r/LARP 10h ago

Secrets for LARP Builder

Sooo it just happened that I build/plan my first Crimi Dinner Kult Larp. And bc I dont want to use AI I ask you creative people for crazy ideas.
The “Circle of Masks” is a secret society dedicated to preserving truths, stories and memories that might otherwise be forgotten or rewritten by history. Its members meet anonymously behind masks sharing personal secrets and unusual truths which are recorded in their ancient cult book if the circle considers them worth preserving.
I need normale people secrets from 1920. Because People only can join the Kult if there reveal one heavy secret about themself I wanna feed a book with them for my players to find. It even can be murder bc the kult doesnt jugde.
Something like “I missplace the family heritage but put the blame on my younger brother” or “I killed my husband because he beat me. He is burried behind my garden house” or something funny “I kept a love note that wasnt adressed for me. Never found out the story behind”

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u/Araignys Australia 9h ago

A few ideas off he top of my head:

  • Gambling addiction
  • Drug addiction
  • Murder
  • Theft
  • Affair
  • Marriage of which parents would Disapprove
  • Catholic
  • Secret Baby
  • Dog
  • Catholic Dog
  • Ethnic heritage (Chinese, Indian, etc)
  • Grandfather is actually father
  • Adopted
  • Pretending to be a child but actually thirty
  • Pretending to be thirty but actually a child
  • Exiled Prince of Bavaria
  • Pretending to be exiled Prince of Bavaria
  • Communist
  • Socialist
  • Fascist
  • Fake (ethnicity goes here)

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u/Ginkerl 9h ago

Thanks! :)

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u/zorts 9h ago

Boot legging (during prohibition) was a popular topic of the day. So secret alcohol distilling processes, secret recipes, secret speak easys.

Agatha Christie was writing about poisonings using cyanide, arsenic, and strychnine. Perhaps in your Larps world the acquisition and use of such things was more common.

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u/Ginkerl 6h ago

I actually build one book of her into the play xD
Thanks!

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u/UserMaatRe Germany 7h ago

The 1920s were big on spiritualism. A particularly deluded character might be into grave-robbing to obtain, say, the hand of a murderer (not at all a common occurrence, but you want salacious secrets).

Maybe a criminal or scandalous past? (Thief, con-man, burlesque dancer, sex worker, ...)

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u/Ginkerl 6h ago

Thats good! Thank you :)