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**greenskin lynn**

thinking back, i now recall why i dislike larping.

one of the first times i went (one of the only times, really) i had a bit of fun with the foam weapons, cutting loose for a bit after a week of exams, then i decided to try out a shield.

dude walks up, says he'll help me get the hang of it, pulls out a sword that looks legit (but looking at it later, it was a sca weapon, not a nice foam blade)

i grab a shield, turn towards the guy, and then get cracked in the knee hard enough to leave me hobbling for a day or two.

**CF Scout**

Met my wife at a larp actually, a little over seven years ago.

Necros wrote:I did the SCA for a bit in college. it was ok, but I mostly was into it for the women. I went to that big war in pittsburgh and that was about it for me. I just thought it got silly.. you have people with these costumes that date back 100's of years and they try to be all authentic, and they call each other by their little medieval names, but talk about computers and star trek the whole time.

I went to a game con a long time ago in NJ, and the vampire LARP folks were just silly (and smelly). Equally smelly were the star trek LARPers. One trek kid even had a lightsaber and a whole story describing why the people of his planet invented them. That guy prolly went on to create the Pan Fo...

So, yeah, LARP seems like it could be fun with the right people, but it's just something I don't see me ever getting into.

Do the SCA thing too, Armor, Rattan, Garb, Go to the event south of Pittsburgh, heck, the wife got me into that too.

What bothers me about the SCA events isn't the conversations about various things, it is people walking around in medieval garb, talking on Cell Phones...

Not that I have been very good about being active in the SCA, been more in a painting mood lately. I am however thinking of doing up a Brettonians Army in our Baronial Heraldry.

**Ahtman**

Necros wrote:I did the SCA for a bit in college. it was ok, but I mostly was into it for the women.

The saying I recall hearing as far as the women that attend these (LARP, SCA) events was "that the odds are good, but the goods are odd".

**Lordhat**

Ahtman wrote:
Necros wrote:I did the SCA for a bit in college. it was ok, but I mostly was into it for the women.

The saying I recall hearing as far as the women that attend these (LARP, SCA) events was "that the odds are good, but the goods are odd".

Unlike the Renaissance festival where 90% of the chicks are downright gorgeous.... and the saying is "If you can't get laid at the Ren Fest, you can't get laid."

**jp400**

Aye Lordhat.
Like my house sings..

"If you cant get laid in the Sca, then you cant get laid at all!"

Meet my girl at one and its been a fun 17 months since! She also looks down right sexy in my Kilt.

**lord_sutekh**

I object! I tried to get laid at the Ren Fair... and I would have, too, except the Missus seemed to object to the idea for some reason...