larp thread

>>50611676
I didn't know Jon Tron was a larper

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>>50611956
Most likely he isn't one

>>50611932
Fucking awesome.

So me and a friend keep talking about designing a larp system, but it breaks down when the idea of classes comes up.

I say classes are good, they would provide the player various innate perks that would make them feel useful even if they're not the greatest role player. They provide an opportunity to include fluff on the game, so players can get more immersed without needing to create an extensive background for themselves.

Meanwhile friendo thinks classes/occupations make the game feel like a video game or the like, which feels like an incredibly weak argument.

We also aren't calling out numbers in combat. I can't think of a better way to turn off normies from wanting to jump in, causing your scene to eventually wither and die

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>>50613074
classes isn't a must have, and there are a fuckton of ways that it can fuck up the game.

But to tell you the truth it's just a minor detail in the rule system, there are far more important things to decide which in turn will make it clear if you need a class system or not

>>50613107

On my phone, so I can't give you super informative replies, but we identified a few key points that needed tackling

>magic breaks immersion almost always
>dress code enforcement
>calling numbers out for combat appeals to very very few people
>pure pvp attracts fewer high quality participants than well done pure pve

Anything else of note?

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>>50613191
what is your target audiance?
what is the PURPOSE of the game?
what is the price range?
what kind of events do you guys want to run?
etc.

Also, dress code enforcement is only a good idea when it's a pure battle game or otherwise there is a strong in game hierarchy.

a well done pure pvp attracts just as much people a s well done pure pve.

Man Hungarian Larps look fucking cool. All of the American ones ive been to are full of fucking cancerous asshole "wizards", cronyism dicks and such the like.

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>>50613400
these aren't hungarian larps, it's just an image dump of various larp pics.

only these are from hungarian larps:
>>50611650
>>50611676
>>50612000
>>50612273

but I can post more hungarian larp pics if needed

>>50613074
I'm with your friend on this. But then again I'm used to the Scandinavian larp tradition.

How is it that eastern euros like warhammer (fantasy) so much? Not that it's a bad thing.

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>>50614020
probably because it has a more or less realistic setting. By that I mean that magic is not retarded overblown and a lot of factions are based on real european countries and historical things. Basically you can find NOTrussains, NOTgermans, NOTfrench, etc in it.

And it's not just eastern europe, it's pretty big in Germany too and a few french guys told me that there too

Seeing these pictures always gets me hot and bothered about playing but god the Eastern US is terrible for it. I have yet to find a group that is sizable where I dont have to shout numbers or have some big bat rather than a foam sword. I just want to be able to dress up and wack at each other with swords until someone dies rather than try and run around like its DnD

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>>50615415
don't worry, the whole US is shit larp-wise

>>50611559
That's fucking cool

>>50615415
Canada as well. Very disappointing.

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>>50615686
allegedly Canada has one or two decent game but nowdays I'm not that sure about that.

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>>50614462
Is that pic related?

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>>50616477
yes

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>>50612772
Peace through power?

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>>50616773
close but no

So, just throwing it out there, but what do LARP-fags think about the future of their hobby? With stuff like virtual and augmented reality on the horizon how do you think it will adapt?

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Lots of medieval fantasy itt. Nothing wrong with that, but larp is bigger than this.

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>>50617624
still a long way until it can be reliably used. But hi-tech stuff are already implemented in a lot of larps. Especially in the scifi larps, but pyrotechnics, LED stuff in robes, and whatevers are in the fantasy larps too.

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>>50617724

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>>50617724
>>50617751
>>50617773
really like those scifi armours

When it comes to systems in my area, and understanding that I really like the idea of beating the hell out of people, or alternatively just playing a role and doing social things in that role, no system needed, what should I pick?

>Dystopia Rising
>NERO
>Dagorhir
>Amtgard

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>>50617877
what you said is basically means you don't want to do larping, you want battle games.
That means Dagorhir and Amtgard.

>>50613191
PVP fix is a little hard unless you manage to find a way to restore all those people from combat. If healing is quick, and combat isn't necessary highly lethal, then it can be done without controlling everything. Or heck, go full Drachenfest and make it battles where you don't actually die for realsies IC. (That was DF, right?)

Dress code enforcement is hard and easy at the same time. Depends on the region and your starting players I'd say. Most likely players will resolve most costume issues through social pressure. It's how it work around here atleast.

Magic can be sweet, but I'm a fan of low-magic. So rituals, and maybe the slight enchantment or buff here and there. But when people want to conjure arcane storms and what have you you easily run into a what you see is what you get problem. Which breaks IMMERSHUN.

>>50617927
Fair enough. Maybe it's just because I've mostly done renfaire/HEMA stuff, which is kinda simulationist.

Combat is fun, but the roleplay is what really intrigues me, which is why I didn't just jump into my local Dag or Amt chapter immediately. Escapism, playing a character, and all that.

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Fuck your LARPing

It's all about Belegarth bitches

>>50618076
>That one dude with the little dagger and towershield

Ay lmao.

Also, I respect you and your poor life choices. But git fucked nurt, boffer tag a shit.

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>>50618036
well, dag and amt has little to no roleplaying. It's not nonexistent but it's not mandatory either.

I mean look at this guy for example >>50618076
He clearly doesn't like larpers and want to hit people with foam sticks. That's what those battle games are about. You will rarely see nice costumes there and mostly will encounter random guys in sweatpants and tshirt

>>50618117
In that case, I'll stick to my local German-HEMA school for smacking people around with swords 'n shiiiet. I'm an autist about costumes, and I'm working on something funky for the next renfaire.

Haha, I'd lose my shit if I put a shit-ton of effort into a costume and I end up next to some dude in a Sabaton tee and jeans.

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>>50618155
sadly that's more than likely to happen even on the US larps, but thats another matter.

I would say try reenactment but I don't think there are many serious reenactor groups there that isn't doing US history.

>>50618193
(Not the other anon)
How much RP-ing is there even in reenactment? Don't you basically have a script to follow, sorta?

>>50618221
Next to none, reenactment is far more focussed on actual historic value. So from learning people about your era, to learning things yourself by seeing, doing, and breathing the stuff from that time.

That, and just like with LARP, a whole lot of campfire drinking.

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>>50618221
well... it varies but usually little to none. There is usually no role play in the way that there are in larps.
People doesn't act a character. They do a social role (or not even that), and frequently step outside of that role when someone asks something from the civilians.

That said there ARE reenactor events when people want to get more into the roles and might even be a closed one so civilians aren't allowed.
There is even the term "reenlarpment" where reenactors or people with reenactor tier gear doing larp that is historically based. It's very rare but happenes sometimes

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Anybody else here checking the cool larp pics while working on their armour?
(Plz no hate on the paint job, it still needs work.)

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>>50618523
nah, I will repaint my armor maybe a month or so later. Also I already fixed up my doublet because there will be a local con tomorrow where we go to promote larping as usual

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There is very little in North America that is as intense as this. Sure, cosplay happens, but the level of coordination at a LARP seems ridiculous in comparison.

As far as community events goes, Europeans seem to do it the best. Oktoberfest, LARP, food festivals in France, that massive LAN in Iceland.

What's a good website where could I get a gambeson (I hope I got the term right) like the picture made.

>>50618523
"It's not thou" starts playing.

>>50618570
Yeh boi, all I'm working on now is getting a leather or the like bag for pipeweed aptly named "Gelukkige slag" which is Dutch for Lucky Strike.

>>50618559
Got a con myself tomorrow too, and still annoyed that Mytholon messed up and didn't sent in my arm armour in time. 8 Week delay, I'm just glad it's not for an actual event tho. Because I don't have puffy sleeves, but I do have puffy pants. My life would be Hell without that arm plate.

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>>50618566
technically speaking that's not a gambeson.
It's more like a doublet (or maybe a bastardized waffenrock), but kind of fantasy one that has deep roots with real stuff.
Anyway no shop sells anything like that as far as I know you might get better results with Etsy order it from someone who can sew things good.

>>50618618
well 8 weeks is no fun. I remember when calimacil sent our shipment of weapons to an around the word tour and crossed the ocean three times

>>50618644
... Did you atleast get some rare around the world stamps, and a set of groupies that followed your shipment on it's world tour?

>>50618664
nah, didn't worried about that. Plus they usually sent the stuff in plastic garbage bags. As good as their stuff is calimacil has a terrible costumer support

>>50618681
Tbh I don't even like Calimacil that much, they're kind overpriced compared some of the new Chinamen stuff. Got some nice companies from China that are now producing the same stuff, in basic series, for about 1/5th of the price.

Only problem is you gotta buy in sets of 50 or so.

>>50618713
I like calimacil because they are really durable. They worth their price in my eyes especially when you make it possible so that others can borrow it from you. I have several calimacil weapons and some of them went through a few houndred if not thousand people so far. Only managed to break one but that was refurbished anyway and another two refurbished got damaged during hema trainings. So I generally like them. If only they would sell again hybrid core weapons...

>>50618626
Thanks. I've been trying to find someone who can make it. But it's just hard finding someone who can or
is willing to do it.

You can have the money, but sewing skills are not as common as they used to be.

>>50618736
I feel you. I'm just glad with my current Chinamen Not!Calimacil stuff, legit the same quality. I own weapons of both, and it's really hard to tell the difference.
Time might tell though. But price-wise the Chinamen stuff cost me 35 euros for a 2-handed sword. That's a whole lot cheaper than Calimacil.

Are you buying Chinese armor and weapons from AliExpress?

>>50618764
you can find surprisingly good crafters at etsy. seen a velvet half cape a day ago which was surprisingly cheap (for a velvet cape) and good quality too

>>50618825
noone should do that. It's basically the same as the indian "armours" from ebay

>>50617484
heey i know that guy

he's a nice person

>>50618854
>It's basically the same as the indian "armours" from ebay

Funny thing, tho. The Indian mail is about the only way to get flat, riveted mail without paying extortionate prices. Even the German stores are charging $600+/shirt with a 3-6 month wait time. I can order an 8mm ID, flat-ring, riveted long-sleeve divided hauberk from India for ~$300 and free shipping, and have it here in a month, and it's not significantly different from my "good" mail at all.

It's hard to argue with that.

>>50615415
>I just want to be able to dress up and wack at each other with swords until someone dies
You and me both. I think it's a rather rare intersection though, being nerdy enough to play dress up but also athletic enough to want to really scrap with people.
>>50615758
Where? All the big ones I've heard of are of the silly DNDIRL variety.

>>50618302
I've seen those type of events. They're awful. They're usually full of insufferable Lindy types who don't know half as much as they think they do.

>>50611334
Oh yeah. Haven't had a home-board larpthread in ages.

What, if any larp/historic hobby winter holiday events are folks planning?

>>50611486
Great pic, it reminds me of the guards at the wedding scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

>>50611956
That looks nothing like Jon Tron.

>>50612153
I got more of this group somewhere...

>>50613074
>>50613107
>>50613191

This system some friends and I worked up just skips classes, but encourages specialization through practical function. No HP, no levels, no numbers. Combat is pretty brutal, and just like real life, is not always the best action, unless you have an advantage.

Sadly, with work/school/money for everyone, its been kinda put on permanent hiatus for now. PDF related if you wanna take a peek. Its short, and relies a lot on people putting effort into the game, which may not work with some groups.

>>50613400
*European

>>50615415
Where in the Eastern US? Our group is kinda dead, but we had great luck in a high-fidelity euro-ish larp. VA specifically.

>>50617624
Well, if people can't be assed to try to look less like shit now, they wont spend money on VR.

>>50617877
>>50618036
>I really like the idea of beating the hell out of people
Don't be that guy. Foam tag is foam tag, and the alpha nerd foam-jock thing is toxic and laughable. But >>50617927 is right.

>I've mostly done renfaire/HEMA stuff
Explain the connection between the two for me? Those are WAY different ends of the spectrum.

>>50618076
Eh. Once I adjusted to not being able to hit ya'll in the head, and the metatactics of the system, Belegarth fighting became kinda boring pretty quick. Nice folks in my area though.

>>50618155
Which school? Or is it just a group?

>>50618221
>>50618241
>>50618302
It depends: Reenactment, or Recreation? Reenactment is a specific place and time (Battle of Gettysburg, Siege of Guyvern etc) and if you are presenting a specific historic figure, you might roleplay what they said and did.

Recreation is a general time, and more fun in my opinion. Its a generalized place and time frame (1480-1500 Italy, Imperial Rome, etc) and is a social event recreating the life, skills and some of the happenings of the period. Depending on your group, this may be in-the-moment or not.

>>50618523
Its a start bro, just keep layering. Did you hit the steel with fine sandpaper and then a layer of primer first?

>>50618566
>There is very little in North America that is as intense as this.

SCA, but its not a larp, per-say. Medieval recreation social club.

>>50618951
>unny thing, tho. The Indian mail is about the only way to get flat, riveted mail without paying extortionate prices

Because they still use it, both for religious reasons (especially Sikhs) and for practical reasons, in tiger infested areas.

Fucking stainless, flat ring, riveted, full sleeve voiders for $200? FUCK YES.

>>50620334
Oh, lordy. I didn't mean to come off like that. I meant I enjoy the idea of systemless combat. No numbers, just foam bashing.

Mentioning Renfaire and HEMA was just another (poorly thought-out) way to drive that point home. No system, just full-on immersion/simulationist stuff.

And, since I'm also that other guy, it's just a group. I was able to find an apparently more established HEMA school that taught longsword training here in Texas, but I can't seem to get the finder on HEMA Alliance's page working again.

>>50620525
>HEMA is immersive simulation
Ok anon.

>>50620525
>HEMA
>Immersion/Simulationist
What?

>>50620334
>PDF related if you wanna take a peek

File limit reached. Was it the Lost Tales PDF?

>>50620673
>Hivemind

>>50620702
Yeah, sorry. I would propose a new thread, but the fact that we had this one without trolls is already pretty rare.

>>50620673
>>50620675
He's not really wrong. What else would you call it?

>>50620757
On the concept of Immersion, there is none. Its modern day people taking classes and sparing. There is nothing to immerse into, or to separate from the here and now.

As for simulation, HEMA/WMA etc is not really a simulation, as much as a practical application of research. They are simulating combat, but practicing out of training manuals in the method of a functioning martial art. They are not simulating real weapons, but accepting the fact that they are using training devices for the purpose of training. Its no more a simulation than a boxing class.

>>50620757
Except it is really wrong.
>he's
Nice backpedal. Here's your (you).

>>50620820
That's what a simulation is.
Besides its mostly just people playing pretend with metal bars. Even mediocre amateur fencers could wreck most HEMAfags in a match, and it doesn't resemble skirmish combat at all. I know there are exceptions, but they are exactly exceptions.

>>50620926
You are proving you have no idea what you are talking about here

>That's what a simulation is.

I don't think you quite get it, but I can't explain it better. Simulation is pretending. No one is pretending to do anything in HEMA. They are not simulating combat. They are not pretending to practice. They are actively practicing.

>Even mediocre amateur fencers could wreck most HEMAfags in a match

Yes and no. They have similar basics, but sport fencing is nothing like practical fencing, and I have regularly seen them expect a flick touch to end a match, and not be ready for people stepping off line, binding weapons, using cutting strikes, closing into A range, grappling, body strikes etc. They are similar, but nearly wholly unequatable to each other. Then there is also the difference between physical ability with sports fencers tending to be more athletic than the majority of HEMA practitioners, but thats not the argument.

>it doesn't resemble skirmish

Because its not a skirmish. Its based on one-on-one duels and self defense manuals.

>>50621044
If it was dueling it would be fencing, but it's not. It's just pretend sword fighting, on par with kids playing with sticks but with better props.
Seriously if you want to "duel" take up sabre fencing, if you want to fight get a switchblade and go visit your local parking garage or seedy club there's bound to be organized knife fights.

>>50621304
Are you fucking retarded, or just trolling?

>>50621304
>If it was dueling it would be fencing
>It's just pretend sword fighting
>Seriously if you want to "duel" take up sabre fencing

You do realize people have been having duels long before the sabre existed, and sport fencing is still pretend sword fighting, yes?

What do you think they dueled with, their peckers? Rapiers, longswords, spears, daggers, swords and bucklers....

>>50621397
He can't help being uneducated and/or retarded

>>50621397
I'm just a person who knows hows how to fence, and knows firsthand how retarded HEMAfags usually are. Most of it stems from them thinking of swords and knives and other weapons as toys, not things that can and actually are meant to inflict serious injury.

>>50621497
Not really subtle or nuanced, but I'll give you credit for putting your all into this half assed trolling. 6/10.

>>50621438
No they weren't. Those are just called fights.

Anyway yes modern sport fencing is pretend sword fighting, but it's derived from actual fencing. The difference is that while being an actual sport, nobody pretends they are some learned historical re-creationists or some other fantasy while doing it.
The reason I would recommend sabre btw is because of the scoring.

>>50621631
>No they weren't. Those are just called fights.

Please tell me you're not really this stupid. Please tell me you're just trolling. Seriously man, my day job is teaching military history and weapon technology, and I spend all day answering and correcting the masses on some mouth-breathingly retarded misconceptions.

I beg you, just admit for my sanity, that you're not really this stupid, and then we'll go back to our play argument.

>>50621719
Because sabre means sword see and it's use as such predates the word duel.
It's a bad joke I'll admit.

>>50621773
Duel is from the medieval latin duellum, from the classical buellum. The word "duel" first appears on record in the 11thC. As for sabre, to quote the thesaurus:

>1670-80; < French sabre, sable < German Sabel (now Säbel), earlier sewel, schebel < Polish szabla; compare Czech šavle, Serbo-Croatian sȁblja, Russian sáblya sword, saber, perhaps all ultimately < Hungarian szablya, though derivation and transmission uncertain

Thanks for admitting to the joke though. I legit had someone try to argue that America won the Revolutionary war because America invented volly fire and could throw tomahawks.

Back to our regular argument: You're a faggot.

>>50621896
yeah... I didn't think it through well. What i was going for was something about duels before blades were invented were fist fights or something...
How does man-children being really bad at fencing, or dueling or w/e, make me a faggot? If you look back you'll see an allusion to an actual experience of mine where I had to deal with a bunch of whiny incompetent faggots.

>>50621988
>How does man-children being really bad at fencing

Its just a big brush you're using, especially as fast as it growing in North America, attracting more and more serious practitioners and higher profile events, thus making the serriousness of health and conditioning improve overall in the community.

There will always be swordautist manchildren in WMA, just as there will always be noodly line fencers who think they are hot shit until they realize a rebated rapier weighs twice as much as their car antennae.

Stones, glass houses, etc.

>>50622090
>There will always be swordautist manchildren in WMA
There's two types from what I've seen. The ones who swing swords around like either baseball bats or golf clubs. Those are the always visible ones. Then there are the ones who spaz out and get mad when you keep on poking them and have fits about how you're not playing right. Those are the ones who made me realise I don't have patience for it at all.

And I am one of those noodly line fencers, even compared to other marginally good fencers, but christ, it's like HEMA doesnt teach that speed matters.

>>50622322
Both of those types simply do not last in the communities I have participated in. The baseball swingers either learn technique or get kicked out, and the spazzes either calm their tits or get kicked out.

As for "speed doesn't matter", it doesn't, if you cant manage to generate the force needed, or can't hit the target. Speed comes after technique. Again, just touching the target is not good enough. It sounds like your group sucks.

The problem with HEMA, is that we don't have a large unified, impartial community yet. Too many alpha nerds like Clements thinking that they are the best(tm) and all others should suck his dick, when he is not really that skilled at all.

>>50622484
>Too many alpha nerds...
I'm actually pretty sure that's what I was dealing with, but it was enough to put me off. There's not a lot to choose from where I am and there likely won't be for a long time. No fencing anywhere close and it's way too expensive anyway, and the only martial arts place is a karate mcdojo. So just drunk fights with friends for now I guess.

>>50618436
Dat cold sore though...

>>50622973

...that is not at all what you think it is. Look at her armor around her left armpit, and ponder the fact that scale armor edges are very often quite sharp.

>>50622741
>Alpha nerds

Holy shit is that a pet peeve of mine, keeping it LARP related though. The dipshits that think they're hot shit at LARP because they've either done HEMA, or one of those Krav Maga classes where they don't actually teach any fighting. Just some loose fantasy techniques that they can't implement.
It's so annoying to have some scrawny nerd act like they're hot shit because they're the toughest guy in their group.
People don't even act like that at rugby or boxing for most of the time, because it's plain annoying.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, 'ALPHA' NERDS GIT OUT.

... Right, that's off my chest. So who's got what event this weekend?

>>50625273

OK, so at what point can a person genuinely feel proud of their abilities?

We've got a guy (whom, I hasten to add, is NOT me) locally who's actually kind of badass. Army combat vet with a CIB, former jouster, runs his own HEMA studio (German longsword mostly; I take classes there), teaches combat shooting to a couple local SWAT units and generally runs their OPFOR, does a bit of stage combat and stunt work on the side, and I've watched him dismantle two guys hand-to-hand at the same time when he's all of 5'7" and maybe 160 lbs (situation was a long story, don't ask). And yeah, he's a huge nerd and he larped around here since the late 1990s before getting driven out of the community by the guys making a NERO replacement larp.

He's not a braggart that I've ever seen, but you aren't seriously suggesting that if he's giving an honest assessment of what he can do, he'd be in the wrong because REEEE Alpha Nerd? Because some people actually are badasses, even when they're on the internet.

>>50615392
What is that helmet called?

>>50627646
That's a painted modern military helmet.

>>50627951
Ah, I thought so, seems remarkably similar to a German Stahlhelm but rounder
Do you know what country it is from?

>>50612209
That's one pretty fat Commissar.

>>50623199
>No hat, sash or great coat
>Big fucking =I= on shoulder
>Commissar

You are not the Emperor's finest, aren't you?

>>50629095

Well, I can at least quote the right person, so there's that.

>>50611789
Those are just average Finnish people, not larpers

>>50619359
>>50615758
secondong this where
my current Canadian game is number yelling garbage, can't find anything better though

>>50631281
>>50631281

Nothing better exists on the North American continent, and nothing better will ever exist. There is no hope.

>>50631789
I would actually argue the opposite
While the quality of larps here in the west is lower, its quite newer
I can only speak in anecdotal evidence but my current game is getting better in leagues. Lots of new players, all with terrific costumes and eager to roleplay. While the rules are pretty garbage (the larp is almost 20 years old), and there are quite a few vets with shitty costumes, Im hopeful that the newbies will improve the game

Side note, making scale mail is actually fun, although kinda tedious

>>50616341
So that's what Wishbone has been up to

>>50631925
I've noticed the same in my game. It's got some holdovers from the older number-heavy systems, but it's at least lighter on numbers than they were. And I'm helping some guys from my area playtest a system they're working on that's going to be devoid of damage calls entirely. We've got good things ahead as long as we don't succumb to myopia.

Wow, I fucked that up. Take 2.

>>50631925

Since we're at the image limit, I can't answer in the way I'd like. So I uploaded this for you as my answer.

http://i.imgur.com/p2VZUmw.png

Yes, this happened to me. I was asked to not wear costuming because it was "too nice" and "hurt new player feelings".

>>50631971
Thats awesome!
I'd love to play more games with no/low amounts of calls
Canada?

>>50631998
What the actual fuck. Its a nice costume, but its simple as hell. Just tunic, chain, leather belt. Anyone can do that. Fuck, name and shame that larp?
I like the sword a lot. Where did you get it?

>>50632065
Sadly, no. US East Coast.

>>50632065

Name of the larp is the one watermarked on the bottom of the image.

And remember, my garb is being compared against the costuming in the left-hand image. THAT is the "normal" costuming standard for every larp within 300 miles of Cincinnati (from here to Chicago).

>its simple as hell

Viking costuming generally *is* simple, though. You can't see the embroidery on the sides of the leggings. Also, everything is period materials; no synthetics. Flat, riveted mail - not butted (I got it 2 days before the event and didn't have time to leather-edge it).

And it's this sword:

http://www.museumreplicas.com/p-701-viking-raider-sword-latex.aspx

>>50632289
If I sounded like I was insulting you by saying simple, that wasn't what I meant. I meant it more along the lines that it looks great, in period, and I'm surprised thats what got called. I was expecting like ornate plate armor or something along those lines.

>>50632423

No worries. I'm involved in some fairly emotional discussion in other mediums (an actor was fucking around and put another actor's front teeth out with a sword, and is trying to argue he should keep his job, while as the choreographer I want his irresponsible ass gone), so I was likely a bit prickly. Mea culpa.

Good luck, and I do hope you can find a non-shit larp somewhere on this continent.

>>50611418
Man I hope they don't have ranged weapons in that LARP

talk about a shot trap

I've seen a lot of pieces of paper attached to breastplates with what looks like a wax seal.

How would you make one of those? I was thinking a magnet with a real wax or plastic seal covering.

Also what are they?

>>50636354
They are called "Purity seals"
They are popularized by a little indie game called warhammer from the uk

I made mine with cloth and real wax. I just literally sealed them onto my armor
You could do it with anything
One of my battle brothers does it with a safety pin embedded into the seal (he attaches it to his robes)
Magnets should work as long as your armor is ferromagnetic

>>50636415
huh, was wondering why it showed up so often. I was guessing it was something to do with the pope and crusades

Figured they were like pilgrimage badges

>>50616336
Is...is that a Mythosaur skull on her shield?

Not sure if that's awesome or oddly out of place.

>>50632289
Oh shit, I've NPCed at that LARP before. Does it really not get any better around here? I was kind of hoping that I just ended up at a particularly bad one.

>>50636855
Looks like.
I mean, tehcnically they were hunted by the mandos when they wielded nothing more then axes and and shields.
Personally, its a fun shoutout thats not crazy world breaking

>>50637077

Dystopia Rising has - in theory - better costuming, simply because it's a "day after tomorrow"-style post-zombie apocalypse larp. So people just mostly wear regular clothes. I haven't seen any good photos of the local chapter, and they banned me before I ever attended a game, so I haven't seen it in person.

To a point, it's the same thing with Wastelands (an airsoft/nerf/boffer larp); it's a 200-years-from-now post-apoc larp, so again, people just mostly wear thrift store finds. My PC raided one of the national guard storehouses on the edge of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Crater during my first game, and so I tend towards a slightly more milsim look. And, again, I have one of - if not the most - complete costumes on-site. Plenty of people just wear t-shirts, jeans, and a couple of cheap holsters and a Mosin-Nagant ammo pouch.

>related:
http://imgur.com/K08suom

But as for fantasy larps? Yeah, CASTLE *actually is* about the best-costumed fantasy larp in the area. And if you try to make them improve anything, you're written off as an "elitist" and generally made unwelcome. Let that sink in a moment. They're the best-costumed fantasy larp I played in over 18 years, trying pretty much every game I heard of within 300 miles of Cincinnati. And that's their standard. Think about all the stuff then which is *worse*.

>>50637693
Why were you banned before you played?

I what's the /tg/ opinion on airsoft LARPs? Since the combat is the usual airsoft fare, the weight comes down on the healing rules and quality of roleplay. I went to Milsim West's first Insurgency event back in November in California and it was an absolute blast. Despite being the first roleplay-focused event they've done (normally they do 40 hour continuous force-on-force events), the players really came out since some set up a casino, a nightclub, a cafe, and a British pub, all out of pocket. I'd post pictures but the image limit has been taken up, sadly. Instead, have a video of the election that took place as part of the course of the game. Despite things turning to mostly force on force in the latter third, the RP did not die down. The casino and nightclub operated straight through to the end, including combat.

https://youtu.be/2dD8ZWDQRrc

Things went so well I'll be taking a group of anons from /asp/ to the insurgency event they're doing in Virginia in April.

>>50637729

Because I teach fighting and things professionally. I run a stage combat company, used to joust, and I do a bit of pistol and 3-gun instruction.

So the owner of DR heard I and my sparring partner (he used to post here in larpthreads as Pseudo American Larpfag if you care to trawl archives) could do these things, and he banned us both on safety grounds. See, he was concerned that PALF or I would "lose our temper and hurt somebody for real", and, "since you have that training you could revert to muscle memory and hurt somebody during a boffer fight".

IMO, the actual reason is because at NERO Cincy (which turned into CASTLE), he was one of the "I wear sweatpants and a tabard as a costume and make fun of anybody who wears more, I buy XP for my character so I'm the bestest fighter, and I use a dicksword made of tape and exposed kite spar that I passed through weapon tests myself and nobody else is allowed to tell me it doesn't meet weapon safety standards" kind of people. PALF and I pretty much relentlessly mocked him to the point he took a swing at me. While I was wearing my old jousting fullplate. Which may or may not have broken his knuckles.

So yeah. It's basically petty revenge and larp-drama. This is why I'm VERY glad I play Wastelands, because the owner is cool, the plot guys are cool (if lazy), and the players are generally cool except for one guy in the whole PC population, and I can live with that.

>And volunteer to NPC and shoot him in the dick with airsoft when he gets on my nerves.

>>50617624
Augmented reality in larping? Well consider there is an Ingress/PokemonGo engine that is open to indy development called gometa.io and there is an AR network based around facial recognition to activate profiles, Blippar. So you could do something cool with those things, but any solution or utility needs to be well designed and I don't think anyone has built anything like that yet.

>>50617624
I think with the rise of Airsoft and upstream Airsoft event companies like Milsim West pushing into the field, we'll see a whole lot more modern LARP stuff in the US since a good set of boffers costs about as much as airsoft kit, but costume can cost as much or little as you want depending what sort of faction you attend as. Since it's not just people who both like D&D and lack the shame of wearing a robe and a wizard hat in public, it'll provide a wider audience than standard fantasy LARP could provide.

>Go LARPing for the first time thinking it's gonna be some ultra super fun activity like the one portrayed in Role Models.
>Think I'm going to join a bunch of make-believe dudes with plastic swords into glorious (but harmless and thus very fun) medieval combat
>Picture all of the fun shit I'm gonna be doing, like end up being the best swordsman in the kingdom or something.
>Get there
>It turns out to be NOTHING like role models
>Its actually some extremely limited shit with a fuckload of /NOFUN/ rules
>Every round is like 1 minute long

I was pretty fucking dissapointed

got back from the local con, probably I will start a new thread later. I will answer the questions when I have the mind

>>50637859
Don't get me wrong, Dystopia Rising is a shit game with a click community

But the home game is in New Jersey and the owner is from CT, not ohio

>>50619359
>>50631281
Well, I heard good things about Bico, but in the last year the news weren't that good, hence why I said I'm not so sure about it.

>>50637796
>I what's the /tg/ opinion on airsoft LARPs?
I don't know about /tg/ but I have mostly good experience with airsoft larps. When it was actually a larp, not just airosft with a few extra stuff.

>>50640518

He said his local game, not the national owner, mate.

>>50639322
>Every round is like 1 minute long
>round
>LARP
>ROUND

What the shit?

>>50615415

Dystopia Rising was kinda okay. Better than that Realms shit.

Has anyone here heard of Realms? Am I alone in this?

Dudes are so elitist it's disgusting lmao. Every time I see all these fantastic pics of Euro larps, I get so so jealous.

>>50642014
D&D has rounds, and LARP is D&D in real life ergo LARP must have rounds!

>>50642175
Nothing about american LARPs can surprise me anymore.

>tfw stuck in southeast US and want to larp
>Not sure if better off with SCA or what

Good night, dear LARP thread. Thanks for the memories.