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newbDM
2008-12-05, 12:39 AM
This is my first time trying to do it (although I did get some little dagger like light-up lightsaber ripoffs at a dollar store as a "probe" for my alien in BESM...). I fear I am getting a bit too into this character...


Here is my character:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/19011fb7.png



Here is his original mini from 2007:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/f9d1b4fb.png



And here is my loser self:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/4b2cbd87.jpg




The M.W. iron pot (the DM ruled it counted as a club) cost me $6.78, and around an hour to make.

Here is how I made the pot if anyone is interested:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/55887891.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/86c96ec7.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/8345e992.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/99b4bb83.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/27ea4bd6.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/62dfeab7.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/c3203333.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/273e1970.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/c6135f9a.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/celestialkin/5972b010.jpg




So, what have you guys done in the past? Got any images to share?

Ponce
2008-12-05, 12:43 AM
What system is that character played in?

I think it would be neat to do this, but I think a Banite costume worthy of the dark tyrant himself would be hard to come by or make.

FoE
2008-12-05, 12:44 AM
Ah! A LARPER!

*Grabs holy symbol*

Back, unclean thing!

Captain Six
2008-12-05, 12:44 AM
I do nothing spectacular but I find it really helps immersion if I have a weapon similar to the one my character uses.

ericgrau
2008-12-05, 12:48 AM
You mean you didn't just grab a pot from the kitchen and wear that? You built one?

newbDM
2008-12-05, 12:55 AM
What system is that character played in?

I think it would be neat to do this, but I think a Banite costume worthy of the dark tyrant himself would be hard to come by or make.

3.5.

What is a Banite?



Ah! A LARPER!

*Grabs holy symbol*

Back, unclean thing!

Damn. Does this count as cosplaying! :smalleek:



I do nothing spectacular but I find it really helps immersion if I have a weapon similar to the one my character uses.

That is what originally inspired me to do this. I now need to figure out how to add the fire property.



You mean you didn't just grab a pot from the kitchen and wear that? You built one?

I tried that. They were all too small. I have an unusually shaped head (not just fat). I actually need glasses, but I went to five places and none had a frame that fit my freak head.

I hit up two dollar stores, and a Good Will trying to find one that fit. They had no pots. Walmart had no pots that fit, plus they were too expensive.

I got a few funny looks at Walmart...

Tacoma
2008-12-05, 12:57 AM
Clever job! I ... would have used one of my existing pots. Or bought one at the dollar store :P

And what is with the aversion fads? LARP isn't my cup of tea but it's cool. I like LARPers.

That said, we do dress up for Halloween and do a scavenger hunt in costume. And there's party games, potluck food, some kind of scary story contest (this year it was a 55-word D&D scary story) and a horror style dungeon adventure.

So yeah. I guess we do. Just not all the time!

Ponce
2008-12-05, 01:09 AM
The most LARPing I've ever seen was when a player took a nap on a couch after his character got knocked out.

A banite = worshiper of Bane.

Stupendous_Man
2008-12-05, 01:21 AM
Ah! A LARPER!

*Grabs holy symbol*

Back, unclean thing!

Purge the Unclean!

Kizara
2008-12-05, 01:22 AM
Yea, I don't think I could make this work...

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p73/Star_Moon_bucket/ElvenSwordswoman.jpg

newbDM
2008-12-05, 01:24 AM
Yea, I don't think I could make this work...

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p73/Star_Moon_bucket/ElvenSwordswoman.jpg


Where did you get that amazing image!
You male or female? O.o

Stupendous_Man
2008-12-05, 01:28 AM
Yea, I don't think I could make this work...

Don't believe in you who believes in yourself, but instead, believe in me who believes in you!

newbDM
2008-12-05, 01:30 AM
Don't believe in you who believes in yourself, but instead, believe in me who believes in you!

True. You would be surprised at the types of guys who can pull that trick off. You'd never expect it.

Kizara
2008-12-05, 01:30 AM
Where did you get that amazing image!
You male or female? O.o


1) My 7,200 pic collection. I believe that particular one is from a Lineage MMORPG promotion.

2) I'm a fairly red-blooded heterosexual male, and sometimes its fun to play out the 'other side' of my fantasy. After running so many female NPCs as a DM, I started playing them as full-fledged PCs and had some pretty solid success with it.

That being said, I would never play a gay character or cross-dress in real life.

Yukitsu
2008-12-05, 01:32 AM
The wierdest thing I've worn in the past few years is the hat from Azumanga Daioh.

newbDM
2008-12-05, 01:33 AM
1) My 7,200 pic collection. I believe that particular one is from a Lineage MMORPG promotion.

Thanks for the information!


2) I'm a fairly red-blooded heterosexual male, and sometimes its fun to play out the 'other side' of my fantasy. After running so many female NPCs as a DM, I started playing them as full-fledged PCs and had some pretty solid success with it.

That being said, I would never play a gay character or cross-dress in real life.

Just asking. Just like in MMOs, just because there is a male symbol under your avatar doesn't mean it is true.

Stupendous_Man
2008-12-05, 01:33 AM
Meh, on teh internets, all the men are men, all the women are men, and all the kids are FBI agents.

Tacoma
2008-12-05, 01:36 AM
Well that's a new one. I need to play a gay character.

Oh, you assume it's gonna be a Bard, right? Well that's the first thing I thought of too, so it's not happening.

Barbarian.

AAHAHAHA this is going to be good.

Anyway, as for not being able to dress as that, it's your own fault for choosing such an attractive character. Do you need to play more ... "natural" characters? Maybe a tall Dwarf with a scraggly beard? Or a slovenly Halfling?

I am sorry. I am sure you are beautiful. It is only my wisecracking that is ugly here.

newbDM
2008-12-05, 01:36 AM
Meh, on teh internets, all the men are men, all the women are men, and all the kids are FBI agents.

http://forums.gleemax.com/images/smilies/roflmao.gif

So sadly true.

Kizara
2008-12-05, 01:43 AM
Anyway, as for not being able to dress as that, it's your own fault for choosing such an attractive character. Do you need to play more ... "natural" characters? Maybe a tall Dwarf with a scraggly beard? Or a slovenly Halfling?

I am sorry. I am sure you are beautiful. It is only my wisecracking that is ugly here.

Well, if I had the material and weapons, I could probably easily protray my medivael ranger Baron character with some sun and exercise. He has a 16 charisma, keeps a bit unshaven, and unfortunately I don't really have a picture for him.

Still, its enough to RP, I don't feel the need to LARP. The closest thing I would do to LARPing is getting into actual combat, but people don't do that near where I live (Alberta, Canada) and I have too many other things going on in my life.

BobVosh
2008-12-05, 02:05 AM
Well that's a new one. I need to play a gay character.

I once play Clarenthe. The gay necromanther. *imagine gay hand-flap thing, also the TH is a lisp* It was in a 2nd ed game named "the BS-Campaign."

Two Dwarven Ghetto Fighters made that game. They were brothers. The class actually said "they never forget thier roots." I think they should lose thier powers like a pally if they did.

Anyway, cosplay leads to larping. Larping leads to the dark side.

Tengu_temp
2008-12-05, 02:15 AM
I'm not good at making costumes/props, I'm afraid. I tend to play online, too, so any effort at dressing up as the character would just be wasted. Not to mention that over 50% of my characters are female, and that'd just feel awkward.

Thurbane
2008-12-05, 02:26 AM
Warning - once seen, this cannot be unseen! Fairly warned, be thee, says I!

http://i35.tinypic.com/nyuqnc.jpg

http://pixyland.org/peterpan/

Adumbration
2008-12-05, 02:33 AM
Warning - once seen, this cannot be unseen! Fairly warned, be thee, says I!

http://i35.tinypic.com/nyuqnc.jpg

http://pixyland.org/peterpan/

GAAAH! I actually shouted that out loud when I saw it. Excuse me, I'm going to bleach my eyes now.

Tengu_temp
2008-12-05, 02:34 AM
I assume that's Thurbane?

Ravens_cry
2008-12-05, 02:36 AM
Warning - once seen, this cannot be unseen! Fairly warned, be thee, says I!

http://i35.tinypic.com/nyuqnc.jpg

http://pixyland.org/peterpan/
The curse does not work on me, I have already seen that, or something much like it. Your powers of evil are nothing to me!

Mr.Bookworm
2008-12-05, 02:37 AM
Meh, on teh internets, all the men are men, all the women are men, and all the kids are FBI agents.

Holy ****, I'm an FBI agent?

When does my paycheck start coming in?

Thurbane
2008-12-05, 03:02 AM
The curse does not work on me, I have already seen that, or something much like it. Your powers of evil are nothing to me!
Then, I must unleash the full horror!
http://i38.tinypic.com/e7bimb.jpg

I assume that's Thurbane?
LOL - not quite: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4707762#post4707762

Stupendous_Man
2008-12-05, 03:08 AM
Meh, chunky legs not my thing.

elliott20
2008-12-05, 03:09 AM
Thurbane, I have seen this darkness that is the peter pan minister. (Yes, dude's a priest. you may joke at will)

And I have seen far worse. tempt me not to destroy your fragile mind with things of true terror, lets you gaze into the abyss itself and quake in eternal suffering!

BobVosh
2008-12-05, 03:10 AM
Then, I must unleash the full horror!
http://i38.tinypic.com/e7bimb.jpg

LOL - not quite: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4707762#post4707762

Should i wonder why a fairly large biker-ish guy has so many pics of...that?

Thurbane
2008-12-05, 03:24 AM
Should i wonder why a fairly large biker-ish guy has so many pics of...that?
:smallbiggrin: Thanks, your post made me LOL for real. I needed that after a crappy week at work. :smallwink:

AslanCross
2008-12-05, 06:53 AM
3.5.
Damn. Does this count as cosplaying! :smalleek:



Hey, what's wrong with cosplaying? :smallfrown:

http://aslancross.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/idunlikeurface.jpg?w=497&h=662

That's not a LARP of any characters I run, though, just an actual cosplay. (I'm a DM and haven't really played as a PC.)

I don't think I can put together a big enough costume to make me appear as a 15-foot tall, winged, half-fiend ogre mage. Or dye my skin black and my hair white. Or appear as a 5'10" swordswoman with long red hair.

OverdrivePrime
2008-12-05, 07:25 AM
Hey, what's wrong with cosplaying? :smallfrown:


Cosplaying is awesome. I'm quite partial to my Valhallen costume that I put together for Halloween this year.

I think the rest of my dice jockey friends would be aghast if I were to show up for a game dressed in character these days. Mostly play barbarians, monk/rangers and other folk not partial to much in the way of clothes.

Hmm... maybe something can be arranged. :smallamused:

mikej
2008-12-05, 07:44 AM
This thread is very very disturbing.

One of gamer friends wanted to introduce something like LARP, but I believe it was called Amtgard. Make foam weapons & shields and beat the crap out of one another. I found it idiotic, plus I usually won because they wanted to puff off some weird maneuver seen in the movies and I just expliot the opening.

FinalJustice
2008-12-05, 08:00 AM
Guys, if there's even one /b/tard here, you're just begging to become a demotivational.

DigoDragon
2008-12-05, 09:16 AM
I don't get in costume, but I don't ban it from my games. I've had players wear capes or use props occasionally. However I do ban working prop weapons after someone tested the phrase "It's all fun and games until someone puts an eye out" using a Nerf gun and proved it correct.

newbDM
2008-12-05, 10:00 AM
Thurbane, I have seen this darkness that is the peter pan minister. (Yes, dude's a priest. you may joke at will)

And I have seen far worse. tempt me not to destroy your fragile mind with things of true terror, lets you gaze into the abyss itself and quake in eternal suffering!

Yeah, I have been to the chans to.

newbDM
2008-12-05, 10:06 AM
Hey, what's wrong with cosplaying? :smallfrown:

Not sure. Simply never liked it. Also, I have weaned myself of being a spicaboo (Hispanic weeaboo)., and have been clean for over two years.

Plus I don't like drawing attention to myself. I argued with myself just about that image I took.



Or dye my skin black and my hair white.

Oh, that ones easy! A little blackface and some hair dye.


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And can someone please define LARP to me? I am not 100% sure what it is.

Ascension
2008-12-05, 10:54 AM
Live Action Role Playing.

It's a fairly neat concept, I think, theoretically combining roleplaying, acting, and mock combat to allow you to become your character, but the execution of said good idea is generally rather lackluster, and you pretty much look silly by default while LARPing, and it requires actual physical effort, unlike traditional roleplaying, so it gets a lot of flak from the rest of the RPG community.

I've been interested in LARPing off and on, but I've never quite gotten around to actually doing it, largely because of my disdain for the simplified combat resolution systems used by necessity in LARPs.

Cosplay, on the other hand, is something I wholeheartedly support. I generally stick with the Star Trek/Star Wars costumes, though.

Hmm... I need to try to put together a Nadesico uniform someday...

Rinzy
2008-12-05, 12:39 PM
My group is fairly role play heavy, so we often have props or partial costumes when we play. In a game we finished up earlier this summer, I ran around with my druid's Staff of the Unyielding Oak in hand (a wooden walking stick) and I often wear my red robe and carry my copy of The Prince when I play my cleric of Hextor.

Lots of my friends carry fake swords/other weapons to games as well. We don't think anything of it. One of our players came from a group where role playing was frowned upon, though. He's still getting used to it, but he's having fun, so thats what matters most.

KeresM
2008-12-05, 02:37 PM
The most LARPing I've ever seen was when a player took a nap on a couch after his character got knocked out.

Eh, I've done that. My character got teleported into another dimension during combat, and the combat was going to take a while to resolve. I didn't want to just go home, so I sat on the couch reading over one of the rule books and unintentionally fell asleep. I was working security at the time and they had me scheduled day shifts, swing shifts, graveyard, with no sense of regularity and occasionally only 4 hours between shifts. (yes, illegal, the company got very busted for it, but at the time, I needed the money)

The GM worked it into the session with 'you find Kit, but she appears to be in some sort of magical slumber that may require someone else to go wake Keres instead of me because she's still in her security guard uniform and I'm worried she'll pepper-spray whoever wakes her'.*

The guy that did wake me got bonus XP for 'risking life and limb in the pursuit of gaming.'


*I didn't, didn't even actually have the pepper spray on me, left it in the car

newbDM
2008-12-05, 04:35 PM
Eh, I've done that. My character got teleported into another dimension during combat, and the combat was going to take a while to resolve. I didn't want to just go home, so I sat on the couch reading over one of the rule books and unintentionally fell asleep. I was working security at the time and they had me scheduled day shifts, swing shifts, graveyard, with no sense of regularity and occasionally only 4 hours between shifts. (yes, illegal, the company got very busted for it, but at the time, I needed the money)

The GM worked it into the session with 'you find Kit, but she appears to be in some sort of magical slumber that may require someone else to go wake Keres instead of me because she's still in her security guard uniform and I'm worried she'll pepper-spray whoever wakes her'.*

The guy that did wake me got bonus XP for 'risking life and limb in the pursuit of gaming.'


*I didn't, didn't even actually have the pepper spray on me, left it in the car


Either he is a very wimpy DM, or you must be a very scary lady.


(I only kid. Don't hurt me...)

xPANCAKEx
2008-12-05, 05:24 PM
newbDM is now a meme

R4ph
2008-12-05, 06:29 PM
For LARPs, I always costume. Then again, they're almost always Camarilla LARPs, so nothing too outlandish is involved.

I have worn costume from time to time for tabletop games, it helps with the getting into character.

JadedDM
2008-12-05, 06:50 PM
If you want to know what LARPing is, go see the movie Role Models.

But basically, there is a hierarchy in nerdom. The LARPers and Cosplayers are the bottom tier, the 'untouchables' if you will. Even the pen and paper nerds beat them up.

They just make me so mad! :smalltongue:

newbDM
2008-12-05, 07:44 PM
If you want to know what LARPing is, go see the movie Role Models.

But basically, there is a hierarchy in nerdom. The LARPers and Cosplayers are the bottom tier, the 'untouchables' if you will. Even the pen and paper nerds beat them up.

They just make me so mad! :smalltongue:

Noooooooo!!!!!


*Looks for acid to throw on newly made pot*

Starbuck_II
2008-12-05, 08:04 PM
Don't believe in you who believes in yourself, but instead, believe in me who believes in you!

Who the hell do you think I am!

I've never dressed like my character.

Thurbane
2008-12-05, 11:40 PM
Noooooooo!!!!!


*Looks for acid to throw on newly made pot*
Actually, I like your costume. It's more for comedic effect (I assume) than most of the other examples of LARPing people have discussing.

Anyway, here's my favorite image on the subject:

http://i35.tinypic.com/2111kya.jpg

Deepblue706
2008-12-06, 12:51 AM
You people are terrible. Terrible.

xPANCAKEx
2008-12-06, 01:20 AM
But basically, there is a hierarchy in nerdom. The LARPers and Cosplayers are the bottom tier, the 'untouchables' if you will. Even the pen and paper nerds beat them up.

i can attest to this - the one proper weekend of larp i went to, i want toe go round stealing peoples lunch money. Fortunately the faction i was involved with were all massive pissheads, who just used it as an excuse for a rediculous p*ss up

Lert, A.
2008-12-06, 02:26 AM
War reenactment. Best LARPing... ever.

"Form a square! Break the cavalry! First rank...fire!"

Well, that's as far as I'll go. I usually end up beating on a Frenchman for no reason. Well, for fun, but no good reason.:smalltongue:

Reinboom
2008-12-06, 02:47 AM
Thank you, newbDM, for supporting your local Walgreens.
...self company advertising...

Right.

I see nothing wrong with cosplaying, as long as done correctly. Also, don't pretend you are a vampire. You, apparently, become one. Silly Friscans. :smalltongue:

kjones
2008-12-06, 11:24 AM
If you want to know what LARPing is, go see the movie Role Models.

But basically, there is a hierarchy in nerdom. The LARPers and Cosplayers are the bottom tier, the 'untouchables' if you will. Even the pen and paper nerds beat them up.

They just make me so mad! :smalltongue:

False. Furries (http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchart.pdf) (Warning: PDF) are at the bottom.

We dressed up as spies for a Spycraft d20 game once, but that was just suits, sunglasses, and badass longcoats. I'm... glad there are no pictures.

xPANCAKEx
2008-12-06, 12:22 PM
we won't even discuss furries

they are the untouchables

Yukitsu
2008-12-06, 12:26 PM
While I regret it immensly, you can in fact touch a furry.

Bayar
2008-12-06, 12:32 PM
Umm, newbDM...you have a MewMew poster in your room ?

:biggrin:

Mando Knight
2008-12-06, 12:34 PM
False. Furries (http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchart.pdf) (Warning: PDF) are at the bottom.

Dang it! I don't know where I'm supposed to be!

...also, the chart is wrong. Erotic Furries are not geeky, they're just weird. [/standingbyridiculousclaim]

Project_Mayhem
2008-12-06, 01:46 PM
Guys, if there's even one /b/tard here, you're just begging to become a demotivational.

Because what /b/ needs more than anything else is more bloody demotivationals. Fight the cancer man, don't embrace it.

Also, I've never dressed as my character. Mainly because I'm pale and slightly overweight. So other than a flabby changeling mage, I'd look silly.

Deme
2008-12-06, 02:35 PM
well, I've never dressed as a character, per se (seeing as I am a slightly heavy girl who plays primarily pretty-boys), but I have had some props akin to the pot.

I specifically once had a character whose only article of wait-up clothing was a small, open, waist-cropped jacket. I realized after deciding this that I owned such a jacket, and from then on forth would wear that jacket whenever I played that character. I no longer play the character, but still call the jacket my "Sarojin jacket" (Sarojin being the name of the character). I also tend to have canes, hats, and a few other props on standby, in case I ever find a use.

FinalJustice
2008-12-06, 07:26 PM
Because what /b/ needs more than anything else is more bloody demotivationals. Fight the cancer man, don't embrace it.

Also, I've never dressed as my character. Mainly because I'm pale and slightly overweight. So other than a flabby changeling mage, I'd look silly.

You do realize that I called the idiot who'd make demotivationals a 'tard', as in retard, don't you? I'm not 'embracing the cancer', I'm just pointing it.

Besides, I do not frequent 4chan (I like my sanity, thanks) and my exposure to demotivationals is just mild, so I still find some of them funny. =P

JadedDM
2008-12-06, 09:36 PM
Wow, there really is a hierarchy? I was just making stuff up. I guess I'm on the fourth tier as a roleplayer.

All right, all LARPers and furries line up, I need me some lunch money. *starts pounding fist into open hand menacingly*

Ascension
2008-12-06, 10:00 PM
False. Furries (http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchart.pdf) (Warning: PDF) are at the bottom.

Note the double-ended arrows there. The Furries themselves think we're geekier, leaving us in a Pluto/Neptune situation... the geeks farthest away from the Sun of published authors keep changing due to their irregular orbits. I also protest the anime and Star Trek hierarchies. People who use "Japanimation" aren't geeky, they're just ignorant. And people who get married in Klingon garb can't be that low on the tree. If you can actually find someone willing to marry you, you can't be all that geeky. I think that spot should be changed to "Trekkies who insist they're 'Trekkers,' not 'Trekkies.'"

littlechicory
2008-12-07, 01:35 AM
We all have affected fake, exaggerated Western accents for the Wild West campaign.

Xyk
2008-12-07, 01:57 AM
This thread is very very disturbing.

One of gamer friends wanted to introduce something like LARP, but I believe it was called Amtgard. Make foam weapons & shields and beat the crap out of one another. I found it idiotic, plus I usually won because they wanted to puff off some weird maneuver seen in the movies and I just expliot the opening.

I tried amtgard for a while and it was great. I loved it. We didn't LARP though, we just had little tournaments. There ws also this huge battle. Like with walls and siege and hundreds of people from all over state.