Steam and Cinders Live Action Roleplaying

Not only New England’s best steampunk LARP — New England’s best LARP, period!
The costuming of both PCs and NPCs are superb. Attention to plot is priority for the staff — both world plot and personal plot — and supplements battles/​skirmishes. The module, however, is the real crown gem: designed and implemented by rocket scientists (no, seriously: a pair of astrophysicists), it incorporates fighting and puzzles (mathematical, logic, music, pattern-​recognition, etc) into a seamless whole. Here, too, the great care to highly-​detailed props shows through.
There’s a fairly even balance of male to female, and the average age is in the mid– to high-​twenties. Fighting is well-​balanced for both new players and veterans: S&C is a one-​hit/​one-​damage system. Veterans will have more frills (single high-​damage or elemental-​based hits for fighters, instant healing for physicians, etc) but newbies can come in and still have a good time and be thoroughly effective.