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One-Shot: World Number One! Starlight Overdrive
It all comes down to this. Everything you’ve trained for, everything you’ve sacrificed, your whole life, all for this moment. The cheers of the crowd fade into the background as you look across the field, eyes locking with your partner. The baton feels heavy in your hand but you’ve both come so far; there’s no turning back now. All around you are racers just like you, who have worked just as hard as you, the very best in the world. All here to find out just who is…. World Number One! Starlight Overdrive!
世界一! スターライトオーバードライブ (or World Number One! Starlight Overdrive, abbreviated WNO!) is a parlour LARP onshot set in a world where the most important sport is the two person relay race. WNO! will run on the afternoon of Sunday 31st May from 2pm to 5pm: in the Asian Cultural Centre, Manzil Way, Oxford. To cover room costs, payment is £7 (cash or card), with concessions available!
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The Society Game
The Society Game is a multi-session Parlour LARP. Each game will run for a set number of sessions, where you can make an original character to play live each event, in a homebrewed setting and system. You will play the same character throughout the game, following their story as it twists and turns, evolving over the arc of the game. Sessions consist of talking to other players and NPCs to work out what is going on, and plan your next steps. Between sessions you will submit a downtime saying what you want your character to get up to, and receive a personalised writeup about what’s been going on.
Next System: Labyrinth
When: Every other Wednesday, from 28st January 2026 (Character Creation 14th January)
Where: The Asian Cultural Centre, Manzil Way, Oxford, OX4 1GH
Wear: This is an indoor event, there are no kit requirements – costume is entirely optional!
Eight hundred years after it sank into the earth, the titular Labyrinth has resurfaced. A few short months after its rediscovery by the knightly order of the isle it lies beneath, expeditions from all the powers of the known world have arrived to explore its depths. The Labyrinth has been many things to many people: perhaps the holiest of holy sites to many of the world’s faithful, a home to those who settled its halls before its initial disappearance, and, to just about everyone, a place of opportunity.
Meanwhile, tensions are rising in the known world around. The Northern and Southern Empires each draw closer to the other’s throats, with new skirmishes and border disputes almost every month. The knights, and the church under whose auspices they operate, have used the Labyrinth as the opportunity to mediate, organising quarterly summits to which the expeditions’ leaders are invited. Even so, the Labyrinth hides its greatest treasure within its depths: a crown, whose wielder will have the potential to shape the world’s future.
Labyrinth is set in a world of high, but grounded, fantasy. It is inspired substantially by the classic ‘dungeon crawl’, hoping to use the Labyrinth as a focal point while serving as a sort of sandbox for players to explore the setting and its themes. It is a game that seeks to fit player characters into this world, and emphasise how that place affects how they relate to others and to ongoing events. While the game might often display tragic events or tend towards a less heroic portrayal of life, it is our intent to tell a story that is, overall, hopeful: people suffer and die in inequity and the world turns on, but the labour of our hands might yet give way to a brighter tomorrow.
For more details, check out our game wiki: https://labyrinth.oxfordlarp.com/start
Future Games: Ghostwatch 14
Your world is haunted.
It was small at first. Now, hauntings are so widespread, it’s touched your entire society. Every house is covered in talismans. You respect elders and you burn ancestral offerings.
You are a member of a martial art sect. Reborn from the old once-dwindling cultivation sects, these days training is focussed on catching ghosts. Any child able to see ghosts joins a sect, gaining a new set of obligations and relationships which may conflict with existing family ties. Your time to earn prestige is short: operatives lose their ability to see ghosts as they age.
The big cases are handled by the Ghostwatches. Each sect assigns members, who must work together. This is often strained as members compete for their own sect’s reputation.
You are the members of Ghostwatch 14. This is a new assignment for you: the old members all died last week, and new members were required in a hurry.
Welcome to your first case. We hope you survive long enough to become old and content.
Character creation (in person): 15 July
Day sessions (in person): 22 July, 5 Aug, 19 Aug, 2 Sept
Night Sessions (discord): 29 July, 12 Aug, 26 Aug, 9 Sept
Debrief: 16 Sept
Past Events:
The Society Game
| Name | Wiki | |
| Echoes | September – December 2025 | https://echoes.oxfordlarp.com |
| Anabasis | August – September 2025 | https://anabasis.oxfordlarp.com/ |
| Night Knights | January – April 2025 | https://nightknights.oxfordlarp.com/ |
| Underlings | July – December 2024 | https://underlings.oxfordlarp.com/ |
Linear Larp
There is no current weekly linear LARP. Want to run one? Talk to the committee!
Join us in the woods of Shotover Country Park, taking on the role of either a player character or one of their adversaries, in a homebrewed setting and system. Each week features a new, standalone adventure set in the wider setting of the game – by ‘linear’, we mean that each session is an adventure or dungeon crawl with planned encounters, loot, and some sort of end goal for the players. Most encounters will feature combat using LARP-safe foam weapons, based on the rules of the system.
These events run throughout the year on Saturdays. Every week, the GM for the upcoming Saturday will send out an adventure brief on the society mailing list and Discord server. You’ll have the option of playing a character or joining the monster team, who provide all the encounters and NPCs for the player party. Characters gain XP by joining adventures, and can level up and gain new abilities over time.
The previous system was Planetfall, which ran from 8th January 2022 until 8th June 2024. Players played stranded explorers in a borderlands space system cut off from the rest of the galaxy. The game wiki can be found here: planetfall.oxfordlarp.com