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It isn’t often that I think of graves, corpses and all things hor­ror and think “Yes! That’s per­fect.”  I’m not a hor­ror junkie by any means, nor do I have fan­tasies of an ‘early retire­ment’ — if you know what I mean.

Today how­ever, I think that we could all learn a lit­tle some­thing from this crea­ture from beyond.

It’s not exactly a LARP cos­tume but that is exactly my point.  In my heart of hearts I believe that this is the kind of qual­ity that LARP games should aim for when they cre­ate a cos­tume or have a cos­tume cre­ated for them.

Obvi­ously some­thing like this wouldn’t be safe to fight in but that just means that the design would have to altered to accom­mo­date.  There are plenty of safe LARP cos­tumes that look this fan­tas­tic all over the inter­net.  Don’t believe me?  Stay tuned and I’ll get you some more.

I once heard that there was only really 5 sto­ries to tell and that every­thing else is just scenery and deliv­ery.  If this is the case then the way to set your LARP scene apart is to start with the scenery (props and cos­tum­ing), and prac­tice the deliv­ery.  I hon­estly believe that the last part (deliv­ery) will be the hard­est part.   I’ll touch upon that another day.

I hope that see­ing great cos­tumes like this inspires you to raise the bar when it comes to your game as it inspires me.

Cheers,

Kevin

PS:  A shout-out to Gore Galore.  They made this cos­tume and spe­cial­ize in haunted houses and the like.

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