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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old One" data-source="post: 325714" data-attributes="member: 83">As a "Stick-Jock"...For most NERO events, there is a small cadre of NPCs that provides the bulk of the opposition for the players.  Oftimes, the number of volunteers are insufficient to handle all of the plots and modules (aka dungeon crawls) over the course of a weekend, so each player has to put in several hours of NPC time.At Wildlands, we are very lucky to have a large, dedicated group of NPCs, so we get to play ALL weekend<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />!  These folks take lots of abuse (mis-thrown spell packets, hits in sensative locations, etc).  They usually put forth herculean efforts over a weekend event, because they are heavily outnumbered by the players (although the player:npc ratio in our game is usually 1.25:1...not too bad).I think a given LARP, just like a tabletop game, really hinges on how good the players (and, in a LARP, the NPCs) are.  I have been to a couple of events outside of the well-controlled Wildlands environment and enjoyed myself much, much less.~ Old One</blockquote>