I've been role-playing this weekend. Nothing sordid, you understand, more the sort of beardy-weirdy stuff and nonsense that looks utterly mad to outsiders, but nevertheless keeps five hundred grown adults busy for five days. Straight.
The formula is this: arrive and sign up for games, in groups of around six; get a swift pint of beer in; play for three stretches a day, separated by an hour for beer'n'burgers, with each four-hour stretch broken only by one or two five minute breaks for beer'n'bladders. You get the picture.
Gamers (best known through the popular medium of Dungeons & Dragons) are sometimes sneered at by people who just can't get their head around the concept, but the gamers themselves enjoy a titter at a very special subgroup - the LARPers. That's Live-Action Role Play, by the way, and is the sort that involves costumes and makeup and latex swords. This particular form of play attracts the less self-conscious gamer, but the laughs are generated by how very seriously a few of them take it... and to see what I mean, watch this skit from Reno 911 and bear in mind that although it's staged they're not exaggerating by much. Enjoy.
http://www.videosift.com/video/DD-player-with-boots-of-escaping-vs-Reno-911-cops-part-2
Monday, February 02, 2009
Not That Sort of Role-Playing
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4 comments:
Great video.
I remember how much fun you can have with a bunch of people, a few sheets of paper, a good game master and a few oddly shaped dice!
Jandra
Yeah, sniff I quiet miss it. Most Sundays were wiped out with 16hr sesh's, and quiet a few Saturdays as well. All may mates would ask "you going geeking?"
The next worse thing other than a LARPer, is a regular LARPer who does a stint in a "normal" RP party.
They act the part, or should that read pratt?. One particular aquaintence used to set my teeth on edge, resulting in some interesting dynamics of me trying to surreptiously kill him at any chance
LARPers may have the others tittering quietly but I'll bet it's not to their faces! :) Would you argue with a 6 foot bloke in armour with a sword? (Ok I do but then I also have a sword)
Take a look at this video and the other two parts and see how a comedian takes LARPing. It's great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ6exaC5ryE
Sooo envious! It sounds a blast ... and yes I am probably one of those that would dress up, latex an optional extra ;o)
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