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[oldschoolfrp]

"Out of Your Chair, Into the Action! Live role-playing: the next big wave in gaming" -- Terry Dykstra illustration for article by Michael A Ventrella in Dragon 173, September 1991. The author recounted his adventures with the New England Roleplaying Organization (NERO), and mentions the International Fantasy Gaming Society (IFGS), both of which still are around. He never used the term "LARP," which still wasn't universally known.

I don't know whether Dykstra himself had seen actual live action role-playing yet, but this looks exactly like my group's first homemade attempt at costuming in the early 80s. The few small photos in the article show garb with fewer visible anachronisms.

[vaisaur]

A poem to my gf

When i see you

I see a beautiful shining star

Youre so bright

You illuminate my face

You feel warm

Just like the sun

[perfectlyorderedinsanity]

So we have an angry Scottish/Irish woman, a genderbent character from Gurren Lagann, Leeroy Jenkins' SON, and the sniper from Team Fortress 2...in ONE team. Oh God.

Spoken by my friend Alyssa.  This is essentially our LARP team.  Yes.  

(I would be the angry Scottish/Irish Woman.  She would be the sniper.)