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Old Events, Stats, Updates

April 2017 Tournament Rankings

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The rankings for the April Tournament are complete and you can view them here on our Rankings page.  Congrats to the following characters who leveled up.  I hope to see everyone this weekend at our next event.  When you come bring the token you received at the feast, it could come in handy.  Don’t forget to read the latest story as the information in it sets up the storyline for this season, The Realm’s Rover.

  • Vigo/Victus Blackheart (8)
  • Balin Grumpkinsbane (7)
  • Riddick (6)
  • XanXus (4)
  • Rocky (4)
  • Aquilan (4)
  • Khaos (3)
  • Darkness (3)
  • Everand Sackville Baggins (2)
  • Drubert ShieldBreaker (2)
  • Barlo BoulderCrusher (2)
Old Events, Stories

The Realm’s Rover & Event Reminder

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Are you excited for the new season yet?   Did you remember we have a L.A.R.P. event coming up?   Are your weapons sharpened?  Is your armor cleaned?  Water skins filled?  Anti-bug spells recharged?

A new manuscript appeared on my desk this morning!  It’s obvious that someone took a fair amount of time to document the antics of a strange new character.   If you are looking for a leg up on the story-line this season take the time to read this story. If you don’t want a leg up read it anyway, it is worth the time investment. Here it is: The Realm’s Rover

If you still need to catch up on previous stories here is the link to them: The Archives

June 17th is our next event, we will start at 10AM as usual with setup starting at 8.   Let us know if you are planning to camp out.

Please remember to bring out plenty of water and bug spray.   We will have our standard potluck for lunch so bring something to share (not required but appreciated).

 

Old Events, Rules

Tournament Photos & Handbook update

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Larp (12) So I have not yet finished the statistics for the tournament day.  I would apologize except that the Myth Wood has remained quite busy this week!  We have weapons being built, buildings going in, and the Gnomish Groundskeepers have been working to control the spring growth.

This event was a first for us in many ways. One of them was having a Myth Wood Battle Photographer for the day.  Tanner was awesome and captured close to 200 images of our day.   I have added them here for you to see, if you want better a better quality copy of any of the images please let me know, I had to downgrade the quality so I could get them to post properly.

Also, we have finally posted the copy of our advanced classes here.  Let us know if you have any questions about them.

Old Events, Rules, Updates

Updates to the Website

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Yesterday was a fantastic Feast day!   It was great to see everyone and get a chance to talk through the end of last season and the beginning of the next. Now that we have reviewed the handbook and new magic rules with everyone we are posting them. I have moved things around a bit, renaming “Histories” to now be the “Archives”.  Enjoy and let me know if you have any problems.

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2017 Event Dates

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Here is the finalized list of dates for 2017.

1. March 25th will be our Feast, we will discuss all things Myth Wood, name the new nobility and eat delicious food.
2. May 6th, for the Tournament, it will be held in the Myth Wood and will have more story elements than in previous years.
3. June 17th, the First full L.A.R.P. of the 2017 season.
4. July 22nd, the second L.A.R.P.
5. September 9th, the third L.A.R.P.
6. Oct 14th, final L.A.R.P. of the season.

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2017 Planning

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Happy New Year from the Myth Wood. I hope 2017 is a good year for all the denizens of the Wood. To aid in that endeavor, we have tentative dates for all the 2017 Myth Wood L.A.R.P. events. Please, if any of these dates do not work for you let me know as soon as possible. I have a little wiggle room. My goal is to get as many of us together as possible.

1. March 25th will be our Feast, we will discuss all things Myth Wood, name the new nobility and eat delicious food.
2. May 6th, for the Tournament, it will be held in the Myth Wood and will have more story elements than in previous years.
3. June 17th, the First full L.A.R.P. of the 2017 season.
4. July 22nd, the second L.A.R.P.
5. September 9th, the third L.A.R.P.
6. Oct 14th, final L.A.R.P. of the season.

Also of note this year, story wise, there will be a 10 year gap from the end of last season and the beginning of this one. The Myth Wood will have enjoyed 10 years of relative peace. Feel free to let me know what your characters have been up to in that 10 year window.

We are looking forward to seeing what fun and mischief this season in the Myth Wood will bring.

Rules, Stories

Request for Submissions

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Image courtesy of Simon Howden at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Image courtesy of Simon Howden at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Hello Myth Wood denizens.  I hope the beginning of the off season has been good for you.   To help us to keep up interest through the off season we are trying something new this year.   We are asking all of you to take a bit of time and write up something for our “News from the Wood” section of the website.   We are looking for poems, short stories, long stories, journal entries, logs, etc that would be from the point of view of your characters.

These submissions would be sent to Ed and I to review.  We will edit them for content to make sure that they fall in line with the existing storyline in the Myth Wood.  A great deal of latitude will be allowed, but we need to make sure that the stories don’t accidentally mess up some existing storyline or rules.  We also will do a quick edit for grammar, spelling, and such.  They will get posted in the order received at a pace of no more than one a week.

Spend some time thinking about your character and write us up something small.  If you are artistic and want to draw up a picture or record a song that would be awesome as well.   The more we can gather the bigger our histories will become.

This could be fun 🙂

A few examples of submissions:

Stats

Final October 2016 Rankings

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img_1437The 2016 season has come to a close.  We had a fantastic year as well as last event.  Ed and I would like to thank you all for coming out to help us have such a great time.

The final numbers show just how much fun we all had.  Check out the factoid post I posted for some fun statistics.  I have updated the Rankings page (click here) to have the final numbers.   Congrats to all who leveled up.   Thanks to all who attended!

We will be posting the dates for next years events as soon as we pin them down, as well as any winter gathers we will be planning.

Stay tuned for hints as to what is coming up next year.  The planning has already begun….

Stats

October 2016 Random Battle Factoids

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So I have started pulling together the numbers for the October Event.   No Matt, I am not done with it yet.  But while crunching numbers here are a few things that I noticed.  Since Ed is busy editing a story written by one of our fellow denizens I took a bit of time to write them up.

Random factoids noticed after calculating the experience just for kills: Continue reading October 2016 Random Battle Factoids →

Rules

Game of Keeps Pieces & Skulls

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Myth Wood
Game of Keeps
Pieces

  1. Keep – Holder gets Rally, and control of all other pieces of its color.
  2. Champion – Holder gets +2 armor, +1 weapon. May challenge the holder of the Keep piece for it.
  3. Mage – Holder gets additional 10 Mp. May ask the Keep piece holder for a quest to get upgraded to the Champion Piece.
  4. Paladin – Holder gets +2 armor. May ask the Keep piece holder for a quest to get upgraded to the Champion Piece.
  5. Ranger – Holder gets Fire Arrow, or Fire Arrows if you already have Fire Arrow. May ask the Keep piece holder for a quest to get upgraded to the Champion Piece.
  6. Soldier – Holder gets +1 armor. May ask the holder of the Keep Piece for a quest to be upgraded to Mage, Paladin, or Ranger piece.
  7. Mercenary – Holder gets one extra life, can change sides for a price. May ask the holder of the Keep Piece for a quest to be upgraded to Mage, Paladin, or Ranger piece

Myth Wood
Game of Keeps
The Skulls

A holder of a Skull cannot be harmed by any of the piece holders of the same color. In addition, the holder of the Skull may command three times per scenario any of the pieces of its color to do as the holder of the Skull wishes.

The holder of the Skull must complete the commands the Skull gives it. If the Holder does not complete the commands the Skull will choose a new holder.

Stories

A Game of Keeps

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The opening of the new L.A.R.P. season is upon us.  The Gnomes are busy with their work crews clearing the trails and opening the mines.  The Lords are beginning to repair and rebuild after a fairly mild winter.   The Myth Wood Scribe has published his latest work, the story of “A Game of Keeps”.  Some of it may be familiar, some of the story is new.  Click here to read it.

Rules

The Magical Weapons and items of The Myth Wood

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In the L.A.R.P. Realm of the Myth Wood there have been many different magical weapons and item that have influenced events. I will now try to made a comprehensive list of them with a bit of a history on them as well as who is in possession of them now.

The Black Sword, Sam’El

When the Wizard Agamemnon trapped the Daemon Lord Sam’El in his fiery sword he had no idea he would be creating a powerful sentient weapon. The sword was a powerful weapon in its own right, now combined with Sam’El’s dark soul it is almost unstoppable.  Whoever knowingly chooses to pick up the Black Sword is instantly possessed by the personality of Sam’El, and granted all of the power of a Daemon Lord.  The Black Sword’s hold over its wielder can only be broken when the sword comes in contact with Agamemnon the White. In time the Sword will devour the soul of its wielder, thereby permanently turning the person into a standard Daemon. Then it will need a new wielder. At this point the Black Sword is being wielded by the Paladin Arsten. Continue reading The Magical Weapons and items of The Myth Wood →

Smithing

Myth Wood Foamsmithing Tutorial

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This tutorial (view PDF) is my attempt to help those who have not made any L.A.R.P. weapons learn the process. This is the main method that I use to make weapons in the Myth Wood. Other Foamsmiths have other methods. If you ever have a question feel free to get ahold of any of us Foamsmiths, we love to help out. Shared ideas can only make our weapons better.

What you will need. Continue reading Myth Wood Foamsmithing Tutorial →

Old Events, Updates

Winter 2016 Feast and Tournament

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Many of us gathered together last Saturday for our annual tournament.   There were 15 people participating in the tournaments and about the same number of kids and spectators who showed up.

There were two tournaments throughout the day.  The first, and largest, was the one to determine who would wield FarinGar this year.   The tournament was a new style where each participant fought everyone else using the exact same weapons and each starting the fight with 3 lives.   We discovered that while we really like this style of tournament it makes for a long day, almost 5 hours of constant one-on-one battles.   In the end 89 battles were fought and after determining that the weapons weren’t going to hold up through every single fight we ended up skipping 16 battles that were unnecessary for determining the final victors.  Each participant fought in at least 8 battles.  This tournament was great because it offered a chance for people to fight in battles that they may have never fought with weapons they had never used before. Continue reading Winter 2016 Feast and Tournament →