/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

[hungarian LARPfag No.10813669]

New larp thread

Now with 37% more winter season. The cool kids larp even in the winter.

previous thread

>>10787705

[Anonymous No.10813950]

>>10813669
what are eu shops for pants? i miss two components till i finished with my set. and i think the pants are the harder one since im a fat fuck

[Anonymous No.10813998]

>>10813950
What are your standards of budget/authenticity, which country and how much of a fat fuck are you? Your bog standard larp shop generally carries up to a 3XL which also tends to be on the larger size itself.

[Anonymous No.10814112]

>>10813998
> Budget arround 60-65€
> Authenticity: Must not be 100%, searching for a viking style one
> Germany
> 170cm/144kg

[Anonymous No.10814367]

>>10814112
Perkele viking store does some really good kit for quality prices, and I think goes up to XL in their normal range and bigger on request. Their stuff is all historically accurate, but honestly have no idea what the fuck you're talking about for "musn't be 100% authentic" desu.

To try and get some conversation going, what's everyone's favourite weapon? Not the best, not the most aesthetically pleasing, just your personal favourite, everything else be damned. I personally fucking love polearms. Spears, Billhooks, don't care, love all of them, especially once you get to 7ft plus territory. They fit almost every setting and period and allow you to style on people constantly.

[Anonymous No.10814482]

>>10813669

Stop larping, we need real life
https://youtu.be/bdb-s9zuYKQ

[Anonymous No.10814679]

Looks like Drachenfest US is going to be releasing it's tickets in a few days, but they're still requiring vaccination records. Regardless of how much we need to worry about covid I don't plan on getting a vaccine one especially since I've already had covid and I'm not interested in getting a new vaccine every three months. What is the likely hood that they'll drop the requirement or allow like religious exceptions. I'm not religious but I'll convert before I get some weird jab.

[Anonymous No.10814782]

>>10814679
Absolutely zero chance

[Anonymous No.10814805]

>>10814782
god why are all my hobbies run by weirdo funko pop loving bootlickers

[hungarian LARPfag No.10814811]

>>10814805
larp is a community hobby that you mostly do for the interactions. If you don't like the people there why did you got into the hobby in the first place?

[Anonymous No.10814812]

>>10814811
ah yes, let me go ahead and stop enjoying things and thinking they're cool and wanting to interact with them because the leaders are mentally ill.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10814817]

>>10814812

[Anonymous No.10814875]

>>10814858
my brother in christ we're in a thread about dressing up as fake fantasy and or historically accurate people and then smacking each other with not!weapons I think we're all a little bit of an edgy faggot

[Anonymous No.10814913]

>>10814912
You can play make believe you're some kind of viking warrior or goat futa and dress up for the part but you can't pretend that there is some form of higher being that will welcome you after death instead of a horrifying void of endless nothingness?

Weird.

[Anonymous No.10814926]

>>10814925
NTA, but it's a solid bit of advice.

And it has Jesus's personal endorsement!

[Anonymous No.10814928]

Big shout out to the janitor for getting rid of the trash. You're doing good work.

[Anonymous No.10814930]

Now that the asshole was gone, let's get the thread back on topic.

Does anyone know a good US source for a Elizabethan ruff that isn't cheap nylon Halloween costume, but also isn't a $150 plus reenacting quality piece?

[Anonymous No.10814935]

>>10814928
Agreed not a fan of people telling me to go kill myself.

[Anonymous No.10814965]

>>10814935
Just read the archives and Jesus was right you should kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.10814971]

>>10814930
I've heard good things about The Renaissance Tailor but I've no actual experience with them.

[Anonymous No.10814972]

>>10814930
If you're patient, you can find them on Etsy for good prices.

>>10814935
And I'm sure you noticed from how every time you post, many people have been telling you to kill yourself and calling you a retard.

This is because you are a retard and should kill yourself. You're actively detrimental to the hobby and the community, and no one likes you. Including Jesus Christ of Nazareth, apparently.

Please either comply with the request, fuck off to /pol/, or remain silent.

[Gropey_the_Clown !!o5lBTJNBKvL No.10814993]

I'm gone for a few weeks and ya'll let the plague rats in!

>>10814482
BS. Larp hard enough, and you can larp for a living like me.

>>10814679
>>10814812
>>10814913
>>10814935
You're just not very bright, aren't you?

>>10814930
Ikea. Not joking. It comes and goes from their collection, but in the toys/roleplaying they sometimes have a really nice, 100% cotton ruffs with tie closure for $15 usd. Other than that, they really are not hard to make, just tedious. YouTube has good guides.

[Anonymous No.10815259]

>>10814935
Don't worry, people are not a fan of you either.

[Gropey_the_Clown !!o5lBTJNBKvL No.10815495]

Happy Halloween you nerds.

[Anonymous No.10815896]

>>10815495
Happy belated spoop to you too.

[Anonymous No.10816028]

What kind of tents does everyone recommend for single person? Right meow I'm looking at the Sibley 300 Ultimate, but I'd like to have a broad range of options instead of "ah this looks good enough" and buying the first thing that looks larpish enough.

Bonus if it's asian in aesthetic.

[Anonymous No.10816125]

What's the consensus about Epic Armoury's hybrid line? Are they any good? Worth the money? Will they break on me after two training sessions?

Otherwise, any suggestions about a specific product or company of matching swords/sabers in the 3ft/85-90cm length range? Preferrably something like a simple millitary sabre but I can roll with most stuff

Pic unrelated

[Ballistanon No.10816246]

>>10816125
I've got the Swashbuckler from the hybrid range. It's Epic Armoury quality, really. Not very good, not very expensive.

One of the wiggly bits of the guard broke off after very light use, but they're unusually small for EA weapons so I'd assume they're normally sturdy enough.

I've heard some retards try to ban them "because the pommel is too hard" but I haven't actually seen it enforced anywhere.

[Gropey_the_Clown !!o5lBTJNBKvL No.10816736]

>>10816125
Can't speak for the hybrid line, but we use the RFB line of cutlasses quite regularly in our game.

It's a major question is if you are looking for curvature. Almost no one does curved blades, but I've been eyeballing Fakesteel Armoury ever since I've gotten to handle one. Not only do they make plenty of various curved weapons and 18th century styles, but they legitimately are some of the nicest looking weapons I've seen in person. A little pricey, but nice. Pic related from a recent post of theirs.

[Gropey_the_Clown !!o5lBTJNBKvL No.10816737]

>>10816736
And another picture out there late 18th / early 19th century English saber.

[Anonymous No.10817057]

Tried to get it off the ground last year but left it too late/there wasn't quite enough interest, but would anons be interested in a /lrp/ secret santa in the style of the one that occurs over on /k/? Probably not a massive spending amount, just something nice for the christmas season.

[Anonymous No.10817116]

>>10816736
>>10816737
I thought curved cores on latex was a terribad no-no idea made of pure explodium? Too much stress or something and prone to failure?

>>10817057
We've done it before. Problem is needing to have two separate lists: one for Europe, one for North America.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10817193]

>>10817116
Then good thing it's injected foam not latex.

Though my biggest problem with fakesteel is that they are in the same price range as calimacil and the wyvern replica and wyvern has insurance policy plus you can cheaply buy replacement blades while being objectively better at handling and feel.

[Anonymous No.10817209]

>>10817193
But calimacil doesn't have curved blades.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10817219]

>>10817209
one of these days the fey will make you their slave for an eternity

[Gropey_the_Clown !!o5lBTJNBKvL No.10817312]

>>10817057
As always, I'm down for the US, And I will pick up any random Anon if we get an odd number So everyone gets a gift.

>>10817116
In theory, on the thrust, yes. But weapons that tend to be that curved aren't necessarily meant for thrusting regularly anyways. The idea is that on the thrust, it focuses all of the energy onto a small area usually at the apex of the curvature, but I have never actually seen a curved latex weapon fail. Plenty of cheap dick swords and boffers though, mostly from repeated stress usage, but they've always been straight cored.

>>10817193
I will admit they're a little blade heavy, but apparently they've recently changed how they weight the pommels. They're also cornering the market for the aesthetics of 18th/19th century weapons, which Calimacil doesn't have a strong showing for. I've also been drooling over some of their 15th/16th century inspired swords.

>>10817219
That's not a curve. THIS is a curve.

[Anonymous No.10817378]

>>10817219
>one of these days the fey will make you their slave for an eternity
Don't make promises you can't keep. The number of mushroom rings and tree branch portals I have climbed into is uncountable, and get they still haven't taken me away.

[Anonymous No.10817460]

>>10816736
I have a pair of fakesteel weapons. They're fucking great, and they last. Get one.

[Anonymous No.10817704]

>>10817057
I'm interested.

[Anonymous No.10817833]

>>10817460
Pics?

[Anonymous No.10818204]

>>10817833
I'll post some later on if I remember, I don't generally keep pictures of any individual piece of gear.

[Anonymous No.10818794]

>>10816028
I'm either rocking a painted wheel pavilion or a soldiers tent when I go solo. Just get a period tent, something Asian can be more expensive though but something generic will always beat your modern tent.

[Anonymous No.10818866]

Alright, there's been enough interest in >>10817057 that I'll throw something together over the next few days.

>>10817116
Seperate Euro and NA lists won't be too hard, as I imagine the signups will be fairly limited I'll probably just do a lot of matching by hand.

[Anonymous No.10820216]

>>10813669
I had a visual guide on making armored sleeves but I lost it. Anybody have one?

[Gropey_the_Clown !!o5lBTJNBKvL No.10820534]

>>10820216
Those are three different parts to a whole, being a pauldron, elbow cop, and weird bracer thing laced together, and are incredibly shitty in design. That bracer doesn't even fit the guy's arm, and that weird knuckle thing and the way it overlaps the wrist over to the metacarpals is just dumb and restrictive.

Don't even get me started on the elbow and shoulder arrangement.

If you're looking for a guy for arm armor, it really depends on what materials you're working with, and what kind of competence you have to work with them. Are you looking for metal? Leather? Etc. What's the purpose? Larp, reenactment, costume, etc.

[Anonymous No.10821527]

>>10820534
>>10820216
And then there are questions of style and what you're going to wear under it, too.

More info, anon. We're autistic in this thread, we need detailed requests.

[Anonymous No.10821859]

I’ve agreed to play an npc character at a larp who dies early on to further the plot. I thought I’d just have to lie on the ground dead. It turns out I need to interact with people in character first and I’m shitting myself. How do people do that? Any help? It won’t need to be very long but I don’t know what I’m supposed to say..

I don’t larp.

[Anonymous No.10821911]

If I'm getting the itch to do some sword stuff, which should I choose? Local (very small) HEMA group, or nascent SCA rapier/cut & thrust? Or just do both? Or neither?

Also what to look into if I want to make a doublet like pic related? What era/region specifically would that be ([loosely?] based on)?

[Anonymous No.10822862]

>>10821859
Since no one actually qualified responded I'll try. In short, just exaggerate whatever the fuck your character is. If you are a business tycoon go brag about your deals and how you are not afraid of your rivals. If you are a shady politician go try to intimidate and blackmail people, successfully or not. In general the rule is that it is better to do stuff badly than not do stuff and since your average larper sucks at doing stuff jut showing a bit of initiative makes you already twice as good as the average.

Of course this implied that after lots of study and hard work you have gained the ability to behave as a decent human being. Exaggerate sure. Don't go make people uncomfortable.

If you have some info on what kind of character it is maybe I could give some pointers. But in general, just focus on playing a caricature and hopefully have fun.

[Anonymous No.10825258]

Does anyone know a European vendor that sells helmets at different sizes without costing upwards of €500 per helmet? Even just S/M/L is fine. I would be fine with the usual Indian crap if it weren't for the fact I have a small head that one-size-fits-none stuff looks comically oversized on.

[Anonymous No.10825536]

i want to add a ranger mask like pic related, but i dont want to pay 50€ on etsy to get this shit. i saw a sale for a cheap 10€ black only shemagh. Would it work with a normal square shape piece of fabric or does it need to have certain shape?

[Anonymous No.10825653]

>>10825258
Some sellers sell in different sizes if you're looking for off the shelf. With some good luck you could score a helmet custom for under 500 as well depending on the type.

[Anonymous No.10825655]

>>10825653
>Some sellers
Being?

[Ballistanon No.10825692]

>>10825536
Slapped together a quick Faramir's rangers costume for an event once. I just used a black linen square of iirc 70 cm, worked like a charm. Probably won't look exactly like your picture though.

[Anonymous No.10826053]

>>10825258
Epic armory. Indian crap, but fine for larp. Good return policies. A medium or one of the kids helmets should fit you and your tiny head.

[Anonymous No.10826119]

Just finished making some stuff for my Warhammer Ogre outfit and man it looks so shitty but I had so much fun making it. Thanks for the suggestions to just slap on metal bits to make the boots look proper.Thanks for reading my blog :)

[Anonymous No.10826444]

>>10826053
To be frank I'm not sure if I'm ready to commit to helmets that thin and ugly, but thanks for the advice nonetheless. Might still go for it if I can't find another option.

[Anonymous No.10827079]

Happy New Year /lrp/. Anyone got any advice or links to tutorials on foamwork? Building a monster costume, and while I've got a general idea of how I'm going to go about it and have worn similar suits before, I don't have any specific knowledge of what to avoid.

>>10826119
You can't just say that and then not post pics anon, this general is dead enough as it is.

>>10825536
That's literally a black buff (or snood or whatever), just get a tube of fabric and pull it over your face.

>>10825258
If below 500 is your price range, it'd probably be worthwhile contacting one of the good Indian workshops directly and getting one comissioned. I don't know any good places for helmets in particular, but if you ask around I'm sure you'll be able to find somewhere. It depends on the type of helmet as well for prices though, getting a custom nasal will cost pennies compared to a full houndface bascinet with all the trimmings.

[Anonymous No.10827455]

>>10818204
So did you find any ?

[Anonymous No.10829069]

Anyone here have experience in small, local roleplay heavy fantasy larps?
I want to try this kind of stuff out but the only one in a 100 mile radius of me seems to be a pretty already close-knit group with extensive homemade lore for their world

[Anonymous No.10829073]

>>10829069
Follow up, since it took me way too much digging to find this thread: why is this gen on the coomer costoomer board? Wouldn't it get more traffic on /tg/ or /sp/? Or even /k/ since they have gearqueer general

[Anonymous No.10829087]

>>10829069
Honestly, the second a larp system has more than a couple of pages of primer on what lore is critical to know to be able to engage with the game that immediately throws up a red flag. On the flip side, if it's the only option you have you might as well give it a shot. Roleplay heavy at least is normally a good thing, it weeds out those "larps" which are just boffer waving or are an excuse for some dickwad to powertrip over fake status.

>>10829073
These threads used to be on /tg/, but the board moves too fast for what is a niche hobby, even by /tg/ standards. Occasionally someone from here will throw a larp thread up on there and they generally do pretty well, but there isn't the sustained interest/ numbers to keep a general going permenantly.

[Anonymous No.10829103]

>>10829069
>>10829087
Lore cancer is a thing but most larp groups tend to learn to ignore the lore if it becomes to big. Honestly, I'd say these kinds of events are pretty hit-or-miss. You may either have a hidden gem of dedicated larpers who have gone out and made their own thing, a bunch of rusty inbreds huddling together wanking of on their epic story, or something in between. I'd say it can't hurt to try. Worst case you can always leave early if it's not your group.

[Ballistanon No.10829122]

>>10829069
>Anyone here have experience in small, local roleplay heavy fantasy larps?
My area used to have three, before the coof killed all of them. Pretty good experience with all of them. As someone who rarely gives a shit about lore myself, I never had any issues with lore being crucial or anything. These larps did seem to have more people that tried to "win" than the bigger larps. In the end, >>10829103 has the truth of it: just try and see for yourself, very little is lost if it doesn't work out.

[Anonymous No.10829269]

Almost done! Might as well do the Pip-Boy, it was not in the initial plan.

[Anonymous No.10829619]

>>10829269
Looks good anon, maybe weather it up a bit first by diving down your nearest hill, it all looks a tad clean compared to the source image.

[Anonymous No.10829905]

>>10829073
/k/ is utterly retarded and overrun by actual schizos and edgy teens trying to troll. /cgl/ is slow as shit, but that keeps the quality relatively high. Nobody ends up here unless they're actively looking for it.

[Anonymous No.10829953]

>>10829905
It also doesn't fit on /k/, like airsoft. Though you could probably get a decent thread focusing on post-apoc/STALKER type larps but only once every year or so.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10829961]

>>10829905
>but that keeps the quality relatively high
it makes the thread exist, nothing more nothing elss. It isn't better or even worse than /tg/ apart from that.
I mean I like the conversations on /tg/ way more, but obviously there are more retards and edgelords there because it's a faster board with more people

[Anonymous No.10830054]

>>10829961
/tg/ threads are great. I'm specifically shitting on /k/ because it's my home board, and is objectively terrible, especially with the war going on.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10830058]

>>10830054
lets be honest, everyone likes to shit on their home board, and everyone is correct because 4chan is the asshole of the internet

[Anonymous No.10831612]

>>10825258
>>10825653
Never got around to answering you mate, sorry so here goes:
Ulfberth does some off the shelf stuff in s/m/l. Since I'm a Dutchfag I usually get their stuff at celticwebmerchant. If you specifics on what kind of helmet I could maybe help you better but here goes:

https://www.celticwebmerchant.com/nl/brands/ulfberth/page2.html

Otherwise I can point you to some guys who do custom work for good prices in Europe. On Facebook you can look up:

Jolly Knight Armoury (Bit over the place, but has a lot of good work as well)
Thoradin Ambolt's farriery (really depends on your helmet type, ranges from 200-2k) - Specializes in fantasy/high concept
Early Medieval Shop - Good stuff for the lowest price imaginable, the worst customer service I've ever had. It's like ordering Chinese at one of those real Chinese places, the guy taking your order doesn't understand you, you don't understand him, you both say some numbers and pay next to nothing. You're not sure what you ordered tho.

Websites of creators:
HBC Armour workshop - Ye Olde Poo in loo, cheap, vaguely reliable at times, and does a lot of custom work. Do be insanely clear with their customer care since they're responsive but also bad at it.

True History Shop - Good contact, good work, looooooong backlog. Oleg is a nice guy tho.

[Anonymous No.10831632]

>>10831612
Cheers mate. I actually already tried an Ulfberth helmet from CWM, but it was of exceptionally low quality. I returned it and left a very detailed but generally negative review, but the insincere fucks just haven't published it without any comment whatsoever. Had the same thing happen with Calimacil not too long ago.

I've since bought a random helmet that was okay and very cheap elsewhere, but I'll definitely keep the links around for when I'm in the market for a better one.

[Anonymous No.10831706]

>>10831632
Yeah Ulfberth is essentially just pajeet stuff with paying a middleman. Their only redeeming factor is their sizing from time to time, and some of their designs work better than others.

Glad to hear you've got something to sate rn anyway

[Anonymous No.10832233]

>>10831612
God Early Medieval Shop do my fucking nut in. The stuff they make for the price they sell it at is absurdly good, but interacting with them is like pulling teeth. Delays of minimum 4-6 months on anything you order, being left on read if you send something they dont like or understand, not giving you updates unless you chase them up on it and even then it's 50/50. The stuff I've actually received has been incredible, but they simply refuse to do things like give you tracking numbers, and I've given up on them after a parcel just vanished in the mail and they offered no help at all. Seeing them get super buttblasted over someone 'copying' their historical design on Facebook was icing on the cake.

>>10831632
Remember to get a good arming cap as well. I ended up lining a large helmet with sheepswool, and it now fits like a charm.

[Anonymous No.10832324]

Does anyone know how to get into contact with Gropey off board?

[Anonymous No.10832667]

>>10832324
He has a burner email that's he's posted a few times in previous threads, have a search for that.

[Anonymous No.10832743]

>>10832667
Found it, thanks.

[Anonymous No.10833381]

How would I go about making patterns for gauntlets that fit me? Snuggly preferably.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10833449]

>>10833381
5-10 years experience in armor making if you want it to really fit you snuggly

[Anonymous No.10833646]

>>10833449
Nuts to that. I have a pair of scissors and a whole lot of aluminium cans. Turns out you can cut them like paper and make pepakura.

[Anonymous No.10833896]

>>10833646
You're literally asking how to make the most advanced armor design possible with no experience, and wanting them to fit.

I guess go Google it then, because it's a lost cause of this point.

[Anonymous No.10833986]

>decide to try LARP
>have a look at big one in my country
>go to character creation on official website
>game's letters are rainbow collored
>rules state they're all about inclusivity
>it takes part in a gender-neutral setting, so you cannot play a character who is sexist
>you cannot play a homophobic or transphobic character
>you cannot be racist or xenophobe character if OOC lingo is used but IC lingo is permitted, making it a double edged sword
>rules state there's no distinction between genders in the game world, but they support trannies to assign one to their character (so if you're not trans you basically can't assign one or you're a bigot)
>anyone can use whatever toilet they want, so trannies will be able to see dick
I wanted to have a good time, but this is putting me off. It seems like they invaded all larp events, because I looked at another 3 smaller ones and it's the same.

[Anonymous No.10834036]

>>10833986
I have 100% sure that none of this is real, and you're just schizophrenic.

Have you thought about killing yourself? It will help.

[Anonymous No.10834113]

So I'm finally feeling confident enough in my singing and playing ability to either bring my lute or guitar to a larp and play a bard. Is this cringe, or should I go for it?

[Anonymous No.10834125]

>>10834036
Not sure why mods deleted the post, as it is all real. Check out Empire larp in England.

[Anonymous No.10834128]

>>10834036
Also just realized. If I was wrong, why delete the post and censor me? Just proves my point further, shows that the janny is likely trans and they took over larp and robbed us from it, making rules that forbid character traits.

[Anonymous No.10834143]

>>10834113
Fuck the cringe. If you suck now you’ll get better and then you’ll be one of those people with an actual talent at the larp

[Anonymous No.10834172]

>>10834113
Seconding >>10834143. Even a bard has to start somewhere, and if you can play the most basic of diddy's, and sing the most basic of bars, you are already on your way to coming a legend. The buddy of mine picked up a goddamn tin whistle, learned a few basic folk tunes, and brought that to an event and by the end of it everybody wanted him paired up with them.

Just be sure to wear protection. We're not talking about armor here.

>>10834125
>>10834128
Stay triggered, snowflake.

[Anonymous No.10834178]

>>10834172
See what I mean? You're not helping. I don't feel like going at all because people like you will be there.

[Anonymous No.10834184]

Let's say you are playing a bandit group leader character in need of manpower, in a post-apocalyptic setting (with plenty of ammo, food and water). Let's say you have captured two people. What is your theatrical scheme to try to make at least one of them to stay?

I was thinking in the lines of giving them pistols and have them have a duel. Send the wounded one home for being a weakling, and trying to convince the victor they will not be accepted back at their own people, for being so quick to turn to violence.

I need a devilish bag of mindfuckery tricks, please

[Anonymous No.10834185]

>>10834113
Do it anon, everyone loves a musician. Having a few "everyone can join in with the chorus" bangers is an easy way of getting the ol' confidence up as well (or just only singing after sinking a few jars like a true bard of the people).

>>10834125
>>10834128
Jog on you fucking weirdo, literally all your complaints were either complete bollocks or who cares tier. "Boo hoo I can't play a character who's a massive sexist" who the fuck cares. Calling OC racism being banned but IC racism being completely fine and calling that a "double edged sword" shows how much of a brainlet you are.

>>10834178
You're on a Portugese Egg Eating forum bitching about a game you've never been to having already moaned about it on both a random /tg/ thread and a larp discord. Getting fucking roasted for it is entirely deserved, political views aside.

[Anonymous No.10834193]

>>10834185
I never had and will never have a discord because that's a tranny platform. You're ruining everything I like and that's why I'm mad.
I refuse to give money that support you lot.

[Anonymous No.10834223]

>>10834178
Well because there is no help for you. Unless you kill yourself. That will help everybody.

[Anonymous No.10834277]

>>10834184
The violent bandit skit is always a bit too cartoon villain for my liking. I'd go for the standard approach to brainwashing. Treat them well, give them anything they request (to a limit), then show how much effort it took to generate everything you have given them and guilt-trip them in paying back their "debts" by doing menial chores. Then suggest they do more and more bandit-like stuff like carrying the loot back to base to speed up the process and give them rewards until they are in to deep and cannot leave, especially if they get recognised and become wanted themselves at some point.

[Anonymous No.10834421]

>>10834172
>>10834185
The fuck did I miss?

[Anonymous No.10834449]

>>10834421
A 14 year old who doesn't larp get triggered by a group he doesn't play with changing their logo to a rainbow temporarily.

[Anonymous No.10834747]

>>10813669
I want to build a signal horn, since i have two old drinking horns i don't really use anymore. One is a 0,5l and the other 0,7l one. Would the 0,7l one be too big for a signal horn? I would like to carry it arround me in battle

[Anonymous No.10834903]

>>10834449
It's not temporary, it's permanent. Ted was right.

[Anonymous No.10834945]

>>10834903
Larp is inherently hella gay. That's half the fun.

[Anonymous No.10835364]

>>10834945
Different kind of gay.

[Anonymous No.10835446]

Anyone else larps by themselves on a daily basis? Things like wearing bits and pieces that can pass by fashion, wigs and decorate your place like your character would and go on adventures on weekends?

[Anonymous No.10835450]

>>10814811
nta, but I got into it a long time ago and watched it all get overtaken by these sort of (((people))) and gradually destroyed, be it because it's more commercialized or because out of character rules are imposed so much that they are eventually injected into the game. NPC behavior and politics will eventually ruin it completely like it did to movies, series and videogames and you'll have to search for smaller groups that are advertised nowhere in order to not suffer when said NPCs discover their views. If you're the kind of person that enjoys being told what to do and how to think, you'll be fine, but otherwise enjoy while you can.

[Anonymous No.10835508]

>>10835446
I can't say that I do, but we have one anon who's a national park ranger who wears a cloak and carries around a dagger and forging bag, and Clownfag professionally larps at a museum.

>>10835450
Every sentence that you just posted has reenforced that you should suck start a shotgun.

[Anonymous No.10835621]

>>10835508
>Every sentence that you just posted has reenforced that you should suck start a shotgun.
It getting deleted just proves my point. I'm likely older than you and been larping longer than you, so I know what I'm saying. I'm warning people and being a friend, but you all don't listen. You never listen and that's why things go downhill.

[Anonymous No.10835622]

>>10835621
Nah, you're being a miserable piece of shit. It being deleted is literally because you are nothing of value, should delete yourself from life.

Please do so as soon as possible.

[Anonymous No.10835624]

>>10835622
See? You're just proving my point. I had enough. Seek the gods, for you have been warned.

[Anonymous No.10835626]

>>10835621
Go start your own larp if you think you know better. Be sure to market your values. Report back to us on your success.

[Anonymous No.10835805]

>>10813669
I want to do bo staff tricks with a thin pipe that I plan on putting lights and batteries into. Provided the weight is balanced, would it be better to have the weight at the center of the pipe or as close to the ends as possible?

[Anonymous No.10835815]

>>10835805
If you're asking this question, you're definitely not ready to perform any staff twirling tricks safely in public. You're going to want to have the wait as easily distributed along the entirety of the staff as possible.

[Anonymous No.10835886]

>>10835815
I'm certainly not ready. I thought I'd say what I want to achieve so that people will give me even advice I might not even know to ask for.

[Anonymous No.10837068]

Okay Larpfags, Show me your archer kit!

[Anonymous No.10837296]

>>10837068
I seem to not have any pics of my archer kit, but have a few pics of good kit that I've seen at some games I attend

[Anonymous No.10837299]

>>10837296

[Anonymous No.10837302]

>>10837299

[Anonymous No.10837685]

First off, I’ve made the mistake of joining Drachenfest US discord servers because I’m sad and lonely. I have a question for the people that went to Drachenfest US. Were there a lot of people not ok with me doing that incident shit? From what I’ve gathered people in general aren’t going to be ok with those types of shenanigans this year.

I feel like I’ve misunderstood Drachenfest or it was a certain thing the first year and it’s not going to be like that going forward

[Anonymous No.10837696]

>>10837296
>>10837299
>>10837302
Uuh, they look great. But wooden arrows? Arrent they dangerous, since they break easily?

[Ballistanon No.10837845]

>>10837696
Wooden arrows break a bit earlier than carbon fiber, sure, but that's not really a contest. I wouldn't call wooden arrows "unsafe" by any stretch of the imagination. I've been shooting them for twelve years now, and only ever had to scrap three due to broken shafts. One broke after someone stepped on it. One had a little chip out of the side, so I decided to scrap it just to be safe. One I found back with both the head and the feathers neatly snapped off in the exact place I had just accidentally shot someone in the head, so I'm fairly certain of what happened there.

Sure, you need to check your arrows for splinters after every shot, but you need to do that with any larp arrow anyway so that's a moot point. In fact, wood splinters are far less nasty than carbon fibre splinters, so I'd argue wood arrows are actually safer in that aspect.

Also they look much sexier.

[Anonymous No.10837869]

>>10837685
Blue camp generally thought it was hilarious, not sure about the others

[Anonymous No.10837915]

>>10837685
What do you mean "incident shit"?

[Anonymous No.10837995]

>>10837869
Ok at least some people were alright with it

>>10837915
All the problems I caused for blue camp on purpose in the first two days

I just couldn’t tell if people are being conflict averse or if I’m a huge dick ruining peoples fun.

[Anonymous No.10838021]

>>10837995
What exactly were you doing?

I will say, if most of the people in the camp are pissed at you, you might have been a dick.

[Anonymous No.10838055]

>>10838021
So in insulted the silver avatar because I couldn’t see at night and thought he was the shadow avatar. But when I realized he was silver I just doubled down and insisted that he was shadow.

Also attacked the guy guarding the green camp diplomat on the road because I misunderstood what one of the limbus refs told me. The ref meant I owed limbus and had to die and come back at some point. I thought he meant I was drawn back and my character was more likely to put himself in life threatening situations.

I didn’t mean to cause problems at first but when I did I escalated them and tried to make it more interesting. I’m charismatic and funny and theres no doubt I can make things interesting if I accidentally cause problems again. It might just not be the right larp for causing problems on purpose

[Anonymous No.10838542]

>>10838055
Don't know about fake Drachenfest but at actual Drachenfest stupid stuff like this is half of the gameplay. As long as you are not actively sabotaging people's stories go ahead. Having to deal with "that idiot" is one of the two cornerstones of the larp, with the other one being "that idiot". It sounds like the discord is overly buthurt to me.

Also, blue camp? You mean camp "I'm a real anarchist who doesn't need to follow your rules mom."? If anything you should be causing more shit for them.

[Anonymous No.10838554]

>>10838542
Well that’s justification from the German game so I’m right and everyone else is wrong. Some of these internet people don’t like me in real life because of things I said I might do in a pretend game. And the reason I get into all this shit is because I don’t pay attention. Just making sure I didn’t miss that people hate me.

Thank you lads for not being discord people maybe I’ll stop doing so many drugs

[Anonymous No.10839139]

>>10814367
Great swords are hard to beat for raw style and all around use. Anything in the pole arm category is downright majestic. Single bit two handed axes are a ton of fun, too.

[Anonymous No.10839318]

>>10838554
Just stop taking silver people so seriously, you'll go insane

[Anonymous No.10839319]

>>10814367
Longswords. I want one so fucking bad. That and short polearms- I'd kill for a larpsafe pollaxe

[Anonymous No.10842906]

Hey guys, quick question for ya'll.
I got some Byzantine threads that i'm not sure how to clean properly. Got a Brocade silk dalmatica. it has a linen lining under it.. Also have a wool under tunic that has brocaded silk trimming and under linen as well.
Anyways Ive heard that dry cleaning silk can cause it to shrink. Is that true? How should I go about cleaning it.

[Anonymous No.10843757]

>>10842906
Sorry that I can't be more help anon, I likewise am sitting on some dirty silk I'm terrified of washing in case I fuck it up. So far all the advice I've been given has been to very VERY carefully hand wash everything, ideally using the same material as whatever your washing as the scrubber.

>>10839319
As the owner of a larpsafe 6ft pollaxe, it's baller as hell, especially when your at a system where a bit of safe grappling is allowed. Being able to square up against a mate and use it as a pivot to flip them around the place is very satisfying.

[Anonymous No.10844225]

>>10843757
Thanks! Yeah I think what also worries me is if im too abrasive with the scrubbing, I might make some of the brocade threads come loose. either that or it will shrink. I'll post a picture here of the silk brocade with the clavii. I really don't wanna mess it up.

Anyway I think my next major project will be to make a Byzantine Loros that will go with my outfit. I don't think I've found any people who actually sell loroses, makes sense since its a absurdly long piece of fabric. The other thing I wish people would make more often is byzantine style shoes.

[Anonymous No.10844387]

What would you recommend as a gift for a friend getting into larp? They have mostly chain and a little plate armor and a couple weapons already but what are other must haves for camping at an event for the weekend in the U.S.?

[Anonymous No.10844985]

Does anyone have any patterns for 13th Century kit? I'm looking to make a hooded surcoat and a coate but can't find jack shit on google.

>>10844387
The best option is getting them some nice soft kit or accessory pieces. Something like a nice hood, a belt, a pouch or bag will be something that can be used on almost any character. Pewter pilgrim badges are a great choice as well, stuff that adds some flair basically rather than whole ass costume pieces like armour or a weapon.

[Anonymous No.10845075]

>>10844985
A hooded surcoat? Only thing I can think of that fits that bill would be s specific type of esclavine or a gardecorps.

For a gardecorps I'd advise you to start in a 13th century pattern for a tunic, make it nice and proper. Then use a wider version of that pattern with a slightly pleated open sleeve with a hole at the armpit or upper arm.

You can use the idea of a gugel for the hood. In all cases for patterning for this google: the medieval tailor's assistent pdf. Click the most sketchy link at the top.

Proper layering would be either a silk or linnen underlayer, wool tunic, and then a gardecorps or esclavine. So it's travelling clothes for bad weather, not a base layer.

[Anonymous No.10845087]

>>10845075
Cheers anon, this is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. I meant a gardecorps, didn't know the name. You see them in the Maciejowski Bible, pic related. Sadly my sewing skills are cack at best, but I'll muddle through.

[Anonymous No.10845997]

>>10843757
Where did you get said pollaxe, and how expensive?

[Anonymous No.10846026]

>>10845997
I got it from Saxon Violence a couple of years ago for around £100. I think he's raised his prices a little since then, but I still highly recommend, I think he does the best polearms in the business (at least as far as full foam and latex stuff goes).

[Anonymous No.10846060]

>>10846026
Tragic. Last I knew he wouldn't ship to the US

[Anonymous No.10846455]

so how good are these breastplates nowadays?
https://www.kultofathena.com/product/15th-century-steel-breastplate-16-gauge-steel/
been looking for something to replace my RFB breastplate for something a bit better.

[Anonymous No.10846502]

>>10846455
Eh. You're pretty close to made to measure prices at that point.

[Anonymous No.10846510]

So I'm a fat fuck (not like ultra wide but 42-ish waist) and every single gambeson I try and buy always comes up too high on my neck or is too tight on the arms/shoulders. Do y'all have any brand recommendations for fat fucks?

I swear I'm losing weight as of a week ago because trying to find shit that fits is insufferable. Even when you give them exact measurements they still make shit small. Feels like the only way to have things that fit is to have a generic body (impossible for me) or make the shit yourself.

Anyways thanks in advanced lads.

>>10837685
Is there a general discord? I joined the red but they don't talk too much.

[Anonymous No.10846574]

>>10814112
Grimfrost sells some good quality shit too I dont think their pants are much more expensive than what your looking to spend. I bought their full wool tunic and its super warm and fits great

[Anonymous No.10846598]

>>10846510
Honestly you're probably not going to find anything that fits you until you do something about your waist/body shape. Not unless you get it tailored.

There's no general discord, it's just unofficial discords being run by each camp.

[Anonymous No.10846635]

>>10846510
I'm afraid that, if you're serious about losing weight, your only option is to wait until you're close to your target weight. The further you are from your target weight, the easier it is to lose weight. That means your circumference will shift the most drastically in the earlier stages of dieting. Anything you get tailored now will fit you like a tent in half a year. A gameson you make yourself won't even fit you properly by the time you're done with it.

Also, I once made the deal with myself "you're only allowed to buy tailored armour once you weigh below 90kg" and that helped me get there.

[Anonymous No.10846643]

>>10846635
>>10846598
That's what I figured but wasn't sure, since there's not a lot of fat on my shoulders but the collars all feel too high. It's probably that they expect someone with my waistline to be much taller and thus have a longer shoulder to jaw measurement.

Side note all this high collar shit sucks with a beard.

>>10846598 pt. 2
I figured but it'd be nice if there was a general all camps discord. It just feels weird for it to be this quiet, both the forums and the discords are basically ghost towns with a tumbleweed popping up every now and again. Then again that's how it feels online in general, every major type is pretty quiet. Makes you wonder where the people are.

[Anonymous No.10846651]

>>10846643
In reds case, I think-dont qoute me on this- a lot of them came from the same game(s), so there's a real chance they're just using pre-existing channels of communication.

Blue discord is really active, but we're focused on our own planning and jokes, so I doubt a general would get as much traction. And yeah the real answer is just don't buy armor right now. Spend that money on a cleaner diet, a gym membership, and a camelback. Getting fit now means armor will actually fit you, won't tire you out, medieval clothing patterns will actually work and look right, and you be able to convincingly play a much wider range of characters.

And yes, men's bodies follow very consistent rules of proportion, so they're making assumptions. If you ever buy fitted armor you'll notice the mens sizing charts ask for a lot less detail than the womens do.

[Anonymous No.10846659]

>>10846651
Makes sense maybe after the fact I'll find some inner circle to befriend. (Impossible)

Why specifically a camelback, I used to have a few from the military and they were great... maybe I should get another one hmmmm.

Honestly as far as diet goes it's hard enough to eat enough of the right things. I could starve all day and eat one meal but having a high fat diet is hard as hell when you hate fish and most high fat foods lmao.

[Anonymous No.10846849]

>drachenfest US play guide drops
>art is filled with memechairs
Was there even anyone who had a wheel chair at the event last year?

[hungarian LARPfag No.10846851]

>>10846849
what is this playguide even about?

[Anonymous No.10846877]

>>10846851
It gives a loose explanation regarding how to play.
Things like how to play in the spirit of the event and general rules, it’s basically the vibe check book.

www.canva.com/design/DAFeQJ9hbsI/iC3xHkws59xaS-g36c6d3A/view#1

[Anonymous No.10846889]

Just out of curiosity
are airsoft events more focused on RP and immersion like Milsim West generally accepted under the LARP umbrella or is that primarily for fantasy/medieval shit

[Anonymous No.10846893]

>>10846849
I’m gonna offend at least one avatar a year. I’ll beat one of them at a dance off and lose the use of my legs. Representation matters

Also you fucks in blue have anything cool you’re thinking about doing but need money for. I budgeted a ton of money to buy samurai armor until I got kicked out of the samurai group.

[Anonymous No.10846895]

>>10846893
wtf there was a samurai group?? I fucked up.

[Anonymous No.10846908]

>>10846895
They formed it in between last year and this year. YOU HAVE TO BE IN SHADOW CAMP. That was the point of contention, but they are going to try to make their own camp if they get enough people. You can’t just be a samurai either. You have to be onboard with their specific type of samurai play. They’re trying to make their own bushido code so they can stir up shit. Trying to be orc camp but stabbing people because they didn’t do the tea ceremony right.

[Anonymous No.10846913]

>>10846908
>shadow
Man ngl I feel like I'm missing out because everything interesting is shadow. However knowing the types that gravitate towards this, they're probably more than slightly insufferable in their samurai play. Lemme be a weeb warrior with other weeb warriors baka

[Anonymous No.10846914]

>>10846893
>>10846913

In short: yes, we have a bunch of shit being done, and our camp coordinator is a fucking machine. If you're looking for a new home, make the change, get on the discord, and you can either contribute to the general budget, or tell him you contributing x amount for y project. If nothing else, you can contribute money for alcohol.

>Stab people over tea ceremonies
I was deliberately rude and boorish to the shadow avatar on day 1 because one of their people fucked up basic protocol when I visited. High odds I get into a fight with the samurai because they in or out of game don't actually understand proper protocol. (Ie, you actually teach an outsider what's expected before introducing them)


And honestly, you can roll a samurai in blue you weeb. We already have a Korean kit running around.

[Anonymous No.10846920]

>>10846889
No, not really. At least where I'm from.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10846921]

>>10846889
here its perfectly accepted, just as well as other kinds of larp like chamber larps various scifi larps and whatever the fuck the nordic scene comes up with at the current year

[Anthony Underwood No.10846948]

>>10846914
Could I get the blue camp discord link<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

[Anonymous No.10847288]

>>10846948
the fuck is gpt-4chan

[Anonymous No.10847291]

>>10847288
April Fool's joke you're 2 days late to

[Anonymous No.10847292]

>>10847291
today is the first day it showed up lmao

[Anonymous No.10848876]

>>10846948
If you're going blue, yes, otherwise, no, but I can probably get you in contact with the guy handling money/building

[Anonymous No.10848883]

>>10848876
Blue camp burned my women and raped my churches I’d never join it. If I could get in contact with him that’d be cool

[Anonymous No.10849192]

Does anyone happen to have a high res version of this?

[Anonymous No.10849350]

As a follow up to >>10845087 , here's the finished surcoate I ended up sewing for the 13th Century event I went to. Went together pretty well for a first project, ignoring the numerous mistakes I made like accidentally sewing up the neckhole while doing the shoulders. It taught me a lot, which means the next sewing project I do should hopefully be a lot smoother.

>>10846889
It depends. I'd see it as Larp personally, as you are roleplaying within a particular scenario, but I know people who draw the line between sim and larp as whether you are RPing a job or a person. I'd give my left nut to go to a milsim west event and blast off an AKs worth of blanks, but sadly all the airsoft "larps" near me are basically just skirmishes people dress up slightly more specially for. A decently interesting Scifi mercs one ended up getting cancelled because the players just refused to talk to NPCs or stay in character for more than a few minutes and would often mag dump them on sight. It seems to be a problem of airsofters as a group clashing with larp as a concept more than something integrally different between high immersion airsoft games and larps though.

[Anonymous No.10849374]

>>10846920
>>10846921
>>10849350
thanks for the answers,
I was just curious on your guys perspective as there doesn't seem to be a huge crossover between military and the fantasy larp crowd

I think it's true a lot of people in the airsoft hobby (at least in the US) are into just going to skirmish games and magdumping little kids, but there definitely is a substantial group of people into the more larpy side of things, or else there probably would be no impression kits and cosplayers, or events like MSW or Revelations

that being said hopefully I'll be able to go to one of these fantasy larps someday

[Anonymous No.10849692]

>>10849350
Looks good. You're pretty good

[Anonymous No.10850063]

Does anyone have patterns for/ advice about making landschneckt-style clothes? Thinking of putting a warhammer fantasy kit together but want to figure out how viable doing bits of it myself would be.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10850069]

>>10850063
have shitton of patterns, but my advice: if you aren't ready to use at least somewhat proper material and you have zero experience then do something else at first. Otherwise it will be a costly failure

[Anonymous No.10850084]

>>10850069
Proper materials I'm on the same page with, I'm very particular about getting nice wools and linens for anything I'm making/wearing. While I only have a little experience, I'd likely be getting some help from some of my mates who are actual seamstresses. I'd probably start with something easier, like a hat maybe, rather than fling myself directly into the full ensemble if you have a pattern for that?

[hungarian LARPfag No.10850087]

>>10850084
good news is: most of the patterns aren't that complicated after you get the hang of it.
Bad news: most of them use a shitton of material
Even more bad news: for the tight fitting parts the pattern is easy THEROETICALLY but in practice you have to get it right with the measurements. This is especially true for the pants. If it isn't perfect then it will look strange/shit, like on your pic (though that one have other problems too)

This all in all means while I can post patterns you will have to rework it a lot anyway. Kind of true for everything when you get it right for a specific measurement but here it's doubly so. Reconstructing history is a good start for the beginner stuff though later you will realize they are off with a shitton of thing.
And sadly 4chan doesn't let me to post a pdf now for whatever reason so here is a jpg conversion for some basic accesories

[hungarian LARPfag No.10850088]

>>10850087

[hungarian LARPfag No.10850089]

and just for fun look up this site it has very good resources
https://www.um1504.de/

you can also search for the curious frau and katafalk and a various other crafters

[Anonymous No.10850095]

>>10850087
>>10850088
>>10850089
These are exactly the sort of thing I was looking for, thanks Hungarian, you are a gem as always. Sadly the next big reenactment fair in my country isn't until the end of the year, so it's unlikely I'll be able to get good materials in bulk for less than an arm and a leg.

I helped a friend make some fitted hose once, and patterning those was a fucking nightmare, so I can only imagine how much of a ballache doing that with the addition of stuff like slashes and asymmetry can be. I'll give some of the baggier stuff a try first, then if its out of my league I'll bite the bullet and get something comissioned instead. Making a big stupid tellenbarret seems very doable though, so I'll see what wools I have left over and give that a crack.

Um1504 seems very useful, and I've needed an excuse to brush up my German so I'll give that a look as well. Cheers!

[Gropey_the_Clown !!QII52aUxM+x No.10850747]

Sup nerds? I'm thinking of doing a giveaway contest for my upcoming birthday. Testing the waters: fire starting sets, yay or nay? Comes with a Flint and steel, a guide, and a tin with tow and charcloth. As per usual, it's only open to anans in the continental US, and I'm not sure what the contest itself is going to be yet. I made three sets , one for here, one for /out/, and possibly one for /tg/.

Cat not included.

What do you think?

>>10850095
Holy shit, the guys actually wearing charging bottles! Too many larpers forget that when they have an arquebus.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10851331]

>>10850095
If you have any specific questions just ask, I have a few resources, shitton of sources and more than enough experience

[Anonymous No.10851482]

why are all the influencers for drachenfest us fat women with onlyfans?

[hungarian LARPfag No.10851502]

>>10851482
because
>US

[Anonymous No.10851506]

>>10850747
P.cool. Would you be willing to include Canadians? What's your cat's name?

[Anonymous No.10851529]

>>10850747
Sadly a Euro so woudn't be able to get involved, but I think this is a pretty neat idea. Fire starter sets are always a useful thing to have.

Charging bottles are great, I picked up a set a few weeks ago, which is one of the things spurring me into finally getting around to sorting some landschneckt kit.

[Anonymous No.10851600]

>>10846908
>>10846914
What is this, Rokugan?

[Anonymous No.10851601]

I've got a decent ranger kit, but I'm thinking about footwear next. I had a pair of totally not pirate boots that have fallen apart, and want to get some nicer, longer lasting things. Would you recommend moccasins or more boots?

[Anonymous No.10851677]

>>10851482
> US Larp
> Swinging with gigantic foam dildos
> Onlyfans

This checks out

[Gropey_the_Clown !!QII52aUxM+x No.10851841]

>>10851506
Real talk, posting things across the border has been a real bitch and a half lately. I just don't like the thought about it never getting to where it's going.

And that particular cat is the lady Chorizo Grande.

>>10851529
The cost of overseas shipping would be more than the stuff is worth, especially if I'm paying out of pocket.

>>10851601
Don't get moccasins if you're doing European fantasy. Invest in a good pair of boots or turn shoes.

[Anonymous No.10853170]

>>10813669
>be me
>have not larped in 5 years
>life goes on
>see something about a post-apo going on this weekend
>Oh why the hell not i'll make a fallout costume
>2-3 day before
>yeah fuck that i'm not going

I loves crafting costumes, i love roleplaying.
i love combat and i even love the travel to the larps
it just drains me so much to spend time with other larpers.
And the idea of sleeping in a tent is a total no-no
Am i just growing too old to enjoy larping?

[Anonymous No.10853484]

In arround 2-3 weeks, i gonna join my first larp. Any tips on what i should and should not do? Or tips in general?

[Anonymous No.10853716]

>>10851841
>Chorizo Grande
Bueno.

[Anonymous No.10853765]

>>10853170
Probably not anon. I have several mates who don't enjoy camping, they just either have a very plush sleeping setup (think inflatable mattress, duvets, wood stove, the whole nine yards) that turns their tent into a fancy bedroom, or have a campervan/ one of those car roof-boxes you sleep in. Spending time with larpers is rough, but you've just got to find the people you enjoy hanging out with and fucking stick to them like glue. I think a significant proportion of larpers are cavemen who are barely able to string a sentence together (see the popularity of terrible game systems and pool-noodle boffers), but you've just got to find the game that attracts people you want to spend time with.

>>10853484
Don't go in with any expectations or more than one or two key bits of backstory. Going "I want to play exactly X character" means that your character might not fit the setting or vibe of the game, while the majority of people really do not give 2 shits about your backstory. Use backstory and character traits to give you reasons to interact with other players and the game, rather than the other way around.

Other than that, there's a billion bits of advice you could get so it's hard to really give much. Make mistakes, ask questions. Drive your character like a stolen car, jump face first into stupid situations if you think it makes narrative sense and will be interesting. Oh, and take some booze, it's the easiest way to make friends and nobody wants to invite someone to sit around their fire and drink if they're not even offering a bottle of something. And of course, pic related.

[Anonymous No.10854167]

>>10853170
Start reenacting then.

[Anonymous No.10855031]

>>10853765
Thanks for the information. Any tips on what kind of food or snacks I should get?

[Anonymous No.10855633]

>>10837685
Hey which camp are you going with this year?

[Anonymous No.10855765]

>>10855031
There's plenty of larpsafe snacks out there. Sausages, hard cheeses, nuts, (dried) fruits, cookies. But really you can get away with most anything if you put a little effort into dressing it up nicely. A pile of oreos in a nice wooden bowl is generally perfectly fine.

Just don't be the person that loudly opens plastic wrappers in the in-game area, or leaves empty coke bottles on the floor in their camp.

[Anonymous No.10855933]

>>10853484
>>10853765
Fucking loved it. It was amazing and i hated it that it finished so quick. I still have to learn to interact more with the pc and npc and get out of my shell, but overall it was great.

[Anonymous No.10855958]

>>10855933
nice to hear that you liked it, which larp did you go to fren?

[Anonymous No.10856202]

>>10855958
A small german larp called "Rote Fäden im Nebel" a Phoenix Realm Adventure Con, which a friend took me with. Around 60 people took part in it

[Anonymous No.10856203]

>>10855958
>>10856202
> Rote Fäden im Nebel = Red Threads in the Mist
Forgot to add the translation to it

[Anonymous No.10856218]

>>10855933
Glad to hear that you had a good time anon, and welcome to the hobby. Any standout moments from the weekend?

[Anonymous No.10856231]

>>10856218
> The GM asked our group if we could help them as NPC Group for an ambush and got boddied by a squire in armor
> I was carried to the hospital six times because I was injured in my right leg with the same weapon every damn time. The same healer healed me. She couldn't stop laughing
> Stayed with a squire who was left alone, were ambushed in the process and decided to give him time to escape. Shortly before the execution, a female guard showed up and saved me


It felt like being inside a fucking adventure and i cant wait for the next one to join. But i really need some leg guards

[Anonymous No.10856300]

>>10856202
>>10856231
Don't know anything about that one but sounds like a good sized larp to begin with desu, and nice to hear that you had a good first experience!

A tip about buying armor tho, the pieces that you buy from budget sites may be cheap but the extra comfort and ergonomics offered by historical reproductions is well worth the extra cash. Forge of Svan has been a long time favorite here, but you can use their shop as a reference if you want to look at other vendors.
And as for other stuff in general, preferably buy or make your own stuff in proper materials (wool, linen) from the start, when I first got in to this hobby I bought all these cotton clothes that suck for being outdoors for several days in and I regret not getting wool clothes from the start so much because its way more comfy and it looks 100 times better.
Going cheap is only worth it for short term/one time characters imo

[Anonymous No.10856509]

>>10856300
Thanks for the tips. I would like to make something on my own, but i'm scared to fuck something up and ruined everything. Whats the best way to get into crafting own stuff?

[Anonymous No.10856688]

>>10856509
As someone who has recently started sewing their own stuff, there's really no way to get into it other than just buying some materials and giving it a go. I'd advise starting off with some early medieval clothing, as it's generally pretty easy to put together and doesn't require any real skill as it lacks a lot of fiddly bits like gores. I put the surcoat in pic related together in two evenings with no real prior skill or knowledge, and beyond a few fuckups that I had to unpick it wasn't that difficult. The medieval tailor's assistant is a pretty good starting point, just search it on google and click the incredibly shady looking first link. The one thing I would recommend is going in person to an actual fabric shop and having a look at the wools they have. You just can't get a feel for the weight and stretchiness unless you actually touch it in person, and that stuff matters quite a lot for clothing.

[Anonymous No.10856718]

>>10856509
This is a good tip >>10856688
I would say start off by sewing a base layer linen tunic, its very simple and will give you experience needed to take on more advanced projects, plus a base tunic is something that you will find much use for in fantasy/medieval larps as it can be used for many roles and different characters.

Just read a few guides like these and then get going :)
https://handcraftedhistory.blog/2021/04/30/how-to-make-a-medieval-linen-shirt/

[Anonymous No.10857080]

>>10837685
Honestly after all the bullshit on the forums and the blog post, I’m definitely feeling like they want something completely different than what happened last year and their doubling down on high res low soul inclusive above all else vibes.

Anyone else think that archmagus of the red Nik dude is kind of a dick?

[Anonymous No.10857941]

Dumb question. But have anyone tried to create one of these GoT fur rug mantles? I found a wolf looking rug which was on sale and thought this could be handy at some point

[Anonymous No.10857945]

>>10857941
Don't. No one looks "cool" in them, and they are a pain in the ass to wear.

There is a reason people made actual clothes from furs rather than drape a rug on themselves.

[Anonymous No.10858108]

I didn't think that amerilarpers really wore multiple shields like extra armor, but here we are.

Who the fuck would allow this?

[Anonymous No.10858262]

>>10857941
They can look alright, but generally don't sit well unless you do some additional small cuts around you shoulders and back, and you'd want a pretty hefty pennanular broach to secure it in place so it doesn't just fly off.

>>10858108
Jesus that looks like dog. The multiple shields, the dick-bat, the stupid hat. I pity American larpers who actually put effort in, it seems like either you go to your local garbage scene in a park or have to drop massive money on $500 experience larps over there with no solid middle ground.

[Anonymous No.10858277]

>>10858108
I never understood why dildobats are a thing in the american larp scene. but the fake beard on the right is cute tho

[Anonymous No.10858345]

>>10858262
Don't forget the field hockey gloves.

>>10858277
Because "muh safety" and "muh accessibility". They will all tell you that millions of people die every 5 minutes from headshots and latex weapons, despite the fact that locally there are a couple of latex games that manage to do just fine, they just don't allow dog shit costumes.

[Anonymous No.10858346]

>>10858345
Forgot to mention, the dude in the orange in this pic is wearing a "shield" on his back using modern hiking backpack straps to keep it in place, like a turtle shell so that way he is immune to back attacks.

[Anonymous No.10858354]

>>10858345
>>10858346
Wow, I fucking hate this. It's not even larp at this point, the guy in orange is wearing a sports top for gods sake. How hard are Yanks smacking each other for them to think actually good looking latex weapons are unsafe? The fact that the US has so much empty, cheap land, and yet they play almost all their larps in parks baffles me.

[Anonymous No.10858368]

>>10858354
>How hard are Yanks smacking each other for them to think actually good looking latex weapons are unsafe?

That's the kicker: most games barely touch each other. Ultralight, lightsaber dickswords with max length handles and no guards are the meta, along with wearing as many shields as legal as armour.

[Anonymous No.10858476]

>>10858345
>>10858108

Amerilarpers stopped surprising me anymore, even when in their art they have the dildobats.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10858480]

>>10858108
>>10858345
It's kind of nostalgic to see that in the last decade or so nearly nothing changed, the photos are still the same shit as always but with higher resolution.

[Anonymous No.10859000]

Pic from my local larp, there was a grand total of ONE dildobat on the field, despite them being allowed. Change is possible, but goddamn is it rare.

[Anonymous No.10859418]

Maybe this is entirely the wrong place for this but worth a shot. Can someone here recommend me a source on the articulation of plate pauldrons? The fancy 15th/16th century stuff. The designs seem restrictive at a glance but they can pull off an incredible range of motion with them, I'm curious what the design considerations are to achieve such a mixture of freedom and protection.

[Anonymous No.10859427]

How true is this image?

[Anonymous No.10859434]

>>10859427
scaringly accurate

[Anonymous No.10859443]

>>10859427
Retards can be found at every level. On the unserious end you have the stick jocks, the "who gives a shit, it's a joke" guys and larpwhores. All people who use the lack of seriousness to not give a fuck. While on the serious end... Autists are not known for a lack of dedication... At the same time you also have people in the middle who just like collaborative storytelling while wearing funny clothes and are fun around a campfire.

The ability of the organisation to deal with toxic arseholes generally does not depend on the seriousness. At most you hear more about big shitstorms in larps in the middle but that's because those are the most popular.

[Anonymous No.10859538]

>>10813669
Anyone here like The Wheel of Time? I'm on the final book and it's become my crippling obsession. Literally can't go a day without thinking about it since starting it last year!

[Anonymous No.10859720]

>>10859538
Wheel of Time is garbage.

[Anonymous No.10859840]

>>10859427
This is the lesson of Peer Gynt: to thine own self, don't just be enough. If you want to do something more than just a little, to thine own self be fucking TRUE.

[Anonymous No.10859939]

>>10859000
Looking good anon, its always nice (if not required for it not to look shit) for a larp to look cohesive, and the aesthetic here is pretty well matching. Nice stuff.

>>10859427
True and not true. Some people are able to commit to having excellent costuming, but also are mostly there to drink beers and hang out. There are also people who could be intriguing eccentrics at a mechanical and RP level, if they weren't horrifically awful people who are the worst to hang out with. Generally I'd say that people who commit hard to the mechanics of a game, rather than the costuming and RP side, are generally more likely to be awful and come from the middle catagory. They need to use mechanics to make themselves seem cool and important, rather than just, ya know, have a nice time.

>>10859443
Also this.

[Anonymous No.10860035]

Kingdom of Novitas larp in New York.
Tell me if it's cool or I'm just going to servant bitch to the GM favorites and get picked on for being new.
I've been larping before, it was alliance, and it was shit

[Anonymous No.10860037]

>>10859939
Thanks anon. Super proud of those people, a TON of them had never larped before that game started. I almost wish I hadn't come in with a pre -existing kit so I could match the boys, but for now, matching plumes will have to do.

[Anonymous No.10860087]

Do you guys know any recommended polearms that are padded entirely so that you can hit with every part of the weapon? I know the staves by Epic Armoury, Calimacil etc are that but I thought more like Halberd, spear etc. Preferably ones from these two companies but I'm open to anything that ships worldwide.

[Anonymous No.10860659]

>>10857941
what you think you'll look like vs what you'll actually look like

[Anonymous No.10860760]

>>10860659
At least he's not running with a dildo bat like >>10858108
>>10858345

[Anonymous No.10860823]

>>10860659
If I may be frank, the right one looks far better than whatever combination of "studded leather", polyester velvet and overcomplicated cape the left guy is wearing. Not perfect by a long way but pretty average and easily salvaged by ditching the fur thingy and adding a cool hat while for left guy you pretty much have to start from scratch.

[Anonymous No.10860867]

>>10860823
>compensating this hard
GOT series was shit but at least that shit looked good

[Anonymous No.10862629]

Anyone been to any good events recently, got any good stories? Had Empire's second event of the year here in bongland, had a pretty good time. Cleaning some armour atm as I drink some mead I bought on field for IC coin, it's pretty good.

>>10860087
I'm guessing you're US based? Here in the UK, most weapon makers have their polearms padded enough that you can strike with any part. Sadly I don't know enough about the two companies you mentioned to weigh in, you largely don't see them over here.

>>10859418
Maybe check out some of Tobias Capwells work, he's done a decent range of stuff on late medieval armour. I went back through some sources and coudn't find anything that focuses exclusively on articulation, maybe have a look at the Wallace collection, they do articles occasionally.

[Anonymous No.10862666]

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[hungarian LARPfag No.10862721]

>>10862629
well, there was last years drachenfest, and after that a trainwreck of a game here
I've went to Legion (and will do it again next year) plus we organized a big game in febraury here. Apart from those only minor stuff

[Anonymous No.10863508]

i have pic related for over a year now and i like it a lot. but i would like to modife it a bit. I would like to add more detail on it, so it dont look so generic. And i would like to add a third point on it, so its more stadie. Any ideas on what to add and/or how to mod it?

[Anonymous No.10863598]

>>10862721
I've been meaning to go to Legion for a few years now, but just havn't had the cash on hand when the signups have gone out. I know one or two people who go pretty religiously and sing high praises. Hopefully next year.

>>10863508
Depends slightly on the rest of your kit if you wanted to tie it in to that. For my quiver, I added some of the tassels you get at the bottom of curtains to the top to give it a mongolian/steppe look. All it took was some pretty easy sewing, but it's a fun look, and the tassels catch the wind nicely.

[Gropey_the_Clown !!QII52aUxM+x No.10863647]

Sub nerds, I'm getting ready to post this summer's contest. Give me some feedback:

"The weather is getting warm, and it's time to get back /out/ with the reenactment, the living history, and the LARP season.

To hopefully kickstart it for some of you, It's time for a semi-regular contest: show us your best, historic/LARP camp or bushcraft project! Historic overnight trek? Brush shelter bivouac? Camped like an orc in the woods? Take a picture, and post it in the thread (as well as emailing it to me), and you could win a firestarter kit as a prize.

The kit includes:
> Hand-forged high carbon striker
>One chunk of English flint
>Charcloth tin with char cloth and hemp tow
>A pamphlet on fire starting and making charcloth
>Muslin bag to keep it all in

It's pretty simple, I pick the coolest or most interesting as the winner. The contest officially starts July 1st. All entries must be submitted both in the thread, and by email (screwloosecircus at Gmail)
by August 31. Unfortunately, due to shipping, I can only offer this contest for American and Canadian anons. This contest will be posted in /out/, /cgl/ and /tg/, with each board getting their own winner.

Can't wait to see what y'all do!"

[Anonymous No.10863730]

Hey guys, just getting into larp and I'm putting my first kit together. I'm not trying to do anything spectacular for my first kit, just a chainmail shirt, gambeson, kettle helmet, and obv some medieval garb underneath.

I've got two questions: has anyone ever used AllBestStuff to buy chainmail from? It's suspiciously cheap for chainmail. I understand it's definitely pajeet shit, but I wanna know if it's pajeet shit where I'll actually receive a function product.

Second question: are there any anons here that know of actual good larps in the Midwestern US? I was gonna go to Reckoning next year but some larp YouTubers I watch said Reckoning year 2 was kind of a shit show so I'm hesitant.

Thanks for all your help guys

[Anonymous No.10863748]

>>10863647
Sadly I can't get involved as I'm a Euro, but seems like great fun, can't wait to see what people come up with. How are you going to do a thread for this on /tg/? Revive the occasional larp threads on there?

>>10863730
I've never used it before, but having a quick skim through some of the images it looks okay. The thing with pajeet mail is that there are some really quite good maille makers out there, but also a LOT of scam artists. Unless you go to one of the know very good people as well, its always a bit one size fits none, but if you're just looking for cost efficiency that's not too bad, especially with a gamby on underneath.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10863771]

>>10863730
bought severall stuff from them. You get what you paid for, even a little better., although we usually bought the flat version

[Anonymous No.10863851]

>>10863730
It'll show up. Sizing an metal quality are variable. My mittens were very brittle and massively, inhumanly oversized.

Which is great - easy to cut them up to make a bunch of gloves. Terrible if you can't/won't modify what they send you.

[Anonymous No.10864175]

So for my garb, I'm thinking about getting a pair of turn shoes, if anyone else uses em, how do you like em? I'm worried they'll be slippery for some reason, the place I think I'm gonna buy em from also sells hob nails for soles, but the sole doesn't look thick enough to put nails in without being uncomfortable

[Anonymous No.10864212]

Making a sheath for a Calimacil katana, going to use a heatgun to shape HD EVA foam, then lining the interior with whatever soft felt material I can find at the craft store. What should I use after get the foam into shape and Dap it together? I was thinking of spraying plastidip, but I need the sheath to be as solid and rigid as possible

[Anonymous No.10864279]

>>10864175
I've got two pairs and I really like them. When you first get them they WILL be slippery as fuck, especially on stuff like paving slabs, but over time the bottoms will naturally scuff up and gain grip. I spent the first few indoor events wearing them skating around like I was on an ice rink. If you don't want to go for hobnails (I didn't, I walk about on nice wood flooring too much), you can either go to town with some rough sandpaper on the sole to speed up the scuffing process, or get some modern rubber soles attatched if you don't mind the inaccuracy.

[Anonymous No.10864367]

>>10864279
Think I might go the sandpaper route, although I might just get two pairs, and put hobnails in one and not in the other. That way I've got a pair for indoor use and a pair for outdoor use

[Anonymous No.10864679]

>>10813669
Alright homies, I think ive finally settled on Drachenfest US being my first larp, i wanna try and have my kit ready for next year.

I have a few questions though for those who've been.
What's the food situation like? Is it all vendor stuff or are we expected to cook our own meals? If the latter, are we allowed to have an open fire?
Second, is it still an okay time if I go by myself, or is bringing a few friends practically mandatory to have fun?

I was gonna go to Bico up in canuck land, but its been a hot minute since ive brushed up on my french and it would be pretty expensive

[Anonymous No.10864682]

>>10864679
Oh also I forgot to ask as well, is there like a general interest discord or something for Drachenfest US to talk with people and what not? This board is somewhat slow and itd be nice to talk with people about event specifics

[Anonymous No.10864727]

>>10864679
You'll make friends in camp if you try. Especially if you go to parties at blue. Downside, blue parties attract literally everyone, so your friends may all be in different camps. Also we may play pranks on you.

Food vendors exist, but you mostly feed yourself. Fires in designated positions only.

[Anonymous No.10864732]

>>10864727
Okay that's good, I've read a little about the different camps but I'm not sure which one I wanna go with yet, although I was leaning towards silver because I wanna do a classic "knightly" character and that seemed pretty in line with what silver is about.

For food, I saw a cool tutorial on YouTube for building a cooler that isn't immersion breaking and just looks like a chest, so I figured I would just bring some regular camping food to make. I assume the fire pits are a communal sort of deal that multiple people in the camp share?

[Anonymous No.10864739]

>>10864732
Honestly it's variable. So.e people have small camping stoves hidden out of f the way, a lot of us just bring shit with no cooking required - or are too busy to eat much- and as far as fires go, well.

You're living together for a week, you'll figure it out.

Silver is indeed the place for
>MUH CHIVALRY
and also to be terrified by an angry mob when someone fucks it up. The players are actually pretty solid people, I'm fairly find of them.

[Anonymous No.10864744]

>>10864679
So there's a dope ass chinese food truck at the top of the hill, there's also the broth-hal that serves delicious soup.

You can have an open fire but it has to be off the ground in a fire bowl, or in one of the wheels that's around the camp ground with some rocks inside them. Basically coopers lake doesn't want all their grass burned so if you stick it on a burned spot you''ll be fine just keep it in the wheel.
Definitely recommend getting some like hotdogs on your way there but honestly I didn't even eat that much since you rarely want to start a fire since someone has to watch it at all times.
I went by myself and made some good friends that I'm going back for next year and I'm a pretty anti social guy. Drachenfest is definitely all the fun you make it, the staff is there to help but you're the one making your story.

>>10864732
Honestly I don't have a great opinion of silver so don't get stuck on the idea that whole noble knights and silver. The only time I encountered one was when he waltzed through our gate with his weapon raised complaining about our gate guards not doing their job (they were grabbing water) and not to shit talk them because they have some good dudes for sure... but they're incredibly in-secular, like they have a TSA checkpoint for a gate with passports. Imagine instead of doing the right thing you instead do the thing that looks right instead. A Silver apple that's overripe/borderline rotten.

Red camp was very Honorbound but we didn't have any knights, they had more barbarians and generic fighter types.

Blue camp was very much a group of dishonorable curs but their warchief was a frog named kek so that's pretty cool.

Shadow some how became the largest faction and ended up getting fucked because of it. Idk much about them but most of them were chill.

Green was the "it's not a warcrime the first crime" camp and apparently had an orgy?? They ended up winning pretty much because they became buddy buddy with red camp.

[Anonymous No.10864746]

>>10864682
Also if you have facebook the meme page has a link to a communal discord. Turns out Dan wasn't anti discord he just didn't understand how convenient it was. So the community is becoming more discordy.

>>10864732
Honestly for your first larp I don't recommend you build anything from skill tree that's relatively large. I'd take a few pointers from living anachronism, small metal cot and just make it fancy with fake furs and rugs. Start small and if you feel it's not big enough then level it up next year.

>>10864739
Also I don't like silver, but the dudes I fought with in the final battle were all great lads and I felt really bad when I had to break the news to one knightly lad that red was pretty much going to fight with the people that had befriended them. (aka green)

Honestly I was shocked at how chill most people were, it was really refreshing.

[Anonymous No.10864749]

>>10864739
>>10864744
>>10864746
Ah okay, silver definitely sounds iffy. Red doesn't sound awful and I feel like I could make a character that works for it, I just don't wanna fall into generic viking meme or something.

I kinda make the mistake of getting way too far in over my head with hobbies sometimes so maybe y'all are right and I should keep it simple the first time haha. There are places that make cloth tents for civil war reenactors that aren't super expensive like the larp specific tents so I'll probably just get one of those and dress up the inside a little.

>>10864746
Also I looked into that Facebook page (I think it was the right one) and I didn't see a discord link. I'll just keep an eye on the forums I guess lol

[Anonymous No.10864753]

>>10864749
8msPWfcs for that discord. 'Cause it sounds like you missed it.

I went balls to the wall and built the bed, food chest, and a cart and I definitely didn't need any of the three. I also brought a tent that could house like 6 people comfortably. That was pretty much my only regret was taking too much. I know it's a once in a year thing but plan smaller and then branch out. Like this year was my first time and I planned big then freaked out because it was a little too much for me last minute haha.

Don't let me like bad vibe you on silver though because they had a lot of knights and I didn't hear any of them complain about being in silver with exception of one guy who, got exiled from green and abandoned silver to join red. But you can join any camp with any aesthetic really. The Red Dragon's aspects are still very much, Honor, Valor, Glory in addition to blood, fire, and fury. Honestly red could use more honor characters than blood characters. So stick with your knight idea. Worst comes to worst you can always change which camp you belong to. Just gotta swear an oath to their dragon.

[Anonymous No.10864853]

>>10864753
Thanks I joined the discord last night.

Gonna get something like picrel for a tent, figure that will be enough for myself and my gear. I kinda like the idea of doing a knight kit on red now that I've thought it over. Do more of a "fire and fury" type beat instead of being a haughty noble.

Anyways, I'm looking into some mail chausses rn and I saw a thing on YouTube where a guy was using some that had their own leather soles so you could wear them without shoes, which I kinda like the idea of because lacing them under the shoes kinda sounds like a pain in the dick, but I'm having a hard time finding any like that other than some half length chainmail "socks" that AllBestStuff makes, so currently looking for a seller who makes something like that

[Anonymous No.10864863]

>>10864853
if you look into the silver channel you'll see exactly what I meant, good dudes but then there are some that are just "Well maybe you just didn't talk to anyone from silver to truly understand them. Maybe next year you'll be able to afford entry and you can change that." vibe

[Anonymous No.10864865]

>>10864749
But the best guy is in silver camp. Me! If you do want to be in silver camp we can hang out and you’ll get friends.

[Anonymous No.10864873]

>>10864865
How was silver camp from a silver perspective? I could see basically the whole inside of your camp from the red gate so I never visited but what was y'alls vibe like?

[Anonymous No.10864878]

>>10864863
I just looked and I absolutely did not expect to see someone literally telling someone what you said lmaooooo.

Sounds like the guy who is being told he's got the wrong idea of silver actually has the same idea I had of it lol. Obv I'm the newb so I'm not trying to tell anyone they're RPing wrong, but based on the description I absolutely imagined Silver to play like Templars or Bretonnians from Warhammer. Plus the whole passport thing kinda feels like greed which is supposed to be one of the other camps schtick I thought. Like "anyone can come in but we absolutely will burn you at the stake if you don't believe what we believe" would go perfect with their description but idk I could just be a dumbass newb who doesn't get the vibe.

Idk I'll probably just do the red camp desu, still got a long way to go before my kit is ready

[Anonymous No.10864880]

>>10864873
I played an incompetent asshole character so I was almost immediately exiled from coming into the camp. There’s a large clique of people that makes up half of silver. By virtue of silver being so small you kind of had to be friendly with that clique. It’s just an issue of silver camp needing more people. The other vibe was that like 6 people in silver were shadow camp informants because they weren’t as friendly with the clique and hung out with shadow camp people.

It seemed like people were having a lot of out of game problems. I’ll make it better next year.

[Anonymous No.10864884]

>>10864878
I think there needs to be more variations of characters in silver. I know everybody said that there’s all types in silver but they all acted lawful good. And not what your character thinks is good, but what’s morally correct in a modern day humanist context. I know because my character wasn’t even evil, just an asshole, and I was getting some half in game half out of game questions about why I was in silver. Pride and decadence was why I was in silver. Take all this with a grain of salt though because I think a lot of them didn’t like me in real life, so I think that might have factored into their decision making.

[Anonymous No.10864890]

>>10864878
yeah that kinda behavior is why I'm glad I can mention it in thread because half these people are ready to pounce on you for being 'wrong' in public.

"You shouldn't force people to pay even though you're offering to carry their heavy shit in a wagon for them because *accessibility* issues" on what was obviously a joke. Which given the lack of coin because lmao 3 copper????

>>10864880
>>10864884
Honestly I think changing the camp vibe to something not what it is, is something that'd be a great feat cause I don't see that happening with any of their diplomat types and in that kind of camp the warrior types are just there.

Did they know you irl or just from interacting with you on discord? The only active bleed we dealt with in red was that our warchief and our camp coord didn't jive on the first in game day. That and someone tried telling us that our gate was too yellow face.

[Anonymous No.10864893]

>>10864884
You get what I'm saying then, like based on Silvers description, their idea of "justice" should be the same ideas that the Spanish inquisition had. Like if you don't RP your flaws what's the point of even having them. The description literally says something to the effect of "if the gods are on our side, how can be wrong?" Like that fuckin ROCKS, play into it! Be a douchebag! Strike the non believers down because that's the only justice they deserve!

This has been a big conversation on /tg/ to, too many people bring their own preconceived notions of morality into games rather than the settings idea of morality

[Anonymous No.10864899]

>>10864890
Hi everyone I’m the incident. I have a reputation of causing trouble for the camp I am in. Which is hilarious and I love it. I am 100% playing the game as it is intended to be played. I cause camps to attack each other because I embody the philosophies of whatever camp I’m in so much that I set people to war. A guy in shadow this year was rallying the entire camp to murder all of silver because my character was a prideful asshole. Fuck the banners, they weren’t even after a banner, it’s turned into a battle of great philosophies and human drama.

I think that most people playing want to win the pretend elf wizard game and their characters act like they’ve been kidnapped and forced to to fight for the dragons. Even if our characters were supposed to be nice, their philosophies should be so violently opposed that peace can’t be an option. So I make it harder to do diplomacy and people don’t like me in real life now.

[Anonymous No.10865018]

>>10864744
>Blue
>Dishonorable
We literally never broke a treaty, didn't execute people, and didn't attack anyone who didn't first attack shadow. We're not even vaguely dishonorable

[Anonymous No.10865021]

>>10865018
Correct you never broke any agreements you had written down.

[Anonymous No.10865024]

>>10865021
Yes, and our written agreement with shadow obviously takes precedence over a handshake agreement with someone attacking them.

[Anonymous No.10865028]

>>10865024
From what I was told, the handshake allowed for defense of shadow. Just not direct aggression to red. Aka you could attack red while defending shadow, but neither parties were going to attack each other's camps.

[Anonymous No.10865043]

>>10865028
Can't really do that if you intermix into someones lines. You engaged in fuckery, we engaged in counter fuckery to draw you off so we couldn't be lured into breaking a written treaty. You guys knew what you were doing

[Anonymous No.10865326]

>>10865043
The real problem was the flat out "we won't attack you if you don't attack us" written agreement with green. (Who immediately broke it to help defend our gate because our own people were too busy blowing themselves up with a fucking barrel) It should have allowed for defense of shadow imo, like our handshake.

Though it's safe to say Red doesn't know specifically what they're doing at any given point and time. Even someone did, they didn't bother telling anyone lmao. The camp leadership roles were a bit... misplaced. Except our spymaster, whoever the fuck that was.

[Anonymous No.10865333]

>>10865326
There needs to be more treaty breaking. More uneasy alliances that could fall apart at any second

[Anonymous No.10865341]

>>10865333
Maybe if there were more players like >>10864899

Who could play their character without having to inject their own soft personas.

[Anonymous No.10865446]

Hey guys, so I recently watched both Living Anachronism's and Skill Trees videos on Reckoning 2 and they seemed to have wildly different opinions on how it went.

LA seemed to think it pretty much became so shitty that it would take way too much effort to become better for the foreseeable future and didn't recommend people go

ST said there were a lot of problems but the community made up for it and it was still a lot of fun.

I don't wanna make any decisions based entire on the opinions of YouTubers, so I was wondering if anyone here went and what there thoughts were, Reckoning takes place much closer to me than Drachenfest and also takes place before it I'm pretty sure so it would be nice as a sort of "larping pregame" to make sure my stuff is all good before Drachenfest which is the main event I wanna go to

[Anonymous No.10866407]

Im doing my first shitty diy project, since i want to get into the "stop buying/do own stuff" state and thought it would be a good beginning with something small. i wanted to create a holder for my blowing horn and kinda stuck at the keeper peaces, since i dont have any rivets to connect them with the other parts. is there a way to connect them without rivets? i thought of sewing both overtopped layers, but i dont know if that would work.

[Anonymous No.10867621]

The absolute state of American trash larp....

[Anonymous No.10867646]

>>10867621
That would be a pretty cool shield design ngl

[Anonymous No.10867661]

>>10867646
yeah, for a faggot

[Anonymous No.10867662]

>>10867661
like a space motif on the front of the shield, but better made.

[Anonymous No.10867667]

>>10867662
yeah right it looks like 2014 era tumbler leggings. explains his green hair and lipstick i guess

[Anonymous No.10867685]

>>10867621
Why the hell are they always wearing hockey gloves and shit?

[Anonymous No.10867719]

>>10867685
I think because americans are boffertards and smack really hard apparently.

>>10867667
I guess your imagination is lacking to the point where "but better made" means nothing to you. Can you even conjure an apple bro?

[Anonymous No.10867756]

>>10866407
Sewing with proper leather thread and a big ass needle would probably work, just make sure the leather is supple enough to accept it.

>>10865446
I can't give you any advice boss, but honestly if your thinking of going to Drachenfest and have a free weekend, what's the harm in going in the kit you have for that to field test your kit and have some beers.

[Anonymous No.10867781]

>>10867719
>I think because americans are boffertards and smack really hard apparently.

You have heard very much incredibly wrong.

[Anonymous No.10867786]

>>10867781
then why the fuck are they wearing hockey gear then??? If it's not for extra protection then?

[Anonymous No.10867791]

>>10867786
Because they're pussies

[Anonymous No.10867798]

>>10867719
i dont care how well made it is its still GAY

you think the ancient cavemen fucks these people are trying to larp as gave a FUCK about some tumblr egirl starry night shit? FUCK no you fucking idiot they were too busy bashing eachothers brains in, drinking cave mead and fucking hairy ass cave bitches.

Anyway you slice it the mans shield is failrp but then so is the rest of get up.

FUCK you

[Anonymous No.10867799]

>>10867798
this man can't conjure a fucking apple lmao

[hungarian LARPfag No.10867905]

drachenfest soon fellow larpers

[eurotrash No.10867909]

My friends and I went to Virginia Renn Faire during Celtic weekend

[Anonymous No.10868541]

Drachenfest themed Larp thread over on /tg/
>>89558101

[Anonymous No.10868542]

>>10868541
>>>/tg/89558101

[hungarian LARPfag No.10868624]

>>10868541
well at least this time you guys found it

[Anonymous No.10869042]

>>10868542
And there goes the thread, it was pretty good while it lasted.

>>10867909
I hope you had a good time anon.

>>10867905
Incredible hat, how do you get it to maintain that shape?

[hungarian LARPfag No.10869119]

>>10869042
I don't, I just put it in a shape I want it to be every time I put it on. It has the brim of a strawhat inside

[hungarian LARPfag No.10869517]

and in the meantime last shield got finished for drachenfest, my rotte will have three thematically matching handpavese

[hungarian LARPfag No.10869518]

[hungarian LARPfag No.10869519]

[Anonymous No.10869884]

>>10869517
>>10869518
>>10869519
they look awesome.what exacly does the last one says?

[hungarian LARPfag No.10869894]

>>10869884
all of them is in kind of broken latin (anyone who comes up to us to complain about grammar is already in stabbing range)
But the last one is basically
"Loneliness isn't the worst feeling,
It's getting stabbed in the dick"

[Anonymous No.10869906]

>>10869894
>"Loneliness isn't the worst feeling,
>It's getting stabbed in the dick"
i love it

> anyone who comes up to us to complain about grammar is already in stabbing range
good

[Anonymous No.10869911]

any news from the RUNEQUEST guy?

[hungarian LARPfag No.10869913]

>>10869906
for the record, the other two is this:
"Violence isn't the solution
But a disagreement isn't an equation"

and

"Everyone has a plan
until they punched in the face"

[Anonymous No.10869917]

>>10869913
i love that they dont take themself seriously. Shine on, Anon. Make the larp a better place with these

[hungarian LARPfag No.10869935]

>>10869917
while others may have a non-bullshit approach to larp, I usually bring all kinds of bullshit to it

[Anonymous No.10870156]

>>10869911
Oh damn, that's me. It's still in the works, but has been SIGNIFICANTLY put on the backburner. Real life shit has continued to continually kick the shit out of me, while I also had to turn a decent chunk of my attention to writing and running a napoleonic game. Rest assured though, it's still something I want to finish, and seeing this post has given me a bit of a swift kick up the pants to actually open that document again, especially now I have a bit more Larp running experience.

[Ballistanon No.10870158]

>>10813669
Quick ballistapost before I head off to Drachenfest tomorrow!

Yesterday, I sanded all the newly built components, slapped two coats of woodstain on the new components and touched up the old ones. Everything should be working now!

Building projectiles will happen at Drachenfest. I'm bringing tape and pool noodles, someone else will bring foam for the tips. They won't be the prettiest, but beggars can't be choosers. If all else fails I've got fifteen regular larp arrows to shoot with, but I've learnt last year that people generally don't realize they're shot by a siege engine if an arrow hits them.

The only thing I've left to do is to mount some end caps on the axle to keep the wheels in place. Last year that just involved drilling a hole through the axle and sticking a blunt nail through there. In all honesty I'll probably go for the ghetto solution again this year.

My blacksmith finished the contraption to rotate the torsion coils yesterday, so at least I'm headed to Drachenfest with all the pieces. That should be good enough, since I have plenty of time at hand before the fest starts proper.

...I hope. Should any of you see me or Miesje (the ballista) out there, feel welcome to come and say hi! We have cheese!

[Anonymous No.10870162]

>>10870156
cool. I hope to start planning one for next summer or the one after that. hope to steal as much as possible from you, haha

[Ballistanon No.10870174]

>>10870156
>running a napoleonic game
Where were you based, again? I positively need more blackpowder era larps in my life.

[Anonymous No.10870324]

>>10870162
Nice! I'll see if I can get an updated doc out soon *tm* for you to nick ideas from. It'll probably end up being a bit more rules lite than the previous version I put up here, but we'll see.

>>10870174
I'm in the south of the UK. The Ballista is looking fantastic as well anon, let us know how it performs!

[Anonymous No.10870590]

>>10870324
there was a previous version??

[Anonymous No.10870646]

>>10870590
Yup, I havn't touched it at all since I last posted it for feedback, but feel free to have a look through and steal/comment on it.

m3ga (dot) nz/ file/ hyt11b5T#YcKw82BfMD1kAeZ-vyf3PcLfipYPN_oJwrpdXobZ0eA

[Anonymous No.10871105]

Is living history/reenactment stuff considered LARP? Here in the US we have the Great War Association that does really cool mock WW1 battles and I'm thinking of putting an English soldier kit together for it

[Anonymous No.10871332]

>>10871105
It's similar enough, I've been curious about getting involved in Civil War/Revolutionary reenactments but haven't had anyone get back to me just yet. Would love to do Medieval but there seems to be nothing outside of the SCA.

Right now I'm working on getting together a Knight/Men At Arms costume but I can't decide between an early 13th century or late 14th century look. I've got my aketon, but I'm having a hard time with Chainmail and was almost tempted to get the rings to try and figure out how to make my own. Am I better off getting Chaimail off of some Etsy vendor?

[Anonymous No.10871828]

>>10867621
I know that fighter. 11/10

[Anonymous No.10872097]

>>10871332
If you're in the US I know there's like a whole revolutionary war reenactment society, but I balked at that when I saw how expensive revolutionary reenactment was lmao. Civil War reenactment is all boomers tho so yeah it'll probably take a while for them to get back to you while they figure out how email works.

As for your chainmail question, I know some anons here have had good luck with AllBestStuff, which I believe is a pajeet company that does both riveted and butted mail. Get Dressed For Battle is another company that I know of that does mail, they're out of England I believe so a little more expensive but I would imagine a little more consistent in quality.

If you haven't seen it yet, Medieval Collectables is basically a one stop shop for LARP stuff including armor and clothes, they don't make anything themselves but they keep stock from a whole bunch of other companies

[Anonymous No.10872618]

Weyi Tlatoani!

[Anonymous No.10872684]

>>10864679
>I was gonna go to Bico up in canuck land, but its been a hot minute since ive brushed up on my french and it would be pretty expensive
I'm planing to go to the ''tourist day'' but i'm still undecided.
i've been there before almost five years ago and i can assure you that you could spend the whole week there without speaking a single french word and be okay.
It's a tourist attraction dont forget.


>>10867621
This hurt way more than you would think.
>Boffer...sword?
>hockey mitts
>that fkcing shield
>Godmode by strapping a shield to his chest
>soccer kneepads
>bandana
>that small piece of loincloth supposed to be a tabard
>a guy above 30yo with long (colored?) hair
>black lipstick in a non-sexual encounter
>glasses that cost probably more than the helmet he should be wearing instead
>car in the background

This person made the conscious choice to wear all this.
Yet i feel nothing else than shame of being judgmental of someone who is clearly having fun.

Am i the problem?
when i see someone like that i wonder if i should be going back larping.
Maybe he is the new normal now i dont know.
Maybe dudes like Hungarian and gropey are a dying breed.

[Anonymous No.10872714]

>>10871332
Have you tried contacting Gropey? He's hooked up a lot of anons with local games and history groups.

[hungarian LARPfag No.10872730]

>>10872684
I admit I've dyed a few stuff, leather and textile mostly

[Anonymous No.10873462]

>>10872730
have you ever gotten into making your own dyes or pretty much just used synths from amazon?

[hungarian LARPfag No.10873466]

>>10873462
for armor painting yes, for cloths neither.
I don't order from amazon, usually I can get my stuff cheaper from somewhere else.
Though my girlfriend played with natural dyes a few times but never used for proper stuff

[Anonymous No.10873532]

>>10873466
>cheaper from somewhere else
I'm fuckin jelly amazon is significantly cheaper than all my local craft stores

[hungarian LARPfag No.10873575]

>>10873532
well around here there are crafts stores and "crafts" stores. The second is basically 3-5 times more expensive.

Anyway for the cheapest dye fo natural fiber we usually use this, it's the equivalent of 0,75 USD (everything is getting more expensive nowdays) you might need several package and it could leek the color if you fuck up the after treat, but otherwise the most cost effective solution

[hungarian LARPfag No.10873580]

meanwhile we are in autosage so here is the new thread as per usual

>>10873579

>>10873579

>>10873579