This past weekend (19-21 September 2025), we ran the third three-day event for Citadel LARP, at Booker T State Park in Tennessee. Serella Savenko and I created another puzzle box, our most elaborate design so far by a very wide margin. We were initially building it to go into play at the July event, but that absolutely was not going to happen so we built the previous puzzle box to go in its place, and pushed this one off to September. Pipistrella and GFo very generously donated an afternoon t...| Brandes Stoddard
We ran a one-day event for Citadel LARP this past weekend (19 July), and we put our second puzzle box design into play this time. Serella Savenko helped me with every step of planning and building this one. I want to thank Elena Simon for providing the box itself, and Laurie Zolkosky for driving back to Atlanta to get the damn box because I… left it on my living room floor. Also, GFo and Ross playtested the puzzle box for me, which I appreciated immensely.| Brandes Stoddard
So I’m a huge fan of games like The Room and Boxes, and I really wanted to bring some of that experience to Citadel LARP. Let’s set aside for a second the fact that the boxes in those games aren’t constrained by the cruel realities of Euclidean space the way my work must be. It doesn’t help that I don’t know a damn thing about woodworking, but I decided not to let that stop me from pouring in the effort. I was going to build a puzzle box. This is the story of that project, which wen...| Brandes Stoddard