Ease Back IRL into the Wasteland at our April Day Game

The Hordefront—a zed horde of historic scale—is tearing through the Dead Range. Regrouping at a Tal-Servi Rover way-station, our survivors must band together, build and prepare for taking back Barker Meadow. Join them and help them fight for their future!

We’re hosting a day game event on April 26th at Lakeview Ranch! As a thank you to our amazing community and the support we have received over the years, we are offering a variety of ticket prices for people who show up to this event, which is our first in-person event using the new Dystopia Rising Live rules. All attending tickets (aside from Opt Out and Non-Attending) are the same; they include full XP (the same as a normal weekend event), a 2 Hour NPC shift, and lunch. You choose what you want to pay for this event.

Some other things to know for our day game:

• You may arrive upon site at 7:00 am to help set up or put up your own areas (e.g. pop-ups, tables, etc).

• Opening announcements will be at 8:45 am.

• Lay on will be at 9:00 am.

• We will be playing until 6:00 pm, with closing announcements and tear-down to follow.

Get your tickets now by clicking here, and make sure to register in the database.

Don’t forget our Community Day this Saturday

Prepare for this event by joining us at Lakeview Ranch for our community day this Saturday, April 12th. We’ll help you build or rebuild characters, exchange cards, get your fighting chops back, and more.

NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE DYSTOPIA RISING LIVE RULES?

Make sure to check the rule books (at the very minimum, the Player’s Guide) for the changes you’ll need to know. A quick rundown is also available in our past blog post. Don’t fret if you feel overwhelmed. We’re all still adjusting to the rules, so please feel encouraged to ask questions if you have any.

April 12th: Community Day!

We’d love for you to join us at Lakeview Ranch in Longmont, Colorado on the afternoon of Saturday, April 12th from noon to 5 pm for a community day! Spend time with members of the DR:CO community at this free event and engage in a number of activities including:

• Burgers and Potluck!

• Crafting

• Fighter/boffer practice

• Card exchange (e.g. 3.0 items cards for DR Live item cards, old blueprints for new blueprints)

• Props and costuming swap

• Dystopia Rising Live rules discussion and character sheet (re)building

Our community event is available to all players and their friends and family. Whether you’re brand new to Dystopia Rising (or our Colorado chapter); have been playing since the initiation of our chapter 10 years ago; used to play Dystopia Rising and want to get back into the swing of things with the new ruleset; or fall somewhere in between, we’d love to have you.

Please sign up here so that we know you’re coming and to make sure we have enough food! Since much of this event will be outside, it would be great to also bring camping or lawn chairs.

If you want to send your card and blueprint inventory exchange in advance, we’ll try to get you set up for success beforehand. Inventory your items into a Google spreadsheet (here’s an example that other chapters have used, make a copy!), submit (e.g., share as Editor) your sheet to drco.logistics@gmail.com, and bring your cards to the community event and we’ll change them out. If you have 3.0 blueprints that have no DRL corollary, we’ll credit you another blueprint that is not a Necrology or Criminal Influence blueprint.

Our Event Schedule for the 2025 Season is Now Live

We’re excited to share our calendar of events for the 2025 season here at Dystopia Rising: Colorado. All of our events, both in-person and online, will be using the Dystopia Rising Live rulebooks.

We appreciate your understanding and patience in us getting this schedule ready for public consumption; we wanted to review our dates to minimize the number of events overlapping with Dystopia Rising: Kansas’ (one of our new chapters in the network!) schedule so folks from both chapters can visit each other.

In addition to our event schedule for this season, we have some other exciting things going on in the Dystopia Rising: Colorado universe. Keep reading for a breakdown of what to expect this season both in-game and out-of-game.

community DAY (APRIL)

We’d love for you to join us at Lakeview Ranch in Longmont, Colorado on the afternoon of Saturday, April 12th for a community day. Spend time with members of the DR:CO community at this free event and engage in a number of activities including:

• Potluck

• Crafting

• Fighter/boffer practice

• Card exchange (e.g. 3.0 items cards for DR Live item cards, old blueprints for new blueprints)

• Props and costuming swap

• Dystopia Rising Live character sheet (re)building

Our community event is available to all players and their friends and family. Whether you’re brand new to Dystopia Rising (or our Colorado chapter); have been playing since the iteration of our chapter 10 years ago; used to play Dystopia Rising and want to get back into the swing of things with the new ruleset; or fall somewhere in between, we’d love to have you. More details will be available on our social media profiles and Discord.

DAY EVENTS (APRIL & MAY)

With recent changes this year, including opportunities provided by the new ruleset, we are able to run different types of events from our usual options in the past. Our main camp will be unavailable in the spring due to construction, however we’ll be able to host two 1-Day events on April 26th and May 31st respectively, at Lakeview Ranch in Longmont. This will give new and returning players alike a chance to experience the new rules for the first time in Colorado.

For these events all you have to do is show up in the morning, play all day, and we’ll conclude in the evening. Lunch will be provided and we encourage you to join the community for afters when we’ve packed up our gear.

In addition to the standard Day game ticket price for these events, we’re excited to offer a Free Event ticket to all players who wish to participate at these two games.

Camp Tumbleson lake volunteer event

On May 2nd and May 3rd we’re collaborating with YMCA Camp Tumbleson Lake during their big volunteer weekend. Join members from a variety of communities — including Alliance LARP Colorado — as we help the wonderful people at YMCA get the campsite ready for their first full season of overnight camping. Much of the site is still under construction, with planned rebuild of their kitchen and dining hall, new cabins and yurt platforms, and transforming their maintenance barn into a modern shower/bathroom facility. We’ll be up there helping with fire mitigation, landscaping, finishing touches, and other tasks.

june happenings

As June tends to be hotter at lower altitudes, and the campsites are full of kids, we’ll be looking at the possibility of running a virtual event for this month. We also want to give players a chance to travel to Deathcon 2025, taking place at Forestburg Scout Reservation (home to Dystopia Rising: New York).

We’re also going to have another social event in June. Keep your eyes peeled for more information on social media accounts.

RETURN TO LAZY ACRES (JULY)

In July, we return to full weekend events (Friday night through Sunday morning); and the first one will be at Camp Lazy Acres in Rye, Colorado. We used this great semi-rustic site both in 2016 and 2021, and we’re excited to be working with the Girl Scouts of Colorado once again. Stay tuned for more updates.

…and then it’s back to camp tumbleson lakE!

For August through October, we return to the beautiful YMCA Camp Tumbleson Lake in Ward, Colorado. These events will be held after the regular camp season is over — which means campers and counselors will be gone. Our Premiere Event in August will be a four-day event starting Thursday, August 21st.

We’ll watch the aspens change as we finish our main in-person events in September and October at the same campsite. As for November? Keep your eyes on our blog, discord, and social media for updates as the season gets underway.

Will You HEED THE CALL at DR:CO’s March Virtual Event?

Thanks to all who attended and supported the first Dystopia Rising Live virtual event in February! We had volunteers from across the network join us to run mods and it was much appreciated. Mod rewards have been entered into the new virtual inventory on the DRL Database, and physical cards and blueprints have been mailed to those who participated in Public Works!

March 2025 Virtual Event

Come visit Northheed Armory HQ, the epicenter of the crumbling arms dealing empire, with the Hordefront on its way! With both corporate and undead forces threatening those at HQ as Northheed falls apart, will you heed the call to hold the line, or help strip this financial giant for parts? It's time to collapse the war engine and dismantle a corporate horror that's threatened the Dead Range for too long.

Tickets for our March 28th virtual event, “Hordefront Part 2: Heed the Call,” are now available.

Network Event in June 2025

Deathcon 2025 is on June 20th in New York state! Coordinated by local chapters and run by guides from across the country, this will be the second network event under the Dystopia Rising Live ruleset — and first with the most recent updates after the first event (Downfall 2024) was run to preview the rules. Ticket sales for Deathcon go live on Wednesday, March 19th.

[UPDATE] What to Expect From Public Works During Virtual Events + Econ Form!

It’s time to fill out your Public Works sheet for “Hordefront I: King of the Mountain” — our first virtual event and first event using the Dystopia Rising Live ruleset! As a reminder, we’ll be using the new Virtual Play rulebook (available here, along with other relevant resources) that the rest of the network will be using going forward. At our February event this weekend, we will have multiple folks present in case clarifications are needed.

With the new rules, we are also getting a new online inventory system. The Virtual Play rulebook describes how players can interact with this inventory system at both in-person and virtual events. In a nutshell, items received at either type of event can either be placed in the virtual inventory OR be turned into a card, but item cards may be only used (e.g. equipped or expended) at in-person events, and virtual items may only be used at virtual events.

One clarification that we received is that blueprints will be printed, and can be used at either type of event.  Many blueprints will be available for use or copying at virtual events; and expect the ones that are commonly used (e.g., not limited by Criminal Influence, a society, Necrology, etc.) to be included in that list.

If you have items still in the 3.0 inventory, or amounts due, please work with your local chapter to get those items written out as cards because they will not be available to players at the Dystopia Rising Live virtual events going forward.

You will want to make a copy of this spreadsheet and follow the instructions on the sheet for getting it filled out. The instructions include some notes taken from the Virtual Play rulebook as well as some notes where we received clarification from the rulebook’s authors. Public Works spreadsheets are due at the beginning of the event.

If you don’t plan on engaging with the Public Works, you’ll probably still want to fill out a sheet in case you need your Mod Rewards sent to you. Either way, we will have separate instructions for Mod Rewards coming soon.

August Premiere Event!

Survivors! We’re excited to announce that tickets for our August Premiere Event, THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, will go on sale today at 2 PM MDT! Read below to get the details and look for a discount code!

This year we have some exciting mid-game events and some slight differences from previous Premiere events. A few building changes:

• Ops (NPC Camp) will be in the second longhouse, which is west of the main area (north of the lake). Just follow the road past the the first longhouse, past the Donor House, keep going, it’ll be on the left.

• Crafting areas will be in the first longhouse (the one surrounded by the glamping tents, within sight of the Miners’ Row cabins and the Dining Hall.

• Staff and Medical sleep will be in the cabins of Miners’ Row and/or the Counselors Break Cabin; people who need CPAPs or other devices should organize to accommodate as few cabins as possible.

All players can arrive on site at 5 PM on Friday, August 9th, to claim bunks and help set up. You can drive up and unload your car at your bunk; please park once you’re unloaded in the designated parking lot (to be announced). Be prepared: this site is at 8800 feet! You may need extra blankets and warm clothes for nighttime, and extra clothes in case the weather is inclement.

Opening Announcements will be at 9 PM on Friday, with lay on to follow.

Saturday from 10 AM to 3 PM we will start our festival in the Meadow! It’s in a part of the camp we haven’t used before, in the area north of the road north of the archery range. There is a permanent pavilion there where lunch on Saturday will be served. If you would like to perform music, host sermons, set up a merchant booth, host pit fights, or something else, come along and enjoy the festivities as there is plenty of space for all.

On Sunday, our game will lay off at 7 PM instead of noon! At 3 PM you will have several options to choose from:

• Visit the Ops cabin for playtest mods using DR: Live rules!

• Visit the Arts and Crafts cabin for OOC decompression and hangout (if weather prevents this, we will find another space).

• Engage in gathering, crafting, and roleplay in the rest of the space IC.

Then, at 7 PM, meet us in the Dining Hall for Closing Announcements, On-Site Afters (Dinner), and OOC hangout.

All attendees will be able to spend Sunday night at the camp to get one last sleep and breakfast before their journey home on Monday. If you need to leave prior to layoff on Sunday, you may, though people will have to pack out and cart or carry their items to their vehicles. Check in with Public Works to get your cleanup shift and turn in your character sheet before you leave.

Players who are spending the night will have the opportunity to finish cleanup and pack out/load vehicles on Monday morning after breakfast. We would like to be off site at noon.

Read here for the full details and a map.

PREMIERE EVENT DETAILS

As with other 3-night premiere events, your checked in characters will get +1 additional XP. You also have the option to purchase up to 5 additional extra XP; those who buy all 5 will get one free Self-Teach of a non-Achievement skill per character, provided they have the XP and the prerequisites for it. Players with Advanced Memberships also get one additional character swap.

DISCOUNTED STANDARD TICKET

While our other tickets are priced at the normal prices as the rest of the network, our Standard Casting Ticket is $75 instead of $85. For those that wish to support the chapter further, we also offer the normal price for the Standard Ticket in what we call the High Altitude ticket, and you’ll get a bonus….

CHITS!

Every attendee will receive a unique event chit for one of their characters to keep or to use. Players who purchase the High Altitude Ticket (the Standard Casting ticket at the normal $85 price) will get a second event chit.

PRE-REG DISCOUNT CODE!

Pay for your ticket online before end-of-day on Wednesday, August 7th and use the discount code AUGUST2024 to receive $15 off your ticket! This discount is available for all weekend-long and one-day tickets only, and not eligible for discounts on extra XP or food. Don’t forget it when you get your ticket, as we won’t be able apply it retroactively. In fact, why not get your ticket now? See below….

HERE ARE THE LINKS

Get your tickets now.

Don’t forget to check in and get your NPC shift.

Be prepared: this site is at 8800 feet!

Volunteer/Outreach Opportunities - Reminder!

Survivors! We have a couple of great opportunities coming up for bringing Dystopia Rising in front of folks in Denver and northern Colorado! Rewards will be offered to all players who participate. See below for the signups.

Camp Tumbleson Lake Work Weekend

Sign up here to do some cleanup work at our site! Meals are provided and overnight camping is available (bring a tent and cot or mattress). The next work weekend is June 29th and 30th.

Denver FanExpo 2024

Join us for any number of the long four day holiday weekend at Denver Fan Expo! This convention in downtown Denver is from July 4th through July 7th, and is dedicated to comics, cosplay, costumes, cartoons, movie and television stars. We’ll be running fight demos in the community area, zombifying participants and engaging potential new players!

Disguises Community Flea Market

Join us in Lakewood at one of the Denver area’s biggest and oldest costume shops! We’ll be out for a day on July 27th with Alliance LARP Colorado offering up information and demonstrating LARP boffer combat!

Save the Dates! Our June Event, a camp Work Weekend, FanExpo 2024, Premiere Event!

Survivors! We have some exciting dates coming up very soon. Check ‘em out!

June Live Event

Tickets for our next LIVE event at Camp Tumbleson Lake on June 21st go on sale at noon on Friday, June 7th! Check out our tickets page to get yours then, and make sure to check-in and get your Casting shift!

For June (and likely beyond), we’re offering a special incentive for anyone who wants to tent-camp, stay in a RV, or set up a cot or inflatable mattress in the first (unpowered) Longhouse: opt-out status and special items from the Public Works! Choose “Tent Camping” when you sign up for a ticket to choose this; unfortunately there will be a limited number of bunks and floor space in Miners’ Row while camp staff is staying on site, so we want to encourage people to set up elsewhere.

We’ve been told that bunks will be available in the Longhouses for the July event and beyond, and the Longhouses will have power in 2025.

Summer Site Arrival Time

For the June, July and August events, you can arrive at site at 5 pm or later on Friday.

Camp Tumbleson Lake Work Weekend

On the weekend of June 29th and 30th, YMCA will be having a Camp Work Weekend, with an overnight camping opportunity for those that want to stay up there! Here’s the link to sign up for specific projects on each day.. We’ll have special rewards (chits and item cards) for all Dystopia Rising players who contribute.

FanExpo 2024

Dystopia Rising Colorado will be at Denver FanExpo 2024! This is an incredible chance to reach out to the greater Colorado nerd culture community and connect a TON of new people with our game.

We're super excited to make it happen, but none of this can happen without you! We are looking for a team of volunteers to help us set up/tear down, market, and staff the booth in full costume. With a hefty 10’ by 40’ space in the community zone that we are sharing with Alliance LARP Colorado, we will have ample room for activities, and a tremendous need for your smiling faces to come and make it all happen. From an all-day boffer ring, to guided roleplay activities, and our classic Survivor Dress-up and Zombie Makeup Station, we are going big this year and want everyone to be a part of the team!

Interested in volunteering? We will be providing compensation for all attendees in the form of CAPs, plus a special Chit for volunteers who show up on Thursday or Friday! A complimentary exhibitor badge will also be provided for the duration of your shift, with chances to explore the event floor throughout your time. We want everyone to have fun with it! If you can only attend a limited number of days, please prioritize Thursday and Friday as these will be the tougher days to staff up for with work and life schedules getting in the way..

So, what are you waiting for? Join our community for four exciting days of fandom, community, and excitement at Denver’s largest pop-culture event! Ready to join the fray? Fill out the form here.

August Premiere Event

A quick update about this event: we’ll be going from Friday night (August 9th, 2024) through Monday morning (August 12th, 2024) in a three night event. Stay tuned as we flesh out more of the details of our special annual Premiere event.

May Event Updates, and More!

Hey Survivors! We apologize for the quick pivots here, but with all new things (like a new campsite) we often times have to make adjustments. We’ve been able to do it before (March 2020, August 2021), and we can do it again. So please read this fully as there are major things to consider.

Bunks, or Lack Thereof

Unfortunately, it was discovered during the YMCA Camp Tumbleson Lake work day that the bunks were structurally unsound and will not be available to be slept in — they have been removed from the cabins. New bunks have been ordered but they are currently scheduled for a mid-June delivery.

This means there will be a very limited number of beds available on site, and likely not in the cabins. So, we are asking all players to bring cots or inflatable mattresses for this event. Bring any number of either to the game for others to use as well and we’ll give you 20 CAPs for each one you bring, even for the one you sleep on.

If you buy one before the next event (Memorial Day weekend is coming up, might be a good time to go to REI or Wal Mart for a cot or an Intex), keep your receipt and we’ll give you 1-for-$1 in CAPs as well, and you still keep the cot or mattress.

If you can bring for more than just yourself, or if you need one, please fill out this form.

May 2024 Meal Service Now Available

Now that we know what the state of the kitchen will be, you can order meal service! If you got a Cancelled Event Reconciliation ticket and bought meal service for the canceled event in November 2023, you don’t have to do anything; we’ll carry forward that purchase to this coming event.

August 2024 Event Date Change

Due to a discovered conflict with YMCA, we have to change the date of our August event from 8/15-8/18 to 8/9-8/11. This will still be our premiere event weekend. We are looking at the possibility of going through Monday on 8/12, so stay tuned for updates and don’t get your plane tickets quite yet.

October 2024 Event Date Acquired

We have an October 2024 event! It will be 10/4 - 10/6 at Camp Tumbleson Lake.

Thank you for your dexterity and patience!

Important updates and our first live-in-person event of 2024!

Survivors!

Join us at YMCA Camp Tumbleson Lake in Ward, Colorado on May 31st, 2024 for our first live-in-person event of the season! Tickets are on sale now, but please scroll through here FIRST for some very important updates:

New Site!

As previously announced, we are going to be at Camp Tumbleson Lake this year. YMCA of Northern Colorado recently purchased this 100+ year-old campsite from the Boy Scouts of Colorado and are currently in the process of making renovations and new construction, so availability of amenities will fluctuate as the season progresses. In June and July it will be used for day-camp, but the plan is that it will be used for overnight camp in 2025, so they will be adding tent pads and renovating existing buildings to accommodate larger volumes of campers and volunteers.

Want to check out the site? Join us for the Work Day and get XP!

If you want a hands-on preview of the site, you should join us for the Epic Day of Service volunteer day on May 18th. You’ll get to meet up with players and other volunteers, and in doing so earn 10 XP, thanks a special offer from the Dystopia Rising Network! Get all the information from our previous blog post about it.

Kitchen being renovated

While the campsite has a sufficiently-sized dining hall, its kitchen was old and too small to handle overnight camping attendees, so it’s undergoing renovations and refurbishing with new equipment. Since we don’t currently know the state of the kitchen, we will be delaying food service sales until closer to the event, when we’ll either have access to the new kitchen or choose a more rustic option.

You might need a new COVID-19 vaccine

CDC has updated their guidance and vaccinations prior to September of 2023 are no longer sufficient for protection against the current strains of COVID-19. This was made very apparent when several of our players tested positive after the October 2023 event! For the safety of all, we have updated our COVID-19 policy and you can see those updates on our local expectations page.

Price changes

On October 1st, 2023, the Dystopia Rising Network changed prices of tickets across all chapters. The current nationwide price structure is as follow:

• No Casting: $120 (was $105)

• Minimum Casting (2 hours NPC): $105 (was $85)

• Standard Casting (4 hours NPC): $85 (was $65)

• Maximum Casting (6 hours NPC): $45 (no change)

• 10-Hour Play (2 hours NPC): $35 (no change)

• New Players: first event free (was $35)

• Extra XP: $15 for 1, $30 for 2 (no change)

• Non-Attending/Buyback for local players: as Standard Casting

But wait! We’re going to make a few changes here

We have analyzed our business model, past attendance, site costs and have come up with some amendments to Network Pricing to start the 2024 season, some which may be familiar to our players.

• If you pre-register for a Standard Casting ticket via this website, you will have three options:

  • Get a pre-registration discount of $10 - that’s right, it’ll only be $75 instead of $85 for the standard ticket.

  • Oh what the heck: if you pre-register and choose the Pay at Door option for the Standard ticket, we’ll give you the $75 price as well! We accept cash and cards with a chip or tap function at the door.

  • Support our chapter a little more with the full-price High Altitude Ticket! It’s the Standard Casting option at the normal DR Network price of $85 and we’ll give you an unique, personalized Event Chit as well! Check out our past blog post about Event Chits, under “Dishes Network Update”, for details about Event Chits!

• We will have a limited number of Max Casting tickets, as this ticket actually costs us money to offer (e.g. it does not generate enough revenue to cover the site and royalty costs). However, we will continue to have an unlimited number of Casting Champion tickets (Max Casting plus 2 Extra XP) for $75, the same price as before.

• We will presently not be offering the No Casting or Casting Only options, but we will have a limited number of Sunday Minimum Casting tickets for $105 each. For this one, you will do the Sunday morning casting shift, after breakfast and before lay-off/closing announcements.

• Our Star Line program will continue to be available! This will be at the Network-standard $85 price for a donated Standard Ticket, and we will continue to offer 1-for-$1 on CAPs and a special Chit for all benefactors as well.

• Note that Buybacks for prior events are sold at the Standard Casting price for when they were originally offered. So Buybacks of live events for 2019-2023 will still only be $65, and Buybacks of events going forward will be $85.

Wait! Not so fast!

Before you buy your ticket, you may want to double check your emails because if you’re a local player, it’s highly likely you purchased a ticket for the November 2023 which ended up getting cancelled due to site complications. If that’s the case, you’re going to want to see the Cancelled Event Reconciliation option. We will honor any tickets that were sold for that event for the upcoming events, or you can pick a different option, but please use that ticket to get registered or make a decision about the ticket you’re still due.

Phew! That was a lot

You can get your tickets on this website now. Also make sure to check on the Dystopia Rising Database to register your ticket and secure your Casting shift. And join us on our Discord to chat with members and get hyped for the first live-in-person DR:CO event of 2024!

Want some XP? Join us for the Camp Tumbleson Lake Workday!

Survivors!

We have an incredible opportunity for ALL members of the Dystopia Rising network. On May 18th, 2024, YMCA of Northern Colorado in conjunction with Rotary Club is hosting a work day at YMCANOCO’s newest campsite, Camp Tumbleson Lake, just outside of Ward, Colorado. This is the site that we and other local LARPs are looking to use in 2024.

On this day alone, DR:CO will be able to give….not CAPs, but 10 XP to everyone who shows up to work! Normal expectations about Basic vs. Advanced Memberships apply to this award.

This will be a cleanup and preparation day with a variety of manual tasks needed, starting PROMPTLY at 9 am and going until 4 pm. Lunch will be provided. Dress for a mess, bring sunscreen, and show up on time!

This event may pose challenges or limitations for people who use mobility aids, given the nature of the work; we trust you to use your judgment on that

To take part in this incredible opportunity to give back to the community, and hang out with some other LARPers, please register for this event in advance.

Additional event information

Additional site information

DR:CO Virtual Public Works update and one more virtual event added

Hey Survivors! First of all, we have added another virtual event to our calendar for April 26th-April 28th, 2024. Get your tickets for March and April now!

Second, we want to provide an additional update for how we’re doing Public Works. Basically, we’re doing it the same way we did in March — you can review the details here — but we’re adding an additional option called Efficient Producers.

If you are electing to be an Efficient Producer, instead of using your 6 or 8 hours of gathering and/or crafting for this event, you may pick from ONE of many extra-efficient options for one of your checked-in characters (and only that one character). That character must meet the requirements listed; the blueprints are available in the Town Library, and there are absolutely no substitutions allowed. This may be combined with your “no-time” skills (e.g. Trailblazing, Trade Connections).

All of the options available under Efficient Producers consume more time than the 6 or 8 hour options.

In order to engage with crafting and econ this weekend, make a copy of the Public Works template and share your completed spreadsheet to drco.logistics@gmail.com any time before 12 PM Mountain Time on Sunday (the end of the event). Item cards will be mailed out the following week.

2024 Virtual Events!

Hey folks, it's time to shake off the dust and get ready for the 2024! I know there's been a lot of stuff going on in the network, and we've been working diligently behind the scenes to make the right decisions and get things ready. We still need to get confirmations from our sites for the live events, but we are ready to go and announce our two virtual events for the winter season!

This winter, Barker Meadow Reservoir in the Big Rock Mountains of Lorado has been inundated by snow, ice, and more than anything, encompassed by death. As winter loomed, its residents unleashed weaponry that turned Barker into a Necropolis to save their town from apocalyptic threat. With Barker turned into a wicked winter Mortis horror, can wastelanders rescue the town from its graven fate?

Our virtual events will be on February 23rd - February 25th and March 29th - March 31st. Tickets for both events are now on sale. The event will be held on Discord. Make sure to check in on the database before your event as well (February and March respectively).

APOCALYPSE! Tickets for our Season Closer are now on sale!

A season of revelations and destruction concludes with the possible end of Barker Meadow. Our survivors have learned much in their time in town, will it be enough to save them from the horrors that are to come? Or will the town be lost forever to the darkness at the heart of their home?

Tickets for our season closer/November event, “Apocalypse”, are now on sale!

If you already purchased a “Autumn All In” ticket, make sure to check in on the database! See the link below.

Special Note about Lay Off on Sunday:

• Due to Daylight Savings ending on Sunday, November 5th, and the weather expectations, we’re going to lay off (end game and have closing announcements) at 11 AM on Sunday instead of noon. The last Casting Shift will be from 9 am to 11 am. This will give all of us (locals, anyway) enough time to get home while there’s still daylight out.

Ticket prices are going to remain the same for the last event of the season!

• Dystopia Rising announced in August that prices across the network increased on October 1st, 2023. That announcement also stated that chapters are free to discount from that price increase or delay the increases until a later date. The Colorado chapter is electing to delay our increases until 2024. Stay tuned for more info on that after the 2023 season is finished.

Special offer for November:

• We offering a small number of LIMITED CASTING tickets for this event SPECIFICALLY for players willing to take the single 2-Hour Casting shift on Sunday morning from 9 am to 11 am. This ticket will be the normal Limited Casting ticket price of $85. No other casting shifts are available for this ticket type.

Remember, we are also currently offering:

• Temperature-controlled cabins with plenty of bunks, with the options for Opt-in or Opt-out of nighttime raids, as well as to reserve a cabin for members of your group/team

• No eligibility requirements for those requesting medical sleep

• Meal Service provided by our amazing kitchen guides

Buy your tickets and meal service here
November event database checkin
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Tickets for the remainder of the season are now on sale!

Our last two events of the season are within three weekends of each other, bookending Halloween! Tickets and food service for “In The Flesh”, our October event, are now on sale!

If you’re ready, purchase an “Autumn All In” ticket and get an special End of Season chit to use at game! This ticket is either a Standard Casting or Maximum Casting ticket for both October and the November “Apocalypse” event, along with 2 Extra XP and meal service for both events!

Ticket prices are going to remain the same for the last two events of the season!

• Dystopia Rising announced in August that prices across the network will be increasing on October 1st, 2023. That announcement also stated that chapters are free to discount from that price increase or delay the increases until a later date. The Colorado chapter is electing to delay our increases until 2024. Stay tuned for more info on that after the 2023 season is finished.

Special offer for October:

• We offering a small number of LIMITED CASTING tickets for this event SPECIFICALLY for players willing to take the single 2-Hour Casting shift on Sunday morning from 10 am to 12 noon. This ticket will be the normal Limited Casting ticket price of $85. No other casting shifts are available for this ticket type.

Remember, we are also currently offering:

• Temperature-controlled cabins with plenty of bunks, with the options for Opt-in or Opt-out of nighttime raids, as well as to reserve a cabin for members of your group/team

• No eligibility requirements for those requesting medical sleep

• Meal Service provided by our amazing kitchen guides

Buy your tickets and meal service here
October event database checkin
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"TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS" - September Event Tickets Now On Sale!

Survivors! Tickets for our September 22nd event are finally on sale!

Based on feedback and experience, we’re going to the following in September (different from some of our previous events):

• Opening Announcements will be at 9 PM on Friday, with Lay On to follow. Guides should be prepared to meet at 8:30 PM for a quick briefing in the room next to the Public Works.

• Friday night dinner will open at 8:00 PM and be available until after opening announcements.

• Lay Off at noon on Sunday!

Special offer for September:

• We offering a small number of LIMITED CASTING tickets for this event SPECIFICALLY for players willing to take the single 2-Hour Casting shift on Sunday morning from 10 am to 12 noon. This ticket will be the normal Limited Casting ticket price of $85. No other casting shifts are available for this ticket type.

Remember, we are also currently offering:

• Temperature-controlled cabins with plenty of bunks, with the options for Opt-in or Opt-out of nighttime raids, as well as to reserve a cabin for members of your group/team

• No eligibility requirements for those requesting medical sleep

• Meal Service provided by our amazing kitchen guides

Buy your tickets and meal service here
September event database checkin
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August PREMIERE Event: Weather and Environment!

Just a few days until our PREMIERE EVENT begins, and I wanted to keep you apprised of the environment you'll be coming to if you haven't been to the site before, and I'm including a few notes even if you have!

Camp Santa Maria is at 8200 feet above sea level. At that elevation, oxygen levels as a percentage of "air" are reduced from 21% (sea level) to 15.5% (us locals are used to 17.5%, so there's even a decrease for us). This means you might get tired easier, have to rest more frequently during exertion, etc. Take your time when moving around, don't go wild, take breaks. Sit down and breathe deep and slowly if you feel yourself wheezing. Canned oxygen is available at most stores like Wal Mart; we'll have a few cans at Public Works, but it's highly recommended you have your own if you're likely to use a lot.

If you have a collapsible cart, and can bring it, it is highly recommended. There may be a few other carts available for transporting your stuff between your car and your cabin. If you want to purchase a cart to use and then donate afterwards, keep your receipt for a CAPs reward and we will keep it for future use.

Friday: Pool time from 10 am to 12:30 pm, assuming no thunderstorms! Please bring a suit and a good towel if you want to participate, and be prepared to not wear your costuming, makeup and/or prosthetics. There are changing rooms near the pool. If it's been a while since you've swam or aren't usually comfortable swimming, I recommend going to a resale shop like ARC (of which there are many Colorado locations) to pick up something that fits well and covers everything you want to be covered.

As with all of our events, all other water areas (Danger River, Danger Lake, Danger Pond) are off limits—feel free to go by, just don’t go in. The river is higher this year than it has been in a while and is still running very fast, even this late in the year.

Weather forecasts are very typical for this time of year: sunny or partly sunny in the morning, “afternoon showers” usually means a few bouts of light rain lasting 5-15 minutes. While this could be during any time of the day, it’s usually between 3 pm and 7 pm. There could be lightning or wind; in the case of either, make sure your tents (if any) are well-staked down, and be inside a building if there’s lightning rather than inside a tent.

Even with rain, humidity is likely to be low throughout the event. Bring your genre canteens and bottles and remember to fill them anytime you’re near the saloon, as staying hydrated will help with temperature regulation and breathing regardless of the temperature.

It could be cool at night, particularly if there’s wind, so bring another layer just in case. Other things you can do to ensure your comfort throughout the weekend:

• Take a shower

• Change your shirt

• Put on new socks

• Eat something

Want more info? Check out our local expectations and additional tips for visitors.

August PREMIERE Event Tickets On Sale! Pre-Reg Incentives!

Something malign is reshaping reality, and the devils our survivors know may be their only chance against the devils they don’t. Facing oblivion, what will our survivors do, and what will they give to live another day?

All tickets and food service are on sale NOW for our THREE NIGHT PREMIERE EVENT, “Apotheosis”, starting on Thursday, August 17th at YMCA Camp Santa Maria! Important links are below….But first!

As this is a THREE NIGHT Premiere Event, all tickets will receive 1 extra XP above the normal for your character progression, and those with Advanced Memberships get an additional character switch (a total of three switches) for the weekend!

Additionally, all players will have the option to purchase up to FIVE extra XP instead of the normal two. Those that do will receive a free “Self Teach” of any skill for each of their registered characters, assuming those characters meet the XP expenditure and pre-requisite skills needed (excluding Achievements).

We also want to announce our pre-registration incentives! As with all premiere events, the number of pre-registrations in the database as of August 3rd (two weeks) prior to the event will determine how much National-sponsored currency and resources (such as Festering Crystals and Absolute Bonafide Currency) we can give out. But on top of that, we have some additional rewards we will offer for the total number of pre-registrations that are complete by the evening of Sunday, August 6th:

Read more about the Dishes Network, for which Chits are also eligible (or hold onto it as a souvenir!)

Get your tickets here, even if you intend to pay at the door.

And don’t forget to register on the database.

Read more about the Trapped Archon, updates to Logistics and the Donor Ticket program, the delay to the Mayoral Race, and the special mechanics around Abyssal Distortion. And if you want to opt-in to special mechanics around Abyssal Marks, fill out this form.

Logistics Updates for July 2023 and beyond!

Hey Survivors! We have a few updates going forwards for DR:CO logistics. Read below for new info about Waivers, Weapon Safety Checks, Star Line Passes, and an additional opportunity built into our Dishes Network incentive.

New Waivers

As we have just renewed our liability insurance, all attendees will need to sign a new waiver at or after the July event, even if they just filled one out at the June event. Players under 18 will need to have their guardian/relative signing those waivers as well. Don’t worry about printing anything out: we will have plenty of waivers available at Public Works before you get your character sheets.

Weapon Safety Checks

Hey everyone, here's an announcement from Aidan, our Safety Guide, for weapons checks starting at our July event:

1. All weapons must be checked by a weapons safety guide. It doesn't matter if you have been playing with them for years already, if it doesn't have a tag written in the past few months, it needs to be checked. This includes traveling players and senior players/guides.

2. All weapons (carded or not) must be tagged and labeled with the month and year they were checked. After a year, they need to be rechecked for damages.

3. There will be a set weapons check location and starting time. For the July 2023 event, it will be in the Saloon (dining hall) from 7-8pm.

4. If you are arriving late or otherwise can't make the weapon check time, you can either find a weapons guide (you can be directed to one by the post office) to check your weapon once you arrive or you can use NPC camp weapons until yours have been checked.

Dishes Network Update

In addition to the Dishes Tokens, LCs and SCs may now use Chits at the exact same exchange rate. Chits are painted, flattened bottle caps with their player number on the front, a reference to how they received the Chit, and a code on the back.

Players may have received Chits in the past, and could receive Chits in the future, for:

• Participating in a Virtual Event (during the pandemic) and purchasing a Goodie Bag

• Participating in a Voting Incentive

• Purchasing a Star Line Pass or Reserved Cabin (some of these have not been created or distributed, but will be)

• Other incentives as decided by the owners

Like Dishes Tokens, Chits can be traded between characters, but since they were given to the player they can be exchanged between a player’s own characters. Also like Dishes Tokens, they may be sold or traded, but cannot be stolen without consent.

Unlike the Dishes Tokens, Chits will be returned to their players at the end of a season or the beginning of the next season to be reused. DR:CO has kept a record of all Chits that have been created and distributed, as well as those that are still to be distributed.

Chits may have other exchange opportunities in the future as well, as was done in the past (e.g. certain Chits were redeemed for skirmisher units in the Pure Blood War in 2021).

Star Line Pass (Donated Tickets) Update

We have been so fortunate to receive so many donated tickets from generous players, which has allowed many of our players to attend when they wouldn’t otherwise be able to. As thanks for the continuing support of this program (and continuing this program), we will be rewarding CAPs at $1 -> 1 CAP rate for every purchase of a Star Line Pass or a Reserved Cabin…which honestly, we should have done from the inception of the program, so we’ll be applying it retroactively all the way to May 2020 when we started.

In addition, each donated ticket earns the benefactor a special numbered Chit. This was the intent of the program from the beginning as well, but executive dysfunction has caused a lag on these, and so far only 25% of the chits have been handed out to their recipients. We will be rectifying this shortly! The Chits may be used as described in the previous update.

We look forward to seeing you at the next event! Get all the checkin details here.

"POWDER KEG" - July event tickets now on sale!

With the very nature and natural order of Barker Meadow in danger, our survivors must hold the line against grave attacks on their home. Now learning the dark history surrounding them, our survivors must find a way to deal with the past and present that threaten to destroy them. Can they find a way to defend their home and move forward through the destruction?

Special offer for July ONLY:

• We offering a small number of LIMITED CASTING tickets for this event SPECIFICALLY for players willing to take the single 2-Hour Casting shift on Sunday morning from 9 am to 11 am. This ticket will be the normal Limited Casting ticket price of $85.

As we did for our June event, we have a slightly modified schedule for July.

• People can arrive on site at 3 PM to help set up, and get bunks at 4 PM

• Opening announcements at 9 PM

• Lay off at 11 AM on Sunday, as we have to be off site by 1 PM as the site is actively being used as a camp during the summer.

Remember, we are also currently offering:

• Temperature-controlled cabins with plenty of bunks, with the options for Opt-in or Opt-out of nighttime raids, as well as to reserve a cabin for members of your group/team

• No eligibility requirements for those requesting medical sleep

• Extra CAPs for above-and-beyond normal casting requirements

• Meal Service provided by our amazing kitchen guides

Interested in helping out or contributing to a bigger part of our game in 2023? Apply to be a guide or writer, we’re certain we can find a place for you that will match your talents with our needs.

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