The Luminary Roleplay Society
The Luminary Roleplay Society (LRS) is a community of roleplaying enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area. We seek to use Live Action Roleplaying games (LARPs) as a tool to allow players and writers to explore improvisational roleplaying, story writing, characters, emotions, and new experiences.
The LRS hosts LARPs and LARP writing workshops at local conventions and other venues. We are interested in collaborating with other roleplaying groups across the Bay Area and beyond in achieving these goals.
If you are interested in joining the LRS, send a request email to the address below and we will get in contact with you. In the email, please let us know who you are, where you heard about our organization, and whether you have LARPed with us before (at an LRS event or otherwise).
If you’d like help with running an event, please fill out the LARP request form HERE.
Upcoming Events (send us an email for more info including specific location):
The LRS also has a Zoom account and has access to full google workspace accounts (IE unlimited length google hangouts) – if having access to either of these (or some other resource!) will help you run online LARPs, please let us know and we will see how we can help!
Note that sending us an email and getting on our mailing list will provide the most up to date info. See also, the CALENDAR. Websites do not always get updated in the most timely manner.
4/5/2025 The Teddies of Mulberry Lane – Mulberry Lane is much like any other pleasant suburban street. Adults drive cars to their boring adult jobs while children walk to Leaf and Flower Academy at the end of the street. Neighbors wave to one another and generally seem friendly, although of course there are always the standard conflicts between one another – length of the grass, color of the mailbox – things like that. And of course, much as on any other street, children (and the occasional adult) have teddy bears to provide comfort in times of need. What those on most streets (and indeed Mulberry Lane) are unaware of is that Teddies are not the inanimate objects they think of. No, Teddies are living sentient and magical beings – as long as they are bound to a child (or occasionally adult) with love.
Come and experience the parallel world of life as a Teddy. Secrets and powers style game with mutually exclusive character goals.
Location: TBD, likely South Bay/Peninsula
.4/19/2025 LARP Brunch – meet up with other LARPers to discuss playing, running or whatever else you may desire.
Location: Cafe seating (outdoor) near Mountain View Caltrain
.6/14/2025 Conclave of the Gods – Before the War of the Gods shattered the peace of the Divine Realm, the twelve gods lived in relative peace alongside The First, the only being who had the power to create from nothing. But a debate began about who among them should have more say in the creation of the world. Debate soon turned to the first act of violence, and the death of The First. The resulting grief has never faded, and though the gods have learned never to kill, they could not stop fighting over who would have the privilege to shape humanity from the remnants of The First. The war left four ascendent and eight locked away in the outer darkness of the Underworld. The rage of the imprisoned gods was so great that it unleashed a terrible storm upon all the world which would repeat every three years. And so the world sat, locked in a cycle of magical destruction and rebuilding as The Twelve simmered in their hatred, their grief, and their loss.
Until recently.
Humanity, seeking an end to the tribulation, has freed the imprisoned gods, and a treaty has been written to force the gods to reunite in a fragile peace. Yet much remains undecided.
In this game, players will be portraying one of the gods, either one of the four Patron Gods who have been in charge until now, or one of the eight Minor Gods who have been separated from humanity and forbidden worshippers in their Underworld prison. You are at the first meeting of all twelve gods since the Minor Gods were freed, in the hopes of reuniting and deciding how to move forward, both emotionally and politically.
Humanity has bound you to certain terms: You will not go to war with one another again, all gods must be allowed followers, and you will continue to provide some of your power to them in the form of magic so that their society does not collapse. However, there is also the rumor that you may be able to resurrect the First and undo the original crime that cast you into chaos. While this hope will be present and pursued, the heart of the game will be recognizing its futility and the need to save oneself and one another through reconciliation.
You know that by the end of this meeting your time to settle these matters will be over, and if no accord can be reached, your connection to humanity may be lost forever. Facing these practical questions while coming to terms with what you all have done to the world and each other is much of the play..
Location: private home in Burlingame (Caltrain accessible, ~0.5 miles)
7/19/2025 LARP Festival – lots of mini-LARPs! Details TBD.
Location: Mountain View, near caltrain
8/15-8/17/2025 LARP COR – Do you want to organize LARP communities? This is for you! Online this year, details TBD. website link
11/21-11/23/2025 – Grand LARP 2025: Judge The Book – There is a library beyond space and time, staffed by fictional characters brought to existence to withstand the strain of the space they occupy, and they’re having a bad day. Everything was progressing as usual, and then a spaceship from real space crashed into the library, which should be impossible.
The spaceship is also having a bad day, because having crashed into something means it cannot keep running from whatever has pursued it through the generations. Hopefully leaving reality as it’s understood will fix the problem? Clearly nothing worse than the massive damage will come from this? Surely they will be able to get some rest now?
Judge the Book is a game about spectrums of identity, fate, narrative, and changing times. Players will be either Librarians, pulled from their books and left to preserve the stacks, or spaceship crew pursued through history by a cosmic force they don’t understand. Players will explore, deep-dive, and discover what awaits them from the past, present, and future.
See website at https://judgethebooklarp.wordpress.com/ for details.
(note: for specific locations, please send us an email. Precise locations are not listed here since we sometimes run at private residences people offer up for our use and we’d like to keep those generous people’s addresses private rather than share with the whole internet)