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I do talk a good fight
 
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So Andy, you're saying that LRP is Builder's Fish & Chips, and LARP is Architect's Fish & Chips?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/poshnosh/recipes/fishandchips.shtml
http://www.hyboriantales.com
PD: Ghostdance ("The most irritating curse I've ever encountered" -- NPC played by H.)
Riftworld: Rossar Kuug ("Clearly mad, because he thinks he's a Com-Trow Skirmisher" - Aela)
Hyborian Tales: Crew, cook, dogsbody, general labourer, toilet cleaner ("Dangerously overoptimistic ref" -- Tom Nowell)
Otherwise usually crew ("Quite spry & fit, & willing to wear a big costume & run around a lot" -- various event organisers)
"My other oversized foam weapon is THE LORD" -- Questionable Content
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Heroic Knight
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As my fellow ancient and enlightened ones have pointed out, LRP is British because we've always liked TLAs where you say the letters individually, LARP is American because their weak minds demand acronyms you can pronounce as words and will force extraneous bits like "Action" in to make it so. That's not my point today. I just wanted to point out that this slanging match pales to insignificance when compared to the proper LRP vs. LARP arguments we used to have on rec.games.frp.live-action.
You're entitled to your opinion as long as you realise it's wrong.
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Champion
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Marcus (8/1/2006)
As my fellow ancient and enlightened ones have pointed out, LRP is British because we've always liked TLAs where you say the letters individually, LARP is American because their weak minds demand acronyms you can pronounce as words and will force extraneous bits like "Action" in to make it so. That's not my point today. I just wanted to point out that this slanging match pales to insignificance when compared to the proper LRP vs. LARP arguments we used to have on rec.games.frp.live-action.
Marcus: When I were a lad, we used to talk on rec.games.frp.live-action and the posts were so intense it took us 15 hours a night to read them and we’d be struck stone dead every time we touched the keyboard.
Richc: Luxury! My posts were twenty foot high and if anybody read them they’d be skinned alive and I’d dance on their grave
Marcus: And you tell the kids nowadays what it was like, and they won’t believe you.
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PD: Mister Cry, Philosopher of Stone.
LT: Whimsy, Archer's Guild Fae Butler.
SOS: Kethren Fable, The Queen's Killer.
Vikings: Plot writing Mikey (with eagle eye action)
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and Minimeister
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Andy Rimmer (7/31/2006)
I didn't say it was better in the old days. I said it was called LRP and it still is- you can however call it whatever effete intellectual shite you wish, as I'm sure that the art form you contribute to is vastly superior to the hobby I take part in for fun.
 Ahh the idea that I take part in an art form. I'm afraid I'm really more of a gamer than anything else.
There is only overconfidence and terror.
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Wag
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| Actually what I'm saying is- It's called Live Role Playing or LRP, I don't particularly care what anyone else calls it. I just don't really see why they feel the need to overcomplicate things, sub divide things and generally interfere. At the end of the day a spade still moves shit, even if you call it a digging implement. LARP, LURP, Costumed Unscripted New Theatre or Cross Country Pantomime- It will still boil down to a bunch of people pretending to be what they're not, so why try to change the name (unless of course you don't feel ownership and this gives you some sort of claim).
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Heroic Knight
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My view:
Larp sounds like something a six-year-old retard would say. While flailing his limbs. As his wheelchair rolls down a hill.
"Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarp!!!" *crash*
LRP sounds all technical and stuff.
I prefer LRP myself.
Costume hippy, live and let live, peace and love for all, man!
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Prodigal
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| I mostly agree with that. Personally, if it comes down to the difference between sounding like a six-year-old and sounding like someone talking about something highly technical, this is a case where I'd prefer to sound six. Yes, larp *can* be very sophisticated, but at heart it seems closer to kids playing make-believe than to a highly involved technical procedure. The latter just seems kind of... soulless.
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Wag
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And yet this debate seems to be between those who think the name has sufficed for long enough -why mess with it, and those who think it doesn't adequately describe what they do-i.e. isn't technical enough.
Once we accept it being called LARP, how long before it becomes "Live Action/Adventure Not quite reenactment Its a bit like acting (without a script-but only sometimes) Sort of like Dungeons and Dragons (without dice) But some people do horror or sci fi Role Playing" (LA/ANISBRP for short) we could even stick a u between the B and the R-just so it sounds like a real word Laanisburp(ing)- it's not as soulless, then in 30 years some anal pillock will want to redefine it, because it doesn't quite describe what they do on a weekend.
Or better still we could simply give each type of LRP a serial number (I'm a RP/7968548385-0(x)388864'er at weekends you know) then we'd know exactly what everyone meant when discussing their hobby (as long as we owned the necessary list of serial numbers).
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