Do what now?

And yes, LARPing is way lame.

I sense a threadlock coming soon.

Monster Rain wrote:Do what now?

And yes, LARPing is way lame.

Yup, because you know, jobbing people left right and centre, feeling the camaradarie as your line receives the charge, plus the gallons of Mead and the wenches in revealing clothing is soooo lame. I mean, who in their right mind would actually enjoy a drunken punch up?

Far better to sit on the interwebs spanking your monkey. I mean, if you go LARPing, you might actually meet a real girly girl, with bewbz and everything. And we can't have that now can we.

Doesn't look so bad from here......

http://www.studio-era.com/SCA/sepia/medieval_battle_02.jpg

If no one LARPed, where would BBC get all those people for their wonderful documentaries?!

LARPing got me laid more than once.

srsly.

iId say both are pretty weird Larp slightly more so.. But then its only my opinion and we all know no one opinion is dominant

A friend of mine LARPS, the way she desribes it makes it seem pretty cool. I might give it a try at some point. It wouldn't be that hard for it to top D&D.

I love being a mge...

Albatross wrote:LARPing got me laid more than once.

srsly.

Are you super cereal?

This is how we roll.

I larped to but not those big war clash things in that post above me

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Albatross wrote:LARPing got me laid more than once.

srsly.

Are you super cereal?

Well when you're around a bunch of greasy nerds in chain mail 2 sizes too big or small, you really do look like the alpha male of the pack.

Mr Mystery wrote:







This is how we roll.

SCA?

Or something else?

Is civil war reinacting larping?

Ma55ter_fett wrote:

Mr Mystery wrote:







This is how we roll.

SCA?

Or something else?

Girlfriend PLEASE!


That be Renewal, Curious Pastime's biggest event of the year.

kronk wrote:Is civil war reinacting larping?

No

Meh. It's grown men pretending to be something they're not. Kind of like the Detroit Lions pretending to be professional football players.

So, yeah. I think it's larping.

Edit: Not that it's a bad thing. Live Action Roleplay and SCA are shades of the same activity, I would think.

We may have a different understanding of LARPing, Mystery. In my experience the posted pics here don't really represent the LARPing community at large.

Your assumptions about me were amusing however.

Not much fun being tarred by a particularly large brush?

And trust me, the pics above very much are representative of LARPing at large, at least in the UK.

In a North American context, excluding Renaissance Fairs(if you're counting those) I stand by my original statement.

Way to look purely for the worse possible pictures!

Mr Mystery wrote:Way to look purely for the worse possible pictures!

It proves just about as much as an awesome picture, most likely.

I'd like to LARP, now. Where do I sign up?




heh. If I could cast Unseen Servant and Grease, I'd never need to go adventuring.

Monster Rain wrote:

Mr Mystery wrote:Way to look purely for the worse possible pictures!

It proves just about as much as an awesome picture, most likely.

You have two pictures with a single nerd in each. I have mutiple pictures of lots of people making it look cool as hell.

Mr Mystery wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:

Mr Mystery wrote:Way to look purely for the worse possible pictures!

It proves just about as much as an awesome picture, most likely.

You have two pictures with a single nerd in each. I have mutiple pictures of lots of people making it look cool as hell.

Challenge Accepted. Furries LARP. Your argument is invalid.

Nonsense. I get to wail on them during a battle. Without getting arrested.

Sounds pretty awesome to me.

Good point.

I had to post this, since I found it in my searches.

And that one in the animal head? Sneak along, exploit their reduced vision, then smack the snout. Round it goes, can't see where they are, and BOOM! One skinned furry.

Just like you do with Clankies!

Larp is cool, especially in full armor and with non padded weapons. there are sonfew occasions to let loose the hounds of hell...

by the way have done LARP once and would love to do so again...

vik

agroszkiewicz wrote:I sense a threadlock coming soon.

You havnt been here long, dont worry, itll come in time

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Albatross wrote:LARPing got me laid more than once.

srsly.

Are you super cereal?

I don't have a fething clue what that means, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I might be.

Also, I did vampire roleplaying. There was SOME foam sword-play, but it was mostly getting pissed with fit goth birds whilst pretending to be a vampire, and occasionally shouting numbers at each other...

Pretty sweet, in other words.

Albatross wrote:LARPing got me laid more than once.

srsly.

Id believe it. Ive met some rather "loose" women at local Ren Fests and the like. Start talking with an accent and pretend you slay dragons, and your set

Oh my sweet lord! I'm ALREADY British!

I am SO there.

Albatross wrote:LARPing got me the clap more than once.

srsly.

Fix'd~

Albatross wrote:Oh my sweet lord! I'm ALREADY British!

I am SO there.

THATS WHAT IM SAYIN! Come to Michigan towards the end of the summer. Enjoy how boring it is, and then sneak off to the Ren fest when its in town, and youll go back home un able to walk right for a month. I mean your from a magical land already

Dude, being a Scot I'll just whack on the Kilt and let them tear me apart!

If that's how the british get treated in America I may have to rethink my opinion of going.


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Also Larp as in the medieval battles and the stuff like on role models (film in case you haven't seen it) Are cooler than being sat round a table rolling dice.

Manchu wrote:

Albatross wrote:LARPing got me the clap more than once.

srsly.

Fix'd~

Nah, you could eat your dinner off my junk. I'm super-clean, baby!

Mr Mystery wrote:Dude, being a Scot I'll just whack on the Kilt and let them tear me apart!

VikingScott wrote:If that's how the british get treated in America I may have to rethink my opinion of going.


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Also Larp as in the medieval battles and the stuff like on role models (film in case you haven't seen it) Are cooler than being sat round a table rolling dice.

Might be a Michigan thing. But it would happen. You guys can thank me later for the heads up

@Alby: Hey, I'm not saying you wouldn't get fixed up.

VikingScott wrote:Also Larp as in the medieval battles and the stuff like on role models (film in case you haven't seen it) Are cooler than being sat round a table rolling dice.

Meh, that talk smacks of one nerd justifying his hobby over another nerd's. Sorry, but fail.

Larping, on-line gaming, warhammer 40k, D&D, historical reinactments, quilting bees, watching paint dry and other activities are all hobbies.

No need to bash another hobby to make you feel better. Except furries. Those guys are lame.

kronk wrote:

VikingScott wrote:Also Larp as in the medieval battles and the stuff like on role models (film in case you haven't seen it) Are cooler than being sat round a table rolling dice.

Meh, that talk smacks of one nerd justifying his hobby over another nerd's. Sorry, but fail.

Larping, on-line gaming, warhammer 40k, D&D, historical reinactments, quilting bees, watching paint dry and other activities are all hobbies.

No need to bash another hobby to make you feel better. Except furries. Those guys are lame.

I do both or have done both. Both larp and pen and paper rpg. I enjoyed the larp more so. I also didn't say that table top rpgs were uncool. I merely said that a re-enactment was better.

VikingScott wrote:

kronk wrote:

VikingScott wrote:Also Larp as in the medieval battles and the stuff like on role models (film in case you haven't seen it) Are cooler than being sat round a table rolling dice.

Meh, that talk smacks of one nerd justifying his hobby over another nerd's. Sorry, but fail.

Larping, on-line gaming, warhammer 40k, D&D, historical reinactments, quilting bees, watching paint dry and other activities are all hobbies.

No need to bash another hobby to make you feel better. Except furries. Those guys are lame.

I do both or have done both. Both larp and pen and paper rpg. I enjoyed the larp more so. I also didn't say that table top rpgs were uncool. I merely said that a re-enactment was better.

Fair enough, and understandable. My first read was harsher than what you had intended, I guess.

Carry on!

Two damage! Two damage!

(Yours truly on the far left)

Wow.

Goddammit now I want to go. You say the gals are of loose morals?

The one with the wazzer pair of jugs in the first picture is taken by the guy guzzling the water (and is in fact sat right next to me)

The blonde in the last photo, far as I know, is taken.

And whilst the pink haired one is indeed pretty much anyones, trust me, you really, REALLY don't want to go there. Ever. Nasty piece of work, and I have on good authority, about as interactive as a bag of spuds in the sack.

I've always gotten the impression that LARPing is much more accepted by British nerds than American ones. Although, I'd count American Civil War re-enactments as LARPing.

And to the British guys: Yeah, in America, a British accent is considered a major turn-on for women. Irish tends to beat out English or Scottish, but any Western European accent will have women throwing themselves at you.

That's because we do it with style.


See that armour up there? The silver and bronze stuff, and the black heavy spiky stuff? Made by us. By hand.

Albatross wrote:Nah, you could eat your dinner off my junk.

Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll pass!

Maybe we do things a lil better over here in the uk rather than the us that seems like "rolemodels" ours seems a bit more grimdark lol
these are from my closest group the dummonni chronicles..

Do you guys actually get hit to someone over the head?

GG

In the system I play, there are two main combat rules....

1) DO NOT THRUST WITH YOUR WEAPON. Carbon Fibre cores can, will and indeed have impaled people before.

2) DO NOT attempt to swat arrows from the air. It's not particularly realistic, and the nock can, will and has taken someones eye out.

Other than that, pretty much anything is fair game. Weapons checks before a fight by those sanctioned, and off you go. I'm a daemon with a spear. 7' Spear, 6'3" bloke...

See, LARPing kicks arse! Come to the UK and join in.

fom my expireince LAPRers tend to hit mostly on legs...sound like fun? no sir... i once threw a throwing star right into someones face....boy was i feeling guilty then...i was totaly ashamed of what i did...

vik

OH YES ! or my fav with my halbard was a swift upercut to the balls !
or my mate dressed up as a 6'4'' 26st minotour running round with his tail on fire well out of his head on a mix of pro plus/mead/calpol.
with all the dweebs its as if your a god amongst men lol

Legs are quite easy to hit, as they don't tend to be well defended, barring a tower shield. And if it's a life and death situation, you go for whats accessible.

Or get 5 of your mates and jump them when they stagger out the Tavern.

In that case i can see how wacking someone over the head with a carbon fiber club legally, could be quite therapeutic. Especially if his name is Monty, Nigel or Ian.

GG

Posting in a thread where fat nerds who play with toys make fun of fat nerds who wear costumes outdoors.

Mr Mystery, you look the the perfect pirate

Speak for yourself lardarse! I've lost me some weight and am looking quite svelte these days.

That was meant as a compliment
I wish I looked like a pirate. I'm but a gangly teen.

i think that was meant for shuma

Was meant for the previous poster.

And I get way more Piratical than that I can telll you!


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generalgrog wrote:In that case i can see how wacking someone over the head with a carbon fiber club legally, could be quite therapeutic. Especially if his name is Monty, Nigel or Ian.

GG

Even better, if you hit someone on the head with a spear just right, it bends round and smacks them on the arse as well.

Oh, makes sense then
You need to get yourself one of these babies:

better scruffy pirate than posh one...

vik

Pshwah! Got two already.

Mine go well with my waistcoat.

Viktor von Domm wrote:better scruffy pirate than posh one...

vik

Yes, it was a reference to Sienfield. You can even see the card with Jerry wearing it.
All I think all pirates have to have a puffy shirt. Just dirty it up, and leave most of it unbuttoned

very romantic^^

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:I love being a mge...

That's a nice hat.

That hat is nice.


Actually that's the good thing about larpers. They usually have cooler hats than everyone else. So they're okay in my book.

ShumaGorath wrote:Posting in a thread where fat nerds who play with toys make fun of fat nerds who wear costumes outdoors.

Admit it, that looks like a friggin blast. If for some strange reason I find myself in your neck of the woods, count me in

I used to laugh at larpers fighting with foam swords I would see in a park as I drove to my FLGS for a game.

Then my wife pointed out to me the irony of this, and laughed at me in turn.

Solution: take a different street to the FLGS.

It would probably be fun, as laser tag can be. It's when you take it too far, and shout ''MANA POTION MANA!!" that makes me not want to.

I mean come on, hitting other humans and killing them but not really killing them? Anger reliever.

ShumaGorath wrote:Posting in a thread where fat nerds who play with toys make fun of fat nerds who wear costumes outdoors.

I'm not fat.

Just wanted to set the record straight.

Monster Rain wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:Posting in a thread where fat nerds who play with toys make fun of fat nerds who wear costumes outdoors.

I'm not fat.

Just wanted to set the record straight.

It's okay, Monster. Just remember it's what's on the inside that counts, man, the inside.

I've gone to Lorien Trust events in the past, but have heard good things about Curious Pastimes.

Here's some pics of Trust folks. Not all overweight fella's it seems.

You bring your children there as hobbits? (last pic, to the right)

well probably not only as hobbits but the are drawn to the hobby to, when parents do that. and sometimes you get actual child care during the battle i´ve heard so that you mustn´ t fear for your children admidst battle...

vik

Emperors Faithful wrote:You bring your children there as hobbits? (last pic, to the right)

We personaly haven't but mainly as we felt they are too young, maybe in the future we will.

But in the past I have seen plenty of kids wih their parents, the funiest for me as a member of the Tarantula's faction (underdark related.) I remember a couple of kiddies fully dressed as Drow, hitting guards with child sized (but still top quality crafted) Larp Maces because their mother was one of the Drow House leaders.

That was an age ago mind, they'd be late teenagers by now if they still attend.

Melissia wrote:

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:I love being a mge...

That's a nice hat.

That hat is nice.


Actually that's the good thing about larpers. They usually have cooler hats than everyone else. So they're okay in my book.

I can't stand wearing hats... I guess I'll have to find some other way to exaggerate my coolness.

I think it actually depends on the LARP group.
I took part is some that were awesome, one in particular was a White Wolf combined Larp that took place in a multilevel bar. Also been in one that was so lame I left out of sheer boredom.

As for the SCA.;.... what a bunch of whiney girls. I have been "invited to not join", TWICE, mainly because I know how to actually fight with a halberd. They apparently frown on things like tripping and using the haft to poke someone.

ShumaGorath wrote:Posting in a thread where fat nerds who play with toys make fun of fat nerds who wear costumes outdoors.

Yeeaaaaah, and I bet LARPers are a bit more fit than your average 40k gamer.

I've actually seen stuff like this before, but never gotten into it, despite the fact that it looks like ridiculous amounts of fun!

Yeah I don't get why so many people dis LARPing, when it looks like oodles of fun. Who doesn't like smacking people in ridiculous costumes with foam weapons, camping, getting outside, meeting new people (and girls ), dressing up, socializing

and running around, sure you may look silly but at least you're having a lot of fun. I also think a lot of the media (such as movies) that makes fun of LARPing might be influencing quite a few of people's opinions.

Yeah people give just alittle too much of a crap about what other people think.

I saw a show about dagohir on the history channel a little while back and I showed it to a friend who thought it looked, and I qoute, "So fething awesome" yet when I proposed actually trying to get a group together to do it, he didn't want to look like an "idiot running around with a toy sword".

If anything, most people would just be jealous that they didn't have the balls to do it themselves.

If I made myself a suit of Power Armor could I wear it to one of these things?

No, dude.

You wear a Star Trek outfit and pretend you're on an away mission to a pre-warp world.

Walk around and talk into your communicator.

I played airsoft for a while, and viewed that as a different kind of LARPing. It is essentially the same. Replace swords and maces with rifles and pistols, chainmail with a tactical vest, and lines of battle with squad level tactics. You've still pretending to be a fighting man (or women), though from a different from a different era.

I've wanted to make the jump to medival/fantasy LARP for a while. Now that I'm in the Bay Area, I suppose I could possibly find a group.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:You bring your children there as hobbits? (last pic, to the right)

We personaly haven't but mainly as we felt they are too young, maybe in the future we will.

But in the past I have seen plenty of kids wih their parents, the funiest for me as a member of the Tarantula's faction (underdark related.) I remember a couple of kiddies fully dressed as Drow, hitting guards with child sized (but still top quality crafted) Larp Maces because their mother was one of the Drow House leaders.

That was an age ago mind, they'd be late teenagers by now if they still attend.

Children are to be avoided if you value your character. Broken (portrayed by my friend Adam) was one of the meanest, toughest hombres you never want to meet on the field (seriously. He took down 30 opponents on his own. His character is mental hard) and he nearly got jobbed off a 5 year old girl. Dressed as a fairy. Moral of the story? When the 5 year old pulls a knife on you, either clock them one or run in the opposite direction. VERY quickly. He seriously had 8 hits per (yeah...my character has one hit per. Squishy funtimes!). And she just. kept. stabbing. him. Then pinched all his Gold. If it wasn't for his Regeneration (hurrah for being a Troll!) that would have been a most ignoble end to one of the games greatest killers.

i much prefer living history re-enactment to cosplay or LARP in any of its forms. Frankly I wouldn't be caught dead at the Lorien Trust or equivalent neither would most re-enactors I know.

If you want to dress up try a living history unit with a good rep, preferably one doing an early or pre-gunpowder period. Its far more rewarding, has a lot of stereet cred and you can use stell weapons without the kiddies gettin in the way.

I think Dark Age is about the best era to go for, lots of good stuff, cheap to make and an interesting time to re-enact as even many major events were carried out by small forces.

I have sparred with larpers with their larp weapons, and its fun as a play about, but dressing up FRPG, no thanks. Lorien Trust crap on top, double no thanks; and as for paying seventy odd quid to hang out with the two faced clique of saddos that make up most of the Gathering. I would sooner have surgery without anaesthetic.

I would half mind if it were not so clique-y and self important and sad rolled into one. Dressing uop and having a bash should be having a good time, but the factions crap takes a lot of that away. Maybe I was talking to too many former Harts and Griffons maybe not.

Besides it just cannot hold a candle to a good bash with steel weapons, in or out of costume.

My only experience with LARP is the local gang who shows up at the FLGS on weekend nights and tries to force everyone else out.

Aduro wrote:My only experience with LARP is the local gang who shows up at the FLGS on weekend nights and tries to force everyone else out.

Those aren't LARPers. Those are dickheads.

Mr Mystery wrote:
Yup, because you know, jobbing people left right and centre, feeling the camaradarie as your line receives the charge, plus the gallons of Mead and the wenches in revealing clothing is soooo lame. I mean, who in their right mind would actually enjoy a drunken punch up?

Far better to sit on the interwebs spanking your monkey. I mean, if you go LARPing, you might actually meet a real girly girl, with bewbz and everything. And we can't have that now can we.

My experience with LARP and RenFest in general (Texas has a huuuge renfest) is that there are cheaper ways to get honey beer and turkey legs.

Also, I don't have to see Corset Abuse (You know what I speak of. Don't lie.) Squeezing a belly and rear into the breast region is an eyesore, not a feature.

The best mead goggles on the planet, in any time period, would not be enough, TBH.

Be honest and say that its a drunken punch up if thats your thing. But please, don't think you're fooling anyone with tales of hawt bewbs. For the cost of a full suit of chainmail, I can go to Tijuana and see herpes infested naked women wrestle in mud. Neither is an appealing option, but the second one at least guantees a show.

As I think my pictures show, UK LARP appears a very different, clearly superior beasty.

Corset abuse, I know what you mean, but it's the minority that attempt it.

And I'm not talking about 'honey beer'. I mean Mead. No, not Honey Wine either. Actualy, proper Mead.

I can see how more UKers would like to see things set back in the day when Imperialism was a happening thing, yeah.

For every archer chick with long ears, there are 20 truly scary bad decisions waiting to happen. You can see them in the pics.


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Albatross wrote:
Also, I did vampire roleplaying. There was SOME foam sword-play, but it was mostly getting pissed with fit goth birds whilst pretending to be a vampire, and occasionally shouting numbers at each other...

Pretty sweet, in other words.

Yeah, ok. That does sound pretty sweet. I could stomach creepy chicks and some candle nonsense long enough to get my freak on I suppose, if that was the only way.
If I wasn't already married?

But its a short trip from "that chick looks great in leather" to "why is she biting and choking me?".

And very highly pleasent trip it is too.

Pleasent must be different from pleasant, as I tend to lose the boner when choked?

I'm not going out like David Carradine.

Biting, ok, sure. I like a bit of that. Nails too. But I don't think its a stretch to say that vampish chicks have dominance issues.
If you want that, just date an equestrian. They'll come preloaded with a riding crop, money, and their own 500 pound organic vibrator for when you're not around.

What can I say? I'm an equal opportunities pervert. Unless they are chubsters. That's an automatic NAY!

Yeah, but choking? Just stick with the equestrians. An automatic neigh.

I shall refer you to the Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells for my predilictions.

So what, you go to these things swinging a giant foam dildo?


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Edit: seven foot spear?

Compensating?

kronk wrote:No, dude.

You wear a Star Trek outfit and pretend you're on an away mission to a pre-warp world.

Walk around and talk into your communicator.

Oh gak I have to totally do this now.

Captain, I'm reading an 80% saturation of virgin geek in the local atmosphere...

Mr Mystery wrote:, you might actually meet a real girly girl, with bewbz and everything. And we can't have that now can we.

She Who Must Be Obeyed has determined that me meeting a real girly girl would be the leading cause of my death...


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kronk wrote:Is civil war reinacting larping?

No, do not confuse the fat followers with blue and grey with Larpers. Completely different. Really. Here's the secret

Doomthumbs wrote:So what, you go to these things swinging a giant foam dildo?


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Compensating?

Nah, that was someone elses weapon I grabbed. Mine's just a tiddler real. A little hand mace. I strut about with my hand on the head most of the time. But in the Tavern, I have to put it away

The above is actually 100% accurate!

I have literally no idea what you just said.

Innuendo, another victory for the British Empire!

HUZZAH!

The stolen dildo wielding, small, almost able to be confused with a dildo wankered Brittish Empire? That won't pull it out in bars?

And ANOTHER? Ask the French how the revolution went. They're closer to you, and were even there.

Get just a tiddler real man.

You is talkin' well rubish blud.

Seems you're up for a little verbal sparring? No ill will intended here, friend. Queensbury rules?

I'm not even English and I know rubbish isn't spelled that way.

And yes, I believe I may have begun to talk trash. What of it, lout?

See what I did there? I owned you in medieval parlance. I also used "trash", our version of "rubbish". You see, rubbish is a cockney influence on the language, which is why you guys speak that way, and Americans and Canadians do not. Brits and Aussies do, because of the large influence of the cockney culture. Words like "scone" and "drag queen" and bread (as it relates to money) are examples of the language just now reaching the new world.

As the OP intended, D&D will always be cooler than LARP, because no one ever gets hit with a stolen dildo.
Dark Sarcasm, another favorite import. (Thats right, no U)

Who have you 'owned'? You're talking nonsense.

Also, you're posting about how sad LARP is, on an internet site devoted to playing wargames with little tiny warrior-men.

Go Team Dissonance!

Albatross wrote:Who have you 'owned'? You're talking nonsense.

Is that boy on drugs?

*stolen dildo*

I've had some nice welts from my Larping sessions, both from the *soft foam swords* and my fake deaths.

Not to mention the chipped teeth, accidental crotch shots and of course the broken ankle we had about half way through last time.

Hookah smoking, awesome munchies, running around in the middle of the night, and doing set-pieces which are epic. Not to mention the chainmail clad ladies, and the fayries.

Yeah, I'm a nerd....and I fething LOVE it.

www.Knightrealms.com

They bought a whole reserve for Larping. I kid you not. more than a square mile of land just for LARPing. Awesome group of people. From metalheads to geeks and beyond.

i think its a sad fact that all of us here have a solid understanding of what LARP is, besides it being utterly embarrasing and humilating.

In response to the thread though....a hobo taking a steamer in an empty twinkie package and passing it off as a decadent dessert to another hobo is cooler than LARP.....anything is cooler than LARP.

If, and Hopefully when, I go LARPing in the semi-near future, I am going to be the Battle-Pope!
I am going to buy (somehow) an empty, hard cover, lockable book. I will write in prayers, spells, sayings, knowledge, etc. I will then attach it to a chain, and have the chain attached to my wrist.
If someone goes against my Creed (that I will read from from time to time), I will Slowly close and lock the book, before saying something suitably cool and proceed to use my creed as a flail. BATTLE-POPE!!!

battle Brother Lucifer wrote: I am going to be the Battle-Pope!

Has to be my favorite comic book ever. Sacrilicious!

Albatross wrote:
Also, you're posting about how sad LARP is, on an internet site devoted to playing wargames with little tiny warrior-men.

In a thread on that site devoted to why D&D will always be better? And is.. hold on, its around here somewhere... ah, here it is "Still cooler than LARP".
The "Ownage" was directed at a dildo stealing baby eater? (Apparently? Not sure if its a LARP thing I'm missing out on)
In my eyes, anyone posting why LARP is cooler than D&D, at least in this thread, is the one swinging for Team Dissonance.

Go Team Self Respecting Geek?

Element206 wrote:A hobo taking a steamer in an empty twinkie package and passing it off as a decadent dessert to another hobo is cooler than LARP.....anything is cooler than LARP.

You have such a way with words

Doomthumbs wrote:Seems you're up for a little verbal sparring? No ill will intended here, friend. Queensbury rules?

I'm not even English and I know rubbish isn't spelled that way.

And yes, I believe I may have begun to talk trash. What of it, lout?

See what I did there? I owned you in medieval parlance. I also used "trash", our version of "rubbish". You see, rubbish is a cockney influence on the language, which is why you guys speak that way, and Americans and Canadians do not. Brits and Aussies do, because of the large influence of the cockney culture. Words like "scone" and "drag queen" and bread (as it relates to money) are examples of the language just now reaching the new world.

As the OP intended, D&D will always be cooler than LARP, because no one ever gets hit with a stolen dildo.
Dark Sarcasm, another favorite import. (Thats right, no U)

Scone? A New World word? Guess people had best not tell the inhabitants of the very old (as in considerably older than your country) town of Scone in Scotland that. Bread relates to Bread. Wonga. Cash. Dough. Readies. Spondooliks, a few quid. They all mean money. And Cockney Culture means nothing. I was jafaican above blud, hence the very deliberate (some might say carefully measured) misspelt wording. And that's hardly medieval parlance. You spelled all your words in the modern way. Buttmunch.

But trust me, go strap on your armour, and have a laugh at LARP. I guarantee you won't regret it. Unless you are of course adverse to drinking, singing, eating, whoring and casual violence. Nothing like following someone out the Tavern and slotting them, then pinching all their gold.

Model United Nations. LARPing in suits for school credit. And the pics posted up make it seem really quite cool...I'm already mildly interested in cosplay, so perhaps LARPing could be fun too....

I don't get why there even is a 'geek hierarchy'. I seriously think it's just an extension of the high school clique system. To some people's minds, some activities are just inherently 'cooler' than others. For example, dressing up in brightly colored outfits, chasing a little black and white ball around a field is somehow automatically 'cooler' than LARPing.

I somehow fail to see how this argument holds water...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kP3J9s5Xs&feature=related

Nuff said.

Oh and the lass who kicks ass at the *metal mondays* at my local. Larping with metal swords, injuries wahey! Fun, yes, scary, yes. Awesome.....Even more so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zzk3ST0tAU&feature=related

Thousands of people converge on the Black Forest to Larp. Always wanted to go.

...the feth did I just watch?

Mr Mystery wrote:And whilst the pink haired one is indeed pretty much anyones, trust me, you really, REALLY don't want to go there. Ever. Nasty piece of work, and I have on good authority, about as interactive as a bag of spuds in the sack.

That is a girl?!

Doomthumbs wrote: Words like "scone" and "drag queen" and bread (as it relates to money) are examples of the language just now reaching the new world.

Mr Mystery wrote:Scone? A New World word? Guess people had best not tell the inhabitants of the very old (as in considerably older than your country) town of Scone in Scotland that. Bread relates to Bread. Wonga. Cash. Dough. Readies. Spondooliks, a few quid. They all mean money. You spelled all your words in the modern way. Buttmunch.

But trust me, go strap on your armour, and have a laugh at LARP. I guarantee you won't regret it. Unless you are of course adverse to drinking, singing, eating, whoring and casual violence. Nothing like following someone out the Tavern and slotting them, then pinching all their gold and dildos.

Ok, see there? How I said that scone and such were examples of your language coming to America in recent years? See how you misread that? Best not tell them, they'll laugh at you. Fit Craic, it will be.

Bread relates to bread? I'll note that under my understanding of mathematical identity properties. I spelled all my words correctly, and can be quite insulting without petulant name calling.
You left out drag queen? Didn't comment on that? Oh wait, thats another well vested cultural thing. (Your culture). Maybe its a sore spot.

I'm going to be honest and say I own no armor (hey wait, my spell check doesn't want a U in there either. Weird.) to "strap on".
Drinking? Check. Singing? Only in the shower. Eating? I have had nothing more than a grape since 1983 (Ok, no, I do eat). Whoring? Wife is opposed. Casual violence? Well, I AM American.
LARPing? No thanks, I prefer D&D.



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I watched the first vid, and stopped at 1:56.

Really, really horrifying, and it wasn't the first. But it was the last.


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Wait, no. 2:30 into the first video.
THATS A MAAAAN BAAABY!

2:33 = pedophiles
2:36 = is this a klingon?
2:40 = that girl looks happy to be there...

Wierd for me tbh, if you can rationalise sitting around a table pretending to be in a field fighting orcs with a character rolling dice, why would you have an issue of actually doing it physically?

I've been playing tabletop RPG's for twenty two years, and I've always found Larp to be insane fun. As have anyone I've gone with, be they RPG fans or not.

I'll admit mind I'd never do it weekly or even monthly like some folks do, but for once, twice maybe three times a year, its a great weekend out with friends.

Of course I personally tend to roll my eyes when someone in the gaming hobby, be it RPG, wargaming, CCG or even PC/console tries to make out they are some how better than the next guy.

Just odd.

Oh, I'm not trying to belittle anyone for Larping. If thats your thing, please, go do it and have fun.
I just prefer living in this century/ plane of reality, I just visit when I'm drawn into an occasional D&D game. Lifestyle choice?

But comments to the effect of its fun to fake stab people and take their fake gold after drinking with them in a half real tavern? Where does that get fun? Thats a 'dick move' no matter how you feel about LARP.

Doomthumbs wrote:
But comments to the effect of its fun to fake stab people and take their fake gold after drinking with them in a half real tavern? Where does that get fun? Thats a 'dick move' no matter how you feel about LARP.

Well I'd agree 100% that is a 'dick move' however its also not something I've seen happen that often. It's like suggesting because I know a fella who goes on about a lvl 50 Paladin constantly, all D&D players and games are focused like that. You often go round in groups anyways, so skirmishes over petty things like attempted robbery are limited, and its mostly because of the stroyline that year or event.

To give some examples of things I've done at Larp events.


Through roleplay earned a ranked position in the Tarantula faction, becoming an advisor to one of the head Drow House Matriarchs. While making new friends with said person and several others within their circle even though I was not of 'their House.'

Chatting to members of the Wolves faction out on the field after helping them in a fight with the Lions, ending up heading over to their camp, having a drink and sing song and then heading off to take on a monster together, fun evening right there.

Doing the 'Timewarp' to gain acceptance to the Alchemy guild (I'm still not sure why) in a labyrinth styled dungeon location built in an old cotten mill in Burnley, that was a great laugh, one of the best Larp themed locations I ever had the pleasure to Roleplay at for weekend. Sadly its long since closed.

Betraying the Vipers to join the Tarantula faction (part of the reason I got the rank) and all the fallout that came from it, including secret meetings with the Viper faction leader in the end to resolve the issue, mainly as my group and our new allied House where constantly getting into skirmishes with Viper based groups.

Attending the Gathering Battles, where a few thousand folks where on the field, awesome way to finish a great weekend of roleplaying.

Spending most of a day with a group of Vipers including a fella dressed as a Stone Troll in a sombero, he was talking just as I would think a troll would, some of the funiest things I have ever roleplayed.

So it's a 'dick move' to play in character? Put it this way, my character is an Alchemist/Spy. And guess what, that means I sometimes have to do pretty distasteful things. And if my Alchemical Research ever gets the greenlight from the Refs, I could kick off an arms race. But that's all part of the fun. I'm aware my character can be a massive cock, but as long as it's neither performed or taken personally, everyone has fun.

Depends on the context, I'm thinking more of the players who go around in twos or threes and try to rob those on their own.
They don't tend to last long because a larger group will usually deal with them.
So I was probably influenced in my post above while thinking about those kinda players, not the actual example Doomthumbs gave. Should have clarified that better, but thats what I get for posting on the fly at work.

Apologies if any offence was caused.


Saying that I personally wouldn't go as that kind of character mind, but thats me.
As you can see from my post above I'm more intrested in the in character interaction, almost on a diplomatic level, well as far as the game goes anyways.

Even my betrayal was more because I was known and under consideration for a rank in the Vipers when I switched sides.
Rather than me knicking some kind of swanky weapon or some such, thinking back that might have been fun mind. Although that would have made the situation even harder to resolve.

Morathi, I understand the point you're making perfectly, though I still think there is a fundamental disconnect between LARP as you have described it and the perception of non-LARPers.

Your lvl 50 paladin example, and the potential arms race that could occur should Mystery be allowed to do whatever is running through his head. Prime examples of how LARP is viewed by the world at large. Sure, there are many great times to be had, should the right mix of people work towards a common goal; your list of experiences shows that. Drinking in the woods? Hell yes.
But you will of course admit that you know "that guy", who always struggles to be known as the best, most powerful, highest level, talented beyond belief if only someone should give him a chance and follow his deranged version of how things should go. For the chicks, right? To non LARPers, the ones that have only seen the LIGHTNING BOLT! video, or similar, "that guy" is "every guy". Perhaps unfair, but I'm not convinced that the LARP population in general works too hard to dispel this myth. Alchemical arms race? "Roleplaying" a guy who is a distasteful asshat? Give me a break. Its extremely hard to side with that as something I would ever see myself committing to making a bedsheet robe to try out, much less purchasing armor for.

On a positive note, check out this bad ass D&D song by McFrontalot. Please, show me a similar media offshoot for LARP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RL9afO27Kg

Wierd for me tbh, if you can rationalise sitting around a table pretending to be in a field fighting orcs with a character rolling dice, why would you have an issue of actually doing it physically?

Well, because it's different...

A lot of people who play RPGs are more focused on the numbers, on levelling up. They're playing a strategy game.

Other people like to roleplay. They want to take on the role of the character.

It's the difference between wanting to "run" the character, and wanting to "be" the character.

Also, the more "in the field" you get about something, the more it seems like you might think you're actually doing it. As we all can imagine, actually fighting a medieval battle would be pretty horrifying stuff, so to imply that you're "simulating" it might be seen as ridiculous. Obviously this projects a certain motivation onto the LARPer, and while it's not totally unfair, it's also not totally inaccurate.

A parallel exists in paintball. I play paintball, I also own real guns, so I'm aware of the difference. When I play paintball, it's very clear to me that what I am doing is not war, and is, in fact, almost totally unlike war except in the most superficial ways. Other people like to really "mil-sim" it up, and I find this a little ridiculous. To me, if you're trying to turn paintball into a military simulation, you don't know very much about what war is actually like. I don't get mad about it, but I do feel like the milsim crowd has somewhat lost the plot.

I don't really judge LARPers, I've never done it, I don't think it looks especially fun, but people don't exist to meet with my approval. If they like it, go for it. My only point is to show the ways in which LARP is different from tabletop, and how one might draw a line where LARP goes "too far."

I really don't much get it, myself. It sounds like a lot of strange rules and social politics, which I do not like. I don't really understand how much actual physical prowess factors in, but it can't be TOO much, or people would be getting severely injured left and right.

I always love how LARPers always go on about how there are girls at the things. Have you tried going to a club or pub....

I have to say, from what I've seen of D&D players it's not much better. I'm aware that quite a few dakkaites play D&D, and for the most part they seem fine (), but the there is only one D&D player who regulary comes to our club and he's creepy, really creepy. For the most part our club is a young crew (12-19) and he's in his 30's, actually living in his parents basement. Using internet anonimity I can be brutally honest, he smells, has terrible breath and doesn't shave if he can help it. He also blocks out all other talk in the room with his too-loud voice, breaking into to other peoples conversation. When I'm explaining how a brightlance works to some of the younger players it doesn't help that he's telling me about the time he roleplayed as an assassin who poisened himself or roleplayed as some 'pimp' hobbit (I have no idea what that was about). I don't let anyone know, but he is one of the most annoying people I have ever met. This is my only experience with D&D players in first person so you can't blame me if I'm unable to feel any attraction to either D&D or their more active LARPer counterparts.

Emperors Faithful wrote:I have to say, from what I've seen of D&D players it's not much better. I'm aware that quite a few dakkaites play D&D, and for the most part they seem fine ()

Phryxis wrote:
It's the difference between wanting to "run" the character, and wanting to "be" the character.

SOLD. Bag that up, to go.

Brutal honesty time, folks. Wargaming has the same mix of people, though slightly different. We're combination artists/ armchair pattons/ numbercrunchers. Playing a game viewed by mainstream media as severely nerdy. See 40 year old virgin. That guy had some cool toys, whats the problem?

Moderation. There is a SEVERE difference between the guy who has a mixed space marine army and shows up once or twice a week to play a game or two and the guy who has optimized MSUs, exhaustively researched from the tubes, ready to crush little babies with it. Casual player (in casual environ) is there for fun, community, and relaxation as he plays the game hes currently interested in. In the same casual environment, that other guy is there for none of that. He is there to assert dominance, to prove to the world his value by proxy of these little toys. Hes there with a WAAC list, ready to crush puppies and expound on what a awesome player he is. EFaithful described the 30 year old loud guy, and thats just who everyone wants to stay home. Very different from a 30 year old patient guy, who will gladly take a less optimized force to play younger gamers, to match the force of the opponent, or in order to bring a new person into the hobby who doesn't know the rules just yet. Loud guy wants none of that. Loud guy wants you to know how smart and awesome he is at this. The irony of course is while being all he can be in that store, he is viewed with contempt by his fellow nerds. In his zeal to be the best (and maybe he is), he occludes all that by generally being a huge socially awkward douche.
If you're wanting to be a competitive player, you go to tournaments to play your 40k that you've spent hundreds of dollars on in order to have those MSUs each in their own transport tank. At least, thats the social convention. Playing casual lists with a competitive or tailored list is... you know what that is. LARP is no different. There are people who have dropped a grand or two into their costume, and as such expect to be treated like king crap of turd mountain. There are people that take it way too seriously in any activity, and maybe the stigma is that LARPers can cross that line like whoaaaa. I'm sure there are good people that LARP, that are there to make it an enjoyable time for everyone. And then there are the people who consider themselves social outcasts already, and want to rise to the top of their chosen circle, who in doing so cause that group to reject them. And in a situation where delusional fantasy is perhaps even encouraged, I can see that getting waaaay out of hand.

Thanks for reading that if you did, and remember: Whatever you choose to do, don't be a dick while you do it.

Jubear wrote:I always love how LARPers always go on about how there are girls at the things. Have you tried going to a club or pub....

That's most in response to people posting up all those things about how LARPers will never meet a girl, and are all male vrigins. No one makes the same assertions about those who hang out at clubs or pubs, so there's no reason for them to act similarly defensively.

I find nerds who still play with their toy solders considering themselves morally superior to nerds who dress up to play cops and robbers to be laughable.

The sliding scale of wankery exists in both hobbies, peering down your nose at them doesn't change the fact we are a group also beset by some REALLY odd people. People who have 'mundane' interests consider YOU to be the weirdo. So climb on down from that high horse and drink yer milk kiddies.

Also disavow yourselves of the constant need to place your 'weird' hobby as 'less weird than them', because seeking to be a mundane is seeking to be bland, seeking to be dull and seeking to be accepted by the beige people. You're better than that.

We are all one people, friends...























Except for the furries, I fething hate them. I mean seriously.

Oh, there are bar sleaze that have only seen their mothers' upon birth, believe it. My argument is again one of quality. Ok, so there are women at a club/bar that may have drank enough to make a bad decision. So? They're habitual drinkers, and if they sleep with random strangers, I bet shes a real catch. Furthermore, you've still got to talk to them in order for anything to happen. Claiming "There are bewbs at LARP!" instantly qualifies you as prolly not getting any.

There are women at the grocery store, selecting phallic vegetables. No one makes assertions about that, either.


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Meangreen, couldn't have said it better myself. I lived overseas for the first 14 years of my life in Scotland, Singapore, and Egypt. When we moved back to the states, they asked me if I wanted to play football.
"Well yeah! I love soccer!"
I was instantly cut.

I have no illusions that Tyranids are a weird hobby. I recently bought some from craigslist, and was supposed to meet the guy at hobby lobby. His phone was off when the time came to meet, and so for ten minutes either side of the meeting time, I stood in front of hobby lobby asking everyone that gave me a passing glance if they were there to meet me about the tyranids. What are they? Space bugs.. nevermind, what about you? You got my nids? About as awkward as you can get, IMO. I don't care, or place myself anywhere on a sliding scale of better/worse than.

I do put 40k>D&D>LARP>Elf Chicks>Furries though. I've got some self respect.

The truth of it is, for me anyway, that if our gaming group were to just forgo the gaming entirely and just go to a pub I'd be fine with it. I wouldn't play with someone (D&D or Warhams) that I wouldn't want to hang out with in some capacity in the first place. Tournaments being an exception of course.

Right. My club is similar, a group of friends mostly. I wouldn't go to a place I was uncomfortable.

For me it becomes a function of douchebag density. Where am I most likely to find one, and how can I avoid that place.

None of us are cool. Let's be honest with ourselves.

You're right.

I'm hella cool.

Mr Mystery wrote:You're right.

I'm hella cool.

Yes. Yes you are.

So it's a 'dick move' to play in character? Put it this way, my character is an Alchemist/Spy. And guess what, that means I sometimes have to do pretty distasteful things.

Damn straight.

Though it won't be long before I'm rumbled and slotted by around 20 people in plate armour. Unless I manage to successfully leg it.

I LARP at Life. What do I win?

No. Because the Dogs control you, and in fact LARP at not being bent on world domination.

Mr Mystery wrote:No. Because the Dogs control you, and in fact LARP at not being bent on world domination.

True that. Commentary was made yesterday that I am completely controlled by 20 lbs of aggregate weiner dog.

On the positive, bathing the yoda of weiner dogs, putting him next to the larger weiner dog to dry, and then watching the said ancient weiner dog go berserk in a full on attack of weiner dog II just because he's ticked about that whole 'bathing' thing...priceless.

Mahahaha!

Dogs RULE! Which is why I like my local. Usually a pooch of some description wandering around, hoovering up crumbs and mooching for Pork Scratchings. And they all know who I am....I'm the treat man! They even bark to get my attention.

I prefer cats.

ChrisWWII wrote:I prefer cats.

Commie! All true red blooded Americans prefer dogs.

Our neighbor's cat is huge and thinks its a dog. "Frankie" is also what you would call, a moron. He's gotten trapped in both our garage and the Wife's vehicle (climbed in when unloading groceries). It also doesn't understand that, after running up to a weiner dog that is literally screaming at you, then getting the BITEBITEBITEBITE treatment from the Shanker, you don't attempt to do the same thing not 30 minutes later.

Given my signature here? I'll take that as a compliment.

Though, I have to admit, your neighbour's cat is amusing....well, mildly amusing as far as an animal acting silly could be. But...you have neighbours Frazzled? I thought you lived in the middle of your weiner dog training camps plotting the conquest of planet Earth.

ChrisWWII wrote:Given my signature here? I'll take that as a compliment.

Though, I have to admit, your neighbour's cat is amusing....well, mildly amusing as far as an animal acting silly could be. But...you have neighbours Frazzled? I thought you lived in the middle of your weiner dog training camps plotting the conquest of planet Earth.

Well, we're in disguise.

I think most people see things like the lightning bolt video are just like 'WHOA' because the level of absurdity is just off the charts.

That said, I'd never begrudge anyone the opportunity to have fun as long as everyone involved is enjoying themselves. And if someone is so hard-up socially that they have to LARP to meet people of the opposite sex, then you know what? All the power to you.

I know a lot of gamers and RPers turn to those mediums because they're cripplingly shy and have a low self-opinion, and this turns the stink of desperation into a bog of reeking sorrows which nobody of the opposite sex wants to ever traverse. And while I don't see playing dress-up in the woods doing much for anyone's actual confidence, who knows?

But it's hard for me to really understand LARPers because the whole concept is alien to me. When I was 11, I really loved the Dragonlance series, because the fantasy elements were so different from the real world. For me, trying to replicate those environments takes the magic out of them precisely because I know the difference between reality and fantasy is very real, and seeing it acted out only highlights those differences; it's like watching someone throw snowballs at the sun.

Except in my experience, 'lightning bolt' only happens in that video. LARP I go to is far more fun!