[YouTube] When Dungeons and Dragons Ain't Good Enough
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Peni Griffin
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LARPing is fun, but hard to put together. It's a huge time and effort commitment. I helped a friend of mine with her LARP until she got too sick to continue it, and the player turnover was awful. We'd try to connect up with other LARPers in the area, but group compatibility is an issue. The easiest people to hook up with were an Amtgard group who ran combat-only scenarios, with the attention spans of gnats, and they couldn't get it into their heads that the idea of boffer weapons is that no one gets hurt. We never had enough NPCs, so Wendy might be Good Wizard Bethany Wardwell, Clarice the Vampire (you should have seen the PCs run when she smiled), a mudman, the Demon of Despair (seriously freaky cthulhoid thing - she changed her height and we almost believed in it), and Bethany again all in one day, while I might be a the barkeep, a giant spider, a sage, a distressed damsel, a mudman, and the barkeep again. We'd have to get out an hour early in order to set up the traps, spiderwebs, tavern, and magic labyrinth, then break it all down at night. We'd be combing face paint out of our hair and out from under our nails for days.
You'd be surprised how seldom the other park users freaked out at seeing giant spiders, mudmen, and mighty warriors using the trails with them; and how soon the Chinese restaurant got used to serving exhausted, muddy people with green and gray faces. Although some of our magic rituals did prompt people to complain to the park rangers that people were worshiping Satan in the woods, it didn't happen anything like every week.
You'd be surprised how seldom the other park users freaked out at seeing giant spiders, mudmen, and mighty warriors using the trails with them; and how soon the Chinese restaurant got used to serving exhausted, muddy people with green and gray faces. Although some of our magic rituals did prompt people to complain to the park rangers that people were worshiping Satan in the woods, it didn't happen anything like every week.
Thunderfoot
Hero
I've seen this a few times before and each time something else gets added - I wish they improve the quality not the quantity. 
As for using padding versus poplar twigs - wimp, we shot each other with pellet guns and rifles.
As for using padding versus poplar twigs - wimp, we shot each other with pellet guns and rifles.
Vorput
First Post
Much better quality video- not nearly as pixelated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwxtNOkGLBU
Coolest. Thing. Ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwxtNOkGLBU
Coolest. Thing. Ever!
themightybiggun
First Post
heh, I got you all beat,
metal.
seriously, take the post of a chain link fence, (they're hollow)
beat it with a large hammer (i use a 5 pound sledge) until flat,
beat tip into point,
duct tape the handle and a crosspiece on,
commence swinging.
metal.
seriously, take the post of a chain link fence, (they're hollow)
beat it with a large hammer (i use a 5 pound sledge) until flat,
beat tip into point,
duct tape the handle and a crosspiece on,
commence swinging.
William drake
First Post
Black_Swan said:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOO larping....that video scared me.
theredrobedwizard
Explorer
William drake said:
QFMFT.
-TRRW
kroh said:
Well, for the live-combat people, much of the larping thing is about the physical sport. If you can understand people liking football, or fencing, or martial arts, you can understand that aspect of larp.
For the theatre-style people, it often largely about interacting with a much more broad range of characters, that are far better fleshed out than one GM can manage at a table and aren't all controlled by one mind that is largely omniscient.
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