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Fantasy is one of the most common LARP genres internationally and is the genre that the largest events use. [60] Fantasy LARPs are set in pseudo-historical worlds inspired by fantasy literature and fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. These settings typically have magic, fantasy races, and limited technology. Many fantasy ...
The region also plays host to many, smaller, fantasy-based LARPs, such as Lione Rampant, Quest Interactive Productions, Legends Roleplaying, Mythical Journeys and Chimera Entertainment's nTeraction (now Accelerant), all formed in the 1980s and 1990s by fantasy enthusiasts with a love for character roleplay and adventure, but without large ...
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.
The first commercially available RPG, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), was inspired by fantasy literature and the wargaming hobby and was published in 1974. [21] The popularity of D&D led to the birth of the tabletop role-playing game industry, which publishes games with many different themes, rules, and styles of play.
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]
For his next LARP, he turned to Tolkienesque fantasy, creating a world called Valenor for a LARP he titled Myrskyn aika (Time of the Storm). [2] The LARP was set in a land Pohjola described as "an evil empire", where players would take on the roles of rebels fighting for what they perceived as good. [ 1 ]
Mind's Eye Theatre is a live action role-playing game (LARP) based on the White Wolf World of Darkness universe and shares the setting with the tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, among others.
Mark Rein•Hagen had been thinking about LARPs since Ars Magica, but this was the first time his ideas saw print." [ 1 ] : 15 Appelcline explained that LARPs were disconnected from the tabeltop role-playing hobby for many years, but "That changed in the ’90s, a fact that many attribute to White Wolf ’s Mind's Eye Theatre LARP, The ...