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LARP or LRP.
It has been explained to me that live action roleplay and live roleplay are not the same thing.
If you have a latex weapon its LRP and if you are in a room playing vampire or something then its LARP. Something to do with the latter having more action in it.
Ok, so I didn't really understand the argument and well it seemed rubbish anyway. Could someone expalin to me why its so important to not have the 'A' if your a latex LRPer.
And frankly larper is a word (not in the OED if your being pedantic) and lrper would just sound silly.
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The distinction between LRP and LARP is completely unimportant unless you're horrifically anal.
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I heard "horrific anal" like a voice calling me home... sounds like fun!
It's LRP, unless you are a massive cunt - or american.
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| The 'action' is a bollocks addition, its for people who think (real) MET is LRP.... no contact whatsoever? I mean, really, why not wear costumes and sit round a table and throw dice. I prefer FWS. Fantasy World Simulation. Theres only one system running that really fits that title tho...
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I had always heard it that LARP was the one where you hit people with weapons and LRP was the one where you sat around in a room angsting and occasionally playing scissors-paper-stone.
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ChessyPig (7/25/2006)
I had always heard it that LARP was the one where you hit people with weapons and LRP was the one where you sat around in a room angsting and occasionally playing scissors-paper-stone.
That's a fairly recent bit of flangy retro-fitting applied to the terms. Their origins are quite different. In the UK, it's traditionally been known as LRP, so you'll hear older LRPers using the term. In the US and elsewhere, the term has traditionally been "LARP" whether applied to Vampire/MET games (non-live combat) or NERO, AMTGARD etc. (live combat). The MET rulebooks all use "LARP." People who've come into the hobby more recently in the UK are more likely to say "LARP" because of the popularity of MET in the UK. Some of them then heard people say "LRP" and so started (wrongly) assuming that one term referred to live-combat games and the other to scissors-paper-stone games. In fact the two are interchangeable, and though I grew up on LRP, and "LARP" still sounds odd to my ears, I don't think it's worth getting snobbish about people who use one term or t'other (unlike Tart.  )
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Me? elitist? with MY reputation? 
I think the problems are:
a) the "action" is redundant, so why use it.
b) It's always been "LRP" (for us british types) so why change it?
c) if you INSIST on "Live-action roleplay" why not just abbreviate to "LRP" as the live-action is normally (but not always) hyphenated.
I must admit i pronouce "LRP" as "larp", as i feel "lerp" sounds silly. But i always write "LRP". and to be honest half the time i just say "roleplaying" and ignore the whole issue.
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Tart (7/25/2006)
Me? elitist? with MY reputation? I think the problems are: a) the "action" is redundant, so why use it. b) It's always been "LRP" (for us british types) so why change it? c) if you INSIST on "Live-action roleplay" why not just abbreviate to "LRP" as the live-action is normally (but not always) hyphenated. I must admit i pronouce "LRP" as "larp", as i feel "lerp" sounds silly. But i always write "LRP". and to be honest half the time i just say "roleplaying" and ignore the whole issue. LARP because Live Adventure Role Playing means something. And _I've_ always heard the swords and sorcerory stuff being larp and the Vampire crap as LRP which suits me because there's sod all action in Vampire. *dons handy asbestos suit*
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