by Thorne » Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:53 am
I got into this sport through Dargarth, and I've been fighting with them every other week for over a year. In my opinion, we have a great group of people out there. We've got some talented fighters, archers, and foamsmiths. On average, we have about 20 people out at events, and when the weather is nice the number tends to jump dramatically. People say we're about an 80/20 ratio of fighting to larp. Almost all of our events we just come out to fight, and we run an adventure every few months where we play our characters or NPCs and make our way through a storyline.
Major differences between us and most Belegarth realms are as follows:
1. Currency system
At Dargarth we have a monetary system based on 'gold' coins. These can be used to buy potions/poisons, make silver weapons, bribe other characters, and so on and so forth.
2. World Map and land actions
Every event, countries (unified fighting units) who have submitted a land action form in advance will roll dice, with the resulting number denoting a certain type and amount of enemies. Other fighters will play the part of the opponents, and the country performing a land action will fight them. If they win, they take a hex on the world map and get to roll for loot in the form of castles, keeps, cities, mines, and whatnot that net gold for your country at the end of the season.
3. Armor classes
Dargarth has four armor classes. Where any armor in Belegarth only protects you from one extra hit, different types of armor can protects different hit zones from 1, 2, 3 , or even 4 extra hits. Not to worry, though, you won't be running into a whole lot of AR3 or AR4.
4. Magic
We do have a magic system at Dargarth. It's not terribly complicated, and it really only gets used at adventures, so you won't see it much on a regular battle day. Personally, I think our magic system needs A LOT of work, and our rules/game marshals and our noble counsel are always deliberating on rule changes so we can make our game better for the future.
Aside from that, we're all about getting out there and fighting. We've had our fair share of Belegarth fighters come up and we see a lot of them time and time again, and they seem to enjoy fighting with us. We're very friendly and welcoming to anyone who wants to join up, and we're happy to accept both veteran warriors and newbs to the sport with open arms.