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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corinth" data-source="post: 326281" data-attributes="member: 497">I've had the dubious pleasure of watching many of my friends play in a handful of Vampire LARPs over the last year.  Many of the qualities ascribed to MET games apply here:  scores of lame wankers who metagame and powergame to degrees that would never work in a tabletop game, more PVP action that should be the case in a Vampire game, the formation of cliques that go far beyond the game and deeply affect it, Storyteller favortism that would get you lynched in the RPGA, the blatant disregard for the fun of other players by many involved (including the STs), the same disregard for the rules by many (including the STs) and so much more: it was as if I watched a daytime soap as produced by the morons who produced Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, save that there's more money for stage blood and prostetics, unfold in very slow motion.That said, I've not sworn off LARPs.  I've sworn off participation in all LARPs run by the clique that runs the Vampire LARP described above.  (Locals:  The LARP is "Night: A Ressurection From the Ashes" and its impending sequel.)  It's also given me the very dangerous idea of taking it over and running it myself, just to show the morons in charge how it's done.</blockquote>