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<\/p>\nHey there folks- Hope you’re getting excited for Five Oaths LRP’s return in August. In advance of ticket sales, we’ve written up a brief piece on what you’ll be doing, and what you’ll need if you choose to Monster an event instead of Play: Monster tickets are a discounted form of ticket where instead of playing a character for the weekend, you are a part of our dedicated Monster team for the weekend, playing NPCs and being a core part of our combat encounters, with reduced hours in which you can play your Player Character.<\/p>\n
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You\u2019re going to be spending a lot of the day walking on fields, woodlands, and other rough terrain, fighting and running around occasionally. Make sure to bring good boots with appropriate ankle support (and a few spare pairs of socks to change out during the day!)<\/p>\n
The majority of monster costuming is provided by the event team- But it\u2019s a great idea to have a nice, plain, preferably dark base layer on that we can build off. Black\/dark pants, and a dark plain t-shirt is perfect in a pinch. Plain setting-appropriate clothing (ie “fantasy”\/medieval shirts, pants) is even better, but by no means necessary!<\/p>\n
Due to covid, we won\u2019t be passing around bottles of water for both players and monsters: make sure to have a canteen or water bottle on you that we can refill for you throughout the weekend. Hydrate, don\u2019t die-drate.<\/p>\n
Accommodation is not provided- So standard camping gear (tent, roll mat, sleeping bag) is needed, much like if you were playing the game.<\/p>\n
Monstering lets you try out all kinds of playstyles that you may not get a chance to do when in-character. Our encounters can let you play dramatic villains, ravening beasts, roaming traders or sneaky undead, allowing you to test out roleplaying in a quickfire, lower-stakes setting than bringing something in as a full character.<\/p>\n
Monstering often involves makeup to get you to appear as a non-Human species, from facepaint to the occasionall stick-on prosthetic or mask. A layer of moisturiser underneath facepaint makes it far easier to take off and put on, and keeps your skin protected across the weekend.<\/p>\n
This is the core part of monstering: We provide you with the stats, info, and costuming for a given monster or NPC, and send you out as part of one of our encounters. This can range from a mindless beast, out there to give our players a good fight in the woods, to a social encounter sent into the player camp. We try to tailor our monster roles to our players, so if you want to only get some cardio in and fight all weekend long, or prefer to play talky NPCs, we\u2019ll do our best to facilitate that for you. Time-in (ie, time in which plot is happening and we need monsters) generally lasts from 10am to midnight, with regular breaks for lunch, dinner, etc.<\/p>\n
These encounters will generally go out in “slots” or “encounters”. For example, in a single 2-hour Monstering Slot you’ll likely play a single monster under the control of a referee. You’ll be walked through the encounter, your stats, and your background in the monster room, then given your makeup and any costuming from ourselves, and then armed and sent out into the field.<\/p>\n
All of our monsters are entitled to some time in the field as a character, rather than as a monster. All of our players do some monstering over the weekend, so our monsters get the reverse- They get a bit of time to go into the IC camp as their characters and get some experience on the other side of the fights and encounters as a \u201cbreak\u201d. As such, we ask that our monsters have a basic character that can be brought into play.<\/p>\n
If you purchase a monster ticket, you will obtain 1 Experience Point- The exact same amount you get for playing. This can be put towards any existing character you may have, or future characters if you choose to return in a future event.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re playing our NPCs and Monsters, but you\u2019re not site \u201ccrew\u201d: You won\u2019t be required to do any other work like site cleaning, event setup\/teardown, etc (Unless you really really<\/em> want to pitch in and help out, which is always appreciated)<\/p>\n The plot lies entirely in the hands of the event team and referees (the people in hi-vis vests). You won\u2019t be required to come up with monster stats, or plan out encounters: That\u2019s all handled by the event team beforehand.<\/p>\n Monstering tickets generally run at a heavy discount as you\u2019ll be unable to play your character for the majority of the event. We can\u2019t announce definite prices now for our August event, but we can promise reduced prices for our monster team.<\/p>\n The best way to learn the rules system is to get in there and use it. This can be done through playing the game, or by monstering- The stats for our monsters vary extensively, so by the end of the weekend you\u2019ll likely have given or taken every type of spell, damage, or roleplay effect.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re nervous about making a character and diving straight into the world of Five Oaths, monstering is a great way to try out the game: We literally tell you what you\u2019ll be playing for most of the weekend, and you\u2019ll still get some time to try things out from an in-character point of view.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey there folks- Hope you’re getting excited for Five Oaths LRP’s return in August. In advance of ticket sales, we’ve written up a brief piece on what you’ll be doing, and what you’ll need if you choose to Monster an event instead of Play: Monster tickets are a discounted form of ticket where instead of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,18,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiveoaths.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiveoaths.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiveoaths.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiveoaths.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiveoaths.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fiveoaths.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/fiveoaths.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiveoaths.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiveoaths.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiveoaths.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Writing Plot\/Refereeing Encounters:<\/h3>\n
Benefits:<\/h2>\n
Discounted Ticket Price<\/h3>\n
Rules Experience<\/h3>\n
A Low-Stakes Entry to the Game<\/h3>\n