The Dial Of Ruin

What do you do when the world you know disappears, and you are shown its ugly underbelly?

Step Into Aisorath

The Dial of Ruin is a class-based, lightest touch LARP with a focus on community and safety. Our setting leans toward a unique take on gods, nation interaction, dystopian themes and the Void around it. Our world, Aisorath, focuses on PvE experiences and working together.

Community Tenets

The Dial of Ruin LARP strives to create a space where our LARPers feel safe and welcomed. As a result, there are a few expectations that everyone in attendance is required to follow. Failing to do so will result in possible suspension or ban from the LARP. 

Our community tenets are as follows:

  • Respect diversity. We will not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based on race, sex, age, religion, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and expression.

  • Respect the community. Everyone is here to tell a story together and to feel respected while doing so. Everyone at this LARP should prioritize collaboration and community building in their IC and OOC actions. There are no “good” or “bad” sides, only people here to tell a collaborative story.

  • Welcome new players. Always be on the lookout to include new players. Understand that you are expected to give extra effort in assisting new players, even at the sacrifice of some of your plans during the weekend. Include everyone to the best of your ability.

  • No griefing. Do not intentionally destroy or vandalize property, buildings or items that do not belong to you. No “spawn camping” or “kill on sight” parties will be tolerated.

  • Obtain consent for physical roleplay. Always ask for consent before touching someone else. State specifically what you want to do and get an enthusiastic yes, after which point you may touch the person only in the way you specified. Consent is defined as the presence of a yes, rather than the absence of a no.

  • Obtain consent for intense scenes. A scene is considered “intense” if it might involve graphic depictions of violence, harmful language, or other possibly triggering behaviors or subjects. It is required that all participants know the full extent of such topics and that everyone in the scene, PCs and NPCs alike, consent enthusiastically before the scene proceeds.

  • Keep it PG-13. Although we are an 18+ LARP, we try to keep it to a hard PG-13/soft R rating. That means, while there may still be depictions of violence, there should be no sex, sex pantomime, inappropriate gestures, or topics involving sexual acts or genitalia at this LARP.

  • Prioritize your welfare. Make sure you are eating, drinking water, resting enough, and taking care of yourself emotionally throughout the weekend. If you need to leave a scene to take care of yourself, there is no shame in doing so. This should not be used to escape consequences, so please communicate with the other parties involved if you do need to leave a scene for any of these reasons.

  • No alcohol or drugs are allowed on site.

FAQs

  • LARP stands for “Live Action Role Play”

    It is a roleplaying experience where you are in a physical space performing the actions rather than at a table describing a character.

    The Dial of Ruin is very welcoming to people who have never LARP’ed before and are looking to test out the space. We all started in the same place and want to help anyone wanting to try it out!

  • The Dial of Ruin is a fantasy LARP set in the world of Aisorath. A world run by Gods, threatened by the Void and held together with the dead essence from the mother of all gods.

  • Our game is located in Southern California in Riverside County.

    We do not have a permanent site yet for our games but will update everyone as soon as we do!

  • Best place is to read our Rulebook!

    In order i recommend reading:

    Pages 6 - 10 - The World

    Pages 14 - 21 - The Cultures

    Pages 11 - 13 - Creatures

    Page 23 - Creating A Character

    From there take a look at page 25 and see what classes might interest you.

  • Our Out Of Game (OOG) system utilizes many Discord features for player management, character submissions and announcements.

    While you do not need a discord to play our game we do highly recommend making an account - its free - and taking a peek at our server every once in a while to stay up to date.

    If you really do not want to make a discord please email us at DialOfRuin@gmail.com to get started!

  • This list depends on a few factors like if you plan to camp for the weekend. Below is a general list to jump off from.

    - Garb for your character
    - Neutral garb (Browns, Blacks, off whites) for NPCing. You can also bring black thermals for this and they will work just as well. Just make sure there are no visible logos anywhere
    - Food and water for the day/weekend
    - Good shoes to run A LOT

  • The Dial of Ruin is aimed to be new player friendly.

    We pride ourselves with a community that feels like a second family. Always ready to help and make sure you are having a good time.

    With game mechanics we rely on a rule of 3s and 5s to help get you used to skills and flow of the game without involving too much mental math.

    And if you have ANY questions everyone is here to help. We have a New Player Team dedicated to making sure you have a fun time!