Animosity between traditional gamers and LARPers?

[Phowett]

I've watched a group of people LARP before. They weren't all goths, but they still annoyed me. But anyways, I sat there relaxing and reading a magazine while they LARPed, and well... I thought it goes beyond the word "nerdy". I mean, it's the same as playing Tea with your little sister, or playing House with your girly friends when you were a little kid. It REALLY bugged me and was embarrising me. Couple of neighbors peeked over their fences, and I had to "go" all of a sudden. I had some "chores" to do.

 

[Tsyr]

I've watched a group of people LARP before. They weren't all goths, but they still annoyed me. But anyways, I sat there relaxing and reading a magazine while they LARPed, and well... I thought it goes beyond the word "nerdy". I mean, it's the same as playing Tea with your little sister, or playing House with your girly friends when you were a little kid. It REALLY bugged me and was embarrising me. Couple of neighbors peeked over their fences, and I had to "go" all of a sudden. I had some "chores" to do.

LARPing in someones back yard is not exactly an ideal sampler of fantasy LARPing...

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

I have nothing against LARP- though I have little interest in doing it. (Though once in a while I will read an old dragon magazine article on a Titanic larp that sounds like it was fun.)

However- I have a chip on my shoulder about the SCA, but I know it is entirely due to the morons I have happened to run into rl that are in to it.

FD

 

[Tsyr]

Hmmm... Dunno what exactly transpired of course, but I'm glad your not holding the rest of us up to blame for it... most of us are good natured, fun loving freeks (In the public eye, anyhow), at least until a major battle comes up and pride is on the line.

Oh, I won't deny we have our share of bad apples, but the SCA is of the size anymore where screening out people because they are overly arrogant or something isn't really feasible.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

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Oh, I won't deny we have our share of bad apples, but the SCA is of the size anymore where screening out people because they are overly arrogant or something isn't really feasible. [/B]

That is what I have figured- the people I am thinking of having personality problems in general, so- they just drag SCA down with them.

Though, if I hear one more self-rightous speech about how it was "really" done in the middle ages or how they recreate and authentic middle age experience experience- I think I am going to scream.

I guess it would be authentic if the middle ages suddenly became pc and sanitized- and where these morons would be more then mule-skinners.

FD

 

[Phowett]

LARPing in someones back yard is not exactly an ideal sampler of fantasy LARPing...

It didn't really matter where it was at for me. I just think it's too weird for me.

 

[Old One]

Argellan Rulz...

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House Argellain! That's hilarious. All my friends who played Wildlands in MA (and who also introduced me to Larping) belonged to House Argellain. Good choice.

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dr jekyll

At one of the events in the 2001 season, a number of players from the original Harkenwood (Wildlands North) campaign came down to play. They got in pretty late on Friday night and didn't have time to really look around. Their cabin was pretty close to ours and when they got up the next morning, the first thing they saw was our two VERY large Argellan banners.

They told us later that it immediately made them feel right at home!

Two quick "War Stories":

(1) At the 2000 season closer, most of the town gathered to defend a number of PCs that were conducting a critical ritual. About a dozen were invovled in the ritual on the raised deck of a large lodge at the site. House Argellan and a couple of teams that we fight in large battles with protected one flank and everyone else protected the other.

We were being attacked by waves of pretty tough goblins and orcs, led by trolls and an "Arcane" goblin (very nasty customer). We kept trouncing the ones attacking our position, but the other flank was soon in trouble and starting to break. Rather than moving into the other flank's line to reinforce them, I led about 25 PCs on around the back of the building and hit the enemy from behind. The attack completely destoyed the enemy force's cohension and we stomped them.

Afterwards, almost everyone - PC and NPCs - came over and told us what an awesome sight the "Armored Wall" of Argellan made. Since then, we fondly refer to it as the "Charge of the Argellan Brigade"!

(2) Our cabin got "Rolled" at 4:30 AM after a very full day. Normally, the NPCs don't hit us that late, but we had something they wanted! I was stripped down to my "tighty-whiteys" and, without bothering to put anything else on, pulled my chainmail over my head, slapped on my armored gauntlets and went to town.

After the battle (in which we lost 2 PCs KIA), all of the NPCs were rolling on the ground at the sight of me in chainmail and "tighty-whiteys". Since then, I have been affectionately knows as the "tighty-whitey" bandit!

~ Old One

 

[Furn_Darkside]

You know, I had said earlier that I had little interest in LARP'ng.

I was just reading on the spycraft forum that some people had been trying to put a spycraft-larp. That might get me involved.

The idea of a lot of spies lurking about sounds like a lot of fun.

FD

 

[Grifter86]

Cthulhu Live

I can't believe no one has mentioned the fine LARP developed by Fantasy Flight Games known as Cthulhu Live.

Listen, I just can't take the angst thing from Vampire, nor do I want to deal with the "padded swords" of NERO and its kin. I want modern horror. I want Cthulhu Live.

I've played 4 one shot games at Origins and Gen Con done by a group called PST productions. The "keepers" of this group were the ones who developed the game. Plus, the combat system involves pre-determined hits (ie, the 4th time someone shoots at me, I will be hit in the throat for 20 points of damage) and also uses cap guns for added excitement. To start, you need two books: Cthulhu live and Cthulhu Live: Delta Green, which has the nifty cap gun combat system in it.

If anyone goes to Origins or Gen Con, they should look these guys up and sign on. It's a good time filled with intrigue, tension, and brief spurts of violence mized in with the Cthulhu mythos.

And Cthulhu LARPers like to mock Vampire LARPers as much as anyone, for the record.

 

[Teflon Billy]

I've watched a group of people LARP before. They weren't all goths, but they still annoyed me. But anyways, I sat there relaxing and reading a magazine while they LARPed, and well... I thought it goes beyond the word "nerdy". I mean, it's the same as playing Tea with your little sister, or playing House with your girly friends when you were a little kid....

And this is measurably different from D&D because....?