In 2002, Bob and Deva Fagan created a wonderful game which was and continues to be one of my favorite World Course LARPs in America.

Prophecy.

Built upon the set of rules created by Truax McFarland (a Core Effects system akin to Accelerant), and ladeled with in depth backgrounds and a short, compact Campaign (3 years), it was one of the most amazing games I had the pleasure of following.

John Behnken and his co-conspirators now run the new chronicles in the same fantastic way as the original campaign. Winged Throne Productions is the company they've created, and use refined variants of that same ruleset. After a three year run, Prophecy II ended and there was a year off to recharge and get ready for the next saga.

In the interim, many games have been run by Winged Throne Productions to keep the Prophecy family together doing what they do best, LARPing.

One of the most intriguing is happening a couple of weeks, if you can make it - contact them and give it a try!


Rick  McCoy

LARP Alliance, Inc.


Legend speaks of Oz, a wondrous kingdom protected on all sides by a desert so deadly that it turns any living thing that touches it into sand.

 

For a long age, a Wicked Witch ruled Oz, crushing its many peoples in a grip of fear and oppression.  Despite her armies and her magics, a Wizard from a far off land defeated her and sent her into exile in the lands of the West.

 

In the West, the Witch bided her time, regaining her might.  In darkness, she and her minions attacked and besieged the City of Emeralds, where the Wizard ruled as regent.  All might have been lost, but for the coming of a young girl from lands beyond the desert.  She, and the Ozians who joined her heroic quest, broke the power of the Wicked Witch and slew her.

 

With the Wicked Witch destroyed, the Wizard passed his crown to the Scarecrow, widely believed to be the most intelligent creature in Oz.  Then the girl and the Wizard returned by means most mysterious, to their own lands, leaving the Scarecrow to rule over a time of peace and prosperity.

 

Two hundred years have passed, and the Scarecrow - once again - rules over Oz. During his short reign after the fall of the Wicked Witch, he helped restore the throne of Oz to its true heir - Princess Osma; and after many years of peace and prosperity under Osma, she passed peacefully, and decreed the throne be returned to her loyal and trusted friend. The kingdom has changed much over two centuries, thanks in no small part to Queen Osma, The Scarecrow and that gathering of heroes that came from beyond its borders.

 

The City of Emeralds is once again a beacon of peace and culture.  Witches and wizards have come from throughout Oz and have built schools dedicated to the furtherment of their craft.

 

The Wizard left behind many records of strange Sciences and cunning Devices, which have been studied and improved upon by those of the Tinsmith-trade.  This has led to the creation of a complex art of steam and gears, whose power rivals that of magic.

 

The Constructs, those timeless servants of Oz, have become more common in the land.  While only a scant few, like the Scarecrow, are beings animated by the Powder of Life, many others are once living creatures saved and given new life by the Wizard's Sciences.  They are called the Tin Men, beings sustained by complicated machines and strange devices.

 

The animals in Oz have always been able to talk, but now they have taken on the trappings of civilization.  Most wear clothes and carry weaponry, like any other respectable Ozian.  Those of the animals who can use the powers of Witchery still struggle to overcome the stigma that the Wicked Witch has put upon all of their kind.


Now The Lands north of The City of Emeralds are in peril once again and a new summons from the Scarecrow King is put forth:


"Adventurers from all across Oz, bring your might be it sword, spell or craft to aide this troubled land. Beasts have become uncommonly savage, Constructs have begun malfunctioning, Rumors of a terrible power amassing strength are whispering among the other territories. The time for the great deeds of heroes has returned."

Event:  The Wonderful LARP of Oz, presented by Winged Throne Productions

Created and Directed by:  David Woodward and Drew Gartman

Date: November 13 - 15, 2009

Location: Ye Olde Commons - Charleton, MA

Please join our Google Group for Rules and further information: 

 http://groups.google.com/group/oz-larp
And
visit us on Facebook too:
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=229484100...

Thanks!

John
Behnken
Winged Throne
Productions

Announcing The Gathering 2009!
June 27th  at Huntington Beach Central Park
Starts at 10am - all day event.

The Gathering is a LARP event where the local LARPers get together from different groups and games at a single place and time. Cross-LARP games, food, and vendors will be in abundance.

The Gathering works for the non-LARPing public as a "Job Faire", where people interested in LARP can come and ask questions, see demonstrations or get in on the action themselves in a non-pressure and no cost environment for each of the LARP groups in our region.

Information on upcoming events will be available, as well as many LARPers promoting their group or system.

If you are a LARP owner, please have flyers available to us to bring to the Gathering, otherwise we invite you to attend and set up a booth!

If you are a LARPer, get out there and support the community and your groups!

If you are new to LARP, or want to learn more, please consider attending this event. We are holding it at Huntington Beach Central as a centralized point for most of the people on this Meetup system, and we hope you can make it out!

We will be holding the first game for ERIAL, the game designed and inspired by the LAIRE game in the movie Role Models!

Rick McCoy
LARP Alliance, Inc.