What is Live-Action Role-Playing?
LARPing is a different spin on role-playing. Most roleplaying games are played sitting down at a table. You have one person who describes the action and you describe your characters response to whatever is happening around him. LARP is kind of like a play or a giant acting-improvisation exercise. The difference is that there’s no script and that there are rules that dictate how things that you try to do turn out. The plot is created by the staff and the players together. Every player makes a character and determines her abilities, and uses that concept to build and step into the role of her character. LARP is different than traditional role-playing in this way; that is, the player acts as her character would, makes decisions as if she were her character, and so on. In this way, it’s a lot more like acting than like playing an RPG. The world of this particular game (though there are LARPs out there for every type of world one could imagine) is almost exactly similar to the real world. “
