What Is LARP Anyway?
LARP stands for live action role playing. You may have heard the term mentioned before, or maybe not. It took me going to a major gaming convention before I heard about LARP. At that time, the term brought up images of people dressed up as vampires, because that was, then, the most popular LARP at conventions. At its most basic, a LARP is a role playing game. But instead of sitting around a table using your imagination to picture the movements of your characters, you actually move around as your characters are moving. Want your character to open a door and walk into a room? You open the door and walk into the room. Some LARPs carry this to extremes, requiring that you must be able to do whatever your character can do. If your character is an expert swordsman, you must be an expert swordsman. Want to run a thief? Better be able to pick pockets. Most LARPs don’t carry things quite that far. There’s usually a resolution system in place for skills, so you’ll have a way to know if you hit s
