Live Action Role Playing
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Live Action Role Playing or LARP is a role playing game where instead of a player saying what their character does, they act it out. It has been described as a cross between traditional tabletop role-playing games and amateur improvisational theater. It may involve appropriate costumes, even furry costumes (fursuits).
[edit] Example genres
- Fantasy - Fantasy LARPs have long been the most common genre, with subgenres such as low fantasy and high fantasy.
- Science fiction - Includes sub-genres such as more hard sci-fi and post-apocalypse.
- Re-enactment - Re-enactments of historical situations rather than improvisational theater, with a high degree of historical accuracy.
[edit] Safety
Safety rules are always in effect, substituting fighting with soft foam boffer weapons or, if the players are trained in their use, by blank weapons. Any weapon firing a projectile (bows, crossbows) are also capsulated in foam. Any event will have a set of signals for when to break the game, for example the shout "hold". A medical kit should always be handy.
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