Animosity between traditional gamers and LARPers?
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well people who get paid to act usually are not quite as creepy as the people who do it for entertainment..... usually...
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STAY BACK YOU CLOWN! YOU'RE NOT REALLY YOU! YOU'RE SOMEONE ELSE! YOU STOLE MY FA
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uh sorry bout that, flashback...
joe b.
Negative Zero said:
that's funny, coz i'm an actor, and i use PnP DnD for that tye of deep exploration of personality types all the time, and LARP, other than the novel curiosity factor, doesn't really hold any appeal for me.
then again, i always found people who thought clowns scary were just bent! lol
incidentally, i hate fake faces on people too. no need to hate on a guys's job just for that tho
~NegZ
well people who get paid to act usually are not quite as creepy as the people who do it for entertainment..... usually...
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STAY BACK YOU CLOWN! YOU'RE NOT REALLY YOU! YOU'RE SOMEONE ELSE! YOU STOLE MY FA
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uh sorry bout that, flashback...
joe b.
I really like both...
Let me preface my LARP comments by saying that I have never played any system except NERO (ie, no WW/VAMP, etc).
I am going on my 21st year of Tabletop RPGing (with 5 years of board wargaming before that). I was introduced to LARPing back in the early 90s - the NERO Fantasy LARP - which I got interested in after reading an article in Dragon.
I attended a couple of events in 93-94, then life got busy and I stopped going. My gaming group and I decided to give it another try in 1998 and began attending Wildlands South (Part of NERO Atlanta) and had an absolute blast. With 3-5 weekend events per year, intricate plot lines, tons of boffer combats, reasonable character advancement, etc.
It was a perfect adjunct to tabletop and actually allowed us to get out there and "Just Do It"...run around in the woods all weekend, pick the locks, ambush (and be ambushed) by monsters, fight in enormous field battles, fight off assaults on the cabin at 3:00 AM.
I found no animosity among the 75-125 people I interacted with each event towards tabletop. Plus, our entire gaming group (usually 6-9 people) attended each event, fought and adventured as a team...kind of like a DnD party.
From what little I know about WW events, it definitely isn't my cup of tea...but fantasy LARPs are, in my experience, a ton of fun.
I think one reason that some tabletop players might be turned off is that it can be pretty strenuous...a full weekend of running, fighting, spotty sleep, etc can be a pretty big drain. Most (not all) RPGers are not in the best of shape...it's one thing to sit at a table and say "My character does X"...it is quite another to actually have to do it
. For one of the guys in our group, the quarterly events were about the only exercise he got the whole year and he could barely move by the second night
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Anyone who lives within 5-6 hours of Atlanta and wants to experience and awesome fantasy LARP should check out Wildlands South
There are events in September and November. Tell 'em Arturio Duvalier sent ya!
~ Old One
Let me preface my LARP comments by saying that I have never played any system except NERO (ie, no WW/VAMP, etc).
I am going on my 21st year of Tabletop RPGing (with 5 years of board wargaming before that). I was introduced to LARPing back in the early 90s - the NERO Fantasy LARP - which I got interested in after reading an article in Dragon.
I attended a couple of events in 93-94, then life got busy and I stopped going. My gaming group and I decided to give it another try in 1998 and began attending Wildlands South (Part of NERO Atlanta) and had an absolute blast. With 3-5 weekend events per year, intricate plot lines, tons of boffer combats, reasonable character advancement, etc.
It was a perfect adjunct to tabletop and actually allowed us to get out there and "Just Do It"...run around in the woods all weekend, pick the locks, ambush (and be ambushed) by monsters, fight in enormous field battles, fight off assaults on the cabin at 3:00 AM.
I found no animosity among the 75-125 people I interacted with each event towards tabletop. Plus, our entire gaming group (usually 6-9 people) attended each event, fought and adventured as a team...kind of like a DnD party.
From what little I know about WW events, it definitely isn't my cup of tea...but fantasy LARPs are, in my experience, a ton of fun.
I think one reason that some tabletop players might be turned off is that it can be pretty strenuous...a full weekend of running, fighting, spotty sleep, etc can be a pretty big drain. Most (not all) RPGers are not in the best of shape...it's one thing to sit at a table and say "My character does X"...it is quite another to actually have to do it
. For one of the guys in our group, the quarterly events were about the only exercise he got the whole year and he could barely move by the second night!Anyone who lives within 5-6 hours of Atlanta and wants to experience and awesome fantasy LARP should check out Wildlands South
There are events in September and November. Tell 'em Arturio Duvalier sent ya!
~ Old One
Absolutely...
Bob -
Most fantasy LARPs have a full set of well-developed rules...
This link LARP List has most of the major LARPs in the US and elsewhere.
I personally know people that run the following:
For the 3-5 Wildlands South events each year, contingents come to Atlanta from Boston, Kentucky, Maryland, Texas and Connecticutt...it's that good!
~ Old One
Bob Aberton said:
Bob -
Most fantasy LARPs have a full set of well-developed rules...
This link LARP List has most of the major LARPs in the US and elsewhere.
I personally know people that run the following:
- Wildlands South
- King's Gate
- Shattered Isles
- Madrigal
- Nero Atlanta
- Solar
For the 3-5 Wildlands South events each year, contingents come to Atlanta from Boston, Kentucky, Maryland, Texas and Connecticutt...it's that good!
~ Old One
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Although I've never LARPed I new a bunch of people that did(they all hung out a local game store). Individually, they were for the most part pretty nice people, once they got together they acted as if everyone else in our "little burg" was stupid and " missing the joke". Well, they got carried away with there "little joke" out side of the store, after store hours a couple of times. The local authorities threatened to fine the store owners (they felt that the owners were encouraging the early halloween spectical) so the owners had to put the kabosh on LARPs. I gotta tell ya, I've never see so much white make-up, capes, fake blood, and pimples in my life...... I kinda miss it ;P
Bob Aberton said:
Yes. Every larp I've ever seen has rules. White Wolf has it's Mind's Eye Theatre rules.
There's also "Rules to Live By", from Interactivities Ink, which is intended as a sort of GURPS or d20 for larp - you can run just about any kind of game with these rules.
Also, many "theatre style" games have rules written specifically for them.
Just Curious...
For those posting/lurking in this thread...
With the exception of Tsyr (who has played a fantasy LARP using the IFGS rules), how many of you have actually experienced a LARP besides VAMPIRE or some other WW derivative?
I think there is a HUGE difference between the majority of players in a VAMPIRE-type game and those that play in an established fantasy LARP like Wildlands. The average player I have encountered during 3+ years has been older (around 30), mature, a team player and there to have fun (and help others to have fun). A lot of actors, SCA crossovers and tabletop gaming groups (like mine) make up the players and NPC cadre.
I encountered virtually no pimply-faced Goths!
~ Old One
For those posting/lurking in this thread...
With the exception of Tsyr (who has played a fantasy LARP using the IFGS rules), how many of you have actually experienced a LARP besides VAMPIRE or some other WW derivative?
I think there is a HUGE difference between the majority of players in a VAMPIRE-type game and those that play in an established fantasy LARP like Wildlands. The average player I have encountered during 3+ years has been older (around 30), mature, a team player and there to have fun (and help others to have fun). A lot of actors, SCA crossovers and tabletop gaming groups (like mine) make up the players and NPC cadre.
I encountered virtually no pimply-faced Goths
!~ Old One
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