There is also no requirement to dress up (though many megagamers add to their roles in this way on occasion). I hadn’t anticipated becoming Chief Reporter for the Global News Network after signing up to play the Watch The Skies Megagame last week. Watch the Skies! Megagames have been compared to LARPs and there is much similarly, particularly in the context of role-playing. Maybe I’d be the Chief Scientist for France, or perhaps the Chinese Premier, helping directing essential climate change research with the world’s leading scientists, or high-stakes diplomacy with India and America. Once out, they will almost certainly pick off each and every one of you one by one, until there are no witnesses left! If someone wants to assassinate you in a LARP, they just need to find you and start shooting. It’s 1957, and you are in Palomar Gardens, the slightly seedy California home base of “Professor” George Adamski’s flying saucer cult. Watch the Skies is a "Yes, and" as well as a "Yes, but" game. At a LARP, you are considered physically present, and an action done against your person is done against your character. At a megagame, you may never be in the same place in-game as many of the other people in the room. He’s announced that they are arriving to meet his followers and welcome them to the cosmic colloquy of enlightened beings. From the Publisher: It’s 1957, and you are in Palomar Gardens, the slightly seedy California home base of “Professor” George Adamski’s flying saucer cult. This means that if you want to do something, but aren't sure how, you can just hail down a Control Member who will help you out. Can you find out who the killer is before they escape? Rollenspiele, LARP, Cosplay, Comics, Romane, Brettspiel, Tabletop und viel mehr! Posted in r/LARP by u/FauxPenumbra • 6 points and 0 comments Tonight the extraterrestrials that have been visiting Adamski for years are returning. In a megagame, they need to come up with the in-game logic for locating you. However in megagames the emphasis is on a structured game environment and ensuing that each player is a key part of the narrative. You've got three hours to figure it out before the killer slips out with the rest of you into the night, dragging their motives and kill count with them. Tonight the extraterrestrials that have been visiting Adamski for years are returning. Furthermore, we are editting the rules some to make things easier for the players and us by adding in some more tactile rules for newcomers and veterans alike. Watch the Skies was originally designed and played by the British group Megagame Makers, who have been organizing these massive simulations since the early 1980s.