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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

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