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LARPs have their own set of common tropes, including some form of [[Closed Circle]] or [[Enclosed Space|Enclosed Space ]] (which give players an excuse to stay in game even if their character's smartest option would be to leave) and [[Time Travel]] (regardless of genre.) However, the largest LARP events (sometimes called "fests", for festivals), who host thousands of players, occur on large swaths of land, which gives players space to flee while remaining in the game.
LARP, especially boffer LARP, is considered one of the easy targets of nerddom. This is mainly due to the widespread popularity of the "Lightning bolt" video on [[YouTube]], which features boffer combat in all its anarchic "foam weapons and spell packets" glory. Strangely, LARP makes an easier target ''among'' nerds than outside of geekdom. The occasional small-press article on LARPing is usually sympathetic, and ''Role Models'', while pointing out the inherent goofiness of LARP, still treats it as a great way for people to socialize and build confidence. On the other hand, the "Lightning bolt" video is usually circulated around message boards and geek-oriented blogs, often as a way of saying, "I may be a nerd, ''but''..."
In several European countries, LARP is viewed in a different light. Especially in the Nordic countries, LARP is increasingly considered [[Serious Business]]. While your milage may always vary, LARP is creeping into the realm of the mainstream. For example, there are more Danish kids participating in LARPs (often school or daycare related) than there are kids in [[The Beautiful Game|football]] clubs and a popular [http://www.dr.dk/ramasjang/barda/index.html LARP-show] is aired on Danish national television (and exported to Sweden) . The inter-nordic [[wikipedia:Knutepunkt|"Meating Point" or "Node"]] convention in particular strive to advance LARP as a medium in many ways, and serious academical papers on LARP is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon.
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* [http://www.air-maelstrom.com AIR Maelstrom] - An alternate-earth Steampunk-themed LARP based in Atlanta, GA, by lead writer G.D. Falksen, lead designer Chris Dodson, and many others at Hatboy Studios. Makes use of nerf guns as well as traditional foam swords, but also features robust economic and social systems for those not as keen on battle, and is well balanced between different player interests. Storylines are set up by the staff but players are highly encouraged to participate in the storymaking process. Also, airships!
* [[Amtgard (Roleplay)|Amtgard]]
* [[Dagorhir Battle Games (Roleplay)|Dagorhir]]
* The Darkon Wargaming Club
* [http://www.dystopiarisinglarp.com/ Dystopia Rising]: Takes place after a [[Zombie Apocalypse]]
* [[Accelerant (Roleplay)|Accelerant]] - Formerly the nTeraction system, and forms the core ruleset for several New England-based LARPs (a few of which are listed below). Developed by Robert Ciccolini.
** Endgame
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** Valhalla
* [http://www.knightrealms.com/home-page.html Knight Realms]: A high fantasy LARP which owns its own 200 acre camp[http://www.camp-sacajawea.com/\] in Sparta, New Jersey. It rents the land to other area [[LAR Ps]] including"
** Dystopia Rising
** LAIRE
** Realm of Adventure
* The Wayfinder Experience,[http://wayfinderexperience.com/\] a mainly upstate New York based LARP camp. Falls somewhere in between Boffer and Theatre, depending on the camp.
* Westfinder, a rules-lite [[LAR Ping]] community in California's Bay Area.
* Epic Adventuez[http://www.epicadventurez.com/\], the Philadelphia offshoot of the above two
* Lorien Trust/The Gathering - one of the largest in Britain, it is a High Fantasy system using high-quality rubber weaponry.
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== [[Comics]] ==
* The second arc of ''[[Powers]]'', "Roleplay," deals with a college LARP group that pretend to be superheroes (in a universe that actually ''has'' superheroes) complete with "calls to action" from the rooftops. Things start to go horribly, horribly wrong...
== [[Film]] ==
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{{quote|'''Chick''': "She seems to be the loneliest LARPer in town, and that's saying something for her social skills... or acting skills, for that matter."}}
* ''Darkon'' a documentary film chronicling [[The Darkon Wargaming Club|the club of the same name]].
* ''[[The Wild Hunt (film)|The Wild Hunt]]'' is about a fantasy LARP (a Canadian group, so more like the Russian style) where jealousy and personal issues between the players result in things going hideously wrong. Some folks view it as the ''[[Mazes and Monsters]]'' of LARP, but the LARP setting has little to do with the conflict, which is all about a relationship triangle.
* ''Monster Camp'', another documentary this one of the Seattle branch of Alliance.
* ''The Knights of Badassdom'' which is about LARPers who accidentally summon demons into the real world and then have to battle them.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The [[Larry Niven]] and Steven Barnes series ''Dream Park''
* In the ''[[Dresden Files]]'' short story "It's My Birthday Too", the action takes place in a mall that's been rented for a LARP very similar to Minds Eye Theater. Ironically one of the people in it is Thomas, Harry's brother who ''is'' a vampire.
** Also [[Dresden Files|Jim]] [[Codex Alera|Butcher]] himself [[One of Us|is a member of the Chicago branch of NERO]].
*** He used a good bit of his money to purchase a large plot of land to create a 'larp town' of sorts.
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* [http://geebasonparade.keenspot.com/ ''Geebas On Parade''] is all about this and is based on the experiences of creator Jennie Breeden in both NERO and SOLAR. Her half-orc character has also appeared in her other strip ''[[The Devil's Panties]]''.
* The protagonists in ''[[Weregeek]]'' participate in a Minds Eye Theater vampire LARP and, less often, a fantasy boffer LARP. In one arc they also inadvertantly stumble into a horror LARP without knowing it.
* ''[[PvP]]'' has an arc where the magazine's staff decides to engage in a boffer LARP as part of a company picnic. They end up sharing a park with Civil War re-enactors, which leads to some "who's dorkier" tension.
** And then they run into some Trekkies, and a pie fight breaks out.
* Some of the [[All Trolls Are Different|trolls]] in ''[[Homestuck]]'' enjoy an "''Extreme'' Role Playing" system called FLARP, which tends to have much higher risks and potential real-life consequences than normal LARPing. Most of them stopped rollplaying after couple of them had "accidents" and the game descended into a downward spiral of revenge that left one of them crippled from the waist down, one of them blind, one of them lacking one eye and one arm, and one of them {{spoiler|dead}}. {{spoiler|1=Later revealed to be an odd example of [[Generation Xerox]] – most of the trolls are basically FLARPing as their own [[Famous Ancestor|ancestors]].}}
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