A Christian LARP

Recently my church did a survey asking parishioners how to get more people involved. I answered "run a LARP." I didn't expect a response, or perhaps that they might try to excommunicate me. Instead, to my surprise, the youth pastor approached me to learn more. She asked how to relate it to church. So easy! Knight school - train the participants to be Christian knights. Anyway, she loved the idea and looks like we'll be starting up in the fall.

So now my mind is flowing with ideas!

• I priced out the cost of getting basic supplies. It came out to about $15 for a sword, $25 for a shield, and $10 for a tabard. A total of $50 - not bad!
• I am working on a rules set for the group, so we don't have to use Dagorhir or Amtgard. It will be akin to Amt. Initially we are going to ban bows and arrows (yay!). I think we'll use spell balls and allow players to be "slingers" a la David.
• Toying with the idea of classes. I think I'll introduce some basic classes, but not the full Amt system. We'll start with 3 hero classes - Warriors (fighters who rely on hand-to-hand combat), Rangers (those who use stealth and missiles), and Defenders (who specialize in protective blessings)
• Defenders will be like Amt Healers, with some twists. Their allowed weapons are rod (blue weapon) or staff.
• The RPG Spiritual Warfare uses Bible verses as the verbal component to trigger "miracles" (aka spells). I would like to do something similar.