Category: DEfined
The New England Sport LARPing Calendar Post for 2024
The New England Sport LARPing Calendar Post for 2024 Welcome back to the New England Sport LARPing...
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2021 New England Sport LARP Calendar
2021 New England Sport LARP Calendar...
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What is a Larp?
As noted on our LARP calendar, I have chosen to narrowly define LARP for the purposes of this blog. There is a large and growing umbrella of Live Action Role-Paying games from Vampire the Masquerade and other “hotel” events – I don’t really care about all of that, because when you open the scope too wide you end up arguing with some Finnish asshole about latex weapons for far longer than is good for your health or their economy.
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Who Am I?
Primarily I am someone who is just so damn tired of trolls. I could just delete my Facebook account and call it a day, but unfortunately Facebook and its resultant groups are the way many people organize and form communities, and at its core LARP is all about community and memes.
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Thou Shalt Not! – Describe Your Search
A quick little list piece I’ll be updating from time to time to supposedly dispense wisdom. What’s really going on here is that there are a number of game mechanics that barely work and have been (essentially) expunged by years of prior experience and knowledge but which still, for some reason, begin to creep back in every now and then.
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Latex Weapons (aka the first that Latex has actually made something less safe)
Latex Weapons and You… My experiences in Buying, Using and Abusing Latex Weapons for the very first time! (aka the first that Latex has actually made something less safe)
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Larp Injuries
So what are the most serious injuries you have ever seen in your 15 years of LARPing? Generally, people wrenching their knees, ankles or backs before the start of game. Another chap made a leaping, diving attack and landed wrong on his arm, breaking it (or was it a wrist?). Oh, someone wearing shorts tore through a mass of brambles and cut up his legs pretty good.
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Larp Weapon Safety
What about weapons? In a DIY hobby, shouldn’t weapons be checked and re-checked at every event? Nope. Primarily, weapon checks are an unsustainable fallacy.
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Latex Weapons at an Event
As mentioned before, we both needed shields. In fact after reviewing numerous sites, I found none that really stood out. Because of the set patterns, you either find a shield that perfectly fits your concept (Elves and Paladins, it seems are well off) or you’re left with a tiny wooden buckler looking thing, as if you’d suddenly been surprised during a dinner and run outside with a wooden trencher to defend your home and honor.
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2014 Recap – an overview of trends in Larping
According to the German Metal Band Helloween, 2014/2015 is the set of years when the computer God Insania rises to threaten humanity. So we have that to look forward to or reflect upon, depending on which side of the New Year we’re currently standing on.
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