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Live Action Role-Playing Game Events

Live Action Role Playing is alive and well at OwlCon. If you have never tried out a "LARP" then please consider giving it a try at OwlCon; our LARPs welcome novices. Conventions provide an ideal one-shot environment for trying out new games.

On this page you will find a list of gaming events sorted alphabetically by rules system. You can find information on how to submit gaming events of your own on our Gamemasters Page.

Event Listing Notes

  • Timeslot listings reflect the number of slots left, e.g. Fri 8:00 PM [2 hrs] (1 slot left) means there is one slot left in the Friday session that begins at 8:00 PM and runs for two hours
  • Closed events will be bold-faced in red type

Game Systems

   

Firefly LARP (modified)

Smugglers Delight and PAX or Bust 10 - 60 players
Sat 3:00 PM [4 hrs] (45 slots left) Intermediate

Minimum age: You must be 18 years of age or older to participate in this event.

A den of thieves and smugglers, a group of the most disreputable reprobates you can think of. And they may be the good guys. There is steam tech and real tech and new tech; what do you bring to the table? There are rumors of more pax and worse; how will you survive in the black when no one can hear you scream? What are you willing to do to survive? If this is the safe haven... what happens when it becomes the most dangerous place in the verse?

GM - Redfeather1, Artcat, Lost Thought

Mind's Eye Theater Old World of Darkness Rules

Vampire: The Masquerade LARP 10 - 60 players
Fri 8:00 PM [12 hrs] (51 slots left) Beginner

Minimum age: You must be 18 years of age or older to participate in this event.

It is not an easy time to be a vampire. The Red Star blazes in full view of all.

In whispers, shouts, and screams through out the halls and corridors of kindred power the a word is heard. A name that fills even the darkest of unbeating hearts with dread - Gehenna.

As the Camarilla scramble to respond to this crisis, one of its luminaries Jan Peiterzoon has publicly renounced his sire and the crumbling power structure of the elders. He has called for all Kindred to attend a grand meeting to respond to the new threats faced by Vampires in these trying times.

A meeting called the Convention of Fire.

GM - Peter Storms

Steampunk Texas LARP

The Emily West Morgan & The Order of Buluc-Chabtan 8 - 50 players
Sun 12:00 PM [7 hrs] (44 slots left) Beginner

Minimum age: You must be 18 years of age or older to participate in this event.

The Year is 1840 and President Lamar of the Republic of Texas has sent the Airship Emily West Morgan and a small fleet of ships to Cozumel, Yucatan to establish a Texas Navy Base to help defend the new Republic of the Yucatan against the Centrist Mexican Empire. All goes well until a well meaning group of Mayan priests seek assistance from a very dangerous ally.

GM - Penelope McFadin, Ian Bowen, Brandy Eastman et al

TEMPO Custom Rules

Call of Cthulhu: Heart of Madness 15 - 50 players
Sat 8:00 PM [4 hrs] (30 slots left) Intermediate

Minimum age: You must be 18 years of age or older to participate in this event.

It is The Year of Our Lord 1898. Disease decimates the Belgian Congo. The Association Internationale du Congo telegraphs, "Cure f. Sleep Sick. Se. Supp." Further inquiries receive no response from the jungle wilds. Does this threaten the humanitarian works of the Association Internationale Africaine? The British Crown assembles experts and diplomats at King Leopold II's behest and sends them by sail, rail, steam, and horse to the Congo. Wearied by frontier hazards but duty bound, these patriots can only hope that they reach Commander Rowland's secluded research base in time.

Out-of-character notes: What took place in the Congo in the late 19th century was a travesty of human rights. This game will, as is usual for Mythos Houston games, present adult themes including but not limited to sexism, racism, classism, violence, and xenophobia. In-character insanity guaranteed! Characters will include "natives" as well as colonial powers.

GM - Laura Currie, Benjamin Craft-Rendon, Scott Dansby et al


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