/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

[hungarian LARPfag No.9852357]

Yet again a larp thread
previous one
>>9800838

And just to start with a random question:
how many different characters you have played so far in larps?
npcs, monsters and shit like that doesn't count

[Gropey_the_Clown !g3AO.hFIes No.9852401]

>>9852357
Five that I used repeatedly.

Medieval fantasy
>Church sponsored witch Hunter
I kinda took a page from a mix of Solomon Kane and the Witcher Geralt. Willing to talk, sympathetic, but ruthless when it comes right down to it.

>Mercenary/sellsword
Spare son of a noble family. In it for the lols as he doesn't inherit much. Well trained professional, but a bit of a braggart and rake.

>Traveling performer
Secretly a Slaaneshi cultist

NOT!18thC fantasy
>Road Warden
A veteran turned lawman, who started with ideals and drive to keep safe his fellow man. Prematurely aged and jaded by years of dealing with the worst of humanity and the horrors of the forests.

Cyberpunk Noir
>Freelance Merc team member
Part of "Dog Pack" Merc company. Contracted with both Corps and private parties. Grenade and demo expert, may be sexualy turned on by explosions.

The rest are either NPCs or one shots.

[Anonymous No.9852465]

>>9852357
Only ever played one role in any real capacity: Leather Tradesman.

[Anonymous No.9852475]

>>9852357
>how many different characters you have played so far in larps?
In total, you mean? That's a lot. I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but here goes in somewhat chronological order:

>Cael, generic wood elf
>Santir, generic wood elf
>forgot the name, healer/cleric
>forgot the name, exiled noble warrior
>Keanon Fodder, generic warrior
>Dan Ivory, mercenary mage
>Aeran Meadowgale, wood elf with a morbid fear of forests
>forgot the name, Prussian merchant's son
>forgot the name, second in command of a post-apo gang
>Eric "Gevaar" de Boer (which translates to Eric "Danger" the Farmer), wannabe hero
>forgot the name, prison guard too soft to be one
>Prince Charming (literally)
>forgot the name, cleric of the sun god
>Nibo, flamboyant voodoo priest
>Percedal de Chateauvieux de Volvent, irresponsible student with a theoretical noble title
>Jaques Marteau, insane changeling denying the existance of magic
And coming up:
>Joris, idiot paladin obsessed with rabbits
>not named yet, fireman who literally worships the first responder manual

Those are all the player characters I've played since I started eight years ago. Kind of fun to list them all.

[Anonymous No.9852547]

>>9852401
>>Traveling performer
>Secretly a Slaaneshi cultist
The question is characters you've played, not a short personal bio.

[Anonymous No.9852557]

>>9850958
>Hits per loc
Jesus, anon. That's half your problem right there. I'm guessing you're in the UK, probably playing something old and clunky like Laby, DUTT, or HMS?

[Anonymous No.9852793]

>>9852357

low-fantasy
A doctor who sells insurance.

low-fantasy
A horned samurai

high-fantasy
a character named Duke Count who was a count

retro-cyberpunk
Samurai Jack (I was offered the role by the organizers)

wh40k
A Caidian Guardsman

pulpy post apoc
A mute soldier

pulpy post apoc
A one handed commander

high fantasy
An immortal knight that seeks to end all wars

low fantasy
A Bronn-type mercenary who was offered nobility and land for a long con.

these are all i can remember
(somewhat in chronological order too)

>pic only lightly related

[Anonymous No.9852826]

>>9852557
Netherlands.

And yeah, the Dutch larp scene is pretty shit rules-wise. Even though all events write their own rules (afaik), they all end up the same: clunky systems with
needlessly complex magic systems, way too many calls in combat, and way too much math. Tracking hit points and armour points per hit location, mana and cooldowns at the same time in combat just takes away from the fun.

[Anonymous No.9853035]

>>9852826
Fuck You playing at in NL brah?

[Anonymous No.9853053]

>>9853035
So far, I've either played at or read into the rules of Aragnes, Omen, Ravenskeep, Vortex, Malakden, and one small larp that died out years ago. They're all fairly similar in terms of what I just described to me.

[Anonymous No.9853091]

>>9853053
Didn't Vortex do it's best to stop the spell bloat? What with the old-boys-network meme with old players being offered the choice to go along with the news rules or stick to the old one as to not kill their "build".
Second hand info though I'm not sure, but AFAIK they're slowly growing more towards a simpler system.
GnS has pretty much just ripped ConQuest's rule system and gave it some slight tweaks. Although they updated the ruleset per event so that's changing a little as well. Haven't found the time to go through their new books.

Can't speak for the other events though.
If you want bare bones, and in that sense IMO, good rules for combat. Go play at Tir Nan Beo. You can summarise their combat system in about 2/3 pages.

[Anonymous No.9853114]

>>9853091
>Tir Nan Beo
I was put off by Tir Nan Beo back when it was started, because it was presented to me in the most obnoxiously elitist way I've ever seen in larp. Has it gotten any better since?

Looking into the rules, I don't think it's that much of an improvement. I like the lack of calls, but it still has a fuckton of math. You still have hit points per hit location (only as a player, NPC's have total hit points again). Worse, you not only have to keep track of hit points and armour points separately, you also have to KEEP TRACK OF THE ARMOUR POINTS OF EACH INDIVIDUAL PIECE OF ARMOUR because of armour stacking and protection rules. Just why?

[Anonymous No.9853119]

>>9853114
In all honesty I don't mind that bit too much, sure total hit points would be better: But it beats having to listen to lightning bolt tier shouting and different kinds of damage.

Most elitist way possible? Care to expand on that?

[Anonymous No.9853128]

>>9853119
Some dude was advocating for the event. He only mentioned high costuming standards, invite-only player places, and never really touched on what they DID there or why it was fun. Just the requirements and limitations the event imposed. The event itself got no explanation beyond "viking stuff".

Same day, on Facebook, a different dude did basically the same thing.

I'm all in favour of upholding standards, but the exclusivity with which they focused on them made it seem more like an exclusive and elitist re-enactment group than a larp.

[Anonymous No.9853143]

>>9853128
The high costuming standard was one of the big selling points though. It's a focus people like, sure there's nothing wrong with the players wearing a mytholon blouse or a chainmaille over a t-shirt.
You can't have fun in the wrong way, really.
But at some point you just want to play with people whose interest goes beyond that.

AFAIK the rest of Tir Nan Beo isn't super special. They don't have some super innovative, thought provoking and culture advancing setting or game style. It's just pretty good.
So the light costume snobbery is a way to differentiate I guess.

[Anonymous No.9853159]

>>9853143
>sure there's nothing wrong with the players wearing a mytholon blouse or a chainmaille over a t-shirt.
Are you sure about that anon?

[Anonymous No.9853195]

>>9853159
Can't have fun in the wrong way at a LARP, I have been humbled from my snobby ways. And sure, I can mutter about how people should be dressing and having fun, but in the end, if they're doing what they should be doing at their LARP and not massively ruining other people their fun.
All glory to them. Elitism isn't going to make them "better", it's just going to make me/us/you look like a dick.

Help when asked, and live and let live. (Fuck you if you're going to my historically correct LARP dressed out of period and using magic.)

[Anonymous No.9853202]

>>9853195
Fair point, i'm more used to hanging out with re-enactors myself so it's taking a bit to adjust the general mindset.

[Anonymous No.9853208]

>>9853202
Most of the costumes our groups do are closer to re-enactment than general LARPing mind you. It's just an endless, thankless task that will end up in you looking like the fun police to people who don't care about that part of the hobby. I'd say pick your battles, and espescially your LARPs, and in a random medieval fantasy LARP just throw your hands in the air at the butted alu-mail and the oversized Mytholon shoulders and visored barbutas and just roll with it. It's a battle you can't and heck, don't even want to win.

>inb4 Gryphon helmet meme

[Anonymous No.9853215]

>>9853208
Griphon style visors on bascinet do have a historical basis though

[Anonymous No.9853223]

>>9853215
A U T I S T I C S C R E E C H I N G (if it's on a bascinet I can deal with it, somewhat, I've seen them on bloody barbutas)

[Anonymous No.9853226]

>>9853223
Blame that on victorians making franken armor out of separate pieces.
Anyone that has a visor on a barbuta deserves to get whacked

[CelticShieldFag No.9854549]

>>9852357
I played a lot of character

Most of them fighters because i can't imagine myself not going to the battlefield but some of them more delicate:

Storbjorn:
A WereBear leader of a northern tribe wanting to reclaims it's glory after he became the leader because half-beast are considered as monsters

An inquisitor as that saw the dawnfall and corruption of men aside him to the power of old gods without being able to prevent it before it was too late

a sellsword willing to do anything to get a a little bit of money he switched side a lot before finally dying because he couldn't pay his massives debts he still stirred a lot of troubles for almost every faction so it was a fun guy to play

a fanatical paladin belonging to an army like order
really fun to play a bunch of fanatics everything you do can be justified in the name of your god.
killed a bunch of people suspected of being heretics a lot of them were some let's say we sent them to god earlier for their greater good
in the end i died but my brothers prevailed and it was all that counted

an alchemist obsessed with eternal life
most likely you can achieve it by stealing life from other
died on the first day after tortured a important guy which i didn't know was important

and a bunch of soldiers just to fight and have fun

[Anonymous No.9854729]

>>9854549
Are you that retard from the last thread comparing smallswords to shortswords and shields? You should put a trip on so you're easier to filter.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9854961]

>>9854729
dude, he literally just put up a name. If you can't filter that then you are the retard

[CelticShieldFag No.9854990]

>>9854961
this

>>9854729
and i didn't compare short sword with small sword
i compared short thrust oriented sword used in antiquity with a short thrust oriented sword used in renaissance and pointed the fact that larps battlefield are more akin to antiquity battlefield than renaissance battlefields

But the arguement is over so let's enjoy this thread by speaking about other stuff

[Anonymous No.9855085]

I summon the almighty Hungarian of Live Action Roleplay Faggotry

I humbly request aesthetic and impressive photos of Landsknecht (The Obrist or just other fancy LK's) and all

[Anonymous No.9855137]

>>9854990
No, you're still retarded, no matter how you try to justify it.

Ancient short swords vs. early modern small swords are nothing alike in use or design.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855200]

>>9855085
do you want larp versions or people who think they are authentic when not, or authentic ones or source materials?

[Anonymous No.9855246]

>>9854990
Could you, besides the debate, not force name faggotry like you're special?
So far the only name faggots who really earned their right are HLF, Gropey, and maybe a sporadic few far in between who hardly post.

You're not interesting enough to pretend you NEED to be a namefag.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855256]

>>9855200
and just to show a few examples of all of that

Here is a larp version. The whole thing has the landsknecht feel but didn't even tried to be authetnic and also it's made to rather represent a WH fantasy landsknecht equivalent (averlanders I think but not sure)

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855263]

>>9855256
these guys on the other hand tries to be authentic but have a handful of problems with their stuff.
Waistline is in wrong height (that's a very widespread problem with a lot of stuff, not just with LK) hose isn't fitting enough, the doublet's pattern is off, etc.
Otherwise they look cool but you can feel that something is off

[Anonymous No.9855268]

>>9855263
Hose being off might have to do with not using wool I guess? It's hard to make stretchy/tight clothing out of non wool in my experience.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855283]

>>9855268
nah, it's wool. It's just they fucked up the pattern. They made it too big and doesn't even tried to do a fitting pattern

>>9855263
and then you have the authentic versions that are correct or near perfect like this one

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855286]

>>9855283
and finally you have the source materials

[Anonymous No.9855288]

>>9855283
Jesus the horror, I'd make a new pair if I did that desu. Could've literally just made it smaller. Absolute lads.

And well, in the defence of not being as good as your pic. It's not my marriage dress/suit.

In return you can have this Colgate coloured looking motherfucker.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855291]

>>9855288
>And well, in the defence of not being as good as your pic. It's not my marriage dress/suit.
the stuff they brought to larps isn't that bad either

[Anonymous No.9855294]

>>9855291
Man. Stop it HLF, you're making my costume Napoleon complex play up.
Going to start on my own LK kit once the missus is finished with her 14th century kit.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855302]

>>9855294
Anyway, which kind of pics you want?

[Anonymous No.9855303]

>>9855302
Oh I'm a different anon HLF, I was just shitposting against the new namefag and got caught in this convo so just here to share my own pins.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855304]

>>9855303
Well it was about time to stop being a faggot and do something productive complaining about others name's is one of the dumbest thing you can do

[Anonymous No.9855305]

>>9855304
>namefagging for no reason
But why. It doesn't add anything besides a pretense of being special.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855307]

>>9855305
and why the fuck you care? Did he fucked your dog and run over your wife or something?
Also I'm pretty sure you can find other things to complain than his name.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855308]

[Anonymous No.9855312]

>>9855307
I care because it's annoying he has the pretentiousness of being a namefag without it having any neccessity. If he wanted to set himself apart from others for no good reason he should've made a Facebook or Reddit account.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855317]

>>9855312
Look, basically I'm a retard too because I'm namefagging on an anonymous cheese-maker forum.
But here is the trick: the site allows us to put names next to our comments so it's a-okay to do it technically.

I realize that the whole 4chan culture is against names and the exceptions are few and far between but being a rageing butthole about it while obviously feels good in the long run won't do any good.
So just let him namefag, and maybe he will stop using it on his own, or just stop coming to larpthreads like hundreds of other peoples when they lose interst.
Or maybe he will became a productive member of these threads.
Or became some asshole that you can now block because he has a name.

All in all, letting him using a name either won't do any big harm or has outright advantages

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855319]

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[Anonymous No.9855442]

>>9852357
I'm working on my first character for my first LARP. Going to play the son of a fortuneteller and a print shop owner that reads tarot decks at events. I just cannot make heads or tails of the deck I bought.

[Anonymous No.9855531]

>>9855442
Google tarot tutorials, I suppose?

There's a million different ways to read a tarot, anyway. As long as you look like you know what you're doing, no-one is going to question you OoC.

[Anonymous No.9855752]

>>9854990
>larps battlefield are more akin to antiquity battlefield
no

[Anonymous No.9855764]

>>9855442
>>9855531
Yeah, you can pretty much just bullshit your way through it and only tarot autists will be bothered.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9855768]

>>9855764
>will be bothered.
if they are any good then they are already bothered

[Anonymous No.9855814]

>>9855768
Why's that?

[Gropey_the_Clown !g3AO.hFIes No.9855928]

>>9855814
Because they should have foretold it.

[CelticShieldFag No.9856133]

>>9855442
Yup just as he said bullshit your way up

I mean. What do you think rituals and magic are in larp just people bullshitting it and other people accepting it

One of the simplest way I know for it to look good is to draw 5 cards

1 for the past
1 for the future
1 for the present
2 for how the emotions

Draw the timeline yourself but let the client draw the emotions

Then bullshit a story with what you got and Bam done you're a fortune-teller

What's good with tarot is that there isnt a textbook interpretation so even if you draw only "bad" cards you can still most of the time turn them around.

[Anonymous No.9856427]

>>9856133
Please die.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9856430]

>>9856427
are you from the fortuneteller mafia?

[Anonymous No.9856528]

>>9856430
No, this anon is just the worst faggot to ever faggot in the history of faggots.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9856575]

>>9856528
that's a bold claim and a lot of faggotry

[Gropey_the_Clown !g3AO.hFIes No.9856618]

>>9856430
They have an offer they know if you will or will not refuse.

[CelticShieldFag No.9856619]

>>9855752
It's not even an argument c'mon you can do better than this

>>9856427
If you really want me to I'll be at chroniken
I won't do your job

>>9856430
Hehe really laughed to this one

>I will make an offer i know you won't refuse
>I refuse
>but...but...the cards...

>>9856528
Oh no my covers blown!
what will I do?
Surely not give another fuck

>>9855340
Ok this one is quite nice but really I find all the others ugly as fuck
I know to each their own but never quite understood the appeal for landshknet

[hungarian LARPfag No.9856628]

>>9856619
>but really I find all the others ugly as fuck
Please die

Joking aside, Landsknecht fashion was so various it's easy to find stuff that you can hate and stuff that you can love.

[CelticShieldFag No.9856642]

>>9856618
C'mon 7 seconds before my post

>>9856628
Hehe

Yup generally it's a little bit too extravagant for my taste
I prefer simple and sober designs which doesn't really fit the landshknet

[Anonymous No.9856648]

>>9856642
>Yup generally it's a little bit too extravagant for my taste
>I prefer simple and sober designs which doesn't really fit the landshknet
then you want late 15th or very early 16th century Landskenchts

[CelticShieldFag No.9856673]

>>9856648
Let's say it's barely alright

But mostly I think I'd go over something else if I wanted to play something from that period

[CelticShieldFag No.9856718]

On a totally different subject I'm looking for a design for a spear

I'm going to craft it so there no real limit apart from maniability

The spear is for a female player in a religious fanatic order
The setting is a fantasy one so no real date but I'd place it around the 14th and the 15th century

[hungarian LARPfag No.9856772]

>>9856673
>Let's say it's barely alright
how about now?

[CelticShieldFag No.9856917]

>>9856772
nope nopiti nobipi nope

but it's also that i don't really like late medieval period and the renaissance
and this even if we talk about the armors
i really find that the transitional armor are the most beautiful one while full plate armor often look ridiculous to me

[hungarian LARPfag No.9856929]

>>9856917
>nope nopiti nobipi nope

[CelticShieldFag No.9856939]

to give you an exemple this speak a lot more to me

[hungarian LARPfag No.9856952]

>>9856939
you need this in your life

[CelticShieldFag No.9856960]

pls staph

[hungarian LARPfag No.9856974]

>>9856960

[CelticShieldFag No.9856992]

i think i found a solution for me to appreciate landshknet clothing

[Anonymous No.9857647]

>>9852357
Majorly 2 Characters

>Crazed Forest Dweller obsessed with killing mutants
Had some friends killed by mutants, got new friends, had those friends killed by mutants, so he gave up on friends and lives in the woods. Went crazy, started to mutate, determined to finish his 'kill' list of mutants before he kills himself.
>Angry Cleric of the Light
Street Rat turned cleric of Light that never got over his anger issues. Tries to be a good person but gets a little too into it sometimes. Had to literally be held back from murdering a whole bunch of evil people. On rough terms with his god

[Anonymous No.9857685]

>>9852357
My main two characters played in multiple LARPs are my High Abbess: a powerful religious zealot where I take the main religion of a game and basically go ham and become a genderswapped Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame. As most places won't have a church for me to spend my days in, I like to be travelling on inquisition-esque journeys and seeking heretics on the way. Sometimes sent on the few authorities she accepts higher than herself. When I can, I incorporate nun lolita stuff in my costume. But a lot of what I do is making custom accessories for my outfit because catholicism is my aesthetic. It's nice when I have a few followers with me. I call them "nunderlings" out of character, kek.

The other character I like to play is a sea/river witch. She's a somewhat unkempt and constantly wet looking person. Outfit is super peasant rags mode, but I do weird shimmery pale blue contour to me to make her slightly fish. Kind of insane and always whispering to herself. I make jewelry so I'm basically covered in cool seashell shit and I love to give them away in character to grant waterbreathing, expert swim knowledge or similar abilites to the wearer. I usually make them do some kind of ridiculous quest for it. One time I legit had people hunting for snails, lmao.

Both of them work well for high, low, or no fantasy because they can just be crazy people. And I dig that.

[Anonymous No.9858007]

>>9853114
>>9853119
I actually really prefer localized hitpoints. It makes it easier to tackle hp or amor bloat by smart fighting, and add a bit of realism in my opinion.

I hate it when a guy gets away with a shitty defense because his shoulderpads magically also protect his legs

[CelticShieldFag No.9858011]

>>9858007
One way to tackle this is if the armor protect a zone
A shoulderpad only protect the arm
A plastron only the torso

The armors points aren't localised but at least if you hit a zone that isn't covered it will directly affect his up

I really like localised HP and armor but I have to agree that for high population larp non localised is easier and allow for a fluidier game

[hungarian LARPfag No.9858017]

>>9858007
>>9858011
yet another day when I'm amazed how ass backwards are some of the larps out there

[CelticShieldFag No.9858025]

>>9858017
What do you mean?

>>9857685
Really like the idea of the snail quest
I'll try to do it in the fairs I participate to with my group

[Anonymous No.9858032]

>>9857647
You seem like a fun person.

I'm looking to talk to the event organizers to see if I can start handing out plot hooks via tarot reading.

[Anonymous No.9858033]

>>9858007
I mean, if you're a game runner you could also just tackle HP bloat by not bloating HP values.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9858041]

>>9858025
that in same games HP bloat is a problem, or armor protects in places where there isn't one or armor points used in a retarded way.
I'm always amazed when people still try to use tabletop rules for larps not realizing it's a totally different medium

[CelticShieldFag No.9858057]

>>9858033
Generally speaking I don't go to events where player can have more than 15 HP armors included

Even myself even if I wear mail or plate I will only take 10 as the upper limit

>>9858041
Yup sometimes the rule are crappy that why it's the first thing I read about a larp
I don't want to read all the more the setting and all of it
Find it interesting as fuck beginning to invest myself in it then realise that the rules are shitty and that I won't go anyway


I'm from France and in France larpbis quite old it really began in the 80s so we went through a lot of experimentation
Nowadays almost every larps in France use the same system
3 base HP
Armor can add up to 5

Then what change is if there is a lot or no calls différents damage if there is magic and what it does

nowadays calls tend to dissapear damage are simple 1 hand 1dmg 2 hand 2 DMG
And a lot of other thing just to push the immersion at the maximum while allowing everybody to play

[Anonymous No.9858071]

>>9858025
It's pretty cool, because it gives people something to do, and I honestly have no idea if they'll find anything or not. Gives their characters plenty of options for roleplay when they're off with their own little groups. Maybe one of them comes with an ingenious method to find them, maybe another has a fear of creepy crawly things, maybe another thinks this is stupid and a waste of time. Maybe it drives people apart! Have a look at what's in season. Bughunting is a little less damaging to local wildlife as opposed to gathering flowers and safer than finding animals. You can also sent people to find coloured stones or dead branches for kindling.

[CelticShieldFag No.9858089]

>>9858071
Yup but for some reason asking player to find blippy my burpy slimy friendly snail really made me laugh
>I lost blippy. You seen blippy?
>Who's blippy?
>He's small and goes slurp slurp slurp everywhere. Seen blippy?

[Anonymous No.9858100]

>>9858089
Hahahaha, I love that. Share results sometime.

[CelticShieldFag No.9858115]

>>9858100
I'll try it next week end
Not really the character for it but damnit I'll find a way

[Anonymous No.9858183]

>>9858041
For real, unnecessary tabletop rules are my most hated thing in larp. The only reason most of that shit exists is because you can't act shit out in tabletop; when you can act it you don't need rules to cover it as well!

[hungarian LARPfag No.9858448]

>>9858057
>nowadays calls tend to dissapear damage are simple 1 hand 1dmg 2 hand 2 DMG
>calls
Those are also objectively bad in 80% of the cases

>>9858089
Korporal Hans Schneckler is the most famous snail, who died as a hero

[Anonymous No.9858465]

>>9856974
>>9856952
>>9856929
>>9856772
>ITT Landsknecht Graveur models

[hungarian LARPfag No.9858476]

>>9858465

[CelticShieldFag No.9858482]

>>9858448
You don't call the dmg of course even if you have a 2 handed weapons you count on the other guy not to be totally brain dead
And yup call are generally kept to the minimum for magic and such

About Hans schneckler:
>People bringing me a snail
>we found blippy
>S'not blippy you blind schmuck
>Must be dead let's hold funerals.
Then asking them to find what blippy liked best to give him proper funerals

As a reward give them lettuce cause that's what blippy would have wanted

[Anonymous No.9861006]

How hard do you hit in a LARP? I'm stuck playing Amtgard, and I noticed myself both giving and taking some pretty heavy shots today. At least it was all dickbats.

[Anonymous No.9861039]

>>9861006
Lightest touch.

Add chutzpah if shots are not acknowledged.

[Anonymous No.9861082]

>>9861006
Depending on your area, I'm pretty sure Amtgard is one of the tamer games in terms of how hard people hit. Bel has heavier weapons and SCA is SCA.

[Anonymous No.9861211]

I've had several pairs of goggles break on me during events from pretty tame shit. Does anybody know of any place in the US where I can get a sturdy, durable pair of goggles? Cheap-ish would be nice, but I can shell out a little extra if it means something that'll last.

[Anonymous No.9861219]

>>9861211
I should specify, I've been looking at online military surplus shops, and the ones there seem decent. Just want to make sure there aren't any hidden gems I'm missing.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9861268]

>>9861006
>How hard do you hit in a LARP?
accurately

[Anonymous No.9861274]

>>9861211
You mean for an airsoft game? Milsurp should be just fine.

>>9861006
I've never really paid it all that much attention. The only issue I take is when some dude starts swinging for the bleachers to show off how completely hardcore he is in a foam stick contest.

[Anonymous No.9861282]

>>9861006
The group I practice with hits relatively hard. A few bruises and sore fingers are common. It's just a preference, no "omg so manly" thinking behind it.

I wouldn't hit a stranger that hard unless he was wearing armour, though.

[CelticShieldFag No.9861292]

>>9861006
In my group we hit quite lightly
Larp weapons are not heavy and with a bit of training it's easy to slow down your weapon just before it hits
Of course no matter the strength of the strike if you hit a "no zone plz don't crush my balls" it will hurt

[Anonymous No.9861372]

>>9852357
I've only played one, and he was the King of All Birds.

[Anonymous No.9861562]

I play a weaselly cunt of a character that bathes in filth and is covered in rust, which Drachenfest camp should I join?

[Anonymous No.9861680]

>>9861562
Green. You'll fit right in.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9861682]

>>9861562
copper

[Anonymous No.9861694]

I had such a good time last weekend. Whereas previous installments of this game had a lot of combat play, which isn't really my cup of tea, this one had a lot of emotional play. Could almost not be happier with the character development I made and the play I had. To top it of during my one combat interacting I fired shots that actually hit the NPC's (I suck at NERF).

Highligt of the weekend:
Long story short I play a rebellious teenager from a very strict society. Some other faction threw a party so naturally I had to find a way to be there. I made a dummy out of clothes and a wig in my bed and had the characters organizing the party dress me up as one of their own. All was going great until people of my own faction started to show at the party. The suspense of almost getting caugt or being recognized was so high. It was a intense experience.
And of course my superior found out in the end and I got to play out a big temper tantrum.

[Anonymous No.9862133]

>>9861274
Not airsoft, no. Regular fantasy larp. It's not generally weapon hits that have been breaking my shit, but falling over and landing on them.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9862280]

>>9862133
>but falling over and landing on them.
anon, have you tried using a rubber band?

[Anonymous No.9862295]

>>9862280
I'm not sure what a rubber band would do for me here, honestly.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9862298]

>>9862295
if you land on your glasses and we assume you doesn't fall on your face all the fucking time then the problem is your glasses falling off your head

[Anonymous No.9862411]

>>9862298
Oh, I see. This is not while I'm wearing them, it's while they're stored in my bag.

[Anonymous No.9862429]

>>9862411
Have you tried getting a little case?

[hungarian LARPfag No.9862452]

>>9862411
get a steel case, problem solved

[Anonymous No.9862469]

I'm going to a 40k themed Larp, and I need to upgrade a zweihander to make more fiting to this universe... I guess... a powersword ?
But I can't think about any idea about how to customise it, in a way that would be removable without damage.

What could I add ? Wires, tubes ?

[hungarian LARPfag No.9862475]

>>9862469
it's 40k. Put a purity seal on it, say it's an artifact from a feudal word blessed by some faggot saint and call it a day.

[Anonymous No.9862481]

>>9862469
What are you playing?

[Anonymous No.9862511]

>>9862475
Literally this.

[Anonymous No.9862527]

>>9862469
What the other guys said. Add an aquila talisman as well.

[CelticShieldFag No.9862564]

Basically what they said
Maybe add a little bit of this kind of tubing and if you want to go an extra mile you could fix a box to your guard or to your ricasso to give it more of an energy sword feel

[Anonymous No.9862676]

>>9862564
>energy sword
Its a power sword, you insufferable cunt.

[Anonymous No.9862782]

>>9862564
>>9862676
Just fuck already

[Anonymous No.9862960]

>>9862782
Please don't allow the namefag to reproduce.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9863038]

>>9862960
I hope you don't mean that for all the namefags because I totally plan to reproduce

[Anonymous No.9863127]

>>9855263
The waistline here should be higher right?

[hungarian LARPfag No.9863138]

>>9863127
on the left one absolutely, the one on the right is close to okayish you could argue he is wearing it wrong.
But hoses are not tight enough, the green doublet has the shoulders wrong, lower arm isn't tight enough, belts left too long, shirts are shit.
Also the green doublet's slashes are shit but that's my personal opinion about his fashion statements, they aren't exactly wrong.

There might be other problems but that's what I can see from the pic right now

[Anonymous No.9863149]

>>9863138
The shoulders on the green one, are they too far towards the arm?
(Bit of context, looking to maybe make a landsknecht outfit but i'm still very much in the research phase)

[hungarian LARPfag No.9863150]

>>9863149
the line of sewing should be where your actual shoulder starts, so your shoulder should be in the arms part of the doublet.

[Anonymous No.9863168]

>>9863150
noted, thanks

[Anonymous No.9863314]

>>9863168
>>9863149

Has somebody dropped you the LandsknechtLager wiki yet? Because if not: here you go...
https://www.landsknechtlager.info/w/index.php?title=Hauptseite
If your German isn't what it should be right-click and let Google do the translating for you. By pressing the clothing pieces you go to their page and for the wams and Schamlatzhose you have to scroll all the way down their page to find a PDF file with a good step by step guide to making them.

It's going the basis of my modus operandi for my next set with another 3 people from /cgl/.

Anybody got any tips on making wooden clogs less foot-ruining which isn't "wear them for a week"?

[Anonymous No.9863641]

>>9862133
what kind of fantasy games are you playing where goggles are a necessary part of your kit

[Anonymous No.9863647]

>>9863641
Ones where he as shite eyes I guess. It's either badly translated by him, or he has a fantasy-fantasy game and then I guess you could sort of do it as well.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9863655]

meanwhile: the patches for the upcoming scifi larp arrived

[CelticShieldFag No.9863659]

>>9863647
I can't think of anything that would fit in a fantasy setting

[CelticShieldFag No.9863660]

>>9863647
Nothing would ever fit in fantasy with goggles

[Anonymous No.9863664]

>>9863660
>>9863659
Is your reading comprehension as bad as your perception of shortswords?

[CelticShieldFag No.9863673]

>>9863664
Calm your tits I was sarcastically going in his direction

Won't talk again about shortswords unless you bring an argument because the subject was closed in the last thread.

If you want another subject here's one:
Appart from showing of what was the original point of all those floppy bits in a landshknet suit?

>>9863655
Can't see the details but seems quite cool.

[Anonymous No.9863675]

>>9863673
The post you were responding said he could wear goggles in fantasy as well.

And on the Landsknecht question the usual responses would be that the HRE gave them green light to use whatever colours they could and wanted to. Added to the theories of them either
A: stealing the clothes of the people they slew and throwing it over their clothing to repair it and as a badge of pride.
Or B: they did it to improve mobility in their tight clothing.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9863682]

>>9863673
here are the details

>>9863673
>Appart from showing of what was the original point of all those floppy bits in a landshknet suit?
>>9863675
>And on the Landsknecht question the usual responses would be that the HRE gave them green light to use whatever colours they could and wanted to. Added to the theories of them either
>A: stealing the clothes of the people they slew and throwing it over their clothing to repair it and as a badge of pride.
>Or B: they did it to improve mobility in their tight clothing.

the stealing cloths thing is bullshit, anyone who actually compare the patterns can see this.
The mobility doesn't really improved, either as you can move well enough in a normal cloth. What it kind of improved is ventillation but that wasn't the main reason, more of a byproduct.

So as the anon said the Holy Roman Emperor indeed gave a free pass to the Landsknechte to wear whatever the fuck they wanted. That was important because they existed in a time period where laws existed that said what can you or cannot wear depending on your social status and wealth (the reason for this is bit of complex and has a lot to do with the bourgeois coming up strong)

Even before that tendencies happened but after this the fashion quickly turned up to eleven and then went to full retard even.
You see all of that was fashion, but as with everything it isn't that simple.
Obviously everyone wanted to look cool, think of them in that regard as a biker gang or whatever kind of gang. They had their "dresscode". But in that period where everyone else was restricted by law of what they can wear they were as fabulous as they could afford.
The last part is important. They were mercenaries so no land and brought all of their wealth with them. So lot's of jewelry (thick gold chains for example) and cloths to show others that indeed they are successful and have a shitload of money.

cont.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9863684]

>>9863682
Now if you just have a brocade doublet how would people now that the inner lining is silk, dyed in a very expensive color and you also have a shirt which is obviously very white as you have the money to have several and pay someone to clean it?
You slash it up so people can see the underlying layers.
And also because you slash it up the stuff can't be used later to make another cloths, so it's also a statement that "yeah I put a shitload of money into this and it can't be used for anything else" This later in the nobility really catches on. I mean we are talking about materials that could easily be several months of wage of a good craftsman, so stuff like that usually got reused before people went idiotic with it.

OBVIOUSLY fashion isn't in a vacuum. it was affected by the various countries where LKs went, and boy they did got around. Also they affected the civilian and noble fashion too and then later that affected civilian fashion affected the LK fashion again, and so on.
On Mair's fencing books you see a lot of cloths that some people describe as landksnecht cloths but in reality those are german civilian cloths of Mair's time. Well off civilians. People who had full citizenships in towns and the like.

So there, know you now the simplified version.

[Anonymous No.9863688]

>>9863641
The kind of kitchen sink multi-genre crossover larp that is every fantasy game around here. Somehow I knew people would get hung up on my choice of words there.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9863689]

>>9863688
disregard the autists,
But as I said if the google gets destroyed while you are storing it then the solution is a sturdy case not a new google

[Anonymous No.9863697]

>>9863689
Right. I appreciate the advice. Not really sure where I could find a sturdy case in the right size, but I'll keep my eyes out.

>>9863655
Looks rad. A scifi one-shot with minimal mechanics just got announced in my area, and I'm getting hype for it. If we can show local game runners that there's demand for simpler rule systems, that's a good step forward for US larp.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9863701]

>>9863697
well, how big your googles are?

[Anonymous No.9863729]

Question. Am I trying to hard if I am writing children's books for in game in a language which a culture in the game is based on. It feels like I'm getting in too deep.

[Anonymous No.9863731]

>>9863729
Is there anybody on this planet who would read and get use out of these books?

[Anonymous No.9863732]

>>9863731
Yes. It would help the illiterate players get literate. It could invoke past memoriew from people that had to flee their homeland because of trauma. They would also make nice props for later editions of the same event.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9863733]

>>9863732
it sounds cool. You have to go deeper

[Anonymous No.9863735]

>>9863733
Thanks! Suggestions for other small props to invoke small plot like this are more than welcome. The game I am playing has a lot of big hectic plotlines. Last weekend I threw out some smaller more trivial problems myself as some sort of test and the response was great! So I wanna do more of the little in depth stuff. Makes the world seem way more alive to me.

[Anonymous No.9863736]

>>9863732
Then if the players will find them useful and entertaining, keep on digging baby.

Is it an original conlang or a real language standing-in for an in-universe tongue?

[Anonymous No.9863737]

>>9863729
Never in too deep. As we speak I'm on page 9 of etiquette rules for the "modern" man in my LARP. You go bro.

The more small fleshed out details a setting has, the more it will actually come to life both as a narrative as well as a world. Literally doing the best thing there is for LARPs anon, you're fleshing out the world.

[Gropey_the_Clown !g3AO.hFIes No.9863738]

>>9862676
>>9863664
>>9863673
Glad to see the hate is still strong.

[Anonymous No.9863740]

>>9863736
>>9863737
Thanks for the encouragement both of you!
We have about five clearly defined factions in game and one of them is Sovjet inspired. Needless to say I just wrote a Russian children's book complete with a pun in the title. Now to illustrate it.
I am planning on doing books for another faction too. They are very carreer-oriented so those book will be less fun but more education about our glorious empire starting from the cradle. Looking forward to that change of tone.

[Anonymous No.9863746]

>>9863738
We thrive on online hate and ill-placed elitism on here, contrary to IRL where we're all nice people. Hell, even HLF was a top notch guy on Facebook.

It's just this place I guess. And I love it.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9863750]

>>9863746
>Hell, even HLF was a top notch guy on Facebook
that's because those niggers are watching my account, already suspended one.
Also nowdays I doesn't really have time to rage on random people I have to concentrate all my rage on the players who will be in the colony that I will manage

[CelticShieldFag No.9863958]

>>9863682
Ok so basically it was showing off but there was a good reason
I like it
I did know that at the time you could not wear what you wanted but didn't know they had the authorization to wear the clothes they wanted

I thought the floppy bit were to add some kind of padding to have kind of a fashionable gambeson but your explanation to strip the clothes so you can't use it back is a lot more plausible on this context

[hungarian LARPfag No.9864114]

>>9863958
in the 16th century extra padding wasn't needed for armour. Or to be more specific: arming doublets weren't a thing anymore, only a few exception here and there. Fencing doublets existed but those weren't for batlefield use and it was a standalone thing.
The only padding I'm aware of that period were all leather. The buff coat started to be a thing at the very end of 16th but before that the leather jerkin was PROBABLY served as a little padding but no hard evidence for it.
But there are several version where the leather jerking goeas down to the knees and has little to no slashing and pretty much covers tha areas where armour would be if worn.
Also I tried to wear my leather jerkin under my armour and it was comfy so there is that.

[Anonymous No.9864185]

>>9863688
I didn't mean to come off as aggressive, sorry if that was the case. I've just never run into someone wearing milsurp goggles in a pseudo-medieval LARP. I definitely remember seeing them in amtgard/battlegames, though.

Honestly, just look into what skiers and snowboarders do. Keep your tucked away in a foam-lined case if it's fragile, or invest some more cash in something impact-resistant. When it comes to sporting equipment, money you spend now is money you won't have to spend when you're getting stitches at a 24-hour clinic.

>>9863675
>A: stealing the clothes of the people they slew and throwing it over their clothing to repair it and as a badge of pride
As someone who sews his own kit, this is really weirdly infuriating. Slashed hose and puffy doublets are labors of love that take yards upon yards upon yards of color-matched and carefully contrasted fabric.
The Landsknechte were fashionable, rakish assholes. Taking patches of discarded cloth just makes you look homeless.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9864198]

>>9864185
well it's surely isn't the first misconception about ye olden times nor the last one

[Anonymous No.9864224]

>>9863746
He's getting on about how we all hate the new namefag.

[Anonymous No.9864227]

>>9852357
what the fuck
who the fuck is this guy?
what the fuck is he representing?
where the fuck can you wear something like this?
how the fuck do the other guys look?

[hungarian LARPfag No.9864229]

>>9864227
>who the fuck is this guy?
friend of mine. Was really into reenacting and hema but lately he toned those a little down because of work and other time management issues. Also just as big of a nerd as anyone on /tg/

>what the fuck is he representing?
Security guy in a new colony in a scifi game here in hungary. In game he is wearing a gamma tier armour (which wasn't completely finished to the game as you can see but that was a year and half ago)

>where the fuck can you wear something like this?
Scifi games in general I guess. But on the beforementioned scifi game for sure

>how the fuck do the other guys look?
varies from cool through okay to shit.
Doesn't have that much pictures from that game

[hungarian LARPfag No.9864230]

[hungarian LARPfag No.9864231]

[hungarian LARPfag No.9864232]

[Anonymous No.9864233]

>>9864229
ok

[Anonymous No.9864252]

You were right anon. I am sorry for doubting you. 5 months was all it took. Now I'm gearing up to play an orc.
I have some questions though. Really its boiling down to mask vs face paint. Is there a big difference in cost? Difficulty to make?
Is body paint hard to do? If I planned on going shirtless for once the heat kicks in.

[Anonymous No.9864258]

>>9864252
Posting some orcs for this

[Anonymous No.9864259]

>>9864258

[Anonymous No.9864261]

>>9864259

[Anonymous No.9864269]

>>9864261

[Anonymous No.9864288]

I'm just getting started with both cosplaying and larping, and I want to nail the look even if I know the people at my local group won't ever care. What are some good starter patterns to work with, and nice fabrics to use considering we'll be going into summer weather soon?

[Anonymous No.9864295]

>north east USA
Send help.

[Anonymous No.9864309]

>>9864288
Do you have any prefered styles, periods, or anything that fits into the setting? What kind of hcaracter are you going for?

[Anonymous No.9864321]

>>9864252
I'd say mask, if only because you can customize it to the max. Sure, it's shit to wear on a hot day, but the pay of must be so rewarding.

Also joining in on orcposting.

[Anonymous No.9864322]

>>9864321

[Anonymous No.9864323]

>>9864322

[Anonymous No.9864326]

>>9864323

[Anonymous No.9864328]

>>9864326

[Anonymous No.9864329]

>>9864328
Orc structures in general are pretty awesome.

[Anonymous No.9864330]

>>9864252
3/4 mask, with only the mouth needing painting.

The person to ask about the most hardcore facepaint is Gropey. His guide has been used here for years.

[Anonymous No.9864331]

>>9864329

[Anonymous No.9864332]

Anyone here play Dystopia Rising? Pic semi-related.

[Anonymous No.9864333]

>>9864331

[Anonymous No.9864334]

>>9864333

[Anonymous No.9864335]

>>9864334
I have a hardcore boner for verticality in simple/archaic buildings. Does anyone know where I can find more like this?

[Anonymous No.9864342]

>>9864321
>>9864330
Thank you for orcs

Any tips on making the mask itself? I have zero experience making masks.

[Anonymous No.9864554]

>>9864330
Link to Gropey's makeup guide?

[Anonymous No.9864827]

>>9864332
i dunno what that is but it looks like this local cuisine

[Anonymous No.9864833]

>>9864342
All I know is that you start with a plaster mold of your face (or rather the whole head) and build up with latex on top of that. There should be some guides on youtube, at least in german. Having the visuals should be help enough.

[Anonymous No.9864845]

>>9864833
I was researching on YouTube and the like
most videos use a casting, plaster mold/fill mold with clay/sculpt clay/built plaster mold/lremove clay and line with latex.
it's what I was going to try, but these methods I see for full head covering, where as I just want to cover some. I know I can cut away the rest I don't want but am trying to see if there is another method

[Anonymous No.9864984]

>>9864332
Fuck DR.

[Anonymous No.9865001]

>>9864984
For what reason anon? I get it if you're talking about the playerbase though. Washington and NJ are ass

[Anonymous No.9865018]

>>9865001
Don't you literally buy abilities in DR?

[hungarian LARPfag No.9865022]

>>9865018
that's at least the third of US games. You have to narrow it down a little

[Anonymous No.9865047]

>>9865001
The Mass specifically.

A playerbase that is cliquey and exclusive at best. Same playerbase has lackluster costumes and often zero effort put into crafts or props.

If you dont come into game with a group dont expect to get plot.

Mandated cast shifts.

Full time cast has a murder players first, ensure fun second mentality. They aren't trying to tell a story or make a scene, they want to end the players life and brofist about it after.

Players who come to game to jack off on the depression of their edgy backstory with other sadsacks.

Overall athletic performance of game is poor.

Pronouns. Respect them or else.

Character bleed because emotional maturity is something New England postapoc larpers dont seem to have.

>muh trademarks

They take up time at a great venue from more passionate larps, and often leave the venue a shitbox

[hungarian LARPfag No.9865050]

>>9865047
>Full time cast has a murder players first
>they want to end the players life
shit just got real

[Anonymous No.9865069]

>>9865047
>Pronouns. Respect them or else.
Oh no. deets?

[Anonymous No.9865197]

>>9864845
Eh, I'll meet up with an orc player next week, I'll see what information I can get out of him.

[Anonymous No.9865353]

>>9865047
>mandated cast shifts
This is awful, but it should be noted that this is actually the only way they can get DR to work. The playerbase is so incredibly uninvolved with the game that they have to literally force people to play NPCs.

[Anonymous No.9865368]

>>9863701
I mean, they're broken, so I guess I have my pick now. I was thinking I'll probably get this pair: https://www.armynavyusa.com/Rothco-GI-Type-Sun-Wind-Dust-Goggles-p/rtc-10346.htm?1=1&CartID=0 because they've generally got good reviews.

[Anonymous No.9865372]

>>9865353
In a story based game (PvE) how do you attract players to NPC?
Most people want to be players.
Mandated cast shifts can be a drag sometimes, but I really like having dependable monsters to fight and don't mind taking turns.

[Anonymous No.9865373]

>>9865069
IIRC, at least one chapter introduced pronoun badges to be worn in character.

[Anonymous No.9865392]

>>9865372
Cheaper tickets, good writing, merit based role casting, good communication with the NPCs and a tight knit unit of orga to join up with.

[Anonymous No.9865429]

>>9865392
Last game I was at the NPCs also got first pick whenever food was served, an inflatable pool and comfy bonfire hours. If only the next installment wouldn't be in november, but in a hotter month, I bet you half of the players would monster for that pool alone.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9865445]

>>9865372
having an actually good game for example?

I mean >>9865353 here says the biggest problem with DR
>The playerbase is so incredibly uninvolved with the game that they have to literally force people to play NPCs.
This means most players doesn't really enjoy the game and fuck knows why they are still going.

[Anonymous No.9865479]

>>9865372
I've been an NPC at my favourite con for years and I wouldn't switch to PC for anything in the world. Could be because because we get to play both nameless mooks and monsters as well as elaborated characters that we can play in our own way. It's also important to let your NPCs win from time to time, and to give them some freedom.

[Anonymous No.9865519]

>>9865372
Back when I was LARPing they'd offer the normal plus a bit extra experience\points for the day that you NPC. People still vastly preferred to use their normal character, but it was something.

Having access to unusual or different abilities from the norm was also pretty novel the first few times.

[Anonymous No.9865731]

>>9865373
Correct

[hungarian LARPfag No.9865773]

meanwhile photo for the upcoming scifi larp I probably mentioned a dozen times

[Anonymous No.9866072]

>>9865519
For a larp my friend and I are working on, we were thinking we might use NPC shifts as a way to handle research and crafting. If you want to make something or study something, you don't just bid it in character and fuck off to wave your hands for 5 minutes; you do a few hours of NPC work, during which time your character is in the library/forge/wherever working on their project.

[Anonymous No.9866116]

>>9866072
Why not have full-time crew shifts? Just ask some people you know personally to fill them.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9866117]

you guys do know that it's entirely possible to make good larps without npcs?

[Anonymous No.9866148]

>>9866117
It's possible, yes. It's also possible to make good larps without a venue, rules for conflict resolution, or on-site GMs. Doesn't mean it's convenient.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9866223]

>>9866148
not having npcs is actually way more convenient if you doesn't have a shit tier player base. especially in smaller larps.

[Anonymous No.9866259]

>>9866223
>if you don't have a shit tier player base
Well that discounts NA

Personally, Ive played both without and with NPCs. I prefer NPCs. A little bit of travellers and monsters can add a lot. Interplayer conflict is also very needed.
Best game I played only had ~10 people (to ~60 players) running NPC. It added to making the world feel more alive (strangers coming through town) and also the woods feeling a little more dangerous. Even if you're trying to be friendly with everyone in town, a random orc can still fuck you up. Or, from experience, you get jumped in the woods by some players and a roaming group of bandits join in the fight as a wild card third party. Its fun

[hungarian LARPfag No.9866273]

>>9866259
why couldn't be the traveler and the monster be a PC too?

[Anonymous No.9866277]

>>9866273
They can be. and in a good game actively are.
But having unknowns makes the world feel full.
I don't know how many new players you get, but seeing new characters is exciting and adds to the experience.

I should qualify this. Im speaking for an actively recurring game, monthly or bimonthly. The best one I talked about ran 4 games a year.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9866286]

>>9866277
new players doesn't depend on how many npcs or pcs you have only how good is the game.
Now if we are talking about new characters then again there really nothing in the npc/pc aspect that would be a major influence on it, rather how easily can the characters die or is there any system wise thing that encourages bringing the same character again and again.

Part of the reason I asked the how many different characters people played so far because I have this hunch that US larpers for example doesn't really change their characters that often mostly because their game encourages that behavior. And this is kind of strange to me because as much as I love overarching stories and stuff like that so far I played dozens of different characters during my larping years. Actually I think it's easily more than fifty. Also tried out a lot of vastly different systems too.

[Anonymous No.9866307]

>>9865773
looking like a lot of lawful with a tinge of evil (to be subverted into good.)

[hungarian LARPfag No.9866334]

>>9866307
I will be a director of a secret colony outside of the solar system (the first colony outside of the solar system to be precise) that is made by a huge corporation which corporation use it as a black site and runs different secret researches there.

Said colony was attacked by terrorists / freedom fighters from mars (after they stole a ship that was capable of jumping here) and the fights went into a stalemate as the colony had more security forces that the martians predicted and the martians were a little more brave than prepared.

So the focus of the game will be the what happens after the initial fights are over.

Anyway I won't question the lawful part but on the other hand the good and bad stuff will be completely relative to which side is someone on

[Anonymous No.9866354]

>>9866334
good job on the picture and styling (hair, glasses)

really conveys character well.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9866363]

>>9866354
we have a girl who is in the process of becoming a professional photographer and luckily she is part of the colony.
The glasses is just my regular glasses so no big change there. The hair was just done with water before the photo but on the game I totally plan to do it with hair gel.
It's kind of a joke because I nearly never wear my hair like that only at some larps when the character is some kind of boss. Also it tend to get some laughs

[Anonymous No.9866381]

>>9866363
It's crazy how much a hairstyle change can do. At the sci-fi LARP I play there is this really friendly guy. However he plays a harsh military officer that thinks highly of himself. So I'm sure if I ever ran into friendly guy slicking his hair back out of the game I'd still be terrified.

[Anonymous No.9866415]

>>9866381
>>9866363

this discussion gave me an idea for a very specific character im planning.
My hair is crazy curly, people will freak to see me after hair straightening.

I cant say what exactly unfortunately since its a secret and i know of at least 2 friends from my community who frequent this thread

[hungarian LARPfag No.9866484]

>>9866415
I know that feel, I had to do this frequently too because fuck knows who might pop in here. But at the end it's totally worth it to see people honestly surprised or to see that they doesn't have a clue even after years that the deed is done

[Anonymous No.9866503]

>>9866116
We'll probably have a few of those too.

>>9866117
Yes, but I also know my local LARP community well enough to know that we will need NPCs. I am trying to encourage player conflict, and I would like eventually to have a game where the players entirely drive the plot themselves, but it would be naive of me to think I can do that straight away with my particular group.

[Anonymous No.9866543]

>>9866381
Hairstyles in general can do so much because they can change the whole aesthetic of your face. Same goes for facial hair or even the smallest details in structure.

Crazy how nature do that.

[Anonymous No.9866688]

What projects are you guys working on? How are they going? I'm about to finish my second tunic.

[Anonymous No.9866775]

>>9866543
I am always in doubt about my natural hair as is. I'm growing it out right now, but a long bob looks really nice as well. I hope somewhere in the future I get to play a character who has a manic episode or undergoea some transformation or something and I just can cut of my hair in game a la Mulan and touch it up later.

>>9866688
I wrote one of the aforementioned children's books already. The plan is evolving. We are now building a secret library with forbidden books. My character gets the honours of running it.

[Anonymous No.9866826]

>>9866688
working on finishing my soft and hard kits

anyone has a good site to order larp clothing?
medieval and/or futuristic and/or fantasy.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9866841]

>>9866688
working on painting my nerf gun and the armor I made for the beforementioned scifi larp

[Anonymous No.9866895]

>>9866775
When I still had really short hair (shave every 3 weeks to a mm) I could pull of weird stunts like getting the norman haircut, or one of those ugly knightly bowlcuts.

These days I've picked up a boring professional haircut that takes far too long to grow to be able to do anything stupid.
If you pick up a cut just for a LARP you're really going out there, and I love you for it bro. Go that extra mile (as long as it doesn't mess with your career or shit.)

>>9866826
Got a budgettal expectation so we can match it to what you're looking for. Also uh... be a little clearer on what kind of clothes you're looking for. Periods, styles, etc.

[Anonymous No.9866956]

>>9866895
Just general stuff.
for fantasy/medieval stuff really anything from medieval times to The Renaissance.
historical accuracy is tertiary at best.
as long as it look like it could've been a thing in history and also is cool.

I really dont have specific specifications.

as for the budget, its fluid. If i see something super awesome but pricey im gonna jump on it probably.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9867279]

>>9866841
said paint thingy.
I'll be honest, this is the first time I try anything similar

[Anonymous No.9867302]

>>9867279
I'd recommend disassembling the guns before painting, so you can paint all the separate pieces of the shell better. Also no chance the paint makes something stick that shouldn't. And if you are able to, maybe sanding the logos off first.
The colourscheme looks very sci-fi, which is nice.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9867307]

>>9867302
the dissasembling was done but I tried to not paint the interior too, which after I put everything together turned out to be a mistake So probably I will have another go with it.
Also I don't want to sand off the logos right now as I have an idea of using a different kind of paint and do something over them.

[Anonymous No.9867643]

>>9867279
Get some chrome dry brushing and neon stripes (either brush or use tape and spray) and this is pretty good for a first time

[Anonymous No.9867888]

I havn't tried LARPing yet but it looks really cool.
I have a question/concern though:
Can I play a warrior if I'm not a very big guy?
Most warriors I see in movies and such, or rather their actors, from 300 and Game of Thrones to stuff like Marvel's characters, they're all like 1.83+ and ripped as hell, while I'm around 1.75 and while I'm not skinny, I'm not exactly a renaissance statue as well.
I'm not worried about the fighting itself (I've done Kendo and Kali in the past so I'm not the worst when it comes to combat with weapons), but about being able to look like and portray a fighter, since from ehat I understand it's important in LARP

Thanks and I apologize if this question is dumb

[Anonymous No.9867910]

>>9867888
if dwarfs can do it, so can you mang.
its all about the geddup and attitude.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9867912]

>>9867888
>Can I play a warrior if I'm not a very big guy?
why the fuck not? go for it

[Anonymous No.9867914]

>>9867888
does he look like he goes to the gym? who knows he wears armor.

does he look like he can fuck your shit up if you look wrong at him? sure does, he got the gear.

[Anonymous No.9867921]

>>9867888
A literal midget is one of the most terrifying fighters I know. Go for it.

If you have sufficient experience and regular practice doing martial arts, or even sports in general, you'll probably be able to outperform a fair amount of larpers after a day of practice, anyway.

[Anonymous No.9868137]

>>9867888
Being a warrior is more about skill and practice than bulk. Do what makes you happy.

[Anonymous No.9868157]

>>9865372
I always NPC whenever my character isn't being directly involved because it's fun. I have a better time playing a nameless mook or cultist than being some rando who's just along for the ride. Also, plot teams give out some really fantastic roles to people they know they can rely on.
That being said, I've seen volunteer-only NPC roles really fuck up games before. We have a pretty sizable sci-fi game in my neck of the woods that suffered a sizable drop in players last year because they didn't have enough NPCs to engage all the players. A lot of people just ended up sitting around the camp despite having a perfectly good option to "go out on patrol," temporarily shelve their characters, and pull some time as an NPC. I think nerds are just too lazy/self-centered to really pitch in unless they're forced to.

>how do you attract players to NPC?
I don't want to reignite the whole "XP for NPC roles" debate, but I honestly love systems that let me roll around as an antag or NPC and still throw points at my player character. The biggest complaint I saw during my short stay at DR is that if you do want to give up your whole weekend and help out the plot team, you generally fall behind your friends in terms of character progression. Being able to have confidence that you're not going to retard yourself can go a long way to keeping a healthy NPC population.

>>9866273
I would love it if we could run a game around here where all plot movement and character drama was player-actuated. But most NA nerds are lazy, uninspired little shits who will only clear the hurdles necessary to be involved in the first place, so that's not going to happen. People in a lot of these games get dissatisfied if the plot team isn't constantly engaging them; asking them to take the reigns of the narrative is guaranteed to fail.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9868165]

>>9868157
>But most NA nerds are lazy, uninspired little shits who will only clear the hurdles necessary to be involved in the first place
I wonder why do you guys even have a larp scene

[Anonymous No.9868170]

>>9868157
>But most NA nerds are lazy, uninspired little shits who will only clear the hurdles necessary to be involved in the first place, so that's not going to happen. People in a lot of these games get dissatisfied if the plot team isn't constantly engaging them; asking them to take the reigns of the narrative is guaranteed to fail.

Its so sad that those hard words are true.
I dont know where this attitude comes from.
I mean everyone is there to have fun, why do people basically oppose actually doing something?
I have seen events where the guys from the team just gave us a lose frame and the rest was all player based. Ended in twenty people sitting around in a camp in the woods, wearing armor and getting shitfaced for 15 hours. The farest they got away from the starting point was some shrubbery twenty metres around the corner, to piss there. I mean they had fun of course but I dont need to sit in a forest wearing full plate to drink beer all night.

[Anonymous No.9868266]

>>9868170
>I dont need to sit in a forest wearing full plate to drink beer all night
Of course not, that's what we have mead for.

[Anonymous No.9868342]

>>9867888
First of all, you can still be threatening at your height, if you act threatening. From projecting confidence with your body language to showing those who try messing with you how much of a bad idea it was (Which will probably require some practice, but your background's a good start!), you can make up for a lack of imposing figure.

Second of all, not all fighters should be giants and physically imposing. Taking an inspiration from movies can be helpful, but you can also look at historical and modern examples:
-The Greeks and Romans, as far as I know, were relatively short and still kicked ass like pro's
-Audie "I had to tone down my life story so the movie they made about me won't seem too unrealistic" Murphy was like 1.60-1.65 or so.
-Connor McGregor, the MMA fighter, is about your height and I doubt anyone would hesitate to say he's a tough bastard.
-I served in my country's army, and I've seen fighters of almost all shapes and sizes, including ones much shorter than you, who still managed to be badass.


The only thing it means is if you want to play big, Hulk-like brutes you'd have to sell it better, or rather avoid it and find an archetype you feel more comfortable as.


Goodluck, warrior!

[Anonymous No.9868508]

>>9868165
Why, so the people who spend the most money on our games can have a power fantasy, of course!

>>9868157
>XP for NPC
As much as I wish we didn't have to use material rewards, I agree. For now it's necessary. I hope that, at least, by moving away from systems like DR that are too heavy on numbers we can make it less and less important to get that little extra bit of XP.

[Anonymous No.9868803]

>>9868342
I prefer the thin, whippy, skillful archetype more than the big brute anyway.

I'm probably going to be joining Alliance here in the Northwest soon to do some NPCing, once I have some half decent stick swinging skills. Any idea what I should expect?

[Anonymous No.9868813]

>>9868342
Not that guy, but I prefer the thin, whippy, skillful type as opposed to the big brutish warrior.

I'm planning on doing some NPCing for Alliance in the Pacific Northwest once my stick swinging abilities get better. Anything I ought to expect?

[Anonymous No.9869309]

Should I make a tellerbarett or a schlappe next? I like the look of the latter more but the former is so much more practical for keeping sun out of my face

[hungarian LARPfag No.9869495]

>>9869309
all the cool kids have tellerbaretts

[Anonymous No.9869545]

>>9869309
I'm making a schlappe as well for my next kit, I like the look more but all in all I'll have to bring along a sunhat just in case.

So you could just do that.

[Anonymous No.9869574]

"By now, players are sick of 40 year old fantasy RPG clichés like Winning and Having a good time."

>tfw LARP tips ironically writes things you could see yourself saying

Am I a bad player /cgl/?

[hungarian LARPfag No.9869601]

>>9869574
depends. I incorporated some of the larp tips thing into my characters. Like "the sun is going down" thing or the "sounds fake but ok" and plan to have a character who would totally eat 100 cups of pudding

[Anonymous No.9869604]

>>9869601
All I'd like to ask you... did you eat your cups of Gruel today?

[hungarian LARPfag No.9869606]

>>9869604
maybe

[Anonymous No.9869818]

>>9855330
I’d love if someone could analyze what makes this costume stand out as so lackluster compared to the other dope outfits presented. Is it the large areas without any slashing on the doublet? Is it the weird postune? Is it that unhemmed slashing looks weird to the modern eye even if it’s probably more historically accurate? Is the color combination slightly off? Something about this is really rubbing me the wrong way and I’m not sure what exactly it is.
>pls dont be someone in this thread

[hungarian LARPfag No.9869826]

>>9869818
the costume is brand new, that's all. See how smooth the unslashed stuff is?
That and the quality of the image is not the best, little grainy and gives a slight "edge" to everything

But it's mostly because it's brand new no wear and tear maybe wasn't even washed once.

[Anonymous No.9870422]

>halfway done with a sewing process
>discover that I was doing it wrong

Throwaway 1,5h of work and spend another ten minutes undoing what I've completed, or just fuck it and continue?

Its an aesthetic difference, minor practical as well but not so much.

[Anonymous No.9870433]

>>9870422
Post pictures faggot

[hungarian LARPfag No.9870443]

>>9870422
continue this way, incorporate the mistake into your character background story, say it's a fashion statement and cry in the corner when nobody sees you

[Anonymous No.9870458]

>>9870433
>>9870443
I'm folding the edge of my hood. Left side is the technique I've been doing and right side is the technique I should have done (having the liner and the wool both fold inwards and sew the edge together).

I think I may prefer this way though, looks a bit cleaner from an outside perspective.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9870466]

>>9870458
curse yourself, curse at least five different gods and a random guys mother. Try not to cry. Correct the mistake while crying. Have a complete mental breakdown when your pet doesn't let you work on this.
Decide that you didn't really wanted a hood in the first place.
Start thinking about how cheap are superglues and if they work on textiles or not.

[Anonymous No.9870473]

>>9870466
I'm gonna be a sensible adult and continue what I'm doing and finish it in a timely manner rather than sitting up all night like a perfectionist lunatic.

[Anonymous No.9870475]

>>9870473
Your characters not a noble or anything, is he? If so. Resew. If not. Chalk it up to shitty peasant workmanship

[hungarian LARPfag No.9870477]

>>9870473
that sounds gay. being a serious responsible adult. I wouldn't do that if I were you.
I bet you get actual sleep and all that shit

[Anonymous No.9870483]

>>9869601
"Sounds fake but ok" is legitimately some of the best advice I've heard for dealing with self-important twats in larp.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9870490]

>>9870483
especially when you are playing town guards. God I love being a town guard where everyone is an edgy cunt.

[Anonymous No.9870500]

>>9870475
Do noblemen even wear hoods though?

But for you information, I'm a mischievous nobody who does shady dealings and lawyer stuff. Most of my company are still wearing full mytholon gear and some have last minute machined scraps they called clothing, I cant look too perfect but relatively presentable though.

[Anonymous No.9870503]

>>9868813
eyy PNW Alliance
If you've interacted with the con scene up here, it's like that but with more autism.
Also no one cares, has cared, or will care about how good you are at fake swordfighting. Just get your shit together and join up.

>>9870466
>Start thinking about how cheap are superglues and if they work on textiles or not
Cheap, they kind of work, and don't give in to the temptation.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9870504]

>>9870500
>Do noblemen even wear hoods though?
nigga, yes.
where do you think the chaperon comes from?

[Anonymous No.9870511]

>>9870500
>Do noblemen wear hoods though?

When they have to get their hands dirty, they do.

You ought to get away with the shoddy construction in terms of RP

[Anonymous No.9870517]

>>9870500
Note, the boxes cover parts of the kit that I have replaced.

I want to sew a pair of hoses but I haven't decided what color they should be in. The hood and the tunic don't give much space to work with. I have a pair of grey wool putes I can use.

>>9870504
nigga I kno that

At larps though, plebs wear hoods and noblemen wear chaperon. Or they have a hood that is so precisely patterned that it could be called a hat/coif variant.

>>9870511
Just giving you an idea of where my character stands in the social ladder mate.

[Anonymous No.9870532]

>>9870517
You're good bro, I was just answering your question.

I've not done the con scene up here on account of being a broke ass college student. I'm starting on working on some leather armor and better looking garb this week, so I might be joining up in a few months.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9870540]

>>9870517
chaperon means hood but in french. It's basically hood worn in a different way.
And there are a fuckton of different hoods that were worn in the regular way too but usually they are fancier

[Anonymous No.9870601]

>>9867307
The logo can't really look good in any way imho. I sanded mine off and planned to laser engrave a new one on it. Unfortunately I couldn't secure the founds for the machine before the game so it will be added for the next one.

[Anonymous No.9871188]

>>9870601
we postin larp blasters?
plaid pants and hairy legs are a bonus

[Anonymous No.9871190]

>>9871188
wtf the image was the right way up when i send it to my pc.

[Anonymous No.9872181]

>tfw your sewing skills are absolutely shit

I'm never going to be able to make good looking costumes am I.

[Anonymous No.9872201]

>>9872181
Sewing is easy (weird enough) it's mostly just taking it very slow. Once you took that step it's all uphill. Don't take shortcuts, always think before acting, and even you can make the best in the world.

[Anonymous No.9872633]

Since we're on the topic of blasters: what's a good way of removing those pesky logos? I'm looking to paint up a Sledgefire for larp. All I can think of is using sandpaper or a dremel tool, but I don't think either will give a nice finish. I'm going for a down-to-earth sci-fi look, so bolting on extra plates over the logos doesn't work either.

[Anonymous No.9872635]

Dice, my dudes and dudettes!
I wanna learn old-timey dice games. Do any of you know some I could play at lighter games

[Anonymous No.9872640]

>>9872635
You wouldn't happen to speak Dutch, would you? I read an article about it a week ago, but that won't help you if you can't read it.

I tend to play perudo at larps, but I don't think that's actually historical.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9872641]

>>9872635
here is one I leanred in the landsknecht camp

You need 5 dices.
First everyone places their bets (obviously)
Then everyone take turns for rolling.
Here is how you do it: first you roll with all five dices then you put away AT LEAST one but as many as you want otherwise. You do this until you put away all the dices. Your objective is to put away at least one dice with 4 and one with 2 and the rest to be as big as you could get. If you desn't have a 4 and a 2 you have zero points. If you have a 4 and a 2 then your points is the sum of the rest of the three dices.
Once you did this the next guy do the same until everyone rolled. The guy who has the most points will win all the bets. If nobody got points then the money carries over to the next match.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9872642]

>>9872635
also there is another simple one but you will need a pre made table/cloth/whatever
the game called glückhaus and here you can read the rules (obviously with everything game related there are slight variations depending on whom you play with)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gl%C3%BCckshaus

[Anonymous No.9872654]

>>9872642
I tend to just use a set of playing cards, with the queen replacing the seven and the jack and king representing 11 and 12 respectively. A board's nicer, but cards work in a pinch.

[Anonymous No.9872681]

>>9872633
Coarse files, sandpaper, dremel +point if you have a beltgrinder.

[Anonymous No.9872687]

>>9872640
nayrt, but please link the article, really interested.

>>9872633
Might be a bit extra, but recently saw a guy that had 3D-printed logo of his in game group, put over the NERF logo. That was a really nice touch.

[Anonymous No.9872697]

>>9872687
>please link the article, really interested.
Here you go https://www.larp-platform.nl/informatie/avondvermaak-dobbelen/

>saw a guy that had 3D-printed logo of his in game group, put over the NERF logo
Honestly not that bad of an idea. I can do CAD well enough and know a dude with a 3D printer. I also have a discount at Shapeways if that doesn't work out. Just need to think of something to put there.

Which larp was that, by the way? I heard the same story a while back, decent chance we're thinking of the same guy.

[Anonymous No.9872702]

>>9872697
Thanks.
Frontier. The guy with the custom plate plays in the Red Brotherhood.

[Anonymous No.9872704]

>>9872702
Yup, same dude.

I'm thinking about heading to Frontier myself, but I don't feel like assembling a new costume yet. Might get to that at some point in the future.

[Anonymous No.9872709]

>>9872704
There is a closed Frontier spin-off next week and I still need a costume for that, so I feel you.
But some new colonists might be nice, maybe I'll see you around.

[Anonymous No.9872960]

I don't do a whole lot of Larping, but I live with people who do Dystopia Rising who are trying to get me to go. What does 4chan think of it?

[Anonymous No.9873135]

>>9872960
It's shit, but it can be fun shit if you just give in to the pervading autism

[Anonymous No.9873179]

>>9858476
Is this how long a 16th century shirt should be? I feel like it’ll bunch up like crazy under my doublet and make weird wrinkles.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9873240]

>>9873179
yes this is how long it should be.
> I feel like it’ll bunch up like crazy under my doublet and make weird wrinkles.
the part under the waist should be tucked in the hose not in the doublet

[Anonymous No.9873892]

>>9872960
DR is probably the best example of all the bad habits that are holding back US LARP. It's also one of the highest budget games I'm aware of when it comes to props and scenery, so it looks really nice for what it is. If you're interested, go for it, have fun, but also keep a critical eye out and expect to feel a bit useless because you're new.

[Anonymous No.9874187]

Does anyone have any good hand smocking tutorials? I’m using the reconstructing history instructions for a shirt, but i’m still very much a novice and can’t make head or tail of the stuff i’ve been watching on youtube and wikihow.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9874196]

>>9874187
have you found a wordpress blog called whiljascorner? Because I can recommend that one

[Anonymous No.9874237]

>>9874196
Yeah, i can’t seem to make sense of the diagram there

[hungarian LARPfag No.9874264]

>>9874237
how about katafalk then?

[Anonymous No.9874277]

anyone know of a larp shop in london?

[Anonymous No.9874319]

>>9874264
That helped a lot, I needed a really clear step by step. So just to be clear, if I don’t want any blackwork i’m fine just stitching the peaks of the pleats together at the top and bottom with a stem stitch?

[hungarian LARPfag No.9874349]

>>9874319
here is the best pdf that I know of in the subject
http://germanrenaissance.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Mastering-Pleatwork-Book-Genoveva.pdf

As for your question. Could work personally never tried

[Anonymous No.9874530]

>>9874349
Thanks, I think I get it now. I’m off to try this out, i’ll update you guys on how it went!

[Not Entirely Anon No.9874676]

HLF: saw this and thought of you

[Anonymous No.9874932]

>>9874676
Ha, I saw these being passed around.

Personally I wish one of the middle column options was "is too dangerous." Too many ninnies around here who think that wooden shields and thrusting will cause half the game's population to spontaneously die.

[hungarian LARPfag No.9874996]

>>9874676
yeah I've seen it somewhen last week. Kind of funny but could be improved

[Anonymous No.9875142]

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[Anonymous No.9875912]

>>9874676
>metal armor is pretentious rubbish and you need to stop being offended by it.
KEK