My son has expressed interest in a new hobby. Apparently he and his friends want to try some LARPing, and he's hoping I'll help them out.
For those of you who don't know what LARPing is (I had to look it up, myself), the word is short for Live Action RolePlaying. It's an outgrowth of the older RolePlaying Games, or RPGs, in which a small group of people got together and told stories in which they pretended to be other characters (elves, dwarves, garden gnomes, and suchlike) and go around fighting off evil wizards, saving the world, collecting treasure, and growing even stronger so that they could go on to fight even greater threats. The "live action" part means that instead of sitting around a table telling each other these stories, they actually want to dress up in costumes, and actually fight simulated monsters and villains and such.
For the record, I do not consider this the best use of my son's intelligence and imagination. That said, it sounds like good exercise; and my son assures me that there's a lot of math involved, though I don't see where. Still, his birthday is coming up, and he wants to have a couple of his friends over to celebrate, so I should have time to put together a LARP for his party.
Naturally, I'll keep you posted on how it goes.
You're going to grow some critters for them fight aren't you? Probably not the wisest course of action unless you can guarantee that they only look scary.
ReplyDeleteActually, wait a minute. You actually hired some of the snake people that your minions inadvertently created, right? (I'm tempted to call them "Kaa" after a race from GURPS Aliens, said race's name presumably being inspired by Kipling's The Jungle Book). Maybe some of them would be willing to be antagonists in the game. How hard would it be to convince them not to hurt the players?