Two couples, who are unable to have children, create fictional children as a coping mechanism. As the years go by, they become immersed in their shared fantasy. You will play through two decades of the families' lives, exploring themes of family, imagination and coping.

The Baby Club is a freeform LARP about family, imagination and coping. It's a game about getting into character and exploring emotions and relationships. At the start of the game, players are guided through a workshop to help them create their characters and surroundings, and generally prepare for the LARP. The game is then played in three thirty-minute acts: the children's first birthday, the children's eleventh birthday and the children's twenty-first birthday. In the final act, each player must decide whether to let go of their character's fantasy -- will the children disappear, or has the fiction become real to that player?

The fifth and sixth players -- i.e. the non-couple players -- play other family members, e.g. siblings/parents of the couple characters. These characters also become embroiled in the fiction. None of these roles is fixed ahead of time, as the character creation process is part of the game. In previous playtests, these characters were as central to the story as the other characters -- there is no division into "main/supporting" characters or similar.