It looks like Kickstarter can be used for just about anything and everything, even an insanely successful potato salad project. Having said that, for those of you who have always wondered on how it would be like to enroll in a wizard school, wonder no more. There is an actual Kickstarter project to raise enough funds so that the “New World Magischola” can become reality.
This is a Kickstarter project that aims to deliver a live-action roleplaying session (LARP Camp for adults) later this summer at the University of Richmond. The campaign was launched on Monday at 7 p.m. EST with a rather modest target of $35,000, and in a matter of an hour, it had already collected more than $100,000, now how about that?
New World Magischola President Maury Brown shared, “Clearly people were excited about the world and the opportunity.” It will cost $450 a ticket, where “students” will spend the next three days of their lives on campus while pretending that they are at an actual school of witchcraft and wizardry. This will include classes on spells from “professors”, not to mention interaction with “magical” creatures, and the opportunity to concoct their very own potions.
You can bet your bottom dollar that this is going to be very American, so there will not be the kind of stiff upper lip situations found in the Harry Potter universe – a parallel that must not fail to be mentioned.
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