LARPing

Submitted by MrSneakerr t3_10ooqkx in CambridgeMA

I’m looking for people in Cambridge and surrounding areas that might be interested in LARPing. I recently moved here from the Midwest and have found the area to be largely devoid of LARP or adjacent activities. If you’re interested in hitting other nerds with sticks, pretending to be something you’re not everyday or know of a group that do this, I would greatly appreciate the connection. I’m pretty lonely out here.

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jpseudo t1_j6g6s5d wrote

Redfeather Roleplaying is good people. The playerbase is located largely in the Cambridge/Somerville area and out towards Springfield. They currently have 3 active games, which I will describe (badly for brevity) as etherpunk in the age of sail, traditional fantasy-adventure in the woods, and magitech on a traveling city. Crappy placeholder website here.

I'm not sure if Romancing Jan is still running, but keep an eye on Incantrix Productions and Rainbow Unicorn Games for inclusive and queer-friendly events with high production values.

Club Drosselmeyer is a theater dinner semi-larp sort of thing that runs every December, and is great fun.

You can also connect with more nerds at places like Athena School of Arms, Knight Moves Cafe, Pandemonium Games, and Comicazi books and games.

Probably several places I'm missing, but that's off the top of my head. Happy to go into more detail about any of them.

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ClarkFable t1_j6fzcb1 wrote

I used to do NERO back in the day, so much fun. I’m not sure the local chapter survived COVID. Anyway, if you can get some interest, I’d give it a shot. There are plenty of good locations for running events out in the suburbs.

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MrSneakerr OP t1_j6g4s46 wrote

I’m constantly finding new places that’d work for events. Don’t suppose you have any contact info for the NERO group?

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ClarkFable t1_j6g5nne wrote

http://neromass.com/index.html

But as I said, COVID may have shut them down, plus the core group was getting old, the original guys have to be pushing 60 (the main campaign started in the late 80s). At its peak, it had hundreds at events

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limbodog t1_j6hyaxn wrote

NERO died? Wow, oh how the mighty have fallen. I remember huge events back in the day.

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covhr t1_j6g3t1f wrote

If you have any kind of association with MIT, join the MIT assassins guild and LARP to your heart’s content!

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tbootsbrewing t1_j6iajxr wrote

I saw a LARPing group at Grove Street park on a Sunday morning/early afternoon in the fall of 2021. I don't know what group it was, I brought my kid to the "Caterpillar park" as she requested and we watched an epic sword fight.

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jpseudo t1_j6j9p8c wrote

I bet it was a group of players honing their skills. Most games I know of run 4 weekends a year, and that's not enough practice to get good. Also, it's fun to hit your friends with swords XD

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NJS_Stamp t1_j6jvr9x wrote

Depending what type of larping you’re looking for, you could try to go on a few Scul missions. Scul is a sci-fi bicycle chopper gang that goes on missions and documents them as space logs.

I’ve never done it, but I see them around from time to time.

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