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Elebrim wrote:...I question why lately it seems like we must do everything that Amtgard does or else we are no longer the best fighters. I don't think it's right or necessary.
Elebrim wrote:...I question why lately it seems like we must do everything that Amtgard does or else we are no longer the best fighters. I don't think it's right or necessary.
I love how medieval looking a non printed t shirt and scrub pants are.
warwell wrote:Now just because some people go with the minimum garb and focus on the sport aspect of Bel does not mean that Bel is not a LARP. It just means that those people are de-emphasizing the LARP aspect in their personal style of play.
warwell wrote:While there are certainly differences between Bel and the game that Cälde'r describes, I disagree that one is a LARP and another (Bel) something different. It is a false dichotomy.
I contend that they are two different types of LARPs. Both involve role-playing in that participants play the role of medieval/fantasy warriors, so they are both LARPs. They simply differ in the rules used instead of being different categories of games.
Quickie wrote:I kinda feel like I'm beating a dead horse here, but... the idea still stands that while this game has many role playing tendencies, it is not a larp. its the same concept as Civil War/ WW2 reinactment. They're not always 100% historically acurate. They're completely based on people eiminating another character persona, while acting out that character's life through a series of real world actions. Essentially that is a larp, but we don't consider it as such. Why? Because it's not fantasy based? Because some people have more respect for it? What?
Our sport/game/whatever is based off of a time period, in which we draw our inspiration-true--it helps us with a name and with garb choices-also true- it is relatively fantasy. Hell we have races.
But the point is, that while role playing is a large part of this sport but, it is not at all required. There are no classes. They're no races that you must choose from. There are no rules regarding role playing or magic. It is solely optional. The game itself is a full contact reinactment sport, when you die you don't make a new charecter. There are no boundries a "team" will invade. There are no feats to make anyone person harder to kill than any other. We don't live out a persona, the chareter is us, we're out their to have fun and improve ourselves, not level up.
The only reason this game could be considered a larp is because of how a select group of people treat it. And i'm ok with that i'm a gob. I rp a little, its fun. I call this my nerdsport, it is. But it is not a larp.
There are no classes. They're no races that you must choose from.
warwell wrote: I'll just react to those who say Bel is not a LARP by saying "You are in denial."
warwell Said: Denial
graavish1 wrote:not a larper, larps are gay. look up my past discussions with peregrine on the subject. my word is law. also we are not larpers because on occasion someone actually has had sex at an event and no one has ever actually had sex with a larper. because if they did self esteem as we know it would end for the human race. that girl in the stileproject video getting pee'd on while crying that she WILL make it in porn? yea even she wouldn't **** a larper.
warwell wrote:[...]However, I must reject your argument. At work and in the bedroom, you are yourself. You are not pretending to be a medieval warrior (at least most of the time).[...]
Chicken wrote:[...]many people who do roleplay in this sport think everyone else does too, whether they acknowledge it or not, just by virtue of the fact that we wear funny clothes and get called funny names.[...]
Spike wrote:Chicken wrote:[...]many people who do roleplay in this sport think everyone else does too, whether they acknowledge it or not, just by virtue of the fact that we wear funny clothes and get called funny names.[...]
That's a little broad, don't you think? [...]
Those of us who come from larger realms and actually leave camp at night to interact with others aren't oblivious, let alone unsympathetic, to our athletic combatants. It's just a bizarre and surreal way to interact with one another. (It's just atmosphere, baby.) For the most part, the act usually just gets dropped around "stickjocks." It's not like we're * insane or have any intention of making other people do it too.
Satanaka wrote:and Gay
warwell Said: Denial
Anastasia of Chamonix wrote:warwell wrote: I'll just react to those who say Bel is not a LARP by saying "You are in denial."
LOL...so true.
Chicken wrote:Sorry, I didn't mean for that to be taken as broadly as it perhaps came out. I'm glad that (I think) we have generally good relations between the RPers and the stickjock/sport crowd - plenty of mostly good-natured crap thrown both ways, but I think for the most part everyone doesn't get in the way of other people having a good time however they want.
I was specifically referring to attitudes like these:
which is just kind of insulting. "You are role playing, you just think you're acting like you always do."
Giggles wrote:I don't think it's a stretch to think that those kind of blanket statements are coming from people that are probably a little insecure and confused about their geekiness or in some cases their homo-erotic urges and need to reinforce their beliefs through black and white thinking. Unless their being ironic (like graavish), which I don't think is likely.
Titan G wrote:i think one divergent that hasn't been added is on and off the field. this game as it is encompasses more than just fighting. you have the jimmys and others who are pure stick jocks. they are here to fight and in jimmy's case to suck . then you have medium people like me and vokor. when i pick up a weapon im a fighter and this is a sport i don't give a **** about garb, i don't give a **** about characters or classes. i care about winning. now get me off the field and sure i will rock some monster speak and totally throw down some character. then you have the roleplay idiots. " i won't use such and such weapon because my character wouldn't use that" or " i'm not going to take of this wool over coat in 100* weather because my character is a northern character." this people are smucks they should go to actually larps where they can throw seed at people and suck by themselves. they take up space on my field, make my arm tired from swinging and killing so many of them, and overall just make my fighting expierience less enjoyable due to the need to slaughter my way through them to get to someone actually worth fighting.
and giggles i'm not being ironic, i'm just a *. it's ironic that you think i'm ironic though
Chicken wrote:There's one huge difference between what we do and any LARP (and even Amtgard & Darkon, outside of ditching) - the only skill and ability you have is what you bring to the field in your body and mind.
SirMADOG wrote:Riot cops are a special breed. They like to show up to work early to beat the crowds.
FrankManic wrote: Yeah, we're a LARP, but we're not those fireball fireball fireball guys. They're intramural T-ball, we're Australian rules Rugby.
Lachlan_McClung wrote:FrankManic wrote: Yeah, we're a LARP, but we're not those fireball fireball fireball guys. They're intramural T-ball, we're Australian rules Rugby.
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Caleidah wrote:You don't have to rez a thread to mention that. We would have seen it one way or another.
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