the one I do
fighting works on a hits based system (if you get hit a number of times on any location it becomes immobile)
Spells involve you shouting something specific and pointing at someeone and they respond by falling over or running away or something.

Usually you play your character and sometimes you get into fights with other characters. There are also people who play the monsters who are generally 'the baddies', zombies, daemons, innocent villagers who turn out to be daemons.

hope this helps
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:25, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I just cannot get my head around larping.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:27, Reply)

ever played D&D
or computer games that are role play based? It's like that only with more ham acting
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:30, Reply)

of course I have
But larping is several levels of wrongness over playing Oblivion.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:33, Reply)

There's worse things to be in life.
A train spotter for instance.
( girlinthehole, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:38, Reply)

or a Tory voter.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:41, Reply)

I've met a Tory voter.
She's lovely. She doesn't eat babies and once rescued a cat from a tree.
( girlinthehole, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:43, Reply)

arsebollocks.
I loathe Tories. Utter selfishness on a ballot paper. And the callousness of Thatcher was fucking world class.

Testing out the poll tax on Scotland a year before England as punishment for not supporting her- totally unforgivable. Not to mention the hypocrisy of back to basics etc.

Turn my fucking stomach.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:52, Reply)

I didn't say I've met Thatcher.

( girlinthehole, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:58, Reply)

doesn't matter.
Thatcher is the wank material for all modern Tories- her policies and views are still evoked as some kind of rightward golden age. I was a kid in Scotland when her policies came in- when she dies later this year it will be a fucking party for me and my peer group- that bitch and her troop of acolytes (in government now) are a bunch of selfish, self serving cunts. Not welcome round my house. Only a shade less unacceptable than Nick Griffin.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 21:09, Reply)

It sounds like a good laugh really, esspechally when you know what you're doing.
Can you borrow costumes on your first go? What happens when you 'die', can you then go off to a tent/BBQ or do you have to lay down? Is there a lot of time by yourself, or is there some sort of buddy system?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:28, Reply)

the weekend ones you can hang out with your mates all the time if you want
if you're unconscious you lie down until someone heals you. If you are dead dead you make a new character. There are lots of times for bbqs and arsing around, depending on how you play the game.

Usually you go with a group of mates, so n00bs borrow kit and follow people around until they get the hang of it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:32, Reply)