Travail LARP - An Astralpunk game started in 2023
Upcoming Event dates are hosted on the Travail Wiki.
What is LARPing?
LARPing stands for Live Action RolePlaying and, in the case of Travail, is a type of interactive theater and sport where participants portray fictional characters playing through fantasy stories. Players wear costumes and have the option to participate in “boffer” combat with safe foam-padded weapons. Travail is more than just combat, and offers players the opportunity to go on adventures, learn about the universe and its diverse worlds and characters, solve puzzles and mysteries, and much more. Travail encourages you to not just write your own character, guided by us through our character builder tool, but also provides the option to write the unique world that your character is from. There are numerous staff-written worlds that you can choose for your character to be from, but we want you to feel empowered to customize your experience and contribute to the story of Travail.
What If I’m Not Interested in Combat?
Our goal at Travail is to have as much content involving combat as not. Combat is opt-in and you can participate as much or as little as you’d like to. We want to offer a broad range of activities for attendees to participate in, and there will never be a time where combat is the only activity available.
The Travail Community
We are committed to fostering our community through staff-led initiatives. We want everyone at Travail to feel welcome to come play the game and tell stories with us.
Welcome!
The Event page is designed to be a complete, step-by-step guide to attending your first event and give you an idea of exactly what to expect. It will also contain photos of what you’ll see when you arrive and information on which staff members to check in with to help you get situated.
Travail is for Everyone
The Travail universe is designed to be diverse, and that means that we want as many voices as possible contributing to it. Travail employs sensitivity readers, diversity consultants, and diverse writers as our promise to the community that we are committed to this community initiative. All of these individuals are paid market value for the work they do for Travail.
Travail is proud to be holding our weekend-long events at Ye Olde Commons in Charlton, MA
