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« on: June 06, 2006, 07:57:26 PM »
I Larp, so the line between rp-ing and real can get pretty blury. You are dressing like the characters, acting like the characters, and engaging in the scenes. Sometimes your character really doesnt like another, and bad things can happen. Some people in my games have a difficult time realizing this is not because anyone dislikes them as a person, but their character or their characters actions. A big problem is that many people make characters similar to themselves, so if you dislike their character you must dislike them as well.
A friend of mine stopped talking to me for about a month because our characters got in a fight and his got killed because he kept sticking his nose where it didnt belong. He decided this was me taking out my personal hatred of him, why he decided this I still dont know... I think it had something to do with me being friends with his x-girlfriend...
Finding a character you can play, and you can easily interact with in the larger group, and trying to avoid the In-Character/Out-of-Character confusion can be hard... but its fun too...