Glen Cook’s 'Black Company' novels

Your group is based on some books right?
Spot on! Glen Cook’s 'Black Company' novels are about a unit of hard-bitten Mercenaries in a gritty fantasy novel, seemed the perfect inspiration for a LARP group. There is also a Wiki dedicated to Cook's Black Company.Cook places his characters not in a world of good and evil, but in a world where good and evil is not absolute. The perception of good and evil in many cases depends upon the viewpoint of the observer. Considering the style of role-play the group wanted to do, this seemed ideal.

The books draw you into a world much like ours, with sorcery added for flavor. The Company, with its many main characters, serves as the unwilling pawn of the powers that be, trying to "make a living" by doing what they do best and not "taking sides". In this way, they are portraying the human dilemma of feeling a part of the world they live in, yet having little control of their ultimate fate. That grim ‘hard done by’ feeling sums up the Soldiers lot.

It is in fact the very same experience we have when we play at the big LARP events. Shed-loads of plot going on, that a) we don’t understand b) might get us killed c) ends up with us being ordered into doing something nasty. This is of course great fun, and playing the ‘third spear carrier on the left’ rather than the heroes who shape the world, is pleasant change. So if you want to role-play being a hero, Black Company is not for you. If you want to find out what it is like role-playing the ordinary guy, then this is very much for you."See Next:"Back to All You Need to Know About the Black Company