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Tart (7/26/2006)
Yes, but you are probably a young flibberty gibbet who doesn't know any better. It were all LRP in my day I tell you, far as the eye can see.
That were my thinkin' too. 23 years I've been doing LRP, man and boy, and it's only in the last 5 years or so that I've heard people calling it LARPing. Bloody johnny-come-latelies.
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I only clock up 13years worth, but concur that "LARP" is a recent abomination*, and i've never heard "live ADVENTURE roleplaying" until now.
*For MET players - an Abomination is "A cause of abhorrence or disgust" not a vampire/werewolf/powergaming cross.
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Tart (7/26/2006)
LARP because Live Adventure Role Playing means something. But Live Roleplay and Live ADVENTURE roleplay (to my mind at least) mean the same thing. "Live adventure" or "Live Action" is a tautology, surely? Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action is where Live Action come from. Live Adventure would be versus tabletop adventure and also denotes it's unscripted nature. Next!
Yes, but you are probably a young flibberty gibbet who doesn't know any better. It were all LRP in my day I tell you, far as the eye can see.
But yes, Vampire is dull as a very dull thing.
Good, I'm glad that you recognise your advancing senescence.  Times change and I want to use new ways to describe the hobby I love. Who knows? One hears that old timers like yourself now have jobs in managerial positions and thus might know WTF I'm talking about. Flannel (7/26/2006)
Its surely never been Live 'adventure' roleplay???? Thats just sad. Not as sad as MET though. It hasn't been yet. But times change. Change happens deal with it.  Tart (7/26/2006)
I only clock up 13years worth, but concur that "LARP" is a recent abomination*, and i've never heard "live ADVENTURE roleplaying" until now.
*For MET players - an Abomination is "A cause of abhorrence or disgust" not a vampire/werewolf/powergaming cross.
Well you live and learn. Or not.
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I like 'larp' because that way it looks like a proper pronounceable verb and not just a cold, heartless acronym.
WARNING: the information above may have been subjected to dangerously high levels of ignorance.
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nesciomancer (7/26/2006)
I like 'larp' because that way it looks like a proper pronounceable verb and not just a cold, heartless acronym.Of course, that's because some people have been LARPing longer than you've been alive...
There is only overconfidence and terror.
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| Yes, grandpa. (wayofthefutureitellsya)
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coffmeister (7/26/2006)
So LARP Not LARP. Larp. See, now it looks like a proper word, like 'laser'. LASER just sounds like a cheesy 70s superhero team. coffmeister (7/26/2006)
will overtake as all these old farts in their 30's hurry up and die? :-9 Yup. If there's one thing that larp has taught me, it's the way that massacring a bunch of strangers in a remote wooded glade solves all your problems for you.
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