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<blockquote data-quote="Assenpfeffer" data-source="post: 977272" data-attributes="member: 9061">I've been playing tabletop for over 22 years.&nbsp; In 22 years I've known a lot of LARPers from events as diverse as Dagorhir, SCA and various Cam, OWBN and unaffiliated WoD LARPS.&nbsp; Some of these folks have been pretty good friends of mine.&nbsp; I'd seen LARPS in action, and helped to organize them as events director at two conventions.&nbsp; The bottom line is that I've seen and met a lot of players of both types of games, and played myself in both types.There are people in any LARP who might be called &quot;freaks,&quot; either because of a complete lack of social skills, poor personal hygene, or an inability to recognize that what they're doing is playing a game.&nbsp; I have not noticed that the percentage of LARP &quot;freaks&quot; is any higher than the percentage of tabletop &quot;freaks.&quot;&nbsp; I suspect that anyone saying they haven't seen and met a large number of tabletop-playing losers is being disingenous or selectively recalling people they want to remember.&nbsp; This applies even to WoD LARPs.&nbsp; Individual games, of course, may vary - I've seen events where everyone was a well-adjusted, skillful player, and others which were wall-to-wall unwahsed weirdos.&nbsp; Same with tabletop.While LARP is obviously different from tabletop, in many ways, I've personally been using accents, speaking in character, acting out my character's actions, gesturing grandly, standing and making grandiose pronoucements for years.&nbsp; It's called roleplaying.&nbsp; The only difference is that in LARP, you're standing up.Frankly, tabletop players high-handedly dismissing all LARP players as weirdos and sociopaths strikes me as more than a little hypocritical.&nbsp; If it's any consolation, though, LARPers tend to think of tabletop gamers as glorified boardgamers who push chits around on a hexgrid and to whom roleplaying is something wholly alien.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Assenpfeffer, post: 977272, member: 9061"] I've been playing tabletop for over 22 years. In 22 years I've known a lot of LARPers from events as diverse as Dagorhir, SCA and various Cam, OWBN and unaffiliated WoD LARPS. Some of these folks have been pretty good friends of mine. I'd seen LARPS in action, and helped to organize them as events director at two conventions. The bottom line is that I've seen and met a lot of players of both types of games, and played myself in both types. There are people in any LARP who might be called "freaks," either because of a complete lack of social skills, poor personal hygene, or an inability to recognize that what they're doing is playing a game. I have not noticed that the percentage of LARP "freaks" is any higher than the percentage of tabletop "freaks." I suspect that anyone saying they haven't seen and met a large number of tabletop-playing losers is being disingenous or selectively recalling people they want to remember. This applies even to WoD LARPs. Individual games, of course, may vary - I've seen events where everyone was a well-adjusted, skillful player, and others which were wall-to-wall unwahsed weirdos. Same with tabletop. While LARP is obviously different from tabletop, in many ways, I've personally been using accents, speaking in character, acting out my character's actions, gesturing grandly, standing and making grandiose pronoucements for years. It's called roleplaying. The only difference is that in LARP, you're standing up. Frankly, tabletop players high-handedly dismissing all LARP players as weirdos and sociopaths strikes me as more than a little hypocritical. If it's any consolation, though, LARPers tend to think of tabletop gamers as glorified boardgamers who push chits around on a hexgrid and to whom roleplaying is something wholly alien. [/QUOTE]

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