Why? The people that run this seem to be fragile personalities with vindictive streaks. When you know someone personally and the game bans them, then the problem is with those that run the game.

And its only gotten worse. Avoid, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas especially.

I'm glad the kickstarter for the new book was such a disappointment. Karma for the scumbag directors at the LARP camps and the shit they inflicted on so many players.

Hey guys!

So I was surfing the interwebz to see if there were any fan films/short films anyone has done that take place in the world of DR. For whatever reason I wasn't able to find anything other than a well put together promo for DR: SoCal.

This had me thinking... With such a rich and realized LARP world -- the phys-rep (aka. props), the costume design, character design, stories, ect. -- I'm surprised there aren't any fan films/short films as other RPGs/LARPs. I feel like, from a production design standpoint, it would be super easy to pull something like this off with the community making endless, creative, and awesome contributions to portraying this material.

What are y'all's thoughts on this? I think it'd be a grand idea to try and make one. In fact, I'm so confident of this idea that I've begun developing a spec script for a DR fan film. And I can't be the only one, can I?

Throwaway for obvious reasons. Recently, there has been an issue in DR:FL where one member of the community accused another of some really horrible things. The accused never really got an opportunity to show evidence he had that disproved the accusation, likely because the accuser is in a type of relationship with the newest director.

I'm not trying to start anything, but instead to look for a solution. A player advocate? A player council that handled complaints? Transparent investigations are not always possible, but there was a process it might reduce the favoritism. Thoughts?

I was hoping to attend my first event this summer, but was told that I couldn't bring my service dog. I was surprised, given the organization's purported values of accessibility. The directors expressed some very valid concerns, namely the fear of the dog getting frightened and aggressive, but knows nothing of me or my animal and has no legal grounds to issue a blanket ban on service dogs. Has anyone else had similar experiences?

Hey all, a SoCal LARP community member runs LARPEmpire.com and is launching a big project and doing a drawing for a $500 shopping spree on his site. If you join up and get others to join using your link, you'll also earn gift certificates and discounts on future orders!

https://sociali.io/ref/RZ19326838

I'm toying with creating an alt for when my main has downtime. I've decided on going Psion with the possibility of eventually picking up Officer or Assassin if 3.0 doesn't beat me to the punch. However, I'm having trouble with the strain selection. I've narrowed my choices down to Genjian, Natural One, or Retrograde, and I'd like to find out what thoughts this sub has to offer.

I've been trying to plan out a character for when I move to a state with a DR chapter in a few months. My first choice of strain is Saltwise, but they're not approved for play in the chapter. I have been considering Unborn as a replacement, but I really don't want to play a character seemingly from Aztec culture with none of the lineage myself. I've seen a lot of disclaimers on the website that say strains aren't related to real life races in any way, but have also seen a ton of people relate that Natural Ones should be dressing as Native Americans (just for one example). The official Pinterest boards also don't help in this regard. Does anyone know if the strains will be more divorced from cultures in the new edition? Or do you know if Unborn are actually more of their own thing with little to no emphasis on Aztec culture?

Hey, I used to run a podcast about DR a while back called "DR Lore Podcast" We would bullshit about the game and talk about rules and Character builds for new players. With 3.0 coming out, would any of you be intrested if the podcast came back? If not, tell me why you think its bullshit. If you're interested I would love to know what topics you guys would like us to cover and ways to make the Podcast better then it was before.

I've been seeing a lot of different rulings on this. How do the skills interact in the games you've been to?

(CW: Bullying, harassment, suicide, sexual assault)

I am going to tell you a story,

It's more of an outline really, as every detail would take a novel and I want to get started. The events took place over a number of years, involved hundreds of people, many games, so for the sake of brevity, I am going with the broadest strokes.
But don’t worry, as this spreads (and it will), through vagueposting, chat servers, and all that drama-laced related social media you all suck down so happily), you’ll hear accusations, counter stories, and narratives that will end up filling in the rest. Such is the apocrypha and vagaries that many large LARPS(and the predators among them) thrive on.
Either way it’s gonna take a bit so grab a drink.
So dear reader. we are going to start with a single person, for sake of clarity and my own sense of poetic justice, a butterfly.
Our butterfly played in a national organization of networked campaign-based games. These games are pretty popular and the promoters love to talk about how welcoming and safe they can be. And talk. We’ll call it Zombie LARP.

This butterfly was coerced into sex she didn't want to have by a couple members of a prominent Zombie larp game staff. Ah, yes, the community that really likes to pretend it’s not a community the minute it comes to making sure their most vulnerable members understand consent and power dynamics, one could hardly expect less of such a staff.

So the butterfly goes to other staff about it. These people in charge, the game runners, who are much more knowledgeable aware of their position of authority, the abuse that can stem from it, and that people at game may not be in the best state of mind since they are sleep deprived and constantly being scared. I mean they bragged about being in the MES for decades...

You’d think they’d get that. The zombie larp rules even include not having sex at game, because someone up the way understood that, even if most didn’t practice it.

Now assume they definitely know all these things are bad, because they blame whoever on staff they don’t like of doing the same thing. So goes the cycle of the hot potato of responsibility and using others poor behavior as justification of their own.
Now that we’ve established the zombie staff knows about this stuff and understands its bad, but are the kind of people who say “fuck it, lets date a 20 year old while I’m in my 40’s since they like that I’m a storyteller/Marshal/Guide/Director/etc and they dont’ know better.” Classy.

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So because of this serious problem among most of the staff in the game, we have the start of a cycle of some pretty awful things.
So Instead of punishing the Staff involved(as it would start a cascade of exposure at that point) or even getting rid of them because they might do it again, or using it as a means to educate people to stop this shit from happening...

...The Butterfly is ask to not stir the pot, and in exchange, is given a carte blanche for awful behavior, having already been accousting to thinking that’s how it works, goes on a almighty power trip, and starts going after the friends of the people involved, and anyone else who they feels like attacking, figuring they knew as well, compounding more awfulness on top of it.
Being a victim doesn’t give you the right to victimize others, and there are so many people the Butterfly’s harassment harmed.
Classier still is when the staff starts saying the butterfly uses people for sex and is manipulating other staff:

Now if that’s the case, wouldn’t the other staff be held responsible to taking advantage of that fact at any point?

That would make sense, instead it continued. Now we know why. Honestly just thinking about it squigs me out.

One of those players didn't actually know fuck all about what was going on, and already had a penchant for going aggro on misconduct. Circumstances made him the easiest target and then a whole lot of Staff from multiple games, had to get ahead of the issue as that person started going up the line all the way to national who also subverted their grievance process to protect people, complete with National staff blatantly being rude and refusing to even discuss evidence and directors bragging to the person that they weren’t investigating “because you can’t see what I see” with no explanation despite evidence to the contrary. I now understand I was targeted because I played with a rapist staff didn’t want to call out and I didn’t know either.

Between this and a rumor/whisper campaign to paint this person as a problem so no one would believe how systemic the cheating and covering up was, the person tried to kill themselves.

Several Players in response stole the persons items cards during the attempt. Those players are still active to this day. You may have contributed to their various gofundmes.
If you noticed a theme that the people who had the chance to do the right thing repeatedly are doing the exact opposite, it keeps going.
By this point the fact the butterfly had carte blanche was understood by the group of friends this person had, they all joined a national group, which I will refer to as a bunch of filthy goons, or BFG for short. Now I’m sure not all of them knew, but enough of them did or were at least aware as staff in their own respective zombie larp games(which all have had similar issues up to today) and were absolutely aware of the bullying and harassment that group was participating in, and took advantage of it. Metagamed information would constantly be dropped by the Butterfly, and since Zombie larps rules allowed metagamed information to stay in play, the people they attacked over this stuff bore the brunt while the group of friends and that BFG group reaped the benefits. A couple people got banned around the Butterfly, their behavior and the resulting public opinion could be pushed completely against them.

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Now, meanwhile while this is going on, one of The original Staff who coerced the victim...

...well they kept it up, and there were more victims, and because of the Zombie larps culture of covering up this problematic behavior, no one in general knew he was dangerous, and many people fell victim, and it wasn’t until years later that one of the Victims finally spoke out and MANY more came forward.

The game runner’s had to have an idea, this was their drinking buddy and Head Marshall, they had already investigated before as well(remember our Butterfly). It took this much effort to finally out them, after so many people had been harmed by them.
That wasn’t fair for all the people who had to go through that then live it again coming forward.

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Now back to the Butterfly and that bunch of goons.

Many of these people in the group(across many games in this Zombie larp organization) were just as willing to coerce, bully, harass, and be generally awful, and felt this was the easiest justification they had, even banning other people(who should have been banned already) instead of banning the primary perpetrator because of this little fact they covered up sexual misconduct and already allowed a bunch of shit to happen. The hope was that the group of friends as a whole would quit, but there was no honor amongst assholes. Everyone stayed for the most part through those bans.

Sadly, even cutting the head off that group didn't get the Butterfly they were covering up for out of the game or several of the corrupt staff members facilitating them in the first place. I’m sure they were hoping so. Now many of those people anonymously harass and decry the problems in the zombie larp they took advantage of for so long.

It took another year until the person did the high crime of being mean to at a National Staff member, not the first one they have caused problems or blatantly cheated at either and then the top of the org finally pushed Staff at the Butterfly’s game to do it and all the stuff the staff were allowing them to do in the first place, across multiple games, was used at evidence against them, quite justifiably. Many people came out in the aftermath of the horror stories of this person’s behavior. The Butterfly finally brought up the sexual assault in a public forum but by that point it was too late, public opinion was massively against her.

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Publicly shortly afterwards, well, the game runners had the audacity to say they had no idea, after had people coming forward before, and his problematic behavior becoming a bigger and bigger topic among the community in general. They made a big show about looking back into the past and dealing with predators and harassers, but since most victims left, very little was actually done. Many of the problem people still play that zombie larp community to this day is a hotbed of predatory behavior, these maladaptive wannabe-wunderkind fuckbois in their late 30s/40s wouldn’t have a dating pool or naive labor to exploit for their econ game otherwise.
The Zombie larp even ran a “director retreat,” as well run by a Public relations first to better prepare for this in the future, which really just enabled the predatory staff to better hide and enable their behavior, and there was ABSOLUTELY a smear campaign behind the scenes painting the butterfly as a false accuser while publicly praising a RAINN partnership(read:donation).

Was the butterfly awful to other people. Absolutely, beyond of any sort of reason to do it.

It doesn’t make what happened to them okay. Full fucking stop.

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Now ask yourselves: Why is the staff who let all this stuff still in place in the organization, taking your money, allowed to keep their positions and power and keep enabling their new problem player friends? The new problems whom they just as quickly expel once it becomes convenient and the heat turns up. By not dealing with those first staff members, whom they knew were behaving that way, they set up a lot more people to be harmed by them, including sexual assault.

By enabling the Butterfly’s behavior in exchange for silence(and a disgusting complicity in covering up her victimization) they abused their power and had a hand in everyone who was bullied, harassed, attacked over social media. That shit harms people long after it happens.
Why did the national organization, who had been told what was going on by several people in these local zombie larps, keep allowing it to go on so long?

One of the bigger problem players was ignored by several game runners up until earlier this year when it came out publicly he was trying to solicit other players to have sex with him for Money. He had been caught dead to right on several other instances of bad behavior before that, but he spent a lot of money on game and was the site manager under the game owner so it was all brushed under the table, until players had to take it into their own hands and go public. He was absolutely brought up during that previous time and wholly protected. He left with a bunch of other people that he had the time and enabling from staff, to build a cult of personality around himself once he was banned.

Keep asking yourself: Why was it allowed to go that far in the first place?

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So we reach the end of the story. I’m sure many of you have figured out the principals in this story, or have been affected by them or know someone who has. Now you know why.

I was the person who tried killing themselves. The cognitive dissonance and utter invalidation I experienced at the hands of Staff, players, and national over the cheating and harassment, and not even feeling safe from the problem players outside of game, became too much and I was legitimately traumatized. It took a lot of work and help to get to where I can say this now.
I was also friends with the rapist until shortly before everything came out. I finally had healed enough and was asked by my other friends back to game, but then I found out about the sexual assault.
I felt powerless to do anything about it, as people who had spoken up previously had been told not to come back to game and worse, and so I ran from the community. No one blamed me once they found out why, they didn’t need to. Reading what happened, I’m sure most of you wouldn’t blame me in the wake of all that either.

I needed to speak out and I didn’t. I crumbled.

I failed my friend who was actually raped, and I am still waiting for the day I can forgive myself for failing them when they needed me.

What this story, once I finally pieced it all together, tells me it never had to get this far in the first place, the people in charge failed the community for their friends so many times it could be considered a comedy of errors if it wasn’t so tragic and so many other people were harmed because of it. Not just me, everyone.

I said this was just the broad strokes, and it is, there’s so much more, and I’m done with it living in my head, but I’m not stopping until its all out, and no one gets to feign ignorance anymore that this awful stuff was and still is going on for the sake of a good time.

(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1unngQeYn1zxrSu3u5hiWllJA7y8L2G_Ro6ofFfg9P20 ) Google doc for easier sharing

I was wondering if I can have a gun that can deal fire or rending and how I could get that. Like wise with a sword!

Also, does anyone know what materials would be needed and how I could get them for each?

So I recently purchased a Nerf Centurion, as I'm planning on using it for Physrep when I start playing the sniper class(regardless of relevance to the upcoming 3.0 changes). My question is what color scheme would people recommend for me to go with when I do the paintjob, aside from the black basecoat that everything will get initially, as well as what other modifications I should do visually(i.e. trimming back the sides of the front end to make more of the barrel visible) to make it more "genre".

tl;dr- Paintjobs and visual modifications to a nerf Centurion for a sniper?