One week a year I escape my ‘real’ life as broke standup comic – and travel back to medieval times | Scout Boxall
Live action role play, or Larping, allows me to straddle two worlds with fellow weirdos – and enter a realm where death can be reversed and I’m a cashed-up…
The Guardian reports: Live action role play, or Larping, allows me to straddle two worlds with fellow weirdos – and enter a realm where death can be reversed and I’m a cashed-up bureaucrat Every Friday night on a community sports field in Melbourne’s inner north, a few hundred nerds dress up in historical armour and attack each other with foam latex swords.
It’s live action role play: turbocharged Dungeons & Dragons meets medieval re-enactment.
This lifestyle story centres on Australia. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include Scout Boxall, Larping and I’m.
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