I fully and readily admit to LARPing quite extensively in high school. This caught my eye, because I’ve always been a fan of Shadowrun, (while I admit to never actually playing a game, I’ve made several characters and almost played in two games,) and of course a fan of cyberpunk. These people set up a Shadowrun LARP using laser tag weaponry and did it in a really awesome and fitting warehouse setting. Very, very cool.
LARPing to me is one of the more pure forms of interactive storytelling. It’s a game, it’s acting, it’s storytelling. It’s also ruined by negative stereotypes and it’s my experience that most of the people that tend to do it are super obsessed with it and make it their life.
I think I would enjoy some sort of convention or amusement park setting where everyone who was attending was a ‘character,’ the boundaries and time limits and rules were clear, and you could play as a character for a weekend or whatever.
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