LARPing

[xyryn]

(Raises hand)

Masquerade player here. Live RP in Frisco, too. Liked Hunter: the Reckoning.

Appreciated the Bradstreet art...great work! Another city that would be good for live Masquerade RP is Providence, RI.

[Zyre Mercutio]

(Raises hand)

Masquerade player here. Live RP in Frisco, too. Liked Hunter: the Reckoning.

Appreciated the Bradstreet art...great work! Another city that would be good for live Masquerade RP is Providence, RI.

We are gonna make them split this thread to a LARP thread KS! I always had fun at LARP's here, usually played a non-evil Tremere hemotologist. I always wanted to try playing a Setite though.


Zzzzzz

[Krusshyk]

Are you guys testing me on my modding limits? It's like 1 out of every 3 threads, people end up with diarrhea of the fingers and just wander off topic. Here is your topic Immodium AD.

TOPIC: TOP 10 COMIC BOOK MOVIES.

NOT THE TOPIC: LARPing

/wookiee rage

Game on.

[Kyanus]

We are gonna make them split this thread to a LARP thread KS! I always had fun at LARP's here, usually played a non-evil Tremere hemotologist. I always wanted to try playing a Setite though.


Zzzzzz

I believe this is why Zyre said what he did, Krusshyk.

[Krusshyk]

Bah, humbug. Here is your split topic.

Troublemakers.

[Zyre Mercutio]

Bah, humbug. Here is your split topic.

Troublemakers.

Yay, you know I have also seen a guy in a full body werewolf suit playing a Stargazers. The guy was using the costume for the costume contest/masquerade balll but LARP'ed in it as well. Not easy in August here in the Ohio Valley.

Zzzzzz

[Jabe Adaks]

(Raises hand)

Masquerade player here. Live RP in Frisco, too. Liked Hunter: the Reckoning.

Appreciated the Bradstreet art...great work! Another city that would be good for live Masquerade RP is Providence, RI.

Some Masquerade players in my town used to go on real life bloodhunts and start fights. Scary stuff.

Jabe

[warsloth]

August in Ohio? Its been 100 degrees all week here and its only June. Come August we will be putting up moisture vaporators, and fighting off tuskens...

(creates new tangent)

[Kyanus]

August in Ohio? Its been 100 degrees all week here and its only June. Come August we will be putting up moisture vaporators, and fighting off tuskens...

(creates new tangent)

At the same time, you bring up an interesting point. While I've never engaged in LARPing myself, I know quite a few people/clubs/internet groups that do engage in it, and I've never heard of a Star Wars-esque LARP.

[xyryn]

uh, LARPing requires that you blend into the mainstream.

Now imagine a squad of stormtroopers blending in.....let's see, ties and briefcases? Hi heels? How about seeing them waving down a cab? Or at nite, lurking in the shadows (what shadows?) caused by those orange street lights.

Yeah, I could get into LARPing SW, but not as a dancer...tho the only dance I can't do in real life is the breakdance (can't remember the patterns of the flos). I just can't think how I could explain to the cops that a fleshwrap or an exotic leotard was appropriate garb for a starport...oops, airport.

8-)

[Kyanus]

uh, LARPing requires that you blend into the mainstream.

Not all LARPing does, though. There are plenty of fantasy-based LARPs out there, and it'd be interesting to see a troll or an orc waltzing around downtown on a normal afternoon. ;)

[E-bo Obi]

Everytime someone asks me about LARPing all I can think of is that video circulating on the net where one guy is wrapped in tin foil, carrying a sword, and being pelted with ping pong balls from a guy wearing a robe yelling, "LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!"

That whole scene just turned me off to the genre all together.

[Li'ith]

Having done some "freaking the mundanes" whilst in barbarian garb, and rowing down the Severn in a longboat, I don't think either a troll or an orc would draw all that much attention in most cities. However, they might get stopped and asked where the convention is.

I have to agree with Xyryn, though. LARPing requires blending in and making use of your surroundings. There is a fine line between LARPing and playing make-believe. The pingpong ball thrower seems to have been more into make believe since a LARPer would have mimed throwing the bolt, and the victim would have reacted as if he had been hit by one.

Gettysburg, the movie, was extra'd by LARPers, by the way. The various Civil War groups don't usually do their RP in cities; they seek out appropriate surroundings.

[E-bo Obi]

On a side note my tenth grade history teacher was an extra in gettysburg and my friend and I got to do some show for big Ted (Turner). Apparently he has some education network he puts shows on for schools around the country.

My fifteen minutes of fame was breaking a grape shot shell in a barn that was used as a field hospital there.

Ahhh the memories.

Anyway, I have a few different groups of friends in both PA and NC if anyone is looking for a group that does this stuff in those areas I may be able to help you find some fellow LARP'rs.