Talk:List of live action role-playing groups
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[edit] Terminology
It seems beneficial to use some unified terminology on this page for the purpose of comparison, but I'm not sure about some of the distinctions being employed at the moment - for example, the Lorien Trust as a "Fantasy boffer combat group" is a description which I don't think would be recognised by most of its participants; firstly because 'boffer' is not a term ever used in UK LARP (for me, at least, it suggests the heavily-padded unlatexed weapons which are more or less unknown in Britain), and secondly because, while combat is a significant part of LT events, it's never the sole focus; all battles are brought about in some fashion by roleplay interactions.
A major distinction in UK LARP is between "fest" and "group" LARP - group is generally frequent events for a smallish number of regular players (up to about 100), in which, generally, all the characters are involved to some degree in a single plot or series of plots. Fest is less frequent events for large numbers (high hundreds to thousands) of players, usually taking the form of 3-4 day events with people camping on site, with different plots and interactions going on among different groups of characters.
Is this a useful distinction to apply world-wide, or are the LARP scenes in different countries too different? TSP 13:03, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm not familiar with the fest/group distinction here in the US, but as Lorien is a UK event, it seem reasonable to me to use UK terminology. I've readded the details on combat as it's an important distiction, although I've used "latex weapon combat" instead of "boffer combat" in an attempt to be clearer. Alan De Smet | Talk 13:54, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps so. I think almost every UK group involves latex weapon combat, so I suppose that should be added to all of them. TSP 03:16, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
