Part of the NERO Alliance campaigns, NeroNJ (www.neronj.com) utilizes technology as a vital component in the running of our high medieval Fantasy LARPing campaign.

The most essential boon of the information technology twinkies we utilize is the laptop and printer at Logistics. Both of these technological necessities allow us to update and print character cards from our player database on the spot, as well as print extra tags we may be running low on. But that is only a small part of the scene! In the NPC (Non Player Character) camp, the Monster desk brings up the creature and prints out an NPC monster card, thinking of something new to add into the network of nemeses out to plague the player populace. All of our databases are programmed from Access 2000.

Before the event begins, excitement and roleplaying are prepped as PCs and NPCs log onto our Yahoo Chat Board and post IG messages to one another. Once a week they gather at the "Inn Between" and roleplay with the online chat system, where everything said there is as if it was said IG at an event. Many alliances are forged and broken at the blink of a keystroke. We have developed our own online community system utilizing the Yahoo Chat email and online groups, all of which are still currently free to utilize. By keeping players and staff alike posted on new plot developments and allowing for online roleplaying, we keep the fever and excitement of the plot into PCs lives.

Online Logistics makes lives easier as NeroNJ offers a comprehensive online pre-registration system equipped with PayPal to complete the entire transaction while wired to the Internet. And where would we be without email, by which we distribute notices, announcements and OOG commentary outside of the printed newsletters?

While within the NERO world and actually on site playing, we try to keep the anachronisms down to non-existent (although flush toilets and heat are always explained as benevolent elementals). We immerse ourselves in our fantasy world, as seriously as we do our normal lives. (Perhaps more so because this is OUR world which we shape and forge, and try to become all we cannot be.) But in preparation for that, technology helps us streamline the process, disseminate information and act as an aid to help us get to that goal of pure reenactment just a bit faster....