1. Do you know what 'Live Role Playing' means?
2. Do your know what the initials 'L.A.R.P.' stand for?
3. Have you ever actually played in a LARP? (Or do you just come to
laugh as people make fools of them selves in a costume?)
4. Have you played in more than one game? (Came back to make a fool
of yourself again, huh? Once just wasn't enough?)
5. More than five?
6. More than ten?
7. Have you been an active LARPer for more than a year?
8. Two years?
9. Five years?
10. Half your life?
11. Your entire life?
12. Do you hold a membership in a LARP club?
13. Do you subscribe to a LARP related newsletter or magazine?
14. Do you have promo-posters for quests and games taped to your wall
/ fridge / mirror / bathroom door?
15. Do you have the event organizer's phone numbers posted on or by
your phone / computer / fridge / wall / bathroom door? (Bonus point
if the words 'for a good time call:' have been added)
16. Do you not need to post the numbers anywhere because you can rattle
them off by heart?
17. Do you know when the next event is?
18. Do you know the schedule of events for the next month?
19. Do you have a schedule (however tentative) of the events for the
entire year?
20. Are you planning to attend the next event?
21. Are you planning to attend every event this month?
22. Are you planning to attend every event this year?
23. Do you own a costume, of any kind?
24. Do you wear that costume on days other than hallowe'en?
25. Do you own more than one costume?
26. Do you own more than 10 pieces of costuming (cloaks, tunics, shields,
vampire fangs, masks)?
27. Do you own more costumes than real clothes?
28. Do you have to reevaluate your closet space arrangement every time
you acquire a new piece of costuming?
29. Have you given up and simply allocated one room / area of your
house for costuming?
30. More than one room?
31. A separate building?
32. Have you given up wearing 'mundane' clothes completely?
33. Have you ever built / sewn / manufactured any of your own props
or costumes?
34. Can you operate a sewing machine? (Bonus point if you're
are male, and you learned how to do so by yourself)
35. Have you built a wooden sword / dagger / mauling implement?
36. Do you know how to work with liquid latex?
37. Have you ever burnt yourself on a hot glue gun, impaled yourself
with a sharp tool, sewn over your fingers, or otherwise mangled yourself
while trying to construct your costume?
38. Did you/do you show off the wounds/scars proudly?
39. Do you own any props or costumes valued at $100.00 or more?
40. Do you have a special insurance policy for your props and costumes?
41. Have you ever used it?
42. Do you know how to make a character for the rules system of your
choice, without help from anyone?
43. Do you know how to make a character without even consulting the
rulebook?
44. Do you make characters just for fun, even though you are unlikely
to ever play them in LARP?
45. Do you have random character sheets lying around your house, or
scrawled on the back of envelopes or tattooed into your flesh?
46. Can you play your character in a game, without having to constantly
check the character sheet or game rules?
47. Do you know, by heart, all the rules in a given system, and can
rattle them off confidently in a dispute?
48. Can you quote the relevant page numbers, as well?
49. Did you write the rules system?
50. Do you have a life outside of live role playing? (Hey, if life
doesn't exist beyond LARP, you can't possibly LARP too much, can you?)
51. Do you use words or phrases like 'Surprise attack', 'Roll the body',
'Fair escape', 'Puissance', Check your pouch', or 'Heightened senses' in
your everyday vocabulary, even when not playing or making a character?
52. Do people around you actually know what those phrases mean?
53. Have you ever used a gaming phrase, and then had to explain it
to someone who didn't understand?
54.Do you practice Surprise Attacking, Pick Pocketing, or casually
eavesdropping on conversations around strangers or acquaintances just to
improve your game skills?
55. Do you do it regularly?
56. Has it actually improved your game skills? (If so, are you willing
to give lessons?)
57. Do you dream about Quests, Vampires, Werewolves, or the like at
night?
58. Do you dream about quest, LARPs, etc. throughout the day? (ie.
daydreaming about it constantly)
59. Have you ever tried to stay in-character all day, when you were
NOT at a game?
60. Do you actually think you are one of your characters?
61. Do your friends regularly call you by your character name?
62. Do they not actually know your real name?
63. Do you respond to your character name when it is called across
a crowded room?
64. Are people not in the least shocked when you do?
65. Do your parents know you play these games?
66. Have you managed to successfully explain live role playing to a
parent, guardian, or supervisor without them smiling and nodding, and secretly
planning to get you some professional help?
67. Have you successfully explained live role playing (particularly
of the vampiric variety) to a priest, pastor, or other religious officiate,
without them offering you some serious counselling, words of advice, a
sermon on hellfire and damnation, or start performing an exorcism on you?
68. Have you ever invited your parents / employers / priests to come
to a LARP game?
69. Have they accepted the invitation?
70. Do more than half the people you regularly hang around with play
LARPs?
71. Have you lived / do you live with people you met through LARPing?
(Bonus point if you're married to them)
72. Does your entire social life go on hold the day(s) before a major
event, so that you can fix up your costume and work on those last minute
character things?
73. Does your entire life go on hold for Questing Season? (ie. do you
schedule your holidays around events, or plan your birthday party so as
not to conflict with games?)
74. Have you ever braved the elements to play in a game? (knee-high
mud, snow in August, or minus 30 weather).
75. Have you ever played or continued to play a game despite serious
bodily injury or physical trauma? (sprained ankles requiring a trip to
emergency, broken bones, bruised ribs from jumping off cliffs, deep cuts,
seizures, migraines? ...basically anything which would make a sane person
call it a night.)
76. Have you ever sold or pawned personal belongings or gone into debt
to afford a game?
77. Have you ever called in sick to work to afford time for a game?
78. Have you ever decided to skip your graduation, exams, brother's
reception, or your own wedding just to catch a game?
79. Have you ever, while attending a game, been able to guess (way
before anyone reasonably should have) how to solve it / who the murderer
was / what the finale would be?
80. Have you ever, while attending a game, caught your self thinking
'If / when I run a game, I'll do this or that differently?'
81. Have you ever actually sat down and started planning your your
own quest / chronicle?
82. Have you ever decided to actually RUN a game? Decided on a date,
and everything?
83. Did you spread the word via friends / promotional posters / newsletters
that you were running a game?
84. After all that, did you actually manage to RUN the game?
85. Did you survive it, mentally, physically, and emotionally intact?
(well, mostly?)
86. Did you have so much fun doing it (yeah, right) that you swore
never to run another event / swore to drop the chronicle?
87. Did you find yourself thinking 'Next time I run another game, I'll
...' ever after swearing it off?
88. Did you ever actually get up the nerve (and time, and energy) to
run another one anyways?
89. Are you an organizer on a regularly running chronicle or series
of events?
90. Have you ever put on a game for more than 50 players?
91. For 100? (or thereabouts? 93 counts ...)
92. Have you ever organized or been organizing more than one game in
a given month?
93. Have you ever put on a game with less than 30 days notice (from
scratch, plot, actors, site, etc).
94. Have you ever travelled to catch a game put on by a LARP group
in a different city?
95. In a different province / state?
96. In a different country?
97. Have you ever organized a game in another city / province / country?
98. Do you work / have you ever worked for a gaming store/ theatre
group / LARP company?
99. Have you ever volunteered to sit on any council or committee of
any sort which actually runs (ie. does the paperwork, accounting,
and occasionally red-taping, over an extended term) for a LARP society,
gaming convention, or improvisational theatre company?
100. Are you such a masochist, uh, I mean a dedicated LARPer, that
you volunteered for a second time?
21 - 40
You're coming along nicely. Sure, you can fit another game into your
schedule... you can probably even socialize with a few more LARPers and
not experience any adverse affects. Not yet, at least...
41 - 60
Ah... you've started on the slippery slope downwards, haven't you?
Don't worry... don't fight it and everything will go much easier for you.
You don't need to worry about fitting that last game into your schedule.
There will be others... and you'll still be around for them, won't you?
61 - 80
How deep in to this are you? There is a life beyond LARP, you know.
Of course, it's not nearly as interesting, is it? Besides... LARPing builds
character, doesn't it? Why stop now?
81 - 100
You've hit up on The Truth, haven't you? There is no such thing as
LARPing too much!