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'''Live Action Role-Playing''' is like role-playing, but people actually dress up and do the role-playing instead of rolling dice or typing.
 
'''Live Action Role-Playing''' is like role-playing, but people actually dress up and do the role-playing instead of rolling dice or typing.
  
LARPers are often known to write genre [[fiction]], have a slightly off-kilter sense of style, and often are [[Theatre]] majors.  You do not have to be a member of LARP to be a LARPer, but it helps.
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LARPers are often known to write genre [[fiction]], have a slightly off-kilter sense of style, and often are [[Theatre]] majors.  You do not have to be a member of LARC to be a LARPer, but it helps.
  
 
[[Mariko Toyoji]] has suggested that [[Model UN]] is a form of LARP called WARP (World Action Role-Playing).
 
[[Mariko Toyoji]] has suggested that [[Model UN]] is a form of LARP called WARP (World Action Role-Playing).
  
LARPers tend to be virgins (or at least we hope so).  They are easily identifiable as being the disturbingly loud geeks throwing beanbags at each other and consuming way too much sugar and caffeine. If Knox ever hired a vampire hunter, there would undoubtedly be an ensuing massive LARPer death. Many LARPers write fan-fiction.  It should be noted that many Englist professors, as well as the LARPer's own suite-mates, dislike them.
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==Making fun of LARPers==
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For some reason, Knox thinks it's OK to make fun of LARPers. Even some professors take pokes at the community. This phenomenon should be studied. What makes a supposedly kind and accepting community turn into a bunch of jerks when it come to a large group of students role-playing in their own space on their own time?
 
[[Category:Clubs]]
 
[[Category:Clubs]]

Revision as of 07:33, 22 August 2008

Live Action Role-Playing is like role-playing, but people actually dress up and do the role-playing instead of rolling dice or typing.

LARPers are often known to write genre fiction, have a slightly off-kilter sense of style, and often are Theatre majors. You do not have to be a member of LARC to be a LARPer, but it helps.

Mariko Toyoji has suggested that Model UN is a form of LARP called WARP (World Action Role-Playing).

Making fun of LARPers

For some reason, Knox thinks it's OK to make fun of LARPers. Even some professors take pokes at the community. This phenomenon should be studied. What makes a supposedly kind and accepting community turn into a bunch of jerks when it come to a large group of students role-playing in their own space on their own time?