Poll: LARPing - Would you do it ?

[Unca Bob]

Never had an opportunity. I'd give it a go with some friends first and then maybe others.

 

[knight steel]

LARPing sound's fun i will probaly try it out if i get the chance.

 

[Claymorez]

No one in their right mind has never played Cowboys and Indians / gun game with hands

 

[Shoqiyqa]

Also, for the curious, Geebas On Parade [http://geebasonparade.keenspot.com/] starts here [http://geebasonparade.keenspot.com/d/20020522.html] and is all about LARP.

 

[TheMatt]

absolutely...

That'd be fun as hell. Though they would have to let me play drunk. Otherwise it's a no go.

 

[MiserableOldGit]

I'd rather go paintballing- the toys are more fun and you don't have some speccy spod chucking tennis balls at you while shouting "fire damage" in a thin reedy voice.

Then, of course, there's tank paintballing- I shit you not...

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[wewontdie11]

I only would if a close friend or partner begged me to because nobody else would.

 

[USSR]

You can use a real bow, just padded arrows are necessary.

..stupid safety rules.

Okay, but I'm coating the padding in anthrax.

Haha, he's role playing!

He is only pretending to die.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

I'm not going to shout "lightning bolt" 10 times to a person in platemail.

 

[Skratt]

LOL, everytime I see someone bring up the "would you try LARP" question, I laugh and have to go watch this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ04mfAY2BU

 

[TheDoctor455]

Actually, I have already tried it, and just like pen and paper role-playing, a lot of the enjoyment you get out of it depends on the DM. (and the other players, but I didn't have any problems with them so I'm not going to talk about that)

See, about a year ago I tried playing a LARP version of White Wolf's World of Darkness rpgs. I had a good time, but it would've been better if the DM had stopped to explain some of the lore to me and a few of the other new players. No, I'm not talking about Gehenna or the laws that vampires have to obey, those I worked out pretty quickly. I'm talking about characters, locations, artifacts and other things that my character, Malek (a Brujah from the crusader-era... yes this was just after I first played Assassin's Creed) would need to react to. For instance, at one point the DM introduced himself as a character (I can't remember the character's name), and struck a typical warrior pose. I, being a noob, didn't know anything about this character and the DM refused to describe him even after I pointed out that my character can't react to something like this in the world if I, the player, didn't know what it was. As it turned out (from what other players told me) the DM at that point was a 8-foot tall Norse warrior that had been kicking around for a few centuries. What really bothered me about this is that the DM even acknowledged that the World of Darkness books were pretty hard to get a hold of by this point.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

More than likely, but the limitations of real-life is kind of unappealing to me.

 

[Jedisolo75]

Only with friends, otherwise it would be to weird

Are you kidding me? I would drive a thousand miles away and LARP. Actually letting my freinds know that I did it, no way in hell.