/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9426289
>>9425705
>>9425751

Thanks guys, here's another Atom Ant level picture. (The pictures are bigger, of course, but I'd hate to post other people unknowingly)

>tfw the only pictures of your new garb and kit are pictures for ants

I'd ask critiques, but you can't see shit captain.

>>9219989
>>9219950

I've gotta agree with Hungarian on this one.
I would never let some abstract numbers on a sheet, let alone something like rock paper scissors, dictate whether my character lives or dies in a fight that I might not even have instigated, just because some random twit decided to allocate his points differently and/or has been playing there longer than me.

That, to me, is a broken game.

>>9215780

Thanks, stalker.

>>9212572

Surely France has more than just one good larp.
Border hop into Wallonia otherwise

>>9212580

>three weeks prep time

You are a braver man than I. Good luck, be sure to post pics

I had to dig up a green tunic and matching Phrygian cap, first one I made but hardly ever wear because the fitting isn't quite right, because I have to play their local flavour of wood elf inspired human. Even dusted off my bow for the occasion. Luckily, I had enough gear lying around to make a full set.

I'd almost consider shaving and putting on a blond wig to pretend I'm Link, but I'd feel bad for spoiling these players' final moments.

Since I cannot abide this thread on page 7, what are some upcoming larps for you lot?

Tomorrow is the finale of a 10 year old twice yearly larp, the end of their world is Happening™, and despite never having played this larp, I decided to tag along to buff up the number of NPCs running around (we crossed the 100 line, so that's pretty cool).

>>9209409

>Not just entertaining your group with music and song and FUCK THE RULES

Seriously?

>>9195456

Designated Hornet's Nest Kicker

>>9184851

One way is to give your character a definite past. Spend some time to figure out the whys and hows of your characters. Then think on how this past affects his current situation and his decision making. This sounds as simple as it can be, but you'd be surprised how often people don't do this and just wing it. This will often have the character end up a clone of you (not that there is anything wrong with that). Being someone else takes planning.
The last LARP I'd been to another player actually stimulated this well. We were dicing in the inn, and most didn't have or wanted to put up money. So he proposed laying the equivalent of a truthspell, and we diced for questions. The most ridiculous sorts of questions came up, but it really helped people think of their characters people.

Once you figure out your character, it's about acceptance. Acting within your character will handicap you in some ways, forcing you to make choices you OOCly know will hurt your character, or having a clash of personalities (despite many LARPs having a competitive side, I notice larpers are very non confrontational on the whole and will avoid playing their character to avoid even IC agruments). Nobody can or will force you, but sometimes you just have to eat the loss if you want to be a character.

Thirdly, you need to get comfortable with making an ass of yourself. You have your character, you have your opinions, your wants, your ideas, your contributions. You might be wrong. You might be painfully wrong. You might be singled out. You might fail. But it doesn't matter. It's all about the story. You might be too shy to really play your character and mumble your convictions to some local lord, then you'll go overboard and overact and your praising of some deity might turn off that deity. You'll find your middle ground if you try and take the punches. You paid good money to play a game, so play.

>>9183986

As recent as my grandparents women wore a scarf on their head when going out in public.
Rural West European backwater, that.

>>9182610
>Throwing a servitor at an enemy

>>9177227

https://www.eysenwall.de/

They've got some seriously cool shit, I couldn't tell you about shipping though, as it's close enough for me to pick it up myself

>>9177056

Polearms preferably. I love me some minimalistic staves, but I might succumb to the polaxe meme.

Other than that, a small center grip round shield and a club is all it takes to make me happy.

>>9172371

Superfluous buckles for superior swashing.

>>9167512
>However, in the second half of the century, courtiers are often shown, if they have the figure for it, wearing nothing over their closely tailored cotehardie. A French chronicle records: "Around that year (1350), men, in particular noblemen and their squires, took to wearing tunics so short and tight that they revealed what modesty bids us hide. This was a most astonishing thing for the people"

Continuation of chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis, Archives Nationales, Paris. Quoted in: Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Centuries, Vol 1: The Structures of Everyday Life," p. 317, William Collins & Sons, London 1981

I wasn't following that whole debacle, but the above text does sound like a longwinded way of saying it was fashionable to wear undersized clothes. Also French instead of Italian, but eh.

>>9153191

Over here, it mostly happens at group level. Our band ranges from 10 to 20 people from larp to larp and when we write backstories, of course we include our group members. Sometimes they're IG lifelong friends, sometimes they're touch and go, but there's always something. It would feel very awkward to come into a larp with a whole band of fresh characters that work together but have never seen one another before that larp.

>>9142491

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8RWLxlzTiM

Ain't nothing better than swinging your pole in other people's faces.

Speaking of Palnatoke, my first swords were, too.
I loved them to death, but does anyone else feel they stick like a motherfucker?

I kept them in a box with baby powder (now made with 50% more baby) just so I wouldn't find them fused with whatever cloth or hard surface I put them down on.

>>9139109

Will post pics when I'm done with the base clothing. It's mostly the armour I'm curious about.

Also, my best French comes up with this.

>>9139059

I can tell it's going to be hard to top that.

>>9138965
>Anyways, the fuck are you doing with my money?

Paying the consultant, of course.

Anyway, the debate my group had way back is settled, and we're going for the Mongol aesthetic in the next larp.
I'm watching Marco Polo now, and it's all pretty cool, but does anyone here have good inspiration for these lovely horseback barbarians?

>>9136244

Kubb is easy to keep in one piece and the game pieces are pretty fucking big, though most games will require you to keep a close eye on the pieces.

One solution is to make your own pieces in a way you can easily recreate. Kamisado is one of my favourites in that regard.

>>9136215

When it comes to handling the metal, the easiest body armour you can make are coats of plates or brigandine.
You will need some skill at sewing and leatherwork for those, though.

Check out armourarchive.org for a shitload of guides.

>>9135056

>inb4 the two rival Plantagenet houses are werewolves and vampires
>inb4 Margaret of Anjou is secretly pining for Dick of York
>inb4 the Burgundians are an ancient cabal of loosely Witcher rip off monster hunters aligned to ward the greater evil of the French
>inb4 Team York/Team Lancaster t-shirts