Tendales posted:

The one larp I ever participated in, my friend played a cat phouka changeling and just roamed around the play area on roller skates. I played a dog phouka changeling chasing him. I would wander up to random broody vampires and ask them if they've seen my cat, and then "spot" him in the distance and go running off again.

There was some locally important drama plot going on but gently caress if I know what it was.

Tendales posted:

The one larp I ever participated in, my friend played a cat phouka changeling and just roamed around the play area on roller skates. I played a dog phouka changeling chasing him. I would wander up to random broody vampires and ask them if they've seen my cat, and then "spot" him in the distance and go running off again.

There was some locally important drama plot going on but gently caress if I know what it was.

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

Motherfucker that's called tag. They already invented that.

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

Motherfucker that's called tag. They already invented that.

KittenJucerSupreme posted:

The Chechnian president officially condemned and banned Vampire in the country and multiple human rights groups condemned it for saying the Chechnian genocide of LGBTQ people was caused by vampires (mind, for very different reasons than Chechnya)

fun hater posted:

ive only played the video game which is good. its also really bad and unplayable. but its also the greatest game ever made

Smirking_Serpent posted:

do y’all think Bloodlines 2 will ever come out?

Psycho Landlord posted:

Just a wild group of people

pentyne posted:

It was so bad Paradox revoked WW's permissions to approve publishing of their own books.

It's hard to understate just how insanely bad it was, it pissed off a ton of the inside business/money people when they heard about it.

rodbeard posted:

The only White Wolf larpers I ever met had a run in with the cops where somebody was tying up their girlfriend in a playground as part of a scene and had one of their members get arrested by the department of homeland security in a pedophile sting operation.

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

tel;ing the mods to beware the old blood and getting banned for concern trolling

Frank Frank posted:

There’s apparently some really bad French horror movie called “blood of the wolf” that cribs all of its costumes and aesthetic from bloodborne and I’m totally going to watch it (brotherhood of the wolf maybe?)

RyokoTK posted:

how loving insensitive and stupid can you be, good grief lmao

that’s like, bafflingly stupid

Famethrowa posted:

right about now I'd appreciate a link to the "LARP ruined my life" thread because I can't get enough of greasy awful nerds DIY-ing cults

quote:

I had LARPed for 18 years by the time I quit, and had table-topped for 23.
I was a member of a global LARP organization for five years, played in a troupe (singular LARP group) for two, and ran my own troupe for over a year.
I did the freeform/theater LARPing, not boffer
LARPing was the main focus of my life. I was a Lifer.
LARPing’s toxic environment did not begin my illnesses, but did enable them, made them much much worse, and kept me from getting well.
I do not believe everyone who LARPs is sick, but I believe all Lifers are unhealthy either mentally, emotionally or physically, often all three.
I am not angry or bitter, and accept all responsibility for the choices that led me to, and kept me in, LARPing.
I am out, in therapy, and on meds, and I believe I would be dead now if I had not quit LARPing.

lobster shirt posted:

brotherhood of the wolf kicked rear end

lobster shirt posted:

brotherhood of the wolf kicked rear end

Herstory Begins Now posted:

at the risk of approaching the thread title, i take it you are not aware of the president dictator for life of chechnya

RyokoTK posted:

how loving insensitive and stupid can you be, good grief lmao

that’s like, bafflingly stupid

lobster shirt posted:

brotherhood of the wolf kicked rear end

Abhorrence posted:

Allegedly, the writer of that particular plot point had a gay friend who was tortured and killed in Chechnya, and included it to raise awareness. There was supposed to be a sidebar explaining that it was a real thing, and the writer's personal connection, etc, but it was dropped in editing.

This is all from a r/hobbydrama post that sources a 4 year old reddit comment, so take that with a handful of salt, as it may be completely fabricated.

Gambit from the X-Men posted:

mark loving dacascos

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

sitting down to play a tabletop game only to get up and leave when someone mentions their fetish five minutes into the game because i know where this is going

Boba Pearl posted:

That is some of the most depressing poo poo I have ever read.

KittenJucerSupreme posted:

Double post because I missed this, but genuinely from firsthand experience if someone starts adding even inklings of fetish material to a tabletop game you need to get out of there now. If you really know them you can tell them to knock it off, but for strangers like just hit the bricks. Do not endure that, it will only go badly. Anyone who is so self-unaware that they even accidentally (not to mention purposely) do that is not to be trusted. I'm dead serious, its never went well when someone tries to stick it out, leave if you see it.

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Bassetking posted:

This next one took place about twelve years ago. Specific Mechanical Details may be fuzzy, and for that, I apologize. It is, however, a WoD LARP story, and one I've been meaning to post to a Cat Piss thread since I joined SA.

I am not the same person I was back then, and, were I then, who I am now, I would have likely handled the situation in a different manner.

So, I was at Ohio State University back in 2003. Now, because, back then, I was a twenty year old college kid, I lived a nearly totally nocturnal day-cycle, due to some bad, bad insomnia.

This has anything at all to do with the story because of Burritos Noches.

Ahh. Burritos Noches. One Swipe of a Meal Card, and you could get a Burrito The Size Of Your Head. It was open from 12AM to 4AM, and was a godsend to those students who were, like me, up very late.

It also attracted the local chapter of The Cam. Or, at least, The Prince, and a whole bunch of his cotire.

Each and every night, this group of Goth-dressed Kine-Sneerers would cluster the area right around the doorway to this delightful land of tasty late-night burritos.

And they would LARP. In the worst, Cammy, Mundane-Freaking, Feed-By-Touching, Greasy Goth manner.

It got so harassing that the University considered shutting down the food venue, due to the complaints of female students about thirty-five-year-old grease-beards lounging around in black, and makeup, and touching them. I get the whole "Touch to Feed" thing, but seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeriously. The kind of folks who show up to do this form of LARP are exactly the kind of folks who will take that as an invitation to get all Creepy-Touchy on the college kids they're trying to freak.

Now, to myself, and my friends, all of whom were TTRPG players, the loss of Burritos Noches was unacceptable. Upon hearing that the University was considering canceling the program, we decided to take action. We knew enough about these V:tM players that most of them were former university students, but didn't currently attend, and didn't give a gently caress about what happened to the students there, they'd move their characters to a new location on campus, and keep harassing students.

So long as they had those characters.

Which is where my friends and myself hatched our plan.

We contacted Campus Facilities, and, using available forms, made rental of five sections of mobile, generator-powered stadium-lighting. We positioned these around the little courtyard that these LARPers lurked.

We went out, and bought Super-Soakers.

And we bought a copy of Hunter: The Reckoning, and contacted the Cam to start a sanctioned Hunter Group.

The night all of this went down; when the lighting was in place, one on a pole above the center of the courtyard, the other four positioned on the ground to encompass the entire courtyard. We then used a sharpie to write "Flamethrower" down the side of each Super-Soaker, and "HIGH INTENSITY UV" on paper signs that we taped to each of the lights.

We waited. And waited. And once the whole LARP had shown up to do their freaking and feeding...

We turned on the Generator, and jumped from the hedges with the Super-soakers.

Between the "Sunlight", and the Agg-Damage from the Flamethrowers, we ashed nearly "five thousand years" of V:tM characters in one evening's actions. And as frustrated as the Storyteller was, when we presented our Avenger and Defender Hunter Sheets, he actually adjudicated that we had succeeded, to the angry protestations of his group. "They perfectly played the Role of Hunters. You all got too complacent, didn't check out the area you'd be gathering, didn't spend resources to secure the area, fed in the location too many times, and drew the attention of Hunters. Exactly like it's supposed to happen, when you do that."

So yeah.

I am not proud of super-soaking a bunch of LARPers in order to save a burrito location.

I am willing to admit there's some Cat-Piss on each and every side of this story.

But seeing a dude fifteen years older than you actually break down in tears, because the character he'd been playing for seven years, since he was in Grad School, had been Ashed, and there was nothing he could do about it? And knowing that what we'd done would cause a massive shake-up in the area's Cam; likely bringing in a group of leadership who would be more likely to tell guys like that to quit loving "Freaking The Kine"?

I can feel a little bit good about that.

So yeah. That's the story of how I did a One-Shot Hunter: The Reckoning LARP, ashed thirty people's characters, and saved some tasty burritos.

Mature? Oh, hell no.

Would I do it today? God, no.

It is something I'll still point to as a citation of "In-Game Actions have In-Game Consequences."?
Absolutely.