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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 ]
Belegarth Medieval Combat Society is a sport where participants fight with foam padded safety equipment made to reflect medieval weaponry. The sport's combat is hard hitting and fast-paced, governed by a set of easy-to-learn rules Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, and requires a level of skill and aggression that challenges its participants to be physically fit.
A Dagorhir battle which shows a variety of foam weapons and shields being used. A foam weapon, also known as a boffer, padded weapon, or latex weapon, is a padded mock weapon used for simulated handheld combat. Such weapons are used in simulated battles called battle gaming and in some live action role-playing games (LARPs).
Two Dagorhir fighters use foam weapons to duel. The earliest recorded LARP group is Dagorhir, which was founded in 1977 in the United States and focuses on fantasy battles. [22] Soon after the release of the movie Logan's Run in 1976, rudimentary live role-playing games based on the movie were run at US science fiction conventions. [23]
Amtgard was created by Jim Haren Jr, also known as Peter LaGrue, in El Paso, Texas in 1983. [2] Taking pieces from the rulebooks of both Emarthnguarth and Dagorhir (both of which he had played previously), he advertised in the newspaper for an event known as "Attila the Hun's Birthday Brawl."
Among the live-combat groups, Dagorhir Outdoor Improvisational Battle Games was founded by Bryan Weise in the Washington, D.C. area in 1977. The International Fantasy Gaming Society ( IFGS ), also live-combat but with a complex rules system more clearly influenced by Dungeons and Dragons, was started in 1981 in Boulder, Colorado .
Beyond Geek is an American documentary television series that airs on PBS and public television stations across America. Beyond Geek Season 1 featured the 24 Hours of LeMons, Dagorhir, Belegarth, Amtgard, 8 Bit Weapon, NES Homebrew, JP Aerospace, WW2 Re-enactors, and Real-life Superheroes.
Demolition derby, Dagorhir Battle Games, Pumpkin boat racing. 4 "Figure 8 racing" January 27, 2009 () Figure 8 racing, Cowboy Action Shooting, Bishop Castle. 5