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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I can appreciate why larping in its current form doesn't seem appealing. I know several trans people through larping for whom the hobby was an important part of coming out and exploring who they are, but a lot of larp systems were made in the old days of "dump everyone in a field and wing it, also rip off a bunch of D&D", entirely by physically-able white guys, while newer systems are made by the people who play those games, so a lot of systems are set up for physical contact, lots of movement, basically playing it loosey-goosey with a lot of things and retrofitting game mechanics and company policies to account for the world moving on and the hobby including a lot more people than basic-rear end white guys, when the whole thing needs a fresh look by a new generation. There have been several attempts at this - Regenesis was written with accessibility in mind to pick an example I'm somewhat aware of and there have been some others. Wing and a Prayer for another quite tightly focussed game (WWII UK air defense game where all the player roles were fem-presenting). It's not been done at large fest scale, but I'm not sure how it could be - we try and do a mix of accessibility options at Empire and signpost the requirements, but it's ultimately a big battle game with camping, so it's not as inclusive as it could be. Of course, we'll have to see how much of the hobby survives this past year of being shut down and what comes next.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Some of the comments under that article though! (Haven't read them all.) I do keep hearing of people who read Capital and go "yes, more of that please"
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