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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 5964053" data-attributes="member: 55178">I know that I saw live action elements inside of other games in the 80s, people who would wear a bit of costume or bring a prop for a tabletop game, bits where particularly theatrical groups would stand up from the table and block or act out scenes around some kind of set piece, games like Assassin where the mechanics were built around real physical action; but I didn't see full on LARPs till I got to college, and even then they didn't seem to really take of until Mind's Eye first took to the stage, and then again once WoW made the idea of fantasy gaming more publicly acceptable. As for the inter-group warfare and trash talking, you'll always get that, and it'll be different city to city.  Here in Pittsburgh, there was a very serious overlap between the gamers and the SCAdians. The real disdain always seemed to be between the SCAdian fighters, and the two or three boffer groups, PRO (a NERO offshoot), Circle of Swords, and Dagorhir.  The point of contention tended to boil down to the SCAdians accusing the LARPers of being wimps who used foam weapons, and the LARPers accusing the SCAdians of being brutish gorillas who just stood around in the sun hitting each other all day.Not only do I agree that TSR would have stayed away from the concept with a 10 foot pole, and the fact that they were probably still fairly rooted in their war game origins; but I'm not sure that there would have really even been a large enough target audience for them to make the attempt.For anyone interested in a history lesson: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game" target="_blank">Live action role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></blockquote>

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