That LARPer documentary?

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It had some song from Requiem for a Dream in the preview. I figure I've called people on here LARPers enough that there has to be one or two who knows what I'm talking about.
 
Heh, LARPers in the US use giant lollipop-like weapons? I'm almost proud to tell you that our weapons are much, much cooler.

http://palnatoke.com/eng/galleryShow.asp?fromsearch=1&std_crafted=cra

Edit: Link works.
 
Sometimes I feel like this whole forum is a giant puzzle, and some of these threads are the pieces, and after I put them all in place, and solve the puzzle... some horrible pandoras box will open.
 
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LARPs: Live Action RolePlaying. The most famous are based on the White Wolf roleplaying games, particularly Vampire, but other LARPs exist and revolve around everything from animae to Tolkien. They tend to be a bit different than medieval recreation groups and the like because they're not necessarily historically oriented nor do they usually involve real combat, puffy weapons or not. LARPs are also story oriented much like a tabletop roleplaying game with a storyteller/DM (who sometimes even has a support staff that plays NPCs). Some even have networks of storyteller-coordinators and thousands of participants.

LARPers are generally seen as pretty odd folks by non-LARPers what with the dressing up and acting in public. Then again gamers in general are seen as pretty odd folks by non-gamers.
 
Ohh, I understand kindda... so the LARP's are the people that play D&D and stuff like that? while dressing up? If so I think I might know what you're talking about. To be more on cue, the kids in HS who sit at their own table and make loud noises and throw dice? like wearing elf and wizard outfits?

I really don't know :oops:
 
That's right, kinda. Though I'd say most LARPers I know are probably college age and they don't usually play inside schools.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LARP

http://www.greyhawkes.com/larp/camintro.htm

I'm sure there are actual LARPers around who know much more than I do. And it seems some folks do think of medieval recreation groups as LARPs according to the wiki article. That's news to me. SCA, Dagorhir and Marklanders don't talk about LARPing, or at least didn't in my day. First I heard the phrase was in relation to The Camarilla.
 
I started a LARP group about a year ago with some of my friends. We play the game in the local forest(yes, we have local forests in Denmark). Some might think we are actors that play out a written script, but that's not true. All we, as the "DM's" do, is we plan a few happenings, so people have something to act out from. We leave the rest to tyhe participant's imagination.

And yes, we do really fight. Not 'with a quick rock-paper-scissors match.'
 
Holy **** that's an impressive necro - did you go to the very last page of the Anarchroist's Guild to purposefully find an old thread?
 
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