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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RSKennan" data-source="post: 718041" data-attributes="member: 8256">I can definitely understand the trepidation and sense that LARP is "not right".LARP requires that one put himself "out there" but in my opinion, not significantly more than DMing a tabletop game with voices, strong personalities, and "theatrics". I actually have an embarrassing story that almost made me swear off LARP. In the early days of our MV Boffer LARP, my best friend and I were running a scenario by which each of us were playing powerful beings, locked into a perpetual war.  Each of us would be nearly instantly resurrected if killed, and the key to destroying either of us was an item hidden in the field.  We were excited and mistakenly told everyone to "Bring friends". Game night came, and we started with about 50 or so people, all of which had played at least D&D, or LARP, with little overlap (a lot of those ultimate frisbee "jocks".  The scenario started going to hell almost immediately, since the players broke into sides supporting either of us, and decided to attack each other en masse, as well as us. I died a few times, as did my friend and we were both struck by the cheapness of our decision to be immortals (no one was looking for the item to destroy us). People started getting bored and more than a little mad, and my friend and I started blaming each other. Of course this was when a friend decided to show up with about a dozen "popular girls" (Garrett was always a ladies man), who thought the whole thing was INCREDIBLY lame. At this point I agreed with them, and my best friend was getting upset at my poor attitude.  We ended up in a shouting match, and the game ended.   Worst LARP ever. It still stands as one of my most humiliating moments. But still, the good games were AWESOME, and I really want to play again.</blockquote>

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