Hi!

I'm Ed, and I'm looking for a Larping community near de DFW area (Texas) me and y wife We’ve been wanting to do this for a while, to explore, perhaps. In any case, if there’s a community in the area that could welcome us, we would be grateful.

Sorry about the thumbnails, I promise I’ll hire my girlfriend by the end of the month to make them for me :D

I make various 3D models for myself and share them online for free. Since other people seem to like them, and I haven’t had any complaints yet I thought I’d share them here too.

All the models are 100% modeled by my hands :)

There are more models than I’ve shown in the screenshots, so feel free to have a look. Most of them are decorations for locations: rooms and spaces.

If you like anything, help yourself!

My collection: https://makerworld.com/en/@MikeSmitth/upload

Hail and well met, fellow travelers!

Soon I shall leave my home world and arrive through the portal to the Vortex (Netherlands)
As the weather is cooling down, this tropical fish needs some help keeping warm. I’ve bargained for a plenty of magical warming elements and want to know if anyone has experience with any of these.

As the merchants ran out of the usual heating pads, that instructs the user to not put it directly on the skin, but on cotton clothing.
The merchant suggested I can alternatively take a menstrual heating pad that can be placed directly on the skin, but the instructions read “the pad can not be used during any physical exercise” which has me wondering if that will keep me from running around wildly casting spells and fighting off the undead.

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with these particular brands?
Has anyone used the pads on thermo clothing, or perhaps on linen, wool, rayon, polyester mixes?
I worry about damaging my LARP outfit.

I also got these insoles I’m excited to try out and hope it won’t cause a problem, I’ve tested the patches at home but the insoles will be on location so I hope there won’t be any weird or bad reactions.

Any tips or recommendations are welcome!
I’ve got layers and a warm water bottle,
Merino sweater for bed, good sleeping bag and isolation mat for the tent, extra shoes, A LOT OF EXTRA DRY SOCKS and pocket hand warmers.
Just finished making a wool cloak with fleece lining for that extra layer.

There isn’t really any indoor space, it’s all tents and as far as I know there won’t be any fires.

Just want to be extra prepared as it might get as cold as 5°C

This is my fantasy Viking larp group Echoes from Rhia, I’m so proud of how we performed at the larp 🥹💖 We managed to organize half of the groups (especially the Nordics) at a command table to devise an organized strategy against the enemy.

Personally, I love feeling the heat of battle within a well-formed shield wall. Knowing that in that disciplined line of shields, swords, and spears, if one of us falls, another will step in to take his place. Seeing a friendly shield come to your aid—or stepping up yourself to stand beside a comrade—is a wonderful feeling that only this hobby can provide 🥰

Finally have a decent kit to wear when I dont need to wear armor!

A thanks to Brian King for the excellent photos!

This is my new Mage costume I made, I still have some small corrections, like the belt beeing a little too big and the blue on the boot covers not the same shade as the rest, but still very happy with the result.

First picture taken at Comic Con Québec last week-end

Came across the Philly LARP Society recently and saw at the bottom of their website two icons. One for The American LARP Company and another for being Accredited by the ALA or 'American LARP Association' (even though the ALA is the American Library Association).

From what I could tell there's no list of accredited games, I haven't seen any other game ever have this recognition, nor can I find any information on anyone involved. In fact there's no contact information at all about it.

I can't even find PLS or ALC registered as a business anywhere and the whole thing is screaming trying to make the org seem more legitimate. Which for such a, relatively new in the grand scheme of things, business opportunity this seems like a strange direction to go in.

Does anyone have any idea here?

TL;DR : good ideas to additionally block Sun in addition to a hat.

I’m a big fan of a broad brimmed hat and sunglasses for sun protection in my regular life. Hat is definitely valid for most fantasy settings, so that’s covered. I’m looking for ideas for what could do the job of the sunglasses for bright reflections and when the hat doesn’t catch the sun from a particular angle. I’m considering for a medieval fantasy setting.

I’m familiar with the Eskimo/Inuit snow goggles and am working on making a set. Does anyone know the recommended width of the slits on those? Or just as thin as you can still see out of?

Has anyone used the snow goggles as sunglasses replacements?

Was also contemplating the effectiveness of a veil or some kind of fabric that could also be seen through that would also cut down on sun glare. I’m not sure what kind of fabric might strike the balance of cutting glare and also being able to be seen through sufficiently.

Thanks for any ideas and thoughts.

Hi all,

Just wanted to share some progress and show my first blade!

I've build a workshop to make Larp weapons during the year and I put myself a deadline for my first blade last weekend for an alternate history Larp (100y war with zombies :p).

The construction is an oval fiberglass in PU foam and PU rubber skin to get fine details and the handle is CNCed walnut

It still have some shortcomings due to the time crunch at the end but I'm already proud of the result. The mold line are too visible, some bubbles are quite big due to the foam not being homogeneous enough and it's not yet balanced due to me forgetting where the hell I put my lead weights at the last moment during pommels casting.. To name a few ^^.

Anyway don't hesitate to share your thoughts!

Hello.

Due to me having problems with acting the same during events (even if its only minutes apart) and having problems properly acting out injuries (which isnt a problems most of the time because i can only go to tavern larps) I have decided to become a non human. I decided to be a failed wechselbalg* (changeling) that is kinda crazy but since it hard to properly show that without heavy makeup or latex (which i cant realy do on both cases) i decided to go the route of having to many eyes since they are a bit more easy to do. My idea is that my character has problems properly hiding his eyes so he just sewed them shut hoping that nobody will notice. But now I have to find the right ammount. If I have to many it undermines my characters intelligence which can be fun but hard to do. If its too few it wont be noticed (in a fantasy setting that is) and I also need recommendations for how big they shoulld be (min to max size

Suggestions would help and thanks

*i know several different storys on how wechselbälger come to be (kids possessed by demons, babys stolen and switched by witches or kobolds or goblins or adult wechselbälger or demons or fae or fairies or ghosts etc)

My character is a wechselbalg that was created by a witch and meant to be used as a trojan horse kind of thingy. The witch abandoned it in hopes someone would find it and raise it so it can lure other children to the witch. However the humans who found it realised that it wasnt a human kid and left it alone. The witch then treid the same with trolls (after changing the wechselbalg to somewhat resemble a troll kid) but the trolls realised that its a wechselbalg and brought it back to the witch (as in the Witch went to sleep at her home and woke up with me next to her bed like a reverse secret home invasion which shocked her quite a bit). To proud on her (failed) work she decided to raise it until it (accidentally) ate her.

I'm making an outfit for my first Renfaire, and it's super important that I find a nice wizard robe similar to the one above. I'm going to be wearing armor underneath it and bracers on my arms, so the open style with sleeves is very important. My budget is $1,000, and I've eaten up about half of that in the armor. Anyone have suggestions for a high quality dark blue robe in a similar style to the one above? Bonus points if they have a giant wizard hat in the matching color... because I need that too. (This image was found on a Etsy listing with mixed reviews, and the seller hasn't responded yet)

Thanks!

Looking for a dark green Gambeson, I found these two on ebay but am unsure of the sellers. Anyone have a shop they recommend?

Does anyone have a good plan for making throwing chakrams? Kiddo 01 found out they kinda like disc golf and got a whole bag from my brother-in-law. But we also go to Nerf games that allow throwable weapons. Goes without saying that your typical golf frisbees are too hard to just fling at people, so we'd better make our own if we wanna make this happen.

Now, making a ring soft enough to chuck at other nerds is one thing, but making one that actually flies a good distance? That I'm not so sure about. I've got some ideas to try, but I wanted to reddit brain trust first. How would you go about making a LARP-friendly ring weapon that actually gets some distance? Thanks and/or sorry in advance.

Hi everyone! Thanks to everyone who watched my last atmospheric LARP video. I didn’t expect all of the likes, but I appreciate the community for it <3.

Speaking of the community I actually want to give a shoutout to everyone for being awesome on here and praise the creativity of you all. It’s inspiring and I truly enjoy it.

I want to share a sneak peak into the the follow-up video I’m working on, that goes more into depth about the LARP scenes, plots, and my angles from my perspective, that you see in the original LARP video. The new video will be in English so everyone can understand it xD :D (well It's a bit Scandinavian english, so bear with me, haha).

I hope to create a space to share LARP plots and stories, both from my and other players perspective :). And maybe even share some crafters work from different fairs and markets if they want to come on camera for an interview/sharing of their work... -type stuff.

The sneak peak is the picture here of the film-set I made, where I recorded a commentary track to explain the plots within the previous LARP video. These new recordings will be added along the previous video, along with some new material, that didn't fit in with the timeframe of the last LARP video :)

Thank you all for reading about my project! I’m looking forward to sharing it with you all once it’s done edited :). In the meanwhile you can watch the original video to get an idea of what I will talk about in the new one ;).

Previous LARP video link: “https://youtu.be/SkNSzCbroFg?si=CfUV3HItucyn5m5d"

All the best,
-Zach <3.

New toy ~ (๑･∀･๑) Nerf Japanese matchlock blaster

Made of walnut wood. Rubber band driven, reliable construction, and easy to maintain.

Offers you a different role-playing option.

Hiya! I've returned to YouTube to make long-form LARP videos for about a year now and I've been working on some new ideas. I would love your help!

What is something that you wish you had known when you started LARPing (or even in your early LARPing years)? A lesson you learned after years of experience?

I'm always so curious to learn how people grow through this hobby/art form!

I added my most recent video as an illustration of my current work (it's about Daemon, a His Dark Materials LARP by Katrine Wind)

I did some makeup work for my character, howd you think it turned out? Any tips for improvement?

Hi everyone,

I'll give you a bit of context before asking the question.

I'm new to LARPing, I'v done 3 (full weekend) events this summer. At the same place, with the same (more or less) players. I really love it and can't wait for next summer so we can start again.

However, I'v realised that me, as a player, I feel extremely shy when it comes to my own plot, and I struggle a lot to even talk about my own story line. I'm afraid people will think I'm trying to I don't know, be under the spotlight or something, seek attention.

But the result is that in 3 game, my plot as gone absolutely nowhere. I've helped tons of people with their own, but I put everyone else's before mine. That's not how I want to play at all, I would love to also be a "main character" cuz I do feel like an NPC.

Problem is, I have no idea how to even bring up "myself" naturally in the scheme of things, and Im scared to do it. (On a side note I also struggle a lot to "play" a different personality and Ive realised that my character, is far from what I want for her, Im basically me, dressed in fantasy).

So here's the question: How can I.. put a foot down and also get the chance to live my own plotline.. without looking like Im seeking attention or without disrupting other people's play with my own ?

Thanks in advance.

Im putting together a one day event outside. The setting is a boat on the ocean. I have a fog machine to add ambiance.

What would you suggest to add a smell?

(Real answers please don't say toss fish about)

So, we have plenty of winter/warm clothing and our LARP customers are definitely buying those, but from the occasional answers it is more like for vibe and potentially cold weather at the events like Bicolline. So, my question is there actually events or other LARP activities that happen at winter or at least in colder regions when the weather is not so good?

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