Larping

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  1. JK2447
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    A friend of mine has just told me that she's going larping, which then sparked a "who's the bigger nerd" debate, with me of course insisting its me although I am mortified as I've never done this so she's bested me there!

    This being an IT related forum potentially packed full of nerds and geeks I wondered, have you ever been larping before? If so, what was the theme and what did you make of it?
    I'm not sold on the idea although I'll try anything once, OK most things, OK a small few things I've researched heavily on the net first.
     
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    WTF is larping?
     
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    Ah mate and I thought you were down with the kids ha ha ha

    Live action role playing ha ha! It's massive apparently. Where you get dressed up as wizards or elves etc :bud
     
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    So a step beyond cosplay then.

    Well I never (and no, I never did :p)
     
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    OMFG what did I just watch?? there is a reason why I haven't heard of larping.....
     
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    Haven't done LARPing in the medieval sense (but have friends who're into it). However, I used to play a lot of Airsoft with all participants dressed up as soldiers or in SWAT gear, and shooting each other with realistic looking weapons that could fire 10-20 small plastic pellets a second for that lovely little stinging sensations XD
     
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