Plain old larp thread as we used to have them. Mostly with pic

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fun fact is that before the game there was a pretty big rainstorm. Worst one in several weeks.
So lot of tents ended up flooded, and there was mud everywhere.
Cars and other things also got stuck in the mud and at one point there was so much water we had to dig little canals. as damage control

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or really we can call it moats

Cool shit, any advice one where an American would buy a decent costume to get started with? The amtgard fucks around where I live go in a tabard, jeans and boots.

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>>54942331
well if you want to buy stuff there is always mytholon, wyvern and the other big larpshops, but also etsy if you sepnd time on search for it.
If you feel that you can make your own stuff then you can search on google for medieval tailors assistant

>>54942094

>the quality of this armor
>I feel sick
>at least cover your straps

>>54939328
>these boots
Can't they use their normal boots?

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>>54943376
some people did that. Their smile weren't sincere

>>54943054
The quality of the armor make it look pretty cool.

>>54939102
Neo/tg/ is filled with faggots that doesn't think larping is /tg/. Its a shame we don't see you and Gropey_the_clown with these threads as often.

>>54943603
Is gropey still about? Haven't seen him post in over a year.

>>54943668
he pops up in warhammer fantasy general from time to time.
/tg/ needs more warhammer fantasy stuff.

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>>54943603
every once in a while I make a thread and while there are still people who are interested and it's totally worth to do it sometimes the thread just dies because there is no one to comment on it.
It's kind of sad when you compare it to several years ago when we burned through 3 threads in one day because there were so much stuff to say and argue about.

>>54943701
What happened? Drama or just the inevitable death of an internet community?
I never did LARP so rarely participated but you guys always had interesting stories and pictures to share so I would pop in every now and then.

>>54943668
He still occasionally shows up in the /whfg/ threads, and in historic inspo fashion threads on /cgl/. Last I heard is that his IRL job and some family issue has monopolized his time.

>>54943740
Newfags happened. Name/tripfaggotry is near necessity for LARPthread, and the very offline-centered interaction made neckbeard newfags scared, so they would shit up the thread just because.

>>54941377
Oh I must know what's going on here.

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>>54943740
two things happened simultaneously I think.
First and foremost: a great deal of larpers who were frequent on /tg/ dissapeared.
This is for various reasons. Some got fed up with larping because drama in their own community, some didn't had time for it anymore, others got other hobbies or families or just simply grow out of it. None of these are really /tg/ related, the demography shifted and the rest of the fa/tg/uys weren't as interested in larp threads anymore. (you could add that in the US parts larp became a term for "acting as XY")
The second thing is that we started to have simultaneous larp threads at /cgl/ too because they were also interested and that board is waaaaaay slower so a thread stays up for weeks.
Then as people got less and less interested on /tg/ the larpthreads became more and more of a /cgl/ thing. Which is a shame because the seagulls just simply not the same as the fech/tg/uys, differnet board culture and all.

Anyway, there aren't many namefags left either. Gropalope barle has time to live, even less to post on a mongolian origamy cavepainting site, and the rest are either dropped their namefagging or just disappeared with the rest

>>54943701
I think it also might have to do with the fact that LARPing is a niche interest within /tg/ to begin with, coupled with the fact that the highly detailed LARP experience that you are familiar with isn't particularly common in America which really limits the amount of people you're going to have discussing LARP. You'll probably see more discussion when there is a good deal of time between threads, as people will have new stories and pictures and more people who are unfamiliar with LARPing asking questions.

If you've got any pics from a non-fantasy LARP, something like Stalker or post-apoc, with a focus on realism, or at least verisimilitude, you could always try starting a thread on /k/ and see how that plays out.

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>>54943884
just everyday life in the landsknecht camp

>>54943810
nah, I mean, there were ALWAYS flaming faggots in larpthreads. first we had the "you are all pussies not playing hard enough" either buy self declaired experts on every martial arts ever of the scadian fags. Then there was the US vs Euro hostility. And of course there were always people who called this a losers hobby or childish or whatever the fuck was that weeks popular slur.
It happened all the time, and if anything nowdays we have less hostility toward larpthreads than before.

It's just simply there is also less of us so the ratios are a little different.

>>54943942
At the very least, its civil so far. If you talk to Gropes off 4chan, tell him I hope he's not dead.

>>54944019
back in the time we always had a lot of people from all over the word in the larpthreads. swedish, danish, finn larpers, bulgarians, croatians, german, british, scottish, etc.
I'm well aware that the time when I stat the thread is a critical factor because of the timezones, but we lack the european larpers too.

And yeah, it's way too different in the US, but that never really stopped larp threads before.

>you could always try starting a thread on /k/ and see how that plays out.
I see no way that this carefully laid out plan could ever go wrong. I mean seriously, have you been on /k/ lately? I realize that now they don't instantly burn the anons who mention airsoft but it's still a little less than pleasant conversation. Try to mention larp to them and they will totally lose their shit.

Once or twice I started threads there but even the milsims that have actual APCs and helicopters in them had dubious success.

>>54944103
he isn't, posted on the cgl thread a few days ago, although mostly about that he doesn't have time

>>54944140
Part of the issue with milsims and airsoft on /k/ is the high number of actual vets on /k/ and the generally terrible attitude some members of the milsim and airsoft community have out their hobby. I really reminds me of the shit your hear out the SCA sometimes. I specifically mentioned Stalker because a large portion of /k/ wishes nothing more than to be trudging around a highly dangerous and radioactive area decked out head to toe in Combloc surplus.

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>>54944333
well, there aren't many good stalker larps out there. A little more good fallout ones but what they would really like is the wasteland weekend or whatever it is called which isn't really a larp so not my plate.

Anyway the postapoc larps I know is either has the same problems as the airsoft/milsim games has from the viewpoint of /k/ or they are done with nerf guns or similar stuff which goes even harder in the toy category in the eyes of a /k/ommando.

It's hard enough to do arms and armour threads there especially that the average /k/unt is way more autistic when it comes to medieval weapons than the average fa/tg/uy

Went to a LARP last year (Kandorya) and it was pretty cool but a bit cheap at times.
Is it worth really going into now, or is the community dying IRL aswell?

>>54944459
Incompetent, not autistic.

>>54944497
I LARPed a bit around 2007-2009 and I think that due to the time and resource intensive nature of LARPing it's a hobby that ebbs and flows with how well the economy is doing.

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>>54944554
>Incompetent, not autistic.
let's agree that they are both

>>54944497
no idea about it but I met several french larpers on drachenfest, so there is a chance that their community isn't dying

>>54944630
>so there is a chance that their community isn't dying
Don't really care if it's French or English, but I was more asking about the general community.

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>>54944668
larping?
Fuck no it isn't dying. Beforehand I was talking about the larpers who go on 4chan.
larpers all over the world? They are good and thriving. There are way more resources aviable, more information on how to make stuff, better and cheaper stuff that they can buy, larp shops comming up with new ways to make stuff.

Well, that is as long as you live in Europe. the US has slight improvement but not much

>>54944735
>US has slight improvement but not much

Why not? What's the US doing that's wrong?

Potential US based larper here.

>>54944908
Not him but US LARPs look ridiculous, looks like no effort is put into the costumes, most of the weapons are buffers and it's mostly fighting.
At least you have Canada not that far away.

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>>54944908
short answer?
Everything

>>54944945
>At least you have Canada not that far away.

Well, I'm in the Florida panhandle, so it kind of >is< that far away. 1200 miles or thereabouts to Toronto. About as far as Berlin to Madrid.

>>54944955

I don't want to be a bother, but can you be more specific than that? How do I know what to fix otherwise?

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>>54945000
oh boy, give me a minute to gather my thought.

The problem is complex and I doesn't even want to pretend that I know all of it as I never been in the US, nor do I know how to solve it apart from nuke the site from orbit and start from zero.

I will say this beforehand: the problem is complex and there is no single cause of it. People always try to point at X or Y and say, "yeah, that's the problem, only if that would be different..." but sadly, no. the US larping community has a fuckton of problem and even if you solve one the rest will remain.

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>>54945191
As a start, two things: first that one could write several books about this and still not finished with the subject, secondly it's past 2 am here so don't expect too much consistency after the fifth or so post

The problems will be in no order apart who they come up in my head. Not all problems has the same gravity, some are smaller some are bigger. Also there ARE good larps in the US but those are the minority and the rest larps and larpers make too much harm.

So as to where to begin...
The legacy, the beginnings.
The US larp scene started from people who wanted to play DnD in real life. huge majority of larps (I doesn't count amtgard and the likes among larps, about that later) came from these roots and some are still at that level.
So they wanted to play DnD in real life but they didn't realized it's a different medium so they tried to use the tabletop rules. Even this day a fuckton of games try to be as much like the tabletop as it is possible. Calling out damage, several different types of damage, skills that try to represent things that cannot be really represented. It's just one step away from getting out the dice and roll for that damage.
Worst offender is Nero and it's clones.

When you make a larp you have to realize it IS a larp and not a tabletop game. You have to make rules that works well within this constraints, and you shouldn't try to enforc things that are hard to represent in the real life. Everyone wants to ts basically a used sock and someone yelling "SEVEN FIRE!!!" that really isn't helping immersion.

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>>54945430
next thing: Culture
This contains a lot of things.

First and foremost, in the US, it is shameful to larp. You have to give excuses you have to explain yourself if you don't want to be seen as some retard or idiot or manchildren or whatever.
It is looked down hard. This brings a whole cartload of bullshit. One of them that people felt the need to make it "manly" so they will have an excuse to larp or they can explain it this way. This is one of the reasons why so much of the larps there is fight oriented (that and old DnD's dungeon crawl mindset) and why there is so much shitty battlegames. People also try to one-up each other and go deeper in the bullshit.
"Ohh, this is a FULL CONTACT larp! We fight for real" saying that with an oversized dildozer the guy which has troubles hitting the largest part of a barn.
"Ohh, this is a high-energy larp" I shit you not someone said this to me. I immidietly asked if they are larping as the large hadron collider or as the particle streams.

And this is another cultural problem, you guys make up new and slightly funny but bullshit words for every. fucking. thing. It's like US larpers try to shit the spanish wax 24/7 and try to sell it as some world changing invention, when in reality the difference is instead of red used socks now slightly dirty brown socks is representing a throwing packet and it's called differently.

Lawsuits and the triggerhappines to sue the everloving shit from your fellow human beings. Seriously, what the actual fuck? This makes organizers vary and they doesn't want to make big larps because they fear some idiot come and sue them for some banal shit. It's in the TOP 5 excuses about why US larps suck.

"lack of history" that's another one in the TOP 5 excuses. There are no good US larps because the lack of history, the US never had proper castles and knights and whatnot. Contrary to Canada who is just doing fine, It's not the lack of history. It's the lack of education about history....

>>54945430
>>54945591

I appreciate this, thank you. If you're going to bed, I probably won't have time to work a meaningful response to it all, but I really do thank you for this. I never even considered almost any of it.

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>>54945591
I mean seriously, there are people out there who think, without sarcasm, that people in europe are better at larping because half a millenia ago some dudes in armor bashed at other dudes in armour, all of this is in general vicinity of roughly 2000 km of said larpers. Give or take a 100 years to the half millenia.

Another cultural thing: lack of effort. No effort. Seriously. I know I might overuse this but it's so painful to watch. It boils down to the shamfeul thing. It's shamfeul to larp, but there is one thing that is even more shameful: putting a lot of effort into larping (or basically into any hobby that isn't "manly") Even know that being a "nerd" is "popular" if you spend too much time to do stuff for larp you will be a weirdo n the eyes of others.
And I have no idea why the larpers care about this or why the other people give a flying fuck what others do. It's completely beyond me why would you care what your neighbor (or anyone who isn't your close friend for that matter) does as long as it's not sound related.

Here is another interesting one that basically comes from the cultural things: Remember how I said that some people try to upscale the manliness of larping? The "we hit really hard!!!" people? because of the lawsuits and stuff like that there are the opposites too. Softest touch to even no touch. There are live action games where you barely even allowed to touch the other guy with your weapon otherwise you are a brute and banned from the game.

This brings me to another interesting problem that comes from the beforemnetioned cultural problems

>>54945789
>that people in europe are better at larping because half a millenia ago some dudes in armor bashed at other dudes in armour,
The fact that the US is 300years old is indeed a factor, that's why there are much more civil-war era LARPs there.
Canada has a huge French/English background, and still relies on it.

What's the atmosphere like when you are LARPing?

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>>54945766
Ohh, I just got started, and sleep is overrated anyway. If I start rambling I do it properly.

>>54945834
and the US has no French/English background? Or Spanish.
And there are a fuckton of civil war era reenactors but not so many larpers. Not the same.

>>54945789
so another interesting problem.
I mentioned that it's shameful to larp in the US. this means a lot of "average" people won't do it if there isn't anything that brings them in. Be it their friends, or some kind of TV show, or the legend that now there you will TOTALLY bone chicks because you only need to be there and it will instantly happen. Read it on the internet so must be true.

So who will play? those who have nothing to lose or pretty close to it. THAT GUYS and THAT GIRLS. While in other countries they also play because why the fuck not, but in the US the lack of averages joes in larping tips the balance. lot of retard gets way too much highlight, and even organizes games. The whole community's idiot to sane ratio is screwed and at some point it was even self generating and got even more and bigger assholes and autist into the hobby.
I admit that it seems at least this got a little better, but the fundamental problem is still there: the community leaders and opinion leaders are full with people who you wouldn't trust a wet match even less a kid. So when new guys join they see what is around them, think it's normal and try to assimilate.

Anyway, enough of the cultural shitposting, I'll get back to other problems

>>54945959
>and the US has no French/English background? Or Spanish.
For the French, only in the south east, and they broke from England. It wouldn't be honest to say that the US' culture relies on their European heritage. They may say they have some Irish blood here and there, but they still consider themselves Americans, above all.

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>>54945951
roughly 1013,25 hPa, but depends on the weather.

>>54946089
And I consider myself hungarian and yet play a lot of characters that have german influance before the time when hungary and germany were buddies.
In sweden the german like characters also slightly popular thanks to warhammer fantasy. Not because history. It's not in the DNA.

>>54945959
so now that we looked at a few cultural problems (not all of them) there are other things that must be addressed (but because it's the people who are playing it will come as no surprise that you can point at cultural things as part of these problems)

There are little to no larpshops there. That's not unique, most eastern european countries has this problem too. But calimacil is a spit away but for various reasons until recently that wasn't good enough for the US larpers.

Because of this the weapons are mostly home made ones which is okay, because as I said a lot of other countries had this problem. The difference is the lack of effort thing.
So 90% of US larps have dickswords. Or even ultralight dickswords which is such an abomination that I would shoot the person who invented it into the Danube if I would had the chance. Basically a lot of larps there enforc the rules of dickswords saying it's for safety, when there is nothing that proves that home made boffers are safer than factory made latex weapons or even home made latex weapons, or injected foam weapons and I could go on. Let's not start on fiberglass core...

I already mentioned the rules but have to do it again because they are so shit. Lots of US organizers simply cannot think in a rules system. if there is a problem they add a rule to "fix" it, instead of looking at the problem, what causes it and might change or take away rules.

Also, so much safety rules that it kills the game. At some game, I shit you not, you had to pad the horns of the bows with foam, remove the string and throw spell packets instead of shooting arrows...

>>54946243
is that you?

>>54946346
nah, I can't grow a proper facial hair for shit.
I'm the one with the allegedly vomit inducting armor here because according to anon every armor must be shiny >>54942094


>>54946243
Then there are recently the SJWs who want to make sure EVERYONE can play. Literally fucking everyone. Call me an asshole but this is a problem, and I'm not talking only about the fatmobile guys who really shouldn't be in a battle game.
People fail to realize that if you make a game you have to make it for a specific target audience to make it the most enjoyable to those guys. If you try to please everyone you end up pleasing no one. This is such a basic concept and yet people forgetting it.

The next one will be strange as it will sound good but in fact is a huge problem:
US larps tend to be held several times a year. Once a month or bi monthly is a usual thing but once a week or bi weekly isn't unusual either.
You would say that's good because more games for the players, what's not to like about it.
The problem is resource management.
You simply can't do it in the long run and keep it interesting, also the players can't gather their money to make good new stuff ither if they have to pay every month the entry fee to be at the larp.

Another thing is that "one shot" larps isn't really a thing in the US. Every larp MUST BE one where you can continue your character and make a life path with it. This also makes permadeath a big boogey man and virtually excluded from most games.

Other places with a few exceptions (which usually have a fuckton of resource to do it) the games of one specific larp is once or just a few times a year. But you can go to other games with different characters, different rules and different setting to play.

And this brings us to yet another interesting problem

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>>54946437
So, people want to go to all of their chosen game's event because of the sweet XP. Also the community is really close knit but aren't really supportive to make new larps.
This means you will have usually one or two larps at best in travelling distance. And because of the frequency of the games and because it's continual it really doesn't worth it to travel farther away.
So you have one game that's YOUR game, people will start to identify themselves in the community as to which game are they going.

This also presents the problem of they never trying completely different systems or organizers or player base. It will be mostly the same old shit again and again. There is little to none experience from outside of this bubble. This way games can became stale.
And this is especially a problem for game organizers. If you are a game organizer who never been to a larp that wasn't "yours" you are doing something wrong. Really wrong.

Now just add the usual nerd hostility. Think about edition wars level of hostility. This is a sure way to isolate gaming groups. I don't know how to point out that this is really fucking bad. This is not good in the way that a horsedick is not a flute

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>>54946574
Alright it's 4am and I think I start to get a little tired. Grammar starts failing and whatnot.
So any questions so far or anyone wants to point out how am I a gigantic faggot and also wrong?

>>54946606
>anyone wants to point out how am I a gigantic faggot and also wrong?

Yes to the first.

Not at all to the second.

>I got your PM, btw. Did larp haven report your old account for hate speech or something?

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>>54946717
nah, I was banned from larp haven years ago because of hate speech. They no longer remeber that I exist probably.
It's more banal, facebook has a problem with my account name, and when I sent them a photo of my ID card they refused to talk to me anymore. Or to be more precise simply not answering, but in the meantime account is suspended so I doesn't even know what the fuck is their problem

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Ohh yeah, boys and girls, ask NEA >>54946717 here
about what's the problem with the US larping scene, he has more first hand experience with the problem than most of us while also tried to do more for improving it than most of us here.

>>54944140
>he doesn't have time

Bullshit. He's a friendless nerd like everyone on /tg/. He should be here to entertain us on demand of this Korean pteroglyph swapmeet website.

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off to sleep now, if the thread is here in the morning I will continue

>>54945591
Fuck you faggot. Civil War re-enactment and 16th century Living History LARPers are a thing in the U.S. They just don't post on TG. If some fa/tg/uy wants to dress like a 16th century American homesteader and go camping on the weekend with like minded folks they can certainly do that, so don't be such a Eurofag and pretend like the U.S. has no history or culture.

>>54946606
You're a moderately sized faggot at worst. A fair number of your complaints are essentially you complaining that Americans do things different and that it isn't to your tastes. The only points that you make that are on the nose are the insular "bubble" of games and the stigma of larping.

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>>54947376
>you make that are on the nose

A lawsuit-happy culture killing fun things, and an institutional resistance to improving ANYTHING if it involves time/effort are also points HLF makes which are on the nose as well.

Up to and including games which make you remove a costume and/or go home and change because your garb is making new players feel bad about their garb. Or games which ban you from wearing armor because "helms aren't safe", or games which tell you that you aren't welcome there wearing a *real* plate harness because you can't tell a newbie that they can get armor just like yours by spending <$50 or <10 hours of work (pic extremely related; that's my light rig).

Sure, there's some opinion and "your game isn't like my game and that's bad" in there. I larped regularly and nationwide from 1997-2014, and have larped purely locally since then. Based on my experience, HLF's complaints are far more right than wrong. By and large (as in, "not totally, but mostly"), American larps ARE cancer, and American larpers DO suck. There isn't enough of a movement to change that in anything but tiny regional pockets, and there won't be for a decade+.

>>54947698
>American larps ARE cancer
My larping experience is rather limited compared to yours, but unfortunately a lot of the negative descriptions and complaints are legitimate from what I was able to see and experience firsthand and from what I've heard from a few friends who've done it longer.

>>54947822
>>54947698

Why is your country so shit at everything?

>>54947698
>Up to and including games which make you remove a costume and/or go home and change because your garb is making new players feel bad about their garb.

Please tell me that this is a hyperbole.

>>54942962
>dat guy with the etched armor
damn that looks cool

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>>54947260
well, I can admit if I'm wrong. care to show examples?

>>54947376
the problem isn't at things being dierent. The problem is that they are different and clearly a bad influence.
The many events a year thing CAN be done right. But you need way more resource and US organizers already crying that they don't have enough, and yet forcing this

Battlegames CAN be done right. But if you doing it in the parks all the time with minimal effort and call it a larp all the fucking time then it's obviousl that you aren't working on the strenghts of the genre

Complex HP systems and dungeon crawl like larps CAN be done right. But as I said you have to realize this is a different medium and work on the strenghts of that, not enforce tabletop game mentality.

The list goes on...

>>54948682
it is not

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>>54948682

It is not.

Pic EXTREMELY FUCKING RELATED

>>54953754
Does that happens in Europe?

>>54953785
You mean the "Too Nice To be allowed"? No, never saw it, every Convention I've went to looked almost as good as on the right side.
But I saw on /r/larp some american larp groups that advertised their instagram.
Normally I expect people to upload their best photos and costumes on there.
I'd be ashamed to go to a convention dressed like these people.

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>>54953785
Never heard of it.

>>54953863
*almost as good or generally on that level.

>>54944735
US larping is more focused on the revolutionary/civil war or the colonial era

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>>54953785

From what I understand, no it does not.

AFAIK, banning people's garb because "it hurts other people's feelings" is a strictly US-based phenomenon. So when people even bother to create garb instead of just playing in medical scrubs and paisley accessories, there's intense pressure not to make it TOO nice.

From what I've been told about Europe, it's more of a friendly competition to see who can have more awesome garb. Which is what produces a whole lot of people who look as nice as they do in the pics HLF is posting.

>>54954019
This is disgusting.

Another thing to note that there are less obese people in continental europe, which makes the whole game more immersive.

>>54953961
As I said to the other anon, I'm interested in examples becasue this is the first time someone mentiones to me civil war era larps in the us that aren't actually reenactment events

>>54954019
well, the competition isn't friendly all the time, and we also have our shitlords who cry the loudest that everyone is an elitist who spends a lot of money on larping.
They are mostly ignored, or laughed upon because there are so much examples to prove them wrong

>>54939102
Thanks for the pic dump. I always enjoy seeing these nice costumes.

>>54954142
http://txcwcivilian.org/looking-the-part/general-information/

Larping in the US is called living history and group period accuracy can range from modern glasses are acceptable to you should be ashamed for using machine cut pine that isn't local to build that table.

>>54954483
>Larping in the US is called living history

That's not larping. There's no "game" function - it's just portraying a quasi-historical character.

>>54954483
Anon.... living history is not larping.

>>54954573
what's the game part of a larp then? are you reenacting a battle?

>>54954483
>>54954659
First problem: larping as a whole still doesn't have a clear definition. Maybe never will, because it's such a broad subject.
But there are people who put more thought into this than either of us here and probably seen more variety of larps than either of us.

Here is one definition that I like the most and personally use, it's from J. Tuomas Harviainen.

1. Role-playing in which a character, not just a social role, is played.
2. The activity takes place in a fictional reality shared with others. Breaking that fictional reality is seen as a breach in the play itself.
3. The physical presence of at least some of the players as their characters.

This are all must have conditions that must be true all the time.

For living history there is two problems.
First, the minor one is the character part. One could argue that most of the time it's more of a social construct than an actual character, but it varies a lot from group to group so I might even give it to them that they have characters.

The second, bigger problem is that they "breaking" the fictional reality all the time. Because for them it's not about being in character all the time but about teaching others what it was like back then and in the meantime being in character as much as possible.
This educational part where you constantly "stop playing" to talk with visitors and the like excludes them from this larp definition.

>>54943054
>cover your straps

what are you talking about faggot?

>>54956163
Left one looks like it was inspired by Geralt Of Rivia.

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>>54956180
possible but whatever is the case he made a good costume

are these all at drachenfest?

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>>54957659
Yes, at least the ones I posted

>>54948505
>Why is your country so shit at everything?

We're too busy ruling the world and exporting our culture to the places that need more of it.

>>54947260
Civil war re-enactor here. You need to re-read his entire post, repairing in your own mind his grammatical or lexical failings to discern the spirit of the post. He said not one thing incorrect.

whereas you, with
>16th century american homesteader
only prove his point about lack of history *education*

>>54957942
Huh, I never thought I'd see myself on here.

>>54957867
>whereas you, with
>16th century american homesteader
>only prove his point about lack of history *education*

Just playing devils advocate here, but the English and Spanish started colonization in the late 16thC. One of the most famous being Roanoke in 1585.

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>>54958167
the wonder of /tg/

>went to my first larp thinking it would only be 20-something fat manchildren
God damn was that surprising.

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>>54954019
......is that lardass holding a foam anvil?!

This is probably exactly why larping is going to maintain its poor reputation. Average people see this kind of stuff and peg it for the plebshit it is. Also, I'd never heard that people were actually getting turned away because their gear was "too good". That's not "sjw", but it's in the same vein, and just as despicable.

I don't think anyone who wanted to do historical reenactment would ever get turned away for trying to increase the quality of their gear. It's usually the opposite.

>>54958754
>>54958754
well if y' gonna throw it at someone ya cant have it made outta steel.

and image limit reached

Anyone have a link to a what not to do when writing you character?

>>54959798
thanks for the dump.

>>54959919
don't be retard. That's all.

>>54960013

You ask the impossible.

>>54961486
it's a cruel world

>>54942331
>>54942490
it'd also benworth your while googling around with reenactment and HEMA as search terms. Their historical outfits anf other gear would suit larp just as well.

>>54947698
>Up to and including games which make you remove a costume and/or go home and change because your garb is making new players feel bad about their garb
what the fuck?
you can get in trouble for having to good a costume, seriously?

>>54955580
hah those helmets. whats the story behind them?

embedding EL wire in foam sword blade for glowing magic runes.
worth pursuing? only for non-combat peices?

>>54966497
I've seen similar things where it is put in the flat of the blade but under the foam. It worked for fighting purposes too.

>>54966312
dunno but they actually pull off the "not too clever guys" thing in a good way

>>54946574
I never thought I'd see a man so fat that I could see his man boobs through chainmail.

>>54966711
>I've seen similar things where it is put in the flat of the blade but under the foam. It worked for fighting purposes too
yeah thats basically what I was planning. I wasn't going to touch the striking edge.
glad to hear it stands up to combat.

>>54946574
is there a particular reason those shields are angled instead of curved.
Curved sheilds aren't difficult to make and I'd be more confident in its structural integrity than to flst sheets joined at an angle.

>>54967235
because that's how hand pavesies looks like. It was a shield type in use in the 16th century.

>>54967347
right well never mind then.

>>54967347

>using real history in a FANTASY larp

you eurocucks disgust me. Fantasy is supposed to be UNrealistic. It's about using your imagination, not about who can shell out more money.

>>54968321 (cont)
>Image limit

This is what a good larp looks like. Freedom of movement, maximum imagination.

http://www.larping.org/larps/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/DSCN5961.jpg

>>54968333
bait aside, I really don't see how these people can LARP in these conditions.

>>54968333
you may not like it but this is how peak condition looks like

>>54968520

They can't. No American has ever been a legitimate Larper. The whole country is useless at it.

I NEED PICS OF LARPS SET IN 17th-19th CENTURIES!

I honestly never knew hlp was such a pretentious shit.... huh.
Carry on, stay mad