Profound Decisions is a company running live action role-playing games in the United Kingdom.
The company was founded in 2004 to run Maelstrom, a fantasy game with colonial themes which attracted around 900 players.
Since 2012, Profound's principal game has been Empire, considered to be the largest UK LARP with a player base of around 3,000 players as of 2019. Between 2010 and 2016, Profound Decisions also ran Odyssey, a game set in the classical period.
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