Questions tagged [larp]
An acronym for "Live Action Role Play". A style of roleplaying game where players use movement, costuming, props, and scenery to enhance the experience. LARP often, but not always, has players perform or simulate the actions of their characters.
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LARP weapons - plastidip wrinkles
I have built a stack of LARP quality (at least that was the goal) EVA foam weapons for the first time for a theatre production with a large number of fight scenes. Quite a number of videos I watched ...
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LARPing with the Kids
I was on a few LARPs so far, but usually, all people present are pretty much 18 or older, so you are LARPing with adults playing adult roles in an adult environment.
However, in an offshoot of the ...
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How to make cheap fake blood that does not go bad or stink?
For a vampire-style larp event, and for the Curse of Strahd session I want to make a fake blood that looks good on photos. Sadly, professional Kryolan blood I usually love to use is out of my budget ...
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Making a set of LARP saya
Time is ticking for a LARP I am going to attend in June. While I put the last seams on my garb for the moment, I still need to make a proper set of matching scabbards - or rather three saya (Japanese ...
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How do you LARP highly observant characters?
I'm designing a character for a World of Darkness parlour LARP who's supposed to be highly perceptive and observant. (A tad beyond human capability, at character creation.)
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How can you map the probability of 2d6 onto a standard poker deck?
One of the projects I'm working on in my free time is the adaptation of the Urban Shadows milieu to a live-action environment. (In 2022, this is what one might charitably call a long-term goal.) One ...
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Vampire and Safety Tools
Vampire the Masquerade has a lot of abilities to abuse other players, especially via disciplines like Dominate and Presence. Obfuscate can be used to appear as literally anyone, which might be used to ...
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How to get my nitrocellulose paintcoat shiny and prevent clouding?
I am working on a prop helmet for LARP. It's made from foam and by now I have spent almost one and a half rattle cans of shiny black, high gloss nitrocellulose-based spraypaint on it in about 6 or 7 ...
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Writing around an un-defined character
I am planning to attend a LARP set in Rokugan - when (and if) that happens. It's a rather story- and character-play-heavy setup with little to no combat planned.
Now, I have already a character with ...
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How to get real-looking rust that will be safe to the touch?
Normally when I build a prop, I use steel, or cover it with glue and iron dust, and then apply various oxidizing compounds, acids (and sometimes salts and bases) to make a real rust. Then, I gently ...
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How can I get latex-like finish on my foam sword, and avoid biggest pitfalls with applying latex at home?
I'm in the process of building my own LARP weapons, using EVA foam on glass fiber core. Construction itself, and sculpting, luckily won't be a problem for me. Problem will be with coating.
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How can we phys-repp breath/flame attacks or spells?
Our fantasy LARP would like to expand combat magic to include breath/flame/area-of-effect attacks/spells.
How can we phys-repp such effects?
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Must be reasonably1 safe for all ...
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Social contract for flirting at LARPs
I have been a participant but mostly organiser of a LARP in Switzerland for a number of years. This year I have for the first time participated in a large organised LARP in Germany (Conquest of ...
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LARP Weapons on a Plane: Can you put your LARP sword in checked baggage?
I'll be taking a flight soon for a Blockbuster LARP, and was wondering what would be the best means to get my latex weapon over there.
Is it possible to just check it, even if it doesn't fit inside ...
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As a non-smoker, how can I simulate smoking this pipe at a LARP?
I just bought a nice-looking smoking pipe for use as a character prop for LARPing. It's a working pipe and so I could use it for actually smoking tobacco in character, but I choose not to smoke, ...
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Is a CO2 fire extinguisher safe to use indoors to represent offensive magic or breath weapons in LARP?
In short: my friend, who is also a LARP organizer, has come up with the idea of representing breath weapons and some kinds of offensive weapons (those that are represented by a "cone template" in many ...
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How can I simulate fun and challenging computer hacking in a LARP?
Occasionally, I like to do CTFs. For the uninitiated, a CTF is a computer security challenge in which a bunch of computer systems are left deliberately vulnerable, and participants exploit those ...
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How should I handle signalling & costuming for an "ascended mook"?
I am a crew member with a LARP system. When I'm playing a minor NPC who isn't very important to the wider plot, I have some fairly standard and basic kit that I just throw on. If I'm a labourer, I've ...
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What is a LARP association?
In one of my recent LARP questions @Ifusaso asked me in the comments:
It may help to know what group/association/system this is in (Black Company? Nordic LARP?)
However, I would like to know what ...
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How do I get my players' LARP characters to not be a bunch of murderous cretins?
Just as many typical RPGs teach us that violence can solve most problems and that a (truly) dead enemy poses no problems, LARPers around my area (Moscow, Russia) are typically very quick to kill ...
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How to handle falling down during LARP combat?
I am currently working on writing the combat rules for a Dishonored LARP with a team, and we are stuck on how to proceed with a certain point: handling falling.
Sometimes during LARP melee combat my ...
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How do I promote the use of crossbows instead of bows in LARP?
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Around my area (Russia), bow and crossbow energy in LARP is mostly limited by their draw weight, which is around 16 kg for bows and 18 kg for crossbows. However, bows usually have a lot ...
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How do I deal with a friend constantly changing the rules and claiming my characters? [closed]
On behalf of my 12 year old daughter:
My sister and I LARP with a friend based on different shows we watch (Glitter Force, Sailor Moon, and others). We have a lot of fun coming up with different ...
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Are anti-personnel catapults used in LARPs?
In a previous question I saw that cannons do exist in the world of larping, used against gates and castles but not against people.
Are there things like catapults that target people instead of gates ...
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What is jeepform / vi åker jeep?
Some games are occasionally termed jeepform. I have also encountered the Swedish phrase "Vi åker jeep" (We travel with/by jeep), which seems to refer to the same thing. There is even a website, which ...
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How can I represent a large body of NPCs in a vote?
I run a large (20+) person Chronicles of Darkness larp. Our story centers primarily on rebuilding the Night Congress, a supernatural organization that keeps the peace between the large population of ...
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Templates for character badges for a larp [closed]
I'm getting ready to run a LARP event at a convention and I want to make badges for people to wear with their character's picture and name so that other people can tell which character they are. How ...
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How can I help inexperienced LARP crew to speak confidently?
I've been crewing as part of a particular LARP system for a while now. The roles I play are almost invariably handed to me. I'll frequently have a short brief and 5 minutes of prep before it's ...
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How do I safely paint a latex-coated LARP weapon?
I am trying to re-paint a cheap, kind of ugly weapon I bought somewhere, but I can't seem to find online what kind of paint or mix I need to paint over the current color.
It says on the site I bought ...
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Creating otherworldly opponents on a (time) budget
For an upcoming LARP event we want to introduce a horde of demonic/otherworldly/non-human opponents that our players will have to fight at some point.
Due to how we are organised we, the organizers, ...
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Why are rogues always depicted wearing so many belts? [closed]
I have no idea where to put this, but I had a player ask a really good question about rogues:
Why are they always depicted wearing so many belts?
I've been googling this for a few hours, and while I ...
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Designing LARP player factions [closed]
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I am co-organizer of a yearly fantasy LARP. Over the last five years we have built up a story and setting, which came to a cataclysmic end this year. We all decided that this story arc is ...
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Are Polypropylene training weapons safe for LARP?
Cold Steel (as pictured above) and other companies make polypropylene training weapons. Are these safe to use when LARPing?
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Determined but Terrified [closed]
A few days ago I stumbled upon LARPing, and was instantly drawn in to it. The clothes, the characters, the weapons, the stories, all of it. But, of course, if there were no problems, I probabky wouldn'...
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How could I phys-rep a swarm of flying creatures?
Suppose my referee friend wanted to send a swarm of bees, bats, crows, or some other small flying creatures at some players. How could he simulate something that'd evoke the right reactions?
The ...
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Prop Coins: How to get many coins for little (real life) money? [closed]
This related question on prop coins inspired me to revisit an old problem we're having at a fantasy LARP I'm co-organizing.
So far we have not yet found a currency which we can use throughout the ...
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LARP Cannon with actual projectiles
This years story of our fantasy combat LARP features the siege of a city. Eventually this will culminate in a battle, where there is an actual siege of a palisade-type fortification, including siege ...
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How deep information should players have in a political negotiation-focused edu-larp?
I am considering an educational larp, perhaps even suitable for a lesson of one and half an hour in length at gymnasium (roughly: high school) level or at yläkoulu (roughly: middle school) level, ...
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Taking Larp sword in plane cabin [closed]
Is it possible to take a foam boffer sword on a plane without checking in the suitcase?
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Is expanding foam a suitable material for LARP weapon construction?
I've seen a few images on Pinterest (unfortunately all go through to dead links) that show people making the general shape of a weapon with expanding foam, then carving the excess off.
Here's an ...
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Is there a Fate LARP? [closed]
I was wondering whether there is a LARP implementation of Fate Core or Accelerated anywhere? I did take a look at Fate SRD, but they don't seem to mention that. I am really curious at this point, ...
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Larping space and recruiting help [closed]
I am setting up a LARP meet up with a friend.We have most of our supplies like weapons and costumes,but our main problem is finding a safe place to larp.The only place that resembles a woodland area ...
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Small-Scale Steampunk LARP for beginners [closed]
I am looking for a LARP rules set that allows me to run a relatively small (in the order of magnitude of 20–25 people) game with the following parameters:
It works with a steam punk aesthetic.
It ...
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How to make sure items are untradeable? [closed]
In RuneScape, certain items such as skillcapes are untradeable. This is because someone with 99 Attack shouldn't trade a skillcape with a lvl-3 for obvious reasons.
How can we ensure someone with a ...
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How do I convince players that I'm not necessarily a murderous cretin?
I am a crew member with a sci-fi LARP system. Rather than having a player character, I usually play as a disposable mook, and my characters spawn in, attack the players, then die in an entertaining ...
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What is the most widely used safety standard for larp weapons?
I'm trying to find the most widely used published safety standards for larp weapons. The pretty latex covered ones, not the ones that are tape covered pool noodles.
Ideally this will include:
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Are there any generally accepted standards for larp weapons? [closed]
Many historical and fantasy larps use latex covered foam weapons for combat simulation and some of these larps (presumably) have minimum standards for these weapons.
I know that many games have ...
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LARP: Group psychology in antagonistic player groups
I am part of a GM committee which organizes a yearly 3 day LARP near my hometown and it has been going on for quite a while. The setting is a custom made low-magic fantasy world, and the rule system (...
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How do I make it absolutely clear that I'm shooting you in the face?
I play live action roleplaying games (LARPs), where myself and the players around me adopt actual physical characters.
I've had a problem in the past where I hold a gun and want to shoot someone, ...
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Is there some ready-made LARP scenario suitable for complete beginners? [closed]
I would like to introduce my friends to role-playing games.
I have played some D&D and a few parlour LARPS organised by other in the past, now I'm thinking about organising something for friends ...
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