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<blockquote data-quote="Waylander the Slayer" data-source="post: 716300" data-attributes="member: 1830">LARPing is definitely interesting but it is not for everyone. I actually wanted to try it out and went to a LIONE event.Couple of things i picked up:1. There are definite cliques and groups there; i saw and heard a lot of negative comments about other people&nbsp; when i was scripting. 2. Some people take this waaay to seriously. I saw people getting into yelling matches and throwing temper tantrums; This is a live action role playing game, instead of having fun a lot of people get so involved that it's bigger than life itself.3. some very nice and helpful people as well... I was shown around/ learned things pretty fast.4. The hobby is insanely expensive; a friend of mine was paying $250 a pop to advance/ play his character without doing any scripting (it would be around $65 otherwise ).5. Learn to yell out thing reallly fast, it seems to make the difference between life and death (and throwing bean bags).It&nbsp; seems like a decent hobby for people of the EverQuest mode but it did not really appeal to me. My imagination works a lot better when it is on table top; with LARPing it felt like everything was half way. You cant really swing your weapons, it's how fast you can flick your wrist that matters ( for obvious safety reasons). You throw bean bags and call out spell effects. people walk around with&nbsp; outfits that are not exactly FX (for obvious reasons). with table top its all in your minds eye, which makes it a lot easier and more fun for me.This is just my personal take and not a criticism of the hobby; some of the best role players i know LARP ( and there are more women <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Waylander the Slayer, post: 716300, member: 1830"] LARPing is definitely interesting but it is not for everyone. I actually wanted to try it out and went to a LIONE event. Couple of things i picked up: 1. There are definite cliques and groups there; i saw and heard a lot of negative comments about other people when i was scripting. 2. Some people take this waaay to seriously. I saw people getting into yelling matches and throwing temper tantrums; This is a live action role playing game, instead of having fun a lot of people get so involved that it's bigger than life itself. 3. some very nice and helpful people as well... I was shown around/ learned things pretty fast. 4. The hobby is insanely expensive; a friend of mine was paying $250 a pop to advance/ play his character without doing any scripting (it would be around $65 otherwise ). 5. Learn to yell out thing reallly fast, it seems to make the difference between life and death (and throwing bean bags). It seems like a decent hobby for people of the EverQuest mode but it did not really appeal to me. My imagination works a lot better when it is on table top; with LARPing it felt like everything was half way. You cant really swing your weapons, it's how fast you can flick your wrist that matters ( for obvious safety reasons). You throw bean bags and call out spell effects. people walk around with outfits that are not exactly FX (for obvious reasons). with table top its all in your minds eye, which makes it a lot easier and more fun for me. This is just my personal take and not a criticism of the hobby; some of the best role players i know LARP ( and there are more women :) [/QUOTE]

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