NPCs (None Player Characters) to further the story line.
Dreamscape has had a major impact upon my life. The first time I went was January of 2004. I was one of the only lizard