Larps rely on on a the players letting the game bleed over to them and let them closely identify with their characters.
I think that props have a floor that they need to exist at for a space to help immersion but I think that maintaining immersion is a skill that we can all work on.
I think that the game cannot immerse you. I think that you need to want to be immersed and able to accept the game as it is. We will always be suffering with the challengs of believing that a set or a place is a somehow different than it is.
- the tarp[s are not actually stone walls
- the light bulb is a campfire
- the rope light is actually a burning
So we fill in the difference ourselves., We see a bulb that is supposed to be a campfire we riff off that. We go oooh this is a real warm campfire and hold our hands near it.
I think that we need to talk about those techniques that help us to BELIEVE that we are in another place. Everyone needs some other sort of help but I think that we all have techniques for helping to sell a scene and working to discuss and propogate the FEEL of a scene and really leaning into it will help us have the ability to have more people at events like this who can do that would be really big.
NPCS are asked to do this all the time but players are almost never asked to do this. We need to ask everyone that attends.