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Enigma Live Game Resources

Over the years, the members of Enigma have run many games and gained a lot of experience in how to design and run one. There have even been two major attempts to create a comprehensive Enigma live game manual. This page attempts to collect some of that shared wisdom and make it available to the world.

Articles and Papers about Live Gaming

Description of Live Role-Playing Games
Mike Tice has created excellent introductory descriptions of both role-playing games as a whole and live role-playing games in specific.
Notes from the November 1999 Meeting
At the Enigma meeting of November 8, 1999, the members present discussed the "good and bad" of live games, trying to highlight the best and worst of past live games for the advice of future gamemasters.

Sample Games
     The following Enigma live game sites have sufficiently complete online rules, plot write-ups, or character sheets that they can be used as examples for other gamemasters. See the full List of Past Enigma Live Games for a host of examples of live game "advertisting" and distribution of a game's background or logistical information.

Arrr! Pirates!
Complete rules for designing and running your own quick and dirty live pirate game.
Gods II
Complete rules for running your own live gods game, a mix of live gaming and strategy gaming.
A Family Affair, Imperium, and Murder on the Road to Santiago
"Rules" and tips for games with no rules. Imperium includes the complete gamemaster plot design under "What Happened at the Game"
Silver and Sage
Game rules, including use of fake guns.
Castle Falkenstein
Adaptation of the Falkenstein table-top rules for live game use.
The Sultan's Funeral Pyre, Camlann Eve, I was a Teenage Monster from Outer Space, and Samurai Matsuri
Recent games which have game mechanics online.

Other Live Gaming Groups

Society for Interactive Literature West
Interactive Literature Foundation
International Fantasy Gaming Society