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LARP stands for Live-Action Role-Play. It's like role playing, but instead of sitting around a table and describing what your character is doing, you generally actually get up and do it (or act it out). Think of it as cross country improv theatre. LARPing has multiple sub-genres. In the US, these include Boffer (which generally includes actually swinging padded weapons at one another)note note that boffer weapons are also used in games with no role-playing, live-action or otherwise, ie. you just try to hit the other guy and Theater (which is generally based around pre-written characters accomplishing social and political goals, with combat frequently represented by abstract mechanics. Theater LARPing also goes by a variety of other names.) It should be noted that most boffer games also include a fair amount of roleplaying and that logic puzzles also play a large role in both types. In Europe, LARP usually sits between these genres, mixing character development and role-playing with combat. Weapons are far more realistic than their American counterparts, manufactured using latex-covered foam, or harder, unpadded plastic in some systems; consequently, the style of combat includes taking care not to hit too hard; some variant on "Pull your blows" is a standard rule. In Democratic Russia, LARP is often indistinguishable from historical reconstruction, not that anyone but hardass living-history types (and, more importantly, Jerk Jocks who are in historical reenactment for the fighting) tries to enforce the distinction much. There is a huge sliding scale, from theater RP, where the absolute worst thing that can IRL happen to you is a rubber knife somewhere uncomfortable, to buhurt-style faintly-story-driven mass violence, broken bones included. The main distinction of ex-USSR LARP scene lies in players' attitude. Around one third of the players treat it as combat sport with lots of DIY. Other two thirds are composed of teenage counterculture wannabees who are in it for the chicks, said chicks, escapists (mostly teenage, though there are quite a few more mature players) and plain old fantasy fans. Ex-USSR LARP Weapons are made from aviation-grade glass-fiber plastic, running-track rubber, duraluminum, reforged leaf springs, PVC piping and hardwood, with repurposed sports implements and furniture parts considered a thing of shameful past and frowned upon. Western-style padded weapons are slowly gaining ground in the ex-USSR, but many people still view them as "sissy" and "cowardly" and limit their use to players below the age of maturity (and thus unable to give consent to broken bones). The "pull your blows" rule either only applies to unarmored targets or is absent altogether, and wearing armor is considered the manly way to avoid injury. Likewise, armor has evolved from cardboard, wood and plastic to complex sets of canon-accurate gear tailored to a specific setting, historically-accurate getups brought over from living history and historical combat (which are either past or future hobbies of more than half of LARPers around this parts), sports\hidden armor kits, replicating the construction pinciples of ballistic armor with DIY-store materials, and wide use of fencing, motorcycling and other off-the-shelf protective gear. Worthwhile games are either multi-day (up to a week) forays into the wild, far from any civilisation, with a large part of baggage being vodka (no, really — and this applies to LARP worldwide, not just Russia!), or sizeable social events with elaborate costumes and convoluted plotlines held in university ballrooms. Settings are often some variant of the standard fantasy setting (of varying levels of "yeah, we nicked this straight out of The Silmarillion"), possibly with a dash of Alternate History, or taken directly from a popular RPG. LARPs have their own set of common tropes, including some form of Closed Circle or Enclosed Space (which give players an excuse to stay in game even if their character's smartest option would be to leave) and Time Travel (regardless of genre.) However, the largest LARP events (sometimes called "fests", for festivals), who host thousands of players, occur on large swaths of land, which gives players space to flee while remaining in the game. LARP, especially boffer LARP, is considered one of the easy targets of nerddom. This is mainly due to the widespread popularity of the "Lightning bolt" video on YouTube, which features boffer combat in all its anarchic "foam weapons and spell packets" glory. Strangely, LARP makes an easier target among nerds than outside of geekdom. The occasional small-press article on LARPing is usually sympathetic, and Role Models, while pointing out the inherent goofiness of LARP, still treats it as a great way for people to socialize and build confidence. On the other hand, the "Lightning bolt" video is usually circulated around message boards and geek-oriented blogs, often as a way of saying, "I may be a nerd, but..." In several European countries, LARP is viewed in a different light. Especially in the Nordic countries, LARP is increasingly considered Serious Business, to the point where it is no longer considered an acronym, but represents an entirely independent concept, "larp" (similar to how "laser", "radar", and "modem" went from acronyms to proper nouns). This is not so much "nerds acting out D&D in a forest somewhere" anymore, but more serious historical/mythological reenactment (in the same way that 18th-19th century reenactment groups like Napoleonic Era, Wild West, Colonial America etc. tend to be taken more seriously). While your mileage may always vary, LARP is creeping into the realm of the mainstream. For example, there are more Danish kids participating in LARPs (often school or daycare related) than there are kids in football clubs and a popular LARP-show is aired on Danish national television (and exported to Sweden) . (Denmark also has a LARP boarding school - see 'Examples' below.) The inter-nordic "Meating Point" or "Node" convention in particular strive to advance LARP as a medium in many ways, and serious academical papers on LARP is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon. In The New '10s, LARP is even becoming a subject of academic studies at the Nordic universities, with a large chunk of the contemporary role-playing theory penned there. |
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One of the mentored kids in Role Models is a LARPer. The movie's central plot, a pair of adults learning to be less cynical and enjoy life more, reaches a critical point when one of the men decides to blow off a court-date in order to join in the kid's LARP and help him almost win the big annual free-for-all. He even admits to one of the game organisers that he'll probably be back some time. | |
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The movie Sydney White has the title character, an Expy of Snow White, rooming with "seven dorks" one of whose hobbies is this. | |
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An episode of Good Luck Charlie titled "LARP in the Park" has Teddy falling for a teen, but discovers that he's into LARPing... and she gets roped into one of their sessions. | |
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In Life Is Strange: True Colors, Steph is a very active LARPer and is planning on taking Ethan and Gabe to a LARP in Denver. After Gabe dies, Steph organizes a LARP in Haven Springs centered on Ethan playing as Thaynor, a fantasy hero he created for a comic book. Alex plays Thaynor's bard sidekick while Steph and several other residents of Haven Springs (including a few, like Jed and Duckie, who are well outside the usual demographic for LARPing) participate as characters or monsters that Ethan and Alex encounter. | |
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The Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators episode "The Play's The Thing" has the investigators go undercover at a local LARP to get evidence of a cheating spouse, only to find themselves investigating an attempted murder when someone switches a LARPer's arrows for real ones. | |
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Channel Awesome third year anniversary video Suburban Knights seems like it revolves around this at first. Until the magic becomes all too real... | |
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Bones: A super hero LARPing group appear in Season 1, Episode 12 episode of. Booth and Brennan each compare the other to one of them (specifically to the victim of the week). The victim of the week was found by a group of LARPers on a convention-run game in "The Princess & The Pear". |
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CSI: NY: "The Box," opens with a group of guys battling it out in a junkyard they're using as a post-apocalyptic playground. Flack tells Stella they're LARPing. She's never heard of it so he explains. In "Brooklyn 'Til I Die," a pair of LARPers encounter some real-life bad guys but think they're part of their spy game. The girl gets shot to death when she pulls her fake gun on them, but the guy gets kidnapped. It's up to Mac and the team to figure out why. |
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A group very similar to the SCA features in an episode of House. | |
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Castle: In one episode, Rick Castle mentions a group he once researched for a book that roleplays fairy tale characters, although none of them appear in the episode, which revolves around women being murdered and found dressed up as fairy tale heroines. Another episode features a "zombie run". One episode had a character played by Mitch Pileggi who was suspected of murder and was thought to be a spy later. He didn't realize his arrest was a real thing because he was LARPing. |
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Motorcity: Chuck is part of a group that does this, but then two members of their party go missing for real. The group seems to view Chuck as their Fake Ultimate Hero. | |
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Honor Harrington is a member of the SCA, though her branch deals with reenacting the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her skill with present-day pistols becomes a plot device in Field of Dishonor and Honor Among Enemies. | |
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iCarly: Aruthor (Spencer's 'avatar') and Aspartamay's (Jack Black's character's 'avatar') battle, combined with spoofed references from MMORPG like Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft. | |
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An episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) involved the turtles LARPing, only to get caught up in a real fantasy quest. There's even a set of action figures based on the guys' fantasy personas, with "Live Action Role Play" right on the labels. | |
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The Jessie episode "Ride To Riches" features Bertram as king of a medieval LARP. Luke and Emma join in after they follow Bertram there. | |
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Unicorn City is about a group of table-top gamers. The main character Voss is trying to get a job at Warlocks of the Beach, but needs to show he has leadership skills. So, having never heard of LARP, he tricks his friends into proving his leadership skills by creating "Unicorn City" together, a LARP camp (although noone ever says the word LARP) a plan which both succeeds brilliantly and fails miserably at different points. | |
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In Leftover Soup, Max is prohibited from voice-acting her tabletop RPG characters or the group ends up "running around the park in costumes hitting each other with foam swords". | |
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Also Jim Butcher himself is a member of the Chicago branch of NERO. He used a good bit of his money to purchase a large plot of land to create a 'larp town' of sorts. |
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Supernatural: The Winchesters are accused of being such in "The Monster at the End of This Book". And then they end up engaging in it in "LARP and the Real Girl", when something gets loose at a LARP and starts killing the players. By the end, Dean's gotten into the spirit of things. |
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Manhattan Love Story: Dana turns out to like playing a female elven archer. She's afraid Peter will mock her for it and at first pretends that the event is for something else. However when he finds out Peter's fine with it and plays a bit as well, getting into the game. | |
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Leonard from Total Drama Pakhitew Island, whose label is literally "The LARPer". He always dresses in a wizard costume and believes he actually is capable of casting magic spells. The spinoff Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race introduces Leonard's friend and fellow LARPer Tammy, who has an equally loose grip on reality. | |
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Darkon a documentary film chronicling the club of the same name. | |
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The Geek and Sundry series LARPs: The Series follows a small fantasy LARP as the players deal with both out-of-character drama and the in-character plot. | |
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Many founding members of the Portland Protective Association in S. M. Stirling's Emberverse series were originally SCA members. | |
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The Relativity story "Game Night" involves several of the main characters going out into the woods for a LARP session. Of course, they run into a band of actual criminals and have to fight them using foam weapons. | |
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In Penny Arcade, Gabe and his son get into LARPing on occasion, to Tycho's disapproval. | |
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Lady Celia from Awful Hospital is a sentient mold spore who goes on Fetch Quests for fun, and whose day job is theatrically mugging the local worms and bactera for keratin coins (but she purposefully misses on, um, well, let's call them "people" who are higher level than her because THAC0). It's that kind of comic; did I mention it's by Bogleech?. | |
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Steve Smith and his friends from American Dad! do this sometimes. One episode focused on Francine joining them to escape her boring life as a housewife (again), though after getting praised a lot she quickly takes rule of their fantasies, annoying Steve, until she snaps out of it. | |
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The Owl House: When Luz comes clean to her mom about where she's been spending the summer, her mom initially assumes it's an immersive LARP. | |
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House Cerberus aka This One Time At Larp Camp is a greentext story from 4Chan that details the adventures of a group of friends at a LARP camp, where they run afoul of a corrupt GMPC and his cronies, eventually kicking off a movement to free the roleplay from his tyranny. | |
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Henchman 21/Gary from The Venture Bros. Took a Level in Badass between season 3 and 4 after the death of his best friend, Henchman 24, in part by training with a LARP group, the "Orchard Street Wolf Pack." | |
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The cast of Something*Positive have spent plenty of time engaging in various LARPs, predominantly Steampunk-esque ones. In fact, some of the popular minor characters (such as Spooky) appear almost exclusively in the LARP-related arcs. | |
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The Tabletop Games Club from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War is shown LARPing on at least one occasion. It is later revisted in the spin-off light novel where Fujiwara ropes Shirogane, Ishigami, Kashiwagi, and her boyfriend into playing. | |
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LARP | |
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The Wild Hunt is about a fantasy LARP (a Canadian group, so more like the Russian style) where jealousy and personal issues between the players result in things going hideously wrong. | |
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The Life and Times of Juniper Lee: June's older brother Dennis is into LARP with his friends. | |
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Heavy Trip: Impaled Rektum, the amateur metal band, encounter a group of Viking LARPers at a fjord on their way to Norway, who help them get to the metal festival on their longboat. One of the players wears a Legolas costume instead of a Viking one. | |
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ABC show The Quest is basically LARPing meets reality television. This also describes Who Wants to Be a Superhero?? |
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Anya in Degrassi is a LARPer. She even gets her boyfriend to join in on it. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Phineas and Ferb start a LARP war in the nerd convention between barbarians and science-fantasy. | |
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The protagonists in Weregeek participate in a Minds Eye Theater vampire LARP and, less often, a fantasy boffer LARP. In one arc they also inadvertently stumble into a horror LARP without knowing it. Then they joined a werewolf Minds Eye Theater game. Then came an arc that took place during a SCAdian style weekend. Then it was revealed that the entire Hunter/Geek war was an elaborate LARP. To mixed fan reaction. Right now the guys behind the Minds Eye Theater vampire LARP are doing a Changing The Lost LARP |
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Pasila has an episode about LARPers where they are portrayed as the biggest nerds imaginable. Mind you, any group of people is usually portrayed in the most negative way possible in the series. They tend to kneel down to throw dice instead of actually doing stuff even in real life, which is of course a possibly intentional mix-up with Tabletop Role Playing Games. One of them confesses to the murder of one of his friends who really just fell and hit his head, just so that he can feel significant for once. | |
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A Hawk and a Hacksaw's music video for "Cervantine" depicts a LARP sword battle, and plays it up for maximum Mundane Made Awesome-ness. | |
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Hawkeye (2021): Clint has to get the Ronin costume back after it winds up in the hands of a LARPer. Since he doesn't want to cause a scene or wait twelve hours for the game to be over, he begrudgingly signs up for the LARP (in costume and everything) to confront the guy. The guy agrees to give the costume back if Clint throws a duel against him, so he can say he beat Hawkeye in a fight. Clint keeps in touch with the group afterwards; his ally Kate is impressed by the quality of their homemade costumes and commissions new superhero suits, and they provide assistance during the finale by helping to fight off the mafia goons. | |
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The second arc of Powers, "Roleplay," deals with a college LARP group that pretend to be superheroes (in a universe that actually has superheroes) complete with "calls to action" from the rooftops. Things start to go horribly, horribly wrong... | |
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LARP | |
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Knights of Badassdom is about LARPers who accidentally summon demons into the real world and then have to battle them. | |
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LARP | |
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Humans vs. Zombies is (of course) a Zombie Apocalypse-themed LARP/tag hybrid popular in college campuses across the United States that's primarily played on a seasonal basis (usually one week-long game per semester/term). It arguably has the most mainstream popularity/recognition out of all the LARP-based activities in the USA, thanks in part to one of the simplest rulesets in all of LARPing and a very low entry barrier in terms of equipment (though NERF blasters are popular, many of even the best players bring only a bandana and some balled-up socks, and zombie players don't even need the latter). | |
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In Transhuman Space this is how Lunar kids spend their time, since they can easily reform Lunar City's smart buildings into whatever environment is appropriate, and don't have realtime access to the Earth-based Net games. | |
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The protagonists of Shakma are playing a puzzle-oriented LARP before the eponymous killer baboon makes itself known. | |
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Bob's Burgers: "Zero LARP Thirty" has Bob and Linda attending a LARP based on Winthrop Manor, a Downton Abbey-esque show Linda likes. Bob, who is skeptical at first, quickly ends up getting into it; Linda, on the other hand, is given the role of a servant, and treated as such by the "upper-class" Larpers; she soon leads a rebellion among the other servant Larpers. | |
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One of the main factions Sunset Overdrive are a group of delusional fantasy LARPers who maintain their act after the mutant outbreak and refuse to use any modern technology. | |
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LARP | |
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Systems Malfunction: A small science-fiction LARP played in/around Westchester County NY. Unique in that it emphasizes both Boffer & Spacket combat and Theater-style role-playing & goal structure. | |
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In season 5 of The Guild Clara briefly joins a Steampunk group only to get thrown out. | |
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The Nostalgia Chick points out that Sarah from Labyrinth is a LARPer, and manages to get in a little affectionate ribbing while doing so: | |
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Tai of Questionable Content combines this with Flash Mob for interesting results. | |
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LARP | |
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The setting for South Park: The Stick of Truth involves a city-wide live-action fantasy roleplay which escalates into a battle between good and evil. The sequel South Park: The Fractured but Whole revolves around a superhero-based LARP that's also a get-rich-quick scheme for most of the kids that ends up involving Cosmic Horrors and Time Travel. | |
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LARP | |
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Adam Barrett of Boomer Express is into roleplaying and once bested Vikki at a Renaissance Faire fencing tournament. | |
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LARP | |
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Pv P has an arc where the magazine's staff decides to engage in a boffer LARP as part of a company picnic. They end up sharing a park with Civil War re-enactors, which leads to some "who's dorkier" tension. And then they run into some Trekkies, and a pie fight breaks out. |
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LARP | |
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Glen, a LARPer and the nephew of the title character of FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman is a recurring character and in his debut episode runs the episode as a LARP. Because it's a kids show however there's no physical conflict, just a series of logic puzzles (which are also often featured in real LARPs) | |
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LARP | |
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There are a few episodes of South Park revolving around LARPs, such as "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", "Lil' Crime Stoppers", and the "Coon and Friends" and "Black Friday" trilogies (with video games South Park: The Stick of Truth and South Park: The Fractured but Whole taking those concepts and expanding on them greatly). | |
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One of the Geeks in a season of Beauty and the Geek. In fact his was the pairing that won that season. | |
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Empires SMP: In Season 2, GeminiTay LARPs on Empires as a self-proclaimed princess while also living a double life on Hermitcraft. She treats this as her Dark Secret, and things greatly start to complicate when half of the Hermitcraft cast visit Empires during a crossover event. The only other Empires member in the know is Pixlriffs, due to being the narrator of the Hermitcraft Recap and being in a similar situation to her. | |
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LARP | |
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Otakon has the Otakon LARP, a Theatre-style LARP which has been going on for decades. | |
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1.0 | |
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LARP | |
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In Cory Doctorow's Little Brother the hero is a former LARPer | |
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LARP | |
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Model United Nations has been described — including on its page — as LARPing in suits and getting away with calling it "an educational activity". In all fairness, MUN involves a lot less fighting between characters — although there's usually a lot of backstabbing all the same. | |
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LARP | |
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Soos from Gravity Falls mentions doing "FCLORP", or Foam and Cardboard Legitimate Outdoor Role-Play, as a reference to LARP. | |
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