That one sword reminds of the one He-Man used.

Quote from: Skywalker;959241LARPing is popular here in New Zealand with regular large events. White Wolf based LARPs did die away over 15 years ago though.

There is a documentary called "The Mordavian Truth" about a New Zeland LARP and apparently was broadcast on TV too? One of the rare LARP documentaries that doesn't looking down on the games.

As said, LARP is probably more developed in Europe than it is in the US. A friend of mine runs Profound Decisions which aims to be a high quality festival LARP with a defined world, complex characters and a continuing world across multiple years. It is very much player driven, so the PCs are the mover and shakers of the game, not high powered NPCs as is the case in some games.

The quality of kit is very high across the board and outstanding in some cases. They have a full, in-character tavern that can be moved between sites as needed and have had a full size combat arena with a 6-foot palisade in the past. They have over 100 staff members playing monsters and other NPCs, with literally tonnes of costume, armour and weapons to kit them out appropriately.

There is also a club scene here in the UK, though I haven't been involved in that personally for a few years now. Even there, I would say things are perhaps a little more developed than the US scene, if only through the opportunity of having a significant number of kit manufacturers to utilise and a taste for more immersion through high quality kit.

The Vampire LARP did have a pretty big scene here in the UK, too, mostly formed around large clusters of RPers, like university towns. It doesn't get much discussion currently on the UK scene in my experience but I may just be too far out of it. I do know that people tend to prefer a significant Action aspect in their LARP here, so the Mindseye Theatre systems weren't as favoured since there is an aversion to contact in that system.

Quote from: dbm;959348As said, LARP is probably more developed in Europe than it is in the US.

Not more developed. Just some have access to sites and production values that most others dont. You get those with some Cthulhu Live LARPs too with really high production. But even in Europe theres your bog standard boffer games going on. And every other type including parlour games.

Quote from: Omega;959513Not more developed.

What I'm thinking of is that, whenever Americans talk about LARP, 99% of the time it's either Nero or Mindseye. To someone over here, that looks like there are only a couple of active systems around. Over in Europe there are many more LARPS of different sizes and diversity. Maybe it's just a skewed perception.

Quote from: dbm;959519What I'm thinking of is that, whenever Americans talk about LARP, 99% of the time it's either Nero or Mindseye. To someone over here, that looks like there are only a couple of active systems around. Over in Europe there are many more LARPS of different sizes and diversity. Maybe it's just a skewed perception.

Its skewed. Really skewed.

Just local to sunny Michigoom here theres at least 6 different LARP systems going that I know of.
KANAR
LARPCraft
Cthulhu Live
Wastelands
Final Haven
Waypoint
CARPS
Sharded
SOLAR
Endgame
Alliance

Oth those Solar seems to be known in a few states and as mentioned before LARPCraft is steadily growing. They have a bunch of videos up now. Pretty sure theres an IFGS local. I know they have groups all over the US. Pretty sure Alliance is multi state too now. But been ages since looked into it.

Dragorhir is a local combat sim. Think theres a few others.

Cool, it's good to have a vibrant LARP community

Quote from: dbm;959536Cool, it's good to have a vibrant LARP community

Some have been running a while. Kanar is as of last check on hold, but will be back. That is the one that holds the yearly week long events. Its been going since 1993.
Sadly Exiles, a sort of Western Larp over in Ohio closed down a year ago.

Quote from: Omega;959513Not more developed. Just some have access to sites and production values that most others dont. You get those with some Cthulhu Live LARPs too with really high production. But even in Europe theres your bog standard boffer games going on. And every other type including parlour games.

Parlour Games as you're defining it seems very demeaning. Just a hint from someone that LARPed a couple times but visible physical handicaps seem to be very offputting to many of the movers and shakers in the other facets of the scene. Other then that I now understand why WW is hard targeting this facet of role playing it's ridiculously big in Europe especially Scandinavia. In the US it's typically more prevalent in cities/towns with a strong college presence and population demographic. But it's everywhere if you care to search and add in a bit like the cosplay and Ren Faire subscenes and LARP is totally alive and doing quite well. Thank you very much.

Um. No its not demeaning. Its the term the hosts were using before and after LARPs came into play. You are the first I've ever seen in 40 odd years of playing these things to take offense at the term.

Quote from: Omega;959664Um. No its not demeaning. Its the term the hosts were using before and after LARPs came into play. You are the first I've ever seen in 40 odd years of playing these things to take offense at the term.

I don't give a damn if I'm the first that said it to you. Know this, it's demeaning and I'd slap you right in the face if you used it face to face with me. That term is a pure British English term for inside/board games played by the upper middle class and rich in the Victorian era. It's offensive in the context you're trying to use it in. LARP isn't hangman or hide and seek and related games. It's at least a couple steps above with a few twists.

Uh huh. Sure.

Also, Omega had an 'L' made with his hand on his forehead. You can't understand him.

Are you offened by 'Parlor Games' cause of the cultural destruction wroght by Aristocratic Victorian and Edwardian England.  Destruction first and foremost visited on their own rich indigenous cultures?

Or are you offened becuase 'Parlor Games' is what my parents were playing with there friends for birthday partys and such when the got together to solve a mystery in a box.  And what they are doing can't possibly be as sophisticated as your LARP?  

A bit of both?  Parlor games are a frivolous distraction for a degenerate culture, while LARPing is Serious Business.

Honest question.  The snark came off a bit thicker than I intended.  I was going for snark, just not that much.  

Quote from: Marleycat;959654Parlour Games as you're defining it seems very demeaning. Just a hint from someone that LARPed a couple times but visible physical handicaps seem to be very offputting to many of the movers and shakers in the other facets of the scene.

Quote from: Marleycat;959668I don't give a damn if I'm the first that said it to you. Know this, it's demeaning and I'd slap you right in the face if you used it face to face with me. That term is a pure British English term for inside/board games played by the upper middle class and rich in the Victorian era. It's offensive in the context you're trying to use it in. LARP isn't hangman or hide and seek and related games. It's at least a couple steps above with a few twists.

Um, I think you've mistaken this site for rpg.net, where folks find words like 'butthurt' (both in 2010 and 2015) and 'tinker's damn' to be #Triggering, and violence is an appropriate response to words you don't like.

Sorry, I have little patience for that kind of bullshit, but just enough to ask: What should we call small scale one shot indoor LARPs?

However I have no patience for 'movers and shakers' who make people with visible physical disabilities feel excluded or uncomfortable because of those disabilities. That's a separate problem entirely, and one that definitely needs to be addressed more than it is.

Quote from: Marleycat;959668I don't give a damn if I'm the first that said it to you. Know this, it's demeaning and I'd slap you right in the face if you used it face to face with me. That term is a pure British English term for inside/board games played by the upper middle class and rich in the Victorian era. It's offensive in the context you're trying to use it in. LARP isn't hangman or hide and seek and related games. It's at least a couple steps above with a few twists.

Take a chill. There are numerous party/parlor games like How to Host a Mystery that are widely used and are a form of live action roleplaying.