/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9453860
I know nothing about shields.
sorry.

post your kit and a cool pose as a reference and ill draw it for you*

*as long as my patience lasts

pic related is a drawing of a kit i didn't get anyone to photograph

>>9452531
what setting?

>>9451236
>I get compliments all game about how good looking they are, and where did I find such nice weapons? Then one moron with his own Calimacil starts baseball-swinging and hurts somebody, and everyone blames it on his weapon

Had the same experience.
like, motherfuckers, go hema or sca if you wanna hit as hard as you can.
THIS IS A LIVE ACTION ROLEPLAY EVENT.
HIT TO MAKE IT DISTINCT AND CLEAR NOT TO ACTUALLY HURT THE OTHER PERSON WHO YOU ARE MAKING A COOL FIGHT SCENE WITH.

I can hurt you with a pool noodle just as much as a calimacil weapon. DOESNT MEAN YOU WILL EVER EVEN GET A BLUE MARK FROM ME.
People who dont understand that fighting and larp fighting are similar but different should be reeducated on the subject by their peers and looked down upon, especially if by people who are out-right better than them in a fight.

this makes me turbo mad.

>>9450656
>How do you usually choose what group do you want to go to, in LARPs large enough to have ones?

whichever is the coolest with people i know are good roleplayers and the least OOC drama.
other than that I check to see who I think is the coolest.
Alternativly, i choose the one that the character I want to play would be the most fun in.

>>9449502
>>9449484
random tips as they come back to me:
Sell insurance.
Have insurance papers ready, if they don't get confused by the concept, bury them with scrolls.
Come up with crazy fraud schemes.
Have an actual policy printed with lines between the lines.
be pragmatic! (out anesthetic? offer the burliest man you know a job as an anesthesia specialist)
Have a larp safe bone saw or a serrated machete.
Get a pimping medical coat or the era appropriate equivalent with your name/crest/infirmary's symbol on it.
If low on customers drag some wounded from the nearest battlefield and make them sign stuff while they are hazy while recovering.
Cite the benefit of your coin ba-PATIENTS as you're main concern multiple times.
offer shitty solution for a price, and then offer a better solution for more.
keep it playful, you want them to have doubts if you care or not.
Get connections.
BE discreet unless you can get more gold by talking.
take the hippocratic oath, apply to everything.
Exotic strange booze is a great smelling salt.
you're bound to have folks not liking you, know how to use a basic weapon at least.
Don't show them you know how to use a basic weapon.
Accept odd jobs, odd jobs lead to great reputation which can only help this kind of character.
Facial hair! The sleazier you look the better.
pipe optional.
work near the butcher shop, make people wounder.
Always have a wacky deal ready, Free* hangover curing potions**!

*during the solstice
**might be a non-liquid and may or may not be taken orally.

>>9449231
just make sure its non-allergenic and non-toxic

>>9449180
that inspector is a moron.
only time i made contact with someone else's pommel was because we were trying to disarm each other.
unless you explicitly go for a pommel bash there is no way or reason for that to happen.

>>9449231
I was the sleaziest back alley guy with a bone saw that could still heal you if ya had an exotic despise for an appropriate amount of coin or if you paid for insurance.
i comically offered insurance with different rates and offered non-sense deal.
want 50% off for your next crabs treatment? refer us to a friend who is willing to loose a limb!
the "is" part was smeared suggestively

>>9448983
What it got failed for?
what weapon is your backup?

>>9448879
I had two bottles in a larp once.
one had Fernet-Branca the other red gatorade.
I used Fernet as an in-game smelling salt to bring unconscious folks back up, most went up on their feet within half a second just to figure out what's that smell.
I had folks coming to my infirmary telling my they have been poisoned and had stomach aches (I mentioned to theses few it can easily alleviate such pains) just to take a swig.

I always acted as if the worse drink was in the other bottle.

>>9448883
Cali's Agrippa was the first sword i bought directly from Calimacil and IMO the best sword they ever made

I even made pic related a few threads ago

Got my money back from an Indian snake oil salesman.

I want to get a nice metallic helmet with built in padding so i dont need to wear something under it. any recommendations for something for around 80$? doesnt have to be re-enactment level just enough to look ok and not harm its wearer.

preferably a sugarloaf or something similar. I already posses a kettle helm.

>>9447042
>>9447039
>http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Black-Acrylic-Hoodie-Cape-with-leather-pockets-and-buckle-/252893051775?hash=item3ae199bb7f:g:4zoAAOSwvihY~X5N

this is quite awesome as is.
i dunno about the price tho, for 60 canadian i would take it.

>>9446748
good idea with the plastic buckles

if a machine gun class would be incorperated it would have to be at least two people carrying it, and besides that i kind want avoid automatic weapons since counting rapid nerf hits during combat is not fun.

I might just turn this into a political larp and save the fighting to a later event.

again I would like all the help people can spare, I've been larping for almost 4 years now but this is the first one i try to write.

>>9445714
A nice tunic, fisherman's pants, belt, a nice hat if the sun is an issue, ans don't forget period looking shoes/boots.

Pic related with short sleeves is fine for countries that think that 30 Celsius is hotter than the devil's asshole.

>>9443766
imo: yarn balls are ok as long as they look somewhat like a magic ball, and they dont throw it like a baseball but actually do a move that meant to emulate casting magic.

>>9443566
I *don't* know if they are

no really tho i want to make a "Prophet of Cloth" character, just a monk from the deity of cotton or something, where clothing that has no sewing (reminder that im from a temperate country where its fucking hot here)

A literal man of the cloth.

>>9443314
belts, pocket belts, surcoats, fancy helmets dressings, knots.

look here
>https://www.fusionknots.com/graphics/gallery/knots/index.html

most are easy and really cool looking, if they are really era appropriate but its for larping not reenactment.

>>9442410
I just want a kit like that because it is fucking cool.

also, "plan for the larps you want to play".

>>9442294
i think >>9418159 looks good even without the chest piece.

i dont have gloves but they add a lot.

>>9442040
a square of fabric with its ends tied to eachother with a hole for your head?
less expensive and makes sense IC because its simple and cheap so it can get torn and dirty instead of a nice doublet.

>>9441858
I took the bait knowingly without going apeshit. I'm ok with that.
Here nerds to be mostly center, if you are leaning hard into one way or the other no body gives too many fucks unless you are really vocal about it.
On the other hand we had to deal with immigration and terror attacks since the 50's.

>>9440473
To avoid confusion during fights. This is an idea I obviously borrowed from video game design. All in all its ment to give people more motivation to take more calculatable risks and more of them.

>>9441816
Running around pretending to be shooting people with actual guns (I get they're blanks) is enough to make people jittery.
that being said go sue if you feel you are in the right, but what you did sounds like running into a shield wall, dying, and then complaining to the GMs that you got unfairly swarmed.

>>9441597
>running around with realistic looking guns in uniforms
>not informing the authorities ahead of time so the police would know its some harmless wackos instead of a militia uprising
>not doing it in a secluded american forest/desert/wasteland


you gotta be making this up, no one is that stupid

>>9439312
The nylon ones with the clicky things? My vocabulary is lacking.

I have a half baked idea for a ww1 themed alternative history skirmish larp.
I'll link it here, your opinions are welcomed.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1elGgE88aai91dtMuHQFZ2K3Et4SFW4zyJiQCUF7fGP8/edit?usp=drivesdk

>>9438909
Whats a good way to keep it from falling off me? Sew it or glue it unto a body condom (like the black rubber layer of storm trooper armor)
Also
>tactical knight
You know me so well.

>>9437817
Not the space marine or fallout kinds, more of the modern futuristic look.
Good examples would be crysis and halo I guess.
Sleek tactical look.

How to get that powered armor look?
Future/post setting ofc.
No fallout shit.
Pic unrelated.