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.
6/6/2026 – 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)
7/11/2026 – LARP Festival – lots of mini-LARPs!
Location: Mountain View, near caltrain
8/15/2026 – Be Not Afraid – “The angels did not know why this had happened, or how. They knew only that in one dreadful moment they had been cut off from the Divine Presence, that they had lost all knowledge and understanding of God’s true nature, and that they had been sent screaming into the universe. Now they call themselves the Forsaken. It is not a name that they coined, but they have made it their own, for there is much bitter truth in it.
“Now they have gathered in a temporary settlement on the moon. They are confused, and angry, and riven by controversies — concerning God, concerning mankind, concerning the structure of their own society. So it is that the leaders of the host, the chiefs of the nine great angelic choirs, have decided to come together for a Synod. There they will make law for the Forsaken, and determine the future of their people.
“Guests have been invited to the Synod. Human heroes will be present, persons of miraculous power and impeccable Davidic ancestry, seeking to be anointed Messiah — and to obtain the angels’ help for their desperate crusades on Earth. And the True Fallen of the Pit will send their own ambassadors, to see for themselves what their long-lost brethren have become, and to decide whether the Last War might be averted.
“In this dark age, when even the highest and holiest have been abandoned, it seems impossible not to fear…”
Location: Oakland, 1 mile from BART
9/5/2025 – Marzipan Tragedy – details to come soon
9/11-9/13/2026 – LARP COR – Do you want to organize LARP communities? This is for you!
Location: East Coast (North Carolina). website link
9/27/2026 – Picnic – Social picnic (bring food to share!), Location: tentatively Oakland near Lake Merritt, details to come closer to event.
11/20-22/2026 – Grand LARP 2026: Hope Blooms Eternal: – In a valley between three mountains, an ocean of teal flowers still chokes the air with poison among long-forgotten ruins. You eke out your existence centuries after the Efflorescence, the sudden and explosive growth of these deceptively beautiful flowers, wiped out civilization across the planet. It is icy cold atop the mountains, but your small community here can breathe and grow enough to survive.
Maybe you are from the mountain where ocean storms break, scouring the land with howling winds and pelting crops with hail. Or from the mountain covered in glaciers, where humanity has taken to living in vast cave systems to escape the bitter cold, uncovering secrets of the past in the process. Or on a volcanic mountain, where it is warmer, but water is scarce and geothermal activity could destroy everything in a moment’s notice. Or maybe you are one of the rare few who are able to traverse the valley and move between the three mountain communities.
The world before the apocalypse is a distant legend. The mountain tops are all you’ve ever known. But now those who can traverse the valley bring word that the Efflorescence is dying back in spots, revealing remnants of the world before. Each of these communities has agreed to send a delegation to the largest of these barren spots, to investigate and see if the valley is habitable again, or if you can make it so. With the winters getting colder every year, you feel the future of your communities on your shoulders.
Over the course of the game, players will play out a year of time as these characters try to forge a new future for their communities, together. The environment is against you. Time is against you. And while the individuals from the other communities are working toward the same thing – a new home – challenges in communication, and differences in priorities, may make it feel impossible at times. Still, you have hope. When it feels like there is nothing else left, you have hope.
Location: retreat center in Aptos, CA. This event has a cost to participate (~$425), but we can typically accommodate scholarships for those in need.
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)