Post by Aerion on May 24, 2006 2:03:52 GMT 1
Before you read the lower, I don't know WTH I'm talking about and I'm definitively not a LARPer (Get too embarrassed of some reason), I just have a ton of information from the net, not all agreeing, and inferring and such to use for this explanation so please, feel free to correct me if you disagree with anything.
LARP stands for Live Action Role Playing and I'll try to give as much of the details as I can.
You basically live in a different world for a few days while you are LARPing, sometimes you only do it for a couple of hours but thats not real LARPing.
In this other world (Lets simply call it The World and then the real world is RL(Real Life)) you pretty much act like in RL, if RL had monsters, was sett in another time period, had magic, and otherwise where more like game worlds.
So if you enter The World (Meaning you join the game) you have to act as though it's reality with a few exceptions. One of them is that you don't want to rely on the natural world to set your limits, thats the rules job. Another is that while in RL fighting is basically hitting each other until one side faints or somehow is incapable of fighting, The World requires you to keep track of life points and from that know when you're "killed'. Then you also have to issue of a game leader, he or she controls the game rules and his/her word is law, kinda like a president only that it isn't democratic, at least not usually.
The fact that you have to role play to this extreme is what makes most people think it's just bad acting of a script and not something they think up as they go, this is due to most peoples lack of role playing knowledge and has little factual background.
The rules, as far as I understand, is as follows:
Levels are kept as long as you stay with the same game master, but the master can give you new roles anytime he wishes too, that includes animals, sending you to the opposite side of what you usually are, or wathever falls into his mind. So you should stay on his good side and get any roles you wish as oposed to angering him and only getting cannon fodder roles like geebas(goblins) or rabbits.
You use whats called "skill tags", short paper bits with writing on them, to do any skills, hence the name "skill tags", these skills enable you to do anything thats possible to repeat nearly infinitively, like play dead or bluff, or thats highly based on chance but you can still try infinitively as long as you keep changing targets, like Women Lore or Hide.
You have to "call damage" for attacks to have an effect, this may be wrong as in all the movies I've seen from LARPs they don't call damage, they just die as the boss hits them.
This is all I know, again, please correct and fill in black spots in my review of LARP.
LARP stands for Live Action Role Playing and I'll try to give as much of the details as I can.
You basically live in a different world for a few days while you are LARPing, sometimes you only do it for a couple of hours but thats not real LARPing.
In this other world (Lets simply call it The World and then the real world is RL(Real Life)) you pretty much act like in RL, if RL had monsters, was sett in another time period, had magic, and otherwise where more like game worlds.
So if you enter The World (Meaning you join the game) you have to act as though it's reality with a few exceptions. One of them is that you don't want to rely on the natural world to set your limits, thats the rules job. Another is that while in RL fighting is basically hitting each other until one side faints or somehow is incapable of fighting, The World requires you to keep track of life points and from that know when you're "killed'. Then you also have to issue of a game leader, he or she controls the game rules and his/her word is law, kinda like a president only that it isn't democratic, at least not usually.
The fact that you have to role play to this extreme is what makes most people think it's just bad acting of a script and not something they think up as they go, this is due to most peoples lack of role playing knowledge and has little factual background.
The rules, as far as I understand, is as follows:
Levels are kept as long as you stay with the same game master, but the master can give you new roles anytime he wishes too, that includes animals, sending you to the opposite side of what you usually are, or wathever falls into his mind. So you should stay on his good side and get any roles you wish as oposed to angering him and only getting cannon fodder roles like geebas(goblins) or rabbits.
You use whats called "skill tags", short paper bits with writing on them, to do any skills, hence the name "skill tags", these skills enable you to do anything thats possible to repeat nearly infinitively, like play dead or bluff, or thats highly based on chance but you can still try infinitively as long as you keep changing targets, like Women Lore or Hide.
You have to "call damage" for attacks to have an effect, this may be wrong as in all the movies I've seen from LARPs they don't call damage, they just die as the boss hits them.
This is all I know, again, please correct and fill in black spots in my review of LARP.