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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of LARP. — live-action role-plays
  • noun Plural form of LARP.

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Examples

  • Maybe the real questions should be: if tabletop RPGs and LARPs didn't become "artistically legitimate" in their time, why do we expect their descendant -- the narrative computer game -- to do so because it's now on a screen instead of on a table and the DM has been replaced by a computer?

    Let The Kane Thing Go SVGL 2009

  • Whe should organise some kind of crossover night where all characters from all LARPs, living or dead, are invited for a party.

    Project Cleavage AKA Trudi Fischer nathreee 2010

  • Driverless vehicles, massive LARPs, and virtual shared environmental overlays (ie: CopSpace) are the rule of the day.

    Book 18: Halting State eddvick 2008

  • You DO know that there are LARPs out there that are “theatrical style”, right?

    Pick6: Fears o’ LARP 2009

  • There's plenty of other stuff to do at the con, too: games, LARPs, films, and of course, chocolate parties.

    REPORT: ApolloCon 2007, Day 1 2007

  • In LARPs, someone has to physically be this random person.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • As near as I've gathered, LARPs are total total freaks.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • White Wolf, who publish live action RPGs (LARPs), have changed their policy so that anyone who runs a game where fees are collected have get permission in the form of a $20 per-player-per-year license from White Wolf (White Wolf also wants you to take this license in exchange for the right to print t-shirts and other schwag with the name of your own troupe on it).

    Boing Boing: July 3, 2005 - July 9, 2005 Archives 2005

  • Most of the day was downtime between LARPs, though, and I simply could not become immersed in the sea of Sci-Fidom.

    The Value of Sincerity Richard Nokes 2005

  • Most of the day was downtime between LARPs, though, and I simply could not become immersed in the sea of Sci-Fidom.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Richard Nokes 2005

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