To LARP or not to LARP

In my last cycle of LARPing, ending about 7 years ago, I was finding a whole heap of new "live action gaming experiences" popping up all over the place. I was finishing uni, without enough time to focus on the games I was running, let alone head to other games to check them out. They all seemed to offer a basic variation on standard boffer stuff, and I'd been in and out of that scene for a while.

I started teaching, mostly away from the crowds that this sort of game requires. Then Covid hit, and many of the games ate themselves. I hadn't really looked back at the LARPing sphere until recently. 

So now I'm doing LARP research again. Looking at which ones are worth getting involved with...and which ones are toxic as hell.

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