Just Wondering

[jmfargo]

Anyone care to give me a run-down of how Rochester NERO went over the weekend? Really curious!

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[akdidge.livejournal.com]

Does this count?

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

See, to most non-LARPers that's just kind of funny and maybe a little bit dumb, but deep down in their darkest hearts there's a part of them that goes "I wish I was cool like those kids!"

However, I couldn't help but wince watching it. Their weapon technology, as far as the swords go, sucks. Their axes are nice, and they seem to take good care in creating those, but almost all of the swords (yeah, those silver round tubes on sticks were swords) looked shoddy and some even seemed to be falling apart before your eyes.

The giant was a pretty good effect. I need to keep in mind that adding some height to a person actually isn't that difficult, and the door being broken down was pretty neat. Is it bad that I look at what's supposed to be a humorous video, and instead think "Hmm, okay, I'm going to have to use that when I run my game?" :)

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I forgot - Their magic system seems to be the old "point and click" style - just point at someone and say "9 kazillion damage!" It does have some merits, but also has some HUGE downfalls, like you never miss...