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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zerovoid" data-source="post: 324681" data-attributes="member: 283">I tried LARPing once, but it wasn't my cup of tea.  Several friends on the periphery of my social circles started telling me about their Vampire LARP, and I thought it sounded really cool, like the ultimate form of roleplaying.Well, I went to a couple of sessions, and didn't enjoy it.  They were all goths, and the people I knew in the game, who are among the most far out, wierd, abrasive, and goth-like people that I know, suddenly seemed normal.Nobody seemed very friendly to me, they were all rather condescending.  It seemed like things didn't happen because of in character events, but just because of cliques of power gaming friends who got together.  There was a group who called themselves the "Metagamers Coterie".There's a pretty large time commitment, and because of the way experience is handled, the only way to max out your experience was to play in two games.  I played at the Minneapolis game, which met two fridays every month.  The majority of the players there also played in the Winona game, which was the closest other place to get experience, and about a two hour drive both ways !?!?  Thats just too hard core for me.  It seems like there's no place for the casual gamer here.In defense of LARP's, I have to say that they are probably not my cup of tea anyway.  I'm never good at parties, and I'd rather get together to play a game with a group of my friends than 30 strangers.  I have to admit that this was probably a huge factor in my negative experience.  Several of my friends do enjoy the game, and I like hearing of their exploits, such as driving 8 hours up to some game in Canada, and having their characters wacked the moment they stepped in the door <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />None the less, every LARPer stereotype seemed to match reality.  I still think it would be fun to play in a non-vampire LARP, that actually had normal people in it, and didn't require you to spend tons of hours in the car to get one's quota of experience.</blockquote>

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