What is Live Action Role-Playing?
Role-playing is simply acting. Whether you are performing a Shakespearean play in your community theater or only using a silly voice to impersonate your favorite cartoon character, you are assuming a role that is different from yourself, and you are role-playing. Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) is improvisational acting in which you assume the role of an imaginary character. It has the flavor of tabletop role-playing except, instead of controlling the actions of some fictitious character that exists on paper, you become your fictitious character and are immersed in an environment that has been created to accommodate that character along with many others. Unlike tabletop role-playing games that are organized by one storyteller, live action role-playing games involve a cast of many players who help to bring the story to life. Your job in a live action role-playing game is to react to their story in a way that is appropriate to the character that you have created.
