Poll: Do you guys Role Play in real life?

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Cbargs

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I LARPed twice in High School. Now this wasn't legitimate LARPing it was something my grade(about 90 of us participated) did during a carnival-esque festival that went on for 3 days. We all made foam swords and armor and plaed capture the flag across the town. It was great fun but I couldn't imagine myself LARPing as a hobby... or seriously for that matter
 

Mezrev

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I play Pen & Paper roleplaying games once a week (Rogue Trader/Dark Heresy). Was a bit sceptical about it the first time, but now I'm loving it. I imagine a lot of people think it's something completely different than it actually is. I know I did at least. Though it obviously depends on whom you play with, friends you've known for years or complete strangers.
 

ribonuge

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AkJay said:
I used to when I was age 7-9 with my friends, then I grew up.
Yeah I used to run around with sticks in the forest screaming +1 FIRE DAMAGE when I were a wee lad. But then I realised that Final Fantasy was in fact...fantasy.

[sup]I died a little that day[/sup]
 

Pegghead

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Well no...I am above being a highland Dasnarni elf of the glassenis clan with a plus 10 Dwarfen steel bow and a Jeriggian poison tipped dagger with plus 20 percent chance of critical strike upon which the enemy shall be stunned for three moves...*Cough*.

But in all seriousness I do not partake in live action roleplaying, and I'll put it to you this way. In the glory days of being 6-10 years old you spend long summer afternoons in the garden staging epic mock battles with toy swords and imaginary spells. When your fat and pathetic and a 30 year old virgin you say "I'm above acting like a child and playing around in the garden" because now you do exactly the same thing only you have to write a fucking novels worth of back story for your character and quest, you have to spend hours making rubber tipped weapons and tight itchy clothing each with a painstakingly calculated statistics sheet and you play out your "epic" battles by announcing each action, interacting with your equally depressing foes and/or comrades in some overly flamboyant manner and then you have to wait another ten minutes for every other sad goit in your party to do the same. And then after all that you fail to realize that medieval rpgs and tabletop games were invented to prevent humanity from doing that sort of crap
 

quantum mechanic

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If by "roleplay in real life" you mean "play Dungeons and Dragons with physically present people," then yes. If you mean "LARP," then absolutely not. No no no no no no no no no.
 

Skywatcher

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Yes, at least 2 or 3 times a month. I don't play D&D, though. ETA: I've never tried LARPing, but I'd kind of like to try it!
 

delet

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I play the role of me. Just who 'me' is depends on the day of the week (orsomethinglikethat.)
 

Mostly Harmless

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I went LARPing once. A couple friends and I went and reenacted the a famous battle from the roman empire. (dont remember which one.)
Surprisingly fun with hundreds of people running and beating the crap out of each other, and well organized. They actually had us in formations and used general. Basically stand here and run and kill when I tell you type thing. One guy got pulled out in stretcher from a broken bone.

Its not all fantasy stuff. Most LARPing involves reenacting historical battles.

Edit: Do it a couple of times a month. Have never played a quest the entire way through and just mess around. Actually made a campaign where I was chaotic-evil overlord and my job was slaughtering an entire village and it local hero.
 

Loop Stricken

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orangebandguy said:
I don't LARP, I don't think I could bring myself to do it.
This. i don't have the energy to be honest. Or the friends.
Or the money.

Paradoxically I just barely have the self-respect necessary not to.
 

tristow

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I don't but I want to especially after seeing this: http://sdmobile.livejournal.com/19621.html
 

Dubstep Sonny

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I used to, back when the Yahoo! Chat Rooms were decent places to Role-Play. But they're full of trolls and bots and semi-para 'Players now.
 

Kaymish

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i would but none of my IRL mates are into it and ive had bad experiences with people i dont know so i must play trough the internets