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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 719830" data-attributes="member: 6521">I don't play LARPs. They creep me out, mainly because there's a certain appeal, but it would be incredibly embarrassing, I'd feel like such a little kid and I'm not really comfortable being grown-up yet so that would be too much to deal with. Not to mention how much flak I get from my normal-people friends for playing Dungeons & Dragons, I mean, that would double, and then I'd get the same again from the people I play D&D with, and I just can't afford all the sunglasses it would take to feel cool again after that. It's seems different and I'm not sure how to live a life being different like that, how would I meet and talk and be okay with normal people and have them be okay, you know, so I feel I should really distance myself as much as possible. It's a gut instinct to feel ill toward that sort of thing, it helps you stick with the herd which is always safer. There are lions out there.I'm not speaking hypothetically, just really honestly (which also often creeps people out). Most of the things which "freak me out" like that do so because I'm insecure about something-or-other. I could just say "that's weird, that's wrong, what is it, it's not acting and it's not gaming, it's like what little kids do and adults can't do that" and so on, but that's being dishonest which is to say it's ignoring me, and I'm really self-centered so I can't do that. I really have no idea if that's why most people are "freaked out" by LARPs or not, and I'm not trying to call anyone out, just providing one opinion and one explanation for the thing.So LARP out if you like it. Me, I'll stay at home and play D&D in secret and try to change the subject whenever anyone brings it up In Society.</blockquote>

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