The game of chops

Where to begin.  I suppose I should start at the beginning.  My friend Brian, when we first met and started talking, invited me to join a local Larp.  I had previously heard from different friends that Larp was lame and that people take it way too seriously and stuff.  Like people using real weapons and stuff and mistaking the real world for the game world so they got in trouble when the killed someone for real.  Blah, blah, blah.  These horrible things happened like in the 80's and that is where Larp got it's bad reputation.  So, I told my friend Brian no, but he asked me why and I told him about all that horrible crap.  Blah, blah, blah.  My curiosity finally got the better of me and I decided to show up one day after he had invited me.  I haven't stopped playing ever since.  I even became the Storyteller (ST)/Game Master (GM)/Dungeon Master (DM) of the game and had a go.  I am now going to start STing again.  I have a couple ideas on where I want to take the game, but I hope it's good and fun for all the players.  That's the golden rule in Larp, have fun, hell, it's the golden rule in any game.

The rules we use are out of the Laws of the Wild 3rd Edition Mind's Eye Theatre (MET) published by White Wolf Publishing.  The MET rules are simple:  Have fun, no weapons (we use item cards), and everything in the book can be changed if you don't like it or just don't use it.  Our game is part of The Garou Nation (TGN), a national organization dedicated to Live Action Role-Playing (LARP).  Each game from every city follows the standard rules and some of TGN's bylaws, but otherwise has chronicle sovereignty.  We basically act out what our characters would do, throw chops (which is what we call Rock, Paper, Scissors), and keep tally of what we have on character sheets.  We use item cards for weapons, armor, fetishes (magic items/weapons), and talens (magical consumables).  The game can otherwise be called Werewolf: the Apocalypse.  There are games in other cities that we can travel to and play our same characters from our game, but if the character dies in that game, it dies in this game, since it is a shared World of Darkness (WoD) within TGN.

So this is what we call Larp.  It's fun, and anyone can play.  You just need to know how to play Rock, Paper, Scissors and you got like 50% of the game.  Oh, and you portray a Werewolf.  How cool is that?

Anyway, that's it for now.