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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Synicism" data-source="post: 717946" data-attributes="member: 489">Yeah, I LARP on occasion.No, I don't think it's any weirder than tabletop gaming.Honestly, I don't see what the big deal about it is. There isn't really any difference between rolling dice and using Rock-Paper-Scissors (white wolf), drawing cards (some Deadlands games I've seen), or any other luck-based method of conflict resolution. Some LARP's I've seen use dice.When I play tabletop, I rarely sit down. I stand up, I alter the inflection of my voice, I pace around, I move, and I bang on the table, depending on what my character is doing. I don't call that acting. I call it getting into character. To me, there's a difference between "OK, Jasin stalks across the room and grabs the guy by his shirt, and starts threatening him" and actually taking a couple strides towards the GM, hands raised, and vividly explaining first person how I'm about to disembowel him with a spoon (no touching though). Not everyone does this. For me, it's part of the fun.Just like there are different varieties of tabletop RPG's (D&D is not Vampire is not HERO is not Call of Cthulhu, etc...), there are different kinds of LARPS with different degrees of action and roleplaying resolution. White Wolf LARPS rely on rock paper scissors. Boffer-LARPS like NERO use simulated weapons. The Grand-Daddy of them all, the SCA (I'm a SCAdian, and I admit it's the world's biggest LARP complete with real sex and alcohol), has people dressing in costume, assuming a persona, and lining up 50 or more to a side and fighting it out with anything from fencing gear and practice rapiers to full, articulated plate mail and bashing each other with wooden swords until they fall down.I like LARPs for the same reason I do goofy stuff at the gaming table. I get into it. It's one thing to make some rolls in order to get away from a bad guy. It's quite another to feel your heart pounding in your chest as you run for cover because there are four guys with rapiers who want to stab you and your gun is out of ammunition (darn those single-shot period firearms). It's a different kind of fun.</blockquote>

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