Poll: LARPing - Would you do it ?

[Archemetis]

Yeah, me and my mate Gary(who actually made a really indepth documentary about LARP for college) really wanted to try it, he was going to be a beastman and I was gonna be derranged knife weilding psycho ranger with a tendancy to collect his victims faces.

It would have been really fun, but like all things that sound fun, money got in the way.

And we've since abandoned the idea.

 

[Sevre]

Good god no. Although I'd watch others do it.

 

[theshadow308]

I WOULD do it, and I HAVE done it, and it was insane fun. Honestly, I met some brilliant people there, the kind of people you rarely meet anywhere else, and made some excellent friends. My only regret was forgetting my pillow and getting backache.

And it has the added bonus of demi-violence!

 

[WlknCntrdiction]

Only in the bedroom
Are we counting "classroom antics"? Cause those have been very live, with lots of action and much role playing

 

[theshadow308]

well no
you say live so im assuming you can actually die in this. so no. if its just virtuality with no literal dieing im all for it.

"Live" just means physically acted out, it doesn't mean with real weapons. If people DID use real weapons during LARP then, yes, people would die, and it would quickly be banned.

 

[ActionDan]

Noooo thank youuuuu. Definitely not my thing.

 

[orangebandguy]

I probably wouldn't, seems a bit sad to me. But whatever makes people happy, I'm alright with that.

 

[Versago]

Never tried it before but i'm up to see how fun it is.

 

[Slick Samurai]

Never tried it before, but I've got a good imagination, so I'd give it a go.

 

[JoshGod]

well no
you say live so im assuming you can actually die in this. so no. if its just virtuality with no literal dieing im all for it.

"Live" just means physically acted out, it doesn't mean with real weapons. If people DID use real weapons during LARP then, yes, people would die, and it would quickly be banned.

ah now i know what it is no no just no

 

[riskroWe]

I'd only do it if it was being filmed for some kind of awesome tv show about a bunch of guys who go around modern society dressed in armour carrying medieval weapons.

 

[GrinningManiac]

I remember a bloke from Birmingham university came in and talked to us about Uni.

He showed a video about uni life.

It was 2/3 sports, 1/3 in a library, 3/3 porn music.

But there was a few brief clips of hippy-ish events and festivals, then a split second of two people dressed up in Norman armour going at each other with swords and shields.

I thought "Hell Yeah! Gonna get me some Saxons!"

OT: No, nothing like this. I'd LOVE to be in a reenactment though, from something 1600-1900. The biggest ones are the Gettysburg reenactments, but I'm not American and I don't feel that strongly about it, though it's damn intresting and I'd likley do it.

I'd love for a full-scale Waterloo reenactment, but it's usually just a small company-on-company event

 

[Ciarang]

I would, but not as a person from the middle ages.

 

[A.I. Sigma]

At the fear of being executed for nerdiness, yes, I would. ^^

 

[DazBurger]

Only if I get a real bow.

I'm so not LARPing with you...

Dunno where you larp, but where I go, we use real bows... With rubber-headed arrows.. But real bows. And a few crossbows.. And some places we use cannons^^

 

[Malevolent Stranger]

I have LARPed, my girlfriend LARPs, I will LARP more, just for the satisfaction of hitting people.
Primal Urges Rule.

Give him a cookie. He read my mind and posted it before me.

 

[RanD00M]

I would try it if i could.

 

[MentalBakura]

We actually watched a documentary about this in uni earlier this week. It was about a LARP game called Darkon. Interesting how a lot of people were laughing at it, yet we're already pretty far down the nerd ladder, being aspiring game designers and developers.

I'd possibly try it out, if nobody found out. Probably not though. It's one of these things I think looks sort of fun, but I wouldn't tell anyone that.