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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 716455" data-attributes="member: 354">I larp. I've done both boffer and WoD style larping, I prefer boffer by far.Most of my boffer experience comes from a group using the IFGS rules (loosely in places), though not technicly affiliated with the IFGS. Played for 3 years with them, until they shut down last summer when the man-and-wife team who were the "core" of it moved away and no one stepped up to take over. (I should point out they didn't just up and leave. We had known for about a year it was going to happen, and they had a big final game and all that. Just the way things work) About 20 people on average, though we got up higher a couple times. Great fun. And yes, I know, it's not as "safe" to run an unafilliated game. Yes, yes, I know. It was still fun, and I was willing to take the risk. Done some WoD larping, mostly with some group on campus. It's not bad, though not as much to my tastes. I have a hard time suspending disbelief when we aren't even allowed to carry a squirtgun or something to symbolize the fact we are armed. Boffer combat spoiled me, I guess. I guess most of it comes down to a general distaste for (what I assume to be) the Minds Eye Theater rule system... It just doesn't work for me. I'd also like to think most of us were perfectly normal. About the only common thread in the boffer game was a general interest in fantasy and/or melee combat... we had RPGers, non-RPGers (not many, but a few), people from age 18 up to age 30-something, even some non-larpers that would lend a hand playing "npc"ish characters in town and so forth. There were a couple people that showed up now and then that were a tad peculiar, but none that I would be scared of.Now, the WoD game... eh, more or less the same. We do have one sterotypical goth, albiet kind of an uban-slum style goth (Which is hard to explain, because I live in a fairly wealthy town, and we don't even have a "bad section of town" much less a slums-ish area). Other than that, once again, there really isn't much commonality between the people. Well, age, but since it's a college group, that's understandable. But mostly, it was just a bunch of people getting together to do something. Heck, a couple of the guys in it were in the boffer games too. No stranger, to my mind, than getting together to roleplay at a table, or quake/everquest/etc guilds/clans/etc getting together in real life once a year or something.</blockquote>

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