VAuroch comments on Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VAuroch 20 January 2014 07:27:27AM *  0 points [-]

You've probably only been to American LARPs. European ones, particularly in Scandinavia, are much more serious about things, and use minimize the unbelievable aspects. So the people playing skilled warriors are actually skilled warriors, the armor is more or less real armor, and the weapons are real (though unsharpened) weapons.

Even in the US, long-runner LARPs (generally run in periodic several-day sessions, with a consistent cast of characters who persist from session to session) tend to be along those lines as well.