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| | Live action role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A live action role-playing game (or LARP as it is often known) is a form of role-playing game where the participants perform some or all of the physical actions of the characters they are playing. | | | The style of LARP varies from game system to game system. | | | Many LARPs (such as NERO, Amtgard and the Mind's Eye Theatre line) present most of their story with all their players gathered together, perhaps several dozen players politicking at a gathering or defending a besieged town. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game
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| | Larp: an introduction Amor Fati |
| | In some regions, larp is one of the activities associated with the "gaming" culture, together with board games, computer games and verbal roleplaying. | | | At the moment the larp begins, the organisers will relinquish most of their authority to shape the larp and leave it to the players who pretend to be their characters for the rest of the larp. | | | Some larp events last half an hour, others last a full week, players will usually be costumed as their characters and the location where they play will usually bear some remniscence to the location where they are pretending to be. |
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http://fate.laiv.org/in_larp.htm
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| | Theoretical Speculations about LARPs. |
| | In addition, LARP's tend to be insensitive towards desires to, for example, "imagine" that such-and-such a player is being convincing in his speech when he's actually a stuttering idiot, so that's also, to a certain extent, gamist, in that player skill is required and tested. | | | Most larps map the physical location to a game location, and anything outside the game location is handled by GM fiat/tabletop roleplaying/mechanics etc. For example, if we're playing Vampire, then the larp room maps to Elysium (a Vampire sanctuary) and anything happening in the city outside Elysium is handled by the GM. | | | Most LARP mechanics out there right now are gamist (which amuses the hell out of me, given the stereotypical LARPer's insistance that they're so far beyond D&D-like games) in that they reward player skill with the mechanic. |
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http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=567
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| | RPG.NET Gamer's Realm-- Essays and Articles |
| | Broadly speaking, "LARP" covers games where the players are physically interacting (instead of just sitting around a table), and each player takes on a "character" for the purpose of the game. | | | The LARP form of game has certain meta-assumptions that seem very common, and which the SCA breaks. | | | With a few rare exceptions, LARPs have a structure that gives each character one or more goals to be shooting for in the course of a game or campaign. |
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http://www.rpg.net/realm/critique/sca.html
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| | What is LARPs |
| | In a LARP game you dress in costume appropriate to your character and act and talk as appropriate for that character. | | | In this players take on the roles of individuals they have envisioned and act out their goals and motivations with each other. | | | Scarred Lands is a combat system, the players may well end up fighting and battling for their lives. |
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http://www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk/larps/whatis.html
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| | Knutepunkt 2005 Report |
| | I have played and game-mastered hundreds of tabletop games, but I have played in probably no more than 12 or 15 larps. | | | Positioning larps in the field of games and play | | | There is considerably more touching involved in the roles, whereas in my experience of American larps players are reluctant to violate other players' space even if there isn't such a rule. |
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http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/cons/knutepunkt2005.html
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| | EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - LARPs? |
| | LARPs are like going to a con or game day and sitting down with 5-10 other people to pnp. | | | It also seemed that this LARP batch reeked of high school-esque cliques (though the LARPers varied in ages from teens to adults), acting as a social elite in a setting where they could claim to be so (possibly having suffered from being deemed as outsiders/"freaks" during those high school years), esp. their characters. | | | As with all things, there are good and bad examples of LARPS and LARP players.. |
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http://www.enworld.org/printthread.php?t=79369
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| | A Parent's Guide To Role-Playing Games |
| | Whereas in table-top skill tests are determined by rolling dice, LARP tends to use quick games such as "paper, rock, scissors." Players are not allowed to touch one another, bring real weapons, or play outside of a designated area during a designated time. | | | LARPS: I have only played in one LARP, and it was Vampire: Mind's Eye Theatre from White Wolf. | | | Because of this, and because the players tend to run around in the woods at night, all LARPs have an insurance waiver. |
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http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/1257/parents2.html
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| | RPG Cliche List |
| | Peculiar stereotypical LARP player who, no matter what class or faction or persuasion of character they might be playing, have their character build a huge bomb and carry it around with them. | | | A LARP player who, no matter how charming, pleasant, and intelligent they might be in real life, is completely incapable of playing a character that doesn't immediately come across as slimy, underhanded, and leering. | | | These players play characters with a vast amount of unheralded, unseen power and go out of their way to be meek and unassuming, at least until a dramatic confrontation occurs in their vicinity. |
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http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/rpgcliches.html
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| | LARPs |
| | But in the LARP, there may be one or more than one GO, however they move freely about and only come to you when they need you. | | | LARPing, in some ways, is a lot more fun than MUDding or tt RPing because you get the chance to act out everything more, and you can move around. | | | In tt everything is done by the GM, and since there is usually only one GM per tt game, you have to wait until it's your turn to play. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/athena/nightingale/236/id29.htm
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| | Shifting Forest StoryWorks Index |
| | Parlor Larps are one-shot story games for 4-8 players. | | | We'll write any larp (not just a Parlor Larp) tailored to all your specifications for as low as $25 a player. | | | We have a number of Parlor Larps in a variety of genres, and release a new game every month. |
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http://www.shiftingforest.com
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| | Solmukohta - Events |
| | The programme has been organised in six distinct categories: Game Milieu, Immersion, Theory, Larp around the World, Fun, and Art. | | | The game will take place in August 2004 in Gothenburg. | | | Experience the strange situation of waking up in a tent at a festival with "somebody" sleeping besides you, and discover just how small a tent is when the zipper is broken. |
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http://www.ropecon.fi/solmukohta/events.html
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| | LARPs |
| | The biggest difference from tabletop play, however, is that in a LARP, anything that another player is doing out of earshot of you is indistinguishable from GM fiat. | | | When I say a decent 100+-player Narrativist LARP is possible and has been done, I'm speaking from experience, but that doesn't mean you can play in one this coming weekend. | | | What this means, is that in my experience, unless the players in the LARP were not only good players/improvosational actors, but also good at creating characters with hooks that other less experienced, less outgoing players could latch onto, you ended up with extensive cliques in the LARPs. |
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http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=3512
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| | RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming |
| | There are amateur LARP adaptations of tabletop systems, cyberpunk LARPs, media tie-in LARPs, political simulation LARPs, religious LARPs, Machiavellian intrigue LARP, post-apocalyptic LARPs, bar-hopping LARPs, military reenactment games, psychological problem-solving games, law-enforcement simulation LARPs, and LARP/play-by-e-mail crossover games. | | | Only slightly less famous are the padded-weapon fantasy/medieval reenactment games that have been going on, in one form or another, for more than thirty years. | | | There are comedy scenarios, murder parties, tabletop games that have gotten too big for their britches, LARPs for "mature" participants, universal LARP systems, paintball combat LARPs, and small-group psychological terror immersion games. |
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http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/Live_Wires_Scott_12_2.html
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| | LARPs |
| | Almost all the games I ran or played in were based on the White Wolf Storyteller universe (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage). | | | (The only exception so far was a free-form Revolutionary Girl Utena LARP I played in at VeriCon, January 2001. | | | No good photos exist of me in that LARP -- probably all to the best.) |
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http://www.broomstick.org/jude/larp.html
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| | Dundracon 28 Scheduled LARPs |
| | The LARP will be linked to games 223 and 225, run earlier in the con, and participants in the RPG games are more likely to get desired characters. | | | Characters may be brought into the game, but subject to gamemaster approval and modification. | | | System: Legend of the Five Rings LARP rules |
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http://www.dundracon.com/SchedLarps.htm
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| | Shade's Live Action Role Playing (LARP) List |
| | The game has a good balance of roleplaying intrigue, thrilling combat and a high tech flavor that is not seen in most larps. | | | Eidolon LARP is a new live-combat style Fantasy LARP combined with Cthulhu-live style investigative play. | | | The partnership is now accepting submissions from anyone and everyone who participates in Live Action Role Playing (LARP) games, including Canada and European Countries. |
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http://www.larplist.com
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| | The Older LARPs |
| | Blacklight Productions is a group that several friends of mine and I have put together to run large-scale live-action roleplaying games (LARPs) at a pair of gaming conventions in the New Jersey area. | | | Even though this game is defunct (being as I'm now in Ann Arbor), I'm leaving the site up for others to read and possibly use.... | | | However, thanks to the wonders of the Internet, people keep stumbling across my sites, reading them, and sometimes asking me if they can reference them in their games. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~esasmor/defunct.htm
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| | Promoting LARPs - RPGnet Forums |
| | The single biggest way LARPs grow is when current players bring along their mates. | | | So anything that encorages this (free entry if you bring along a friend who hasn't played before?) is a good thing. | | | Other than that, I think good solid storytelling is the best bet. |
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http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=109088&highlight=convention
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| | HexaFind.com - games |
| | Jennifer and Zach's Game Collection List of games including board, card, and strategy games with ratings, descriptions, comments, and links to manufacturers. | | | GamingReport News, forums and reviews on the gaming industry, roleplaying games, miniatures, collectable cards, pogs, and LARPs. |
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http://games.hexafind.com/Resources
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| | CHIMERA LARPS |
| | The Falkenstein style is generally swashbuckling and heroic, and Where There's A Will tries to exploit this: the LARP has no villains among the player characters, and thus operates rather differently to the usual conflict-based scenario. | | | A slightly lighter note than Wolves: Sultan's Tear is a fantasy LARP in an Arabian Nights setting, and should bring players out in a rash of baggy trousers. | | | Chimera is a 3-person LARP design team, comprising Philip Anastasiadis, Eckhard Gartz and Jessica Tiffin. |
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http://users.iafrica.com/m/me/melisant/larp/chimera.htm
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| | The LARPer: Technology Mediated LARPs |
| | Since one advantage of LARP over tabletop RPGs is high immersion and less distance between the PC and the player, this means palmtop-GMs could greatly facilitate better LARPs. | | | The answer to the first is now "Yes," as we have reached a price point at which each player in a LARP could conceivably carry around a wireless palm-sized computer. | | | That is, the need to reference a character sheet and the necessity of being familiar with game mechanics. |
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http://www.thelarper.org/issue_winter_2004/larp_tech.html
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| | The Guild Hall Forums - good live-combat larps |
| | what i find so unappealing about most larps is the utter silliness you have to go through to replicate nonexistant effects. | | | The classes and skills are, in fact, what intrigued me the most. | | | i've never been in any larps, so i might as well learn what's been proven successful in terms of what's fun to play and resonable safety standards. |
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http://www.guild-hall.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1799
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| | The Official Larps Board - Home |
| | Discussions and questions about Larps rules and/or rulings. | | | The Tavern is where you may talk with other players about In-Game Events | | | Genesis 11, Tower of Babel, Nobody would actually stop and listen to each other because they were too caught up in their own yelling... |
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http://larps.proboards28.com/index.cgi
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| | Welcome to Interactivites Ink, Ltd. |
| | live roleplaying, live action roleplaying, games, free games, video games, computer games, card games, board games, Rules to Live By, Miskatonic, LARP, Mike Young |
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http://www.interactivitiesink.com
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| | LARPS |
| | The game is based out of Long Island NY, with a player populous from LI, NJ, and PA. For more information send email to RobWreck or GehennaST. | | | New Jersey also sponsors WW Live Action Role Playing, (LARPs) through several of our players. | | | is a popular White Wolf LARP based in the New York City Area. |
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http://www.njad-ww.com/LARPS.html
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| | Munden's Bar - Roleplaying - LARPS |
| | HighandLow could be loosely described as an In Nomine Anime LARP, though I don't own those rules. | | | In other words we all got to dress up and play vampires. | | | I've been involved in a number of LARPs over the years, though only the first two listed are currently active. |
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http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~frankie/mundens/larps.html
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| | LARPs in the NJ/NY/PA area - RPGnet Forums |
| | Where I-Con will see episode one of this game, Spring Gathering will see episode four. | | | Game System: White Wolf's Old WoD Pen and Paper rules, Modified for LARP. | | | Contact Us - RPGnet (the Inside Scoop on Gaming!) - Archive - |
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http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?referrerid=&t=175548
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| | The Game Room: LARPs |
| | LARPs or Live Action Role Playing Games are the kind where you actually get dressed up as your character and you act out the parts. | | | So, LARP in the back of your car (on the road) | | | LARP in the place where you live ( |
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http://www.dragonmage.net/~eeeeka/gaming/larps.htm
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| | Gaming and Larps |
| | For information about live roleplaying games at Bucconeer, see our LARP calendar. | | | learn Fast&Fun games and run them, help with tournaments (name the games or game types you'd most like to help with), help with the Pirate Game, help with LARPS, or general gophering. | | | Once we've managed to finish the current keelhauling, we'll be sure to post information about other gaming! |
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http://www.bucconeer.worldcon.org/strange/gaming.html
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| | Inner Demon LARPs |
| | Descriptions of the LARPs created by the Inner Demons, and (when available) public information for players. | | | If you just asked "What is LARP?", then click here first. |
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http://www.geocities.com/timlarp
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| | Game Types Gamegrene.com |
| | It's easy for a LARP staff to see a bunch of players sitting around the town square and think, 'Hmm, they're bored. | | | But at the same time, the staff needs to be able to throw a low-stakes, hack'n'slash encounter at idle players every now and then. | | | Let's throw some orcs at them.' This is fun once in a while, but after two or three orc attacks, it gets a little old and a lot unbelievable. |
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http://www.gamegrene.com/taxonomy_menu/2/46
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| | larps |
| | I don't know where I'm going from here. | | | I saw that I could use LARPing to expand my personality. | | | I may have gotten just about all I can get out of LARPing. |
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http://www.lee.org/larps
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| | A Renaissance Woman |
| | live action role playing games (LARPs), costuming conventions and competitions, and crafts. | | | I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do |
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http://www.taubenfeld.bravepages.com
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| | LARPs |
| | System: "Thy Kingdom Come" is a live action roleplaying game set in FASA and Living Room Games' "Earthdawn" setting. | | | Description: 700 years ago, when no one could deny any longer that the Horrors were coming, that the Scourge was at hand, the dwarven kingdom of Throal, which had risen up as the greatest kingdom in Barsaive, made a bargain with the Theran Empire. | | | It will be play-testing an original larp conflict system. |
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http://www.ragingwomen.org/~penelope/larps.html
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| | RPG Encyclopedia Entries: B |
| | A guide to writing and running live-action role-playing games (LARPs). |
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http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/encyclopedia/alphabetical/B.html
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| | J-LARPS |
| | Quotes -- A list of quotes from the players of CALAR...and we still want more, send them through the comments page or e-mail J-LARPS with them. | | | -- Links to other LARP sites plus some of our favorite sites. | | | Ask the Guru -- The J-LARPS Guru answers your questions! |
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http://jlarps.250x.com
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| | Jehanne's Homepage |
| | I also design with other groups of people. | | | I have also been involved for many years in the organisation of Dragonfire, the annual role-playing tournament of CLAWs, UCT's student fantasy role-playing society. | | | I am a fanatical and dedicated roleplayer, running Call of Cthulhu, Rolemaster and Castle Falkenstein by preference, and currently playing Call of Cthulhu/Delta Green and Ars Magica. |
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http://users.iafrica.com/m/me/melisant/rpg.htm
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| | Larps Info Page |
| | Subscribe to Larps by filling out the following form. | | | To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Larps Archives. | | | You will be sent email requesting confirmation, to prevent others from gratuitously subscribing you. |
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http://bennee.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/larps
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| | Large Aircraft Robotic Paint Stripping (LARPS) |
| | Phase II validation testing of the system was completed in May 1996. | | | A high-pressure water system is currently being developed as part of another Air Force project (MANTECH), however, this new technology will not be applicable to aircraft radomes which have more stringent performance criteria. | | | The overall technical effort of the LARPS program will be expanded to address radome coating needs. |
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http://www.pprc.org/pprc/rpd/fedfund/dod/serdp/largeair.html
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| | LARPs |
| | Movies from Legends, a LARP dealie some friends of mine do. |
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http://www.mit.edu/~cyruse/larps.html
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| | Welcome To LARPs |
| | Then welcome to Warwick LARPs where either of these --- fates could be yours as you play the role of either one of the champions of the Scarred Lands or as an ancient scion of the night in our vampire-haunted Modern gameworld. | | | This page is under construction and will be updated over the course of this evening and this weekend. | | | Cursed to walk the Earth after dark, feasting upon the blood of the living, your very existence hidden from the mortal herds. |
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http://www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk/larps
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| | The 20' By 20' Room: Mainstream LARPs |
| | ." Robin Laws claims that LARPs have already made the leap to mainstream status, and provides practical advice for furthering the cause. | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Mainstream LARPs: |
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http://www.20by20room.com/2004/07/mainstream_larp.html
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| | Welcome to LARP.COM |
| | LARP Links to other excellent sites, which are not hosted here | | | Note: All LARPs listed on this page are hosted locally. |
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http://www.larp.com
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| | Index |
| | L: Larp Combat System, LRP Combat and Realism, Lrp Kit List, Lrp Physical System, | | | R: Reasons To Run Larps Without Systems, Role-playing, Role-playing Styles and Systems, | | | W: Welcome to Stevecooper.org, What is plot in LARP? |
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http://www.stevecooper.org/index.php?action=index
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| | The poetry ring |
| | Poetry has been my outlet for many personal issues and how I view things personally in society. | | | LARPs, fanfic, online RPG, magazine, free email and more. |
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http://j.webring.com/hub?ring=bremen
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