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A live action role-playing game (LARP) is a form of role-playing game where the participants physically portray their characters. [1] The players pursue goals within a fictional setting represented by real-world environments while interacting with each other in character. The outcome of player actions may be mediated by game rules or determined ...
Live-action (or LARP): A type of role-playing game physically enacted in a troupe acting style. [ 3 ] [ 58 ] Living campaigns (or shared campaigns ): A gaming format within the table-top role-playing game community that provides the opportunity for play by an extended community within a shared universe .
As the LARP community has grown and the costs involved with running events have fallen, new LARP games are continually in development. Variations on combat including guns using Airsoft and NERF weaponry have appeared in a number of games, and there has been a wide expansion in the types of game being run, with games touching on sci-fi, survival ...
Nordic LARP is a style and tradition of live action role-playing games (LARPs) centered in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. New games premiere at the annual Knutepunkt Nordic LARP conference. [1] Gameplay draws upon acting techniques [2] and typically addresses serious and complex historical, political, and/or intellectual themes. [3]
The first definition of a pervasive game was as "a LARP (Live action role-playing game) game that is augmented with computing and communication technology in a way that combines the physical and digital space together". [6]
The most common form of freeform game is the Theatre-style live action role-playing game (LARP). Such freeforms have sprung up around the world independently. Some sources suggest the genre originated in Australia where the first large-scale (100 player) freeform was played at the CanCon gaming convention in Canberra in January 1983, quickly spreading to Melbourne and later Sydney gaming ...
Dagorhir larp foam fighter Dagorhir Battle Games is a national live action role-playing game (battle game) with full-contact melee fighting and ranged combat as its primary focus. Fighters typically use foam weapons such as swords, flails , spears, bows and arrows, javelins , axes, and other medieval weapons. [ 1 ]
The Knutepunkt is an annual role-playing game conference held annually in the Nordic countries since 1997. It has been a vital institution in establishing a Nordic role-playing identity, and in establishing the concept of "Nordic larp" as a unique approach.