[UA] Way in advance

[Twist0059 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/21/99 11:43:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, indra at scc.net 
writes:

> > No offense to those who like LARPing, but in the RPG circles I run in 
> LARPers
>  > are consistently the punchlines in jokes, and the whole phenomenon is
>  > looked on as a bunch of angst-ridden WW teengers wearing capes and 
talking
>  > about how dark and depressed they are.
>  
>  Up here at the U of MN, there is a LARP group who hid their identity
>  from the general public deliberately in order to avoid the members of
>  the local gaming club.  They didn't want their games ruined by a bunch
>  of unwashed munchkins who continuously spouted Monty Python references,
>  or so I've been lead to believe.


True, both sides have bad images of the other.  

On the Shadowland (Shadowrun) boards on AOL, there's a vet who talks about 
how at a Con he was dressed as a runner (trenchcoat and shades) and some 
Vampire LARPers jumped on his back and tried to fill up their blood pools.  
(They apparently thought from the getup he was one of them. <shrug>.)

Thus, is the division made.  Can't we all just get along?





-Twist

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