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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 2569011" data-attributes="member: 16212">I haven't ever participated in a 'professional' LARP but it looks like a good laugh. When I was about 14, three of my friends organised a LARP in the woods near their house. They set up a sequence of encounters along a wooded trail and came up with a bunch of costumes for some iconic bad guys. One of them referee'd while the other two played all the NPC parts, and three of us worked through the 'module'. The final encounter was a powerful mage with his two bodyguards, and as we approached the clearing the two guys playing the bodyguards did this synchronised bit of swordplay which by all accounts they'd been practising every night for two weeks!It was brilliant. Brilliant in a 'one of my best memories of childhood' kind of way. Even the guy who got clobbered in the face with a makeshift quarterstaff (!) said he had a great time. In retrospect, our youthful exuberance and sheer love of the game would have painted over any cracks, but it seems perfectly logical to me that anyone of my age (32) who could somehow recapture that spirit would have equally as good a time. Probably better, in fact, because the roleplaying would be much more fulfilling.Them were the days.</blockquote>