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.
1/24/2026 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
3/29/2026 Grandma’s Resting Place – It’s been three years since Grandma Dot’s cancer diagnosis, and the last two annual family beach parties have been centered on her long—and happy—goodbyes. Now she’s passed away in a hospital far from home. Rather than turn her body over to the usual pipeline of hospital to funeral home to cemetery, the family took it and drove off in their RV to take her home and decide what to do.
Grandma’s Resting Place is a game about coping with the loss of a loved one by sharing and reliving memories spanning three generations. The game is set in a realistic modern time. This is a serious game including a mix of joyful, funny, and sad memories. The focus is on roleplaying the characters involved, with no goals.
Play takes place primarily in a scene in the “present time” of 2016 shortly after Grandma Dot’s death. This scene is intermittently punctuated by flashback memory scenes and monologues from a player portraying the memory of Grandma Dot. The flashback scenes look back earlier into the lives of the characters and explore their complicated relationships with Grandma Dot.
Location: private home, Oakland
5/2/2026 – 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
.6/14/2026 – The Ironhook Insurrection – For the past year, Doskvol has maintained its twisted equilibrium: the nobility schemed in their estates, criminal crews carved up territory in blood and coin, and the city’s arcane horrors kept to their shadows—so long as you knew which streets to avoid. Last night, that balance shattered.
A catastrophic surge ripped through the sparkcraft grid, detonating every electroplasmic light from the grand chandeliers of Brightstone to the humblest hand-lamp in Dunslough, and even the stars seemed to flicker out for a moment. In that instant of absolute darkness, those with the sight were the only ones who witnessed the only light left in Doskvol: an emerald fire blooming behind the Spirit Wardens’ masks. The corruption leaped from warden to warden like a plague of light, each warden shrieking as it took them. These unbreakable sentinels—who face down vengeful ghosts without flinching—screamed and ran like children. None escaped. Every last warden collapsed where they fell, locked in deathlike slumber.
The city’s response was predictable: the cautious barricaded themselves behind whatever wards they could afford, while the bold saw opportunity in the Wardens’ absence. Someone saw too much opportunity. The explosion that tore through Ironhook Prison could be heard in Charterhall and felt in the Docks. The Pit—that legendary sub-basement where they keep things too dangerous to execute—had been breached.
What emerged defied classification. Neither ghost nor demons, those who have witnessed them call them revenants, though the name hardly captures their aberrance. These things move through the city like a tide of teeth and shadow, leaving only mangled corpses behind.
Without the Spirit Wardens at their call, the Council ordered the Imperial Military in; with their rifles and their rigid formations, the revenants tore through them like wet paper. After watching two full companies disappear into the creature-haunted streets, the remaining soldiers abandoned their posts. By dawn, anyone with sense had gone to ground.
Now the nobility face their nightmare: the leviathan blood refineries stand empty or in ruin, the lightning barriers flicker, and their entire industrial empire crumbles while monsters roam their city. Their desperate messages to the capital might as well be thrown into the void sea—help is days away, and they have another day at best.
Which brings us to tonight’s unprecedented gathering. The lords and ladies of the Council have swallowed their pride and sent perfumed invitations to the only people left in Doskvol with the skills to survive this chaos: the criminal elite. The venue speaks volumes—the Centuralia Club in Six Towers, behind the strongest electroplasmic wards old money can buy. The invitation’s language is all silk and courtesy, but everyone can read between the lines. The nobility are cornered rats, and cornered rats will promise anything.
The scoundrels hold all the cards now. The only question is what price they’ll name for saving a city that’s spent generations grinding them under its heel.
Location: private home in Burlingame (Caltrain accessible, ~0.5 miles)
7/11/2025 – LARP Festival – lots of mini-LARPs! Details TBD.
Location: Mountain View, near caltrain
8/2025 – Be Not Afraid – details to come soon
9/11-9/13/2026 – LARP COR – Do you want to organize LARP communities? This is for you!
Location: tentatively Easy Coast (North Carolina). website link
11/2026 – Grand LARP 2026 – Yes, there will be a Grand LARP 2026. Details TBD – expect more info late February 2026.
12/2026 – Ship of Theseus – details to come soon. Online event
(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)