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Champion
 
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My first encounter with LRP was with a re-enactment group who used it as part of their weekends. I met them at a display they did for a museum I had been working for and I joined them on their next event. They focused on authentic clothing etc but their scenarios had linears and story lines for the characters though it was never called live role play. Back in those days LARP was something you did with gaffa weapons not metal ones and there seemed to be very little emphasis on characters unlike the re-eactment group.
A few years later I was working in a theatre in Wolverhampton and one of my friends there was a live role player. He took me along to my first "official" live role play event which was The Adventurers Guild Hunting Party in Southend in 1991 and from that point on I was hooked.
I've never really table topped (only done two games) and I have never played a computer game.
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Champion
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As a child I used to draw fantasy castles. Not pretty pictures, but complete foorplans with moats and monsters, so when my brother saw a gamesshop on vacation abroad, he brought back some flyers of DSA (Das Schwarze Auge, German RPG system) and D&D, saying it would be just the thing for me. So soon as DSA got translated into Dutch and hit the stores in the early 80s, I bought both the basic and the extension box. Got some people hooked while doing military service and when I went back to school, I stayed up whole nights playing modules with a guy who rented a room in the same building as I did, taking turns to gamemaster (on a room by room basis, yeah, I know... ) He got into AD&D later and we hooked up with two brothers from his hometown to explain the system to us (since the first edition AD&D didn`t do that by itself). In 1989 I saw an advert for a LRP weekend in Belgium, went to CSA (Conflict Simulation Antwerp) to check them out (fortunately, they had a stand there), was suitably impressed with their standard of kit and asked the lads if they were up for it.They were, and I`ve been playing there ever since, though I`m mostly crewing these days. Haven`t done much P&P since my friends moved all over the place.
________________________________________________________ - IRL: Edwin Hofstra
- - mostly crewing at the moment
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Squire
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I reckon I first started LRP'ing when I was about five, in the school playground making up games of the cops and robbers variety*. To my mind the only real difference is that now the rules are more complicated.
*although I remember quite vividly one game based around being shrunk and getting lost in a toothbrush. It was called 'Lost in a toothbrush' and it was strictly non-combat.
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| I did TT at school, left and became a blacksmith (yes really) with an interest in armour, got back into TT and one of my mates told me about Larp and the Gathering, finshing with the words "its in three weeks time do you fancy it?" when I said yes he replied "Good ! I needed a lift" Since then I've done some more LT, got into re-enactment (mainly as an armourer), stopped doing LT, started Omega, morned Omega and now I'm into Matt P's little madness 
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Squire
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I've always been into fantasy books art etc, but hadn't really heard of larp until a few years ago.
I was helping out at a festival (nothing to do with larp) and looking up saw this guy across a crowded room. Not sure how but at first oppertunity we started talking about elves which led onto general fantasy and then larp. Never thought I'd see him again.
A few months later through people we both knew at the time we met again and somehow I was recruited into a national larp and I've never looked back since.
Not quite a "mysterious stranger in a bar" scenario but almost as cheesy - sorry but you did ask 
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daeva dryad (5/10/2007)
Not quite a "mysterious stranger in a bar" scenario but almost as cheesy - sorry but you did ask
If you can work a "rooftop chase" scene in, then you're hired! 
There is only overconfidence and terror.
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Squire
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Went to a local re-enactment group, tried to lift a broadsword, couldn't........... sobbed........... bloke recommended LARP and the rest is history, searched on the web, found PD and a local lrp group, and here I am today!
PD- Lilleth MALLIA Arteman (chamberofdelights.co.uk)
LT - Nienna Elanessë (also known to those privileged few as y'Ugli b'Astid)
EOS - Dericia of the M'Wezi - honored friend of the MistWalkers
http://www.freewebs.com/ivy-moon/index.htm
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