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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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Edit: seven foot spear?

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?