USCM: Absolutely badasses

 A few selected shots of our Colonial Marines players at The Drake Objective.

Thankyou

With The Drake Objective completed over the weekend just gone we'd like to thank all our players and crew for making it a smooth event.

We'll shortly release the feedback survey where you can tell us what you really thought of it.

Hi all, there's still a few player spaces remaining for High Frontier: The Drake Objective in July, ideally we could do with filling them in the next month or so as we can then start working on briefings and any downtime actions.  If you are debating about coming then remember you don't have to pay the full amount up front and we're always open to other plans.  All information is in the practical information document that you can dowbnload from here: 

TDO : Practical Information

GM meeting

The great wheel of LARP continues to turn, I'm still coming down from a weekend LARP in Spain but I've just finished a great chat with the GM team for High Frontier: The Drake Objective. There are still both player and crew spaces available for this event, all information should be in the event page.

Bookings open for The Drake Objective

 We are now accepting bookings.

Paul Nash memorial cup win

Hi all, just to add my chorus of thanks to all who make Dropzone possible (having been on that side of the curtain, I know how it feels).

I’d also like to thank my fellow GMs on “The Drake Objective - Extraction”, Nick, Simon and David. I’d also like to thank all who voted for the game last night, I think every GM who sets out to run games are happy with the knowledge that players enjoyed it. Anyway, my bath is running and I’ll see you in July...

The Drake Objective

 Hi all, if you read my post game analysis on “High Frontier : The Goodman Protocol” then you may remember the first version of that game was written on a cruise holiday back in November 2018 (the file ‘TGP Retrospective’ is still in the files area on this page). Since the end of that LARP, for reasons I’m not going to go into, I said I wasn’t prepared to write/run the sequel (despite the fact I had around a page of notes on my iPad) and thats been my stance for the last 6 months. Some of you weren’t keen on letting it lay there and have been poking and prodding since then, so I agreed to take one last look at my notes on my most recent cruise holiday.

To that end, I’ve now got a game concept that I am happy to run. ‘The Drake Objective’ will be a sequel to ’The Goodman Protocol’ (although you don’t need to have played that game to play this one). Returning and new characters will be welcome. Currently I don’t know where or when this LARP will happen (but if it happens in 2023 then it won’t be at the Grange). My next step is to form a GM Team, work on a budget and then work on a site/date. I’ll post here when I have something more but the sequel is coming. I’ve also written a couple of encounters for a third part I’m tentatively calling “The Weyland Factor” but I have decided these two games will be my last ones in this universe as I also have something else I’m working on. As ever, any questions then let me know.

The Goodman Protocol photo gallery

A few pictures from the recently concluded LARP, High Frontier : The Goodman Protocol

Event Update

Hi all, as some of you may know we've just confirmed the new date for  "High Frontier: The Goodman Protocol" to be the weekend of March 25/27 2022.  Depending on how things go with the new dates we may have a couple of player/crew spaces available.  We're not opening bookings as yet but if you would like to go in a queue for one when we do then please let us know as this game will have limited attendance numbers.

COVID Update

Hi all, I’m hoping this finds you all well wherever you may be. It’s now just over 3 months since we took the hard decision to postpone the game just as Covid-19 was hitting. I would imagine all of us here have had some LARP plans affected by it. As it stands currently the lockdown that was imposed just after the game would have run is slowly being eased.

Some of you might have seen that the Grange (where we were intending to run the LARP) have announced that they are re-opening, whilst this is true they are still in an early phase. Initially, attendee numbers will be severely restricted and they’re not doing food so we’re still unable to reschedule the LARP at the moment. I’m not aware of the current status of the hotels in the locality as I know a decent part of the attendees were staying off site.

Currently we are unable to confirm new dates for The Goodman Protocol but we are continuing to monitor the situation and will be continuing to liaise with the Grange. With other LARP events scheduled for October/November being cancelled/postponed I doubt we will be in a position to run until the Spring of 2021 (roughly 12 months after we initially planned) but the situation remains extremely fluid as I’m sure you can appreciate. We will have a new Risk Assessment for the event once we have a confirmed date and that will form our response to make the event as Covid secure as we can.

As ever, if you have any questions or queries then please feel free to talk to one of the GM’s.

We still have every intention that The Goodman Protocol WILL run.

Regards,

James, Andy and Nick