Re: ** New Members: Please Introduce Yourselves Here! **
Hi you guys,
I heard about this forum through a video on youtube by adam savage. I was curious right away and thought this might be a good place for me to learn how to build things, especially costumes and polstered weapons. You see a big hobby of mine is live action role play. To those who don´t know what this is : you do know pen and paper or computer role playing games ? Basically we try to live those games in reality. There are futuristic LARPS, fantasy LARPS even horror survival LARPS. We build costumes, padded weapons to fight with and what ever else is needed (for example for some bigger ones we built castles out of plywood and try to make them look as realistic as possible with the finanicial means we have) and then try to live our fantasies for a weekend or longer (the longest cons are well over a week).
Imagine for example you are in an old army base and the zombie apocalypse has begun. Some of the players are zombies, others are survivors that try to accomplish certain goals. Like the gamemaster in a pen and paper roleplaying game you have gamemasters here too. You will get tasks to fullfill, can find hidden equipment,might safe others, in short you are gonna have a hell of a lot of fun !!!
There are some areas that are called out time areas where you can eat etc, but most of the area is ingame and if it is well done you feel like you really stepped into another world for a few days. Here a few youtube videos,to give you an idea of the crazyness and awesomeness of a good LARP. They are from "conquest of mythodea", one of the largest CONS in the world with usually between 5k and 7k people and a little over a week of fun, and from drachenfest, which is a little smaller then mythodea (both usually happen directly after each other, so guess how I spend my summer hollydays):
ConQuest of Mythodea 2012 IMPRESSIONS - YouTube (mythodea)
LARP: ConQuest of Mythodea 2011 - YouTube (mythodea)
Drachenfest 2011 Epic EXTENDED Trollcut Special Edition - YouTube (drachenfest)
Imagine you stand on a hill with 500 others. Behind you the war drums are pounding, and 200 metres under you an ork army is getting ready to overrun you. You can´t get any nearer to the real deal then that (at least not untill we finally have holo decks). The reason I came here is to learn to build better costumes for myself and friends
Ok, enough about this, and a bit more about me. I am 36 years old, come from the south of germany, near the border to bavaria. I work as a cargiver for mentally disabled young adults. In the group I work,since 8 years now, we have 10 young males, between 18 and 35. They are all severely autistic, which makes my job quite challenging and also quite interesting. It can be tough sometimes, but I wouldnt trade/swap it for any other job (my boss told me on the first day you will either love it or leave it).
I am also quite active in my ASATRU community (we belief in the old germanic pantheon of gods and live a modern version of this religion), for example I counsel people who have trouble with their family or close friends because of their belief.
I would say thatis enough for now. Feel free to PM me and if you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them
