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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.
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]
New England Interactive Literature - A group which promotes and organizes LARPs and LARP conventions in the New England area. [15] NERO International - Fantasy boffer combat group the United States and Canada. New Zealand Live Action Role Playing Society - An umbrella organisation created to promote and support LARP throughout New Zealand.
[33] [34] Because the number of players in a LARP is usually larger than in a tabletop role-playing game, and the players may be interacting in separate physical spaces, there is typically less of an emphasis on tightly maintaining a narrative or directly entertaining the players, and game sessions are often managed in a more distributed manner ...
NERO International is a live action role-playing game (LARP) played in the United States.The NERO name originally was an acronym for "New England Role playing Organization", but the game has expanded well beyond its original New England roots and thus simply adopted the acronym as part of the official name.
Trollball is a sport played in Bicolline and other LARP settings. It is played in Europe and Canada, with many teams competing. One account states Trollball was started by Jose Antonio Ouellette in 1995, although a similar game by the same name was played as a tournament at The Gathering LARP event in the UK in 1991. [7]
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 ...