A Fistful of Carbon is a pulpy Space Western campaign boffer LARP.
Our newest edition of the A Fistful of Carbon Player Handbook is now available on our website to view and download! This is the edition we will be using for our Final Playtest on March 10-12 at Camp Sacajawea in Sparta, NJ.
While the Early Bird round is now over, applications for the playtest are still open through the end of February! Take a look through the handbook and find our application link on our website: http://bit.ly/afistfulofcarbon
A Fistful of Carbon has a website now! It is still under construction, but it has links to our Final Playtest Application (open now!) and will host our updated Player Handbook when we release it on February 1. Go check it out!
A Fistful of Carbon is a pulpy Space Western campaign boffer LARP that focuses on inter-character drama and classic western frontier pastiche. Players will determine the identity of their small-town settlement over the course of a 15-event campaign cycle, from making their home habitable all the way...
We've had an amazing turn out so far with applications to our upcoming final playtest! The first round of acceptance emails will be coming shortly, but there's still time to apply Early Bird, so submit yours now at bit.ly/AFOCplayerapp!
Early Bird tickets to our Final Playtest are available now through application at bit.ly/AFOCplayerapp (please note that the url is case sensitive)!
This event will take place March 10-12, 2023 at Camp Sacajawea in Sparta, NJ. All tickets include admission to the event, lodging, and a meal plan for the weekend (Friday night dinner, three meals on Saturday, breakfast on Sunday, and snacks available throughout game). Tickets are only available through the application process. See below for ticketing options, which you can choose upon submitting an application.
Early Bird Applications will be open until January 31. At the close of Early Bird, approvals and an invoice will be sent to all accepted players to purchase your tickets. It is necessary to purchase the ticket to lock in your slot for the game.
Regular tickets are available February 1 through March 1. Regular Applications will be approved based on Cil availability when Early Bird closes.
TICKET TYPES
Full Price Ticket: A ticket to this event costs $100.
Spread the Word: If you tell five friends about our game and invite them to learn more, we will take $5 off of a full price ticket.
Reduced Price Ticket: We recognize that our ticket price may be financially inaccessible to some and would like to balance covering our costs with ensuring our community can play our game. We have a limited number of reduced price tickets available at $50. Requesting a reduced price ticket will not reflect negatively on your application.
Scholarship Ticket: These no-cost tickets are intended to make our playtest more accessible to LARPers of marginalized identities, and especially to players of color. We have a limited number of scholarship tickets available. Requesting a scholarship ticket will not reflect negatively on your application.
Sponsorship Ticket: If you would like to cover the cost of an additional ticket to allow us to offer more Reduced Price and Scholarship Tickets, we will be happy to honor that with your ticket invoice and appreciate your goodwill.
After a year of edits and updates based on feedback from our previous playtest, we are now ready to run our Final Playtest for A Fistful of Carbon! An application link and more event information will be shared here on Sunday, January 8th!
Facility (Cil) Photos from the March 2022 Playtest! A huge thanks to B.A. Clarke Photography for these shots, as well as to our Cil Leads and players for bringing this world to life!
The second round of photographs from the March 2022 playtest are now available. Special thanks to B.A. Clarke Photography for an amazing job capturing the event!
As a reminder, please do not tag anyone besides yourself without express permission.
Our first round of photographs from the March 2022 playtest are now available. Special thanks to B.A. Clarke Photography for an amazing job capturing the event!
As a reminder, please do not tag anyone besides yourself without express permission.
Space Howdy and a big thank you so much to everyone who came to our playtest event this weekend! We’re so grateful for all your support and hope you had a wonderful time. We will be sending feedback forms to players by email in the coming days. Until then, get some good rest- y’all deserve it!
With about 41 hours remaining, this is our final stretch of the Indiegogo campaign folks!!
We are IMMENSELY appreciative of everyone who has supported us ahead of the playtest on March 18-20. If you can please share the campaign and talk to your friends and loved ones about it today if you have a moment, we'd be forever grateful!
Indiegogo: https://igg.me/at/afoc/
- The AFoC Team
! Dana (left) writes rules for games with minimal crunch for maximum sauce. His focus is on economic systems and macro-structural design to make players cry if they're into that. He has worked on LARPS like Dead Legends, Velvet Noir, Legends of the Seas, and others.
This is it, we are down to the wire everyone!! 5 DAYS REMAIN. If you haven't backed the campaign yet and/or gotten your rush application in, now's the time to do so!
Our second stretch goal is $10,000, and if we were to reach that we can design art and infographics to make our rulebook more visually accessible. We'd also be able to create and publish an OFFICIAL 10-track soundtrack to be used at AFoC events and for whenever you need those supreme space western vibes.
Indiegogo: https://igg.me/at/afoc/
! Allison is a professional video game QA tester, which means during the design process she’s constantly asking, “Is this fun?” Combine that with a BFA in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College, a love of fashion history, and a lifelong passion for LARP, and it seemed like only a matter of time before she was creating the tools and backstory to help others blast off into imaginary space.
Her first LARP event was LIONE Rampant 1996, where she appeared as a baby dressed up in a dragon costume.
Rik Lloyd (He/They) is a q***r DC-based game designer and musician. He likes to forget tea and nerds out about Trello and metric modulation to anyone who will listen.
We hit our first stretch goal of $7,500! This means we will be able to include an AFoC Art Book with every backer's PDF download showcasing design and concept art as well as exclusive illustrations.
We'll also be able to hire a photographer for the playtest, allowing additional publicity materials for us and action and costume shots for our playtesters!
11 DAYS REMAIN. Link in the comments!
ICYMI: Check out this AMAZING robotic arm that Roy from Breaking Character LARP Channel has been working on for A Fistful of Carbon! We absolutely love this!!
https://youtu.be/dGo99lg9Tns
A new Wild West Pulpy Sci-fi LARP in town? Time to build a new robotic arm!Join the Fist Full of Carbon community at: https://www.facebook.com/AFistfulofCarb...
Get to know the people behind A Fistful of Carbon! First up, designer Ian (he/him)!
Here's what you should know about him: "I met the friend that got me into LARP at the midnight release of Skyrim in 2011 thanks to a poorly thought out costume contest. Because of that, I’ll have been a LARPer for a full decade as of this March. I’ve been a staff member or roadie for various games and con events for over half of that time and, back in the first half of 2020, decided to throw my hat in the ring as a designer with a few friends of mine. I can’t wait to see where else my journey will take me!"
Are you looking to attend our playtest but are not able to afford to? We have a limited number of scholarship tickets available! This is intended to make our playtest more financially accessible to LARPers of marginalized identities, which also includes, but is not limited to, LARPers of color.
Players who are granted scholarship tickets will be sent the Rush Application form to submit their characters, and will then be accepted to a Cil according to the same criteria as all other applicants.
Fill out our form (link in comments) to apply!
WE’RE FULLY FUNDED WITHIN ONE WEEK!! 🎉 We are really making this a reality, and it wouldn’t be possible without your help, love, and support. We’ll be providing an update with info on stretch goals super soon so please continue to share our campaign! (Link in the comments)
Much love,
The AFoC Team
Wow, everyone! 65% Funded!
With our campaign live for a little under a week, we here at the AFoC Team are absolutely blown away by the support you all have shown our fledgling game! We are at just over 65% of our $6000 funding goal, with even more pledged backers who still have yet to purchase their perks.
See our full update on our IndieGoGo Campaign page:
Wow, everyone! 65% Funded!: Dear Backers, With our campaign live for a little under a week, we here at the AFoC Team are absolutely blown away by the support you all have shown our fledgling game! We are at just over 65% of our $6000 funding goal, with even more pledged backers who still have yet to...
Have questions about A Fistful of Carbon, the Indiegogo campaign, or the upcoming playtest? Join us on Discord tomorrow, January 20 at 8 p.m. as Rik answers your questions. We can’t wait to chat with you!
Discord link in the comments!
Our Indiegogo campaign is LIVE! Please show your support by checking out our campaign, telling your friends, and contributing. We can do awesome stuff together with you!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-fistful-of-carbon/x/28354498 #/
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Job Opportunity with A Fistful of Carbon!
A Fistful of Carbon has an open opportunity for a Plot Supervisor to oversee the completion of the game’s plot modules for its publication of game materials. The selected candidate will supervise not only the completion of plot modules but the cohesion of the story within an existing framework representing the themes and plot arc in a dynamic way. The plot supervisor will both contribute to the necessary writing tasks themselves and delegate writing tasks appropriately within the team while working closely with the story writers and the project producer.
This contract will pay $1000 based on an estimate of 50 hours. In keeping with the game’s commitment to prioritizing diversity and amplifying marginalized voices within the LARP community, preference will be given to writers of color.
Find more information and fill out the application here: https://forms.gle/XRo6PNnjZm9tZ9Ra6
Applications will be accepted until January 14th or the position is filled.
Welcome to A Fistful of Carbon!
A Fistful of Carbon is a pulpy Space Western campaign boffer LARP that focuses on inter-character drama and classic western frontier pastiche.
In the game, players take the roles of settlers of a new colony planet at the far reaches of the galaxy, distant from Borealis, the Big City in the center. Settlers will determine the identity of their small-town settlement over the course of a 15-event campaign cycle, from making their home habitable all the way to crafting their ideal settlement for the future to come.
It's hard to survive out on the edge of the galaxy. Each character will belong to one of five factions, responsible for upkeep of one of the systems critical to survival of the entire settlement. The factions, called Cils, will be culturally divided and in constant competition with each other over a limited pool of resources, but must find ways to work together to overcome differences in their values and unite the settlement for the sake of survival against common threats.
This game is primarily focused on collaborative storytelling and creation of conflict between characters that they must work to resolve. We don't focus as much on competition and trying to "win". Theft exists in the game, but doesn't involve losing resources. Character death is totally optional (though being mortally wounded does affect the outcome of combat), and we intentionally haven't included many horror elements. Characters are frequently encouraged to "lose" so players can create more complex, dramatic, and interesting stories. We heavily encourage larger-than-life actions and reactions, making your own story in our sandbox, and including other players in scenes you engineer.
Characters generally don't "gain levels" throughout the game mechanically, but may change their skill loadout between games to fit the playstyle they're interested in pursuing. Game mechanics primarily exist to encourage players to further their characters' stories and create cool scenes. Each individual character is capable of almost anything any other character could feasibly do in the game- every character can heal, gather, craft, and fight, but character Jobs exist to encourage specific play patterns and show unique strengths.
We'll see you soon out on the Final Frontier!
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