Wow. Just... wow. That's a picture of a group of LARP (Live Action Role Play) gamers in Russia. Polish gaming site Polygamia has a huge gallery featuring this group of players from a LARP group called "Albion" playing in a fan-created Fallout story called "Nothing Personal." The game session drew some 300 participants and is expected to continue for several months of sessions.
From what I've been able to grasp using the limited skills in Polish that Google Translate is able to provide, the game they are playing takes place about twenty years before the events of Fallout 3 and focus on the series' west-coast roots in California. Familiar locations such as New Reno and Mariposa have been recreated in an old military base.
This is what happens when you get cosplay dorks and RPG nerds together. As incredibly geeky as LARPing is, I would consider playing in a Fallout LARP. Sadly, I can't even seem to muster the time or energy to run a game of the pen and paper version so I can't imagine trying to pull something like this off. Great work, you crazy Russians!
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Then I recognised that the is robe from the Children of the Cathedral in Fallout 1. God that game was amazing.
In Poland we have two big postapo LARPs - Tornado (3-4 days of main game, last year about 150 participants), and Old Town (~3 days, last year about 250 participants). Nothing relevant to general population, but still it's growing quite fast even though one needs too invest way more time and effort than for skiing or skating...
These guys with "power armour" costumes went all out, but in fact postapo is quite an easy topic for LARPs. Tear some clothes, saw them over, add some dirt and duct tape and than maybe some "armour" from tires or sheet metal and viola. Plus it has very big advantage on fantasy LARPs... it doesn't look that gay ;). It's not trying to take players to the time when men wore skirts - but to the time when only badasses survived the fall ;). Also Airsoft allows for way better recreation of fire fights than shouthing "lighningbolt" as a recration of magic.
Show you gaming love, in whatever way appeals to you (within reason).
> group of players from a LARP group called "Albion" playing in a fan-created
> Fallout story called "Nothing Personal." The game session drew some 300
> participants and is expected to continue for several months of sessions.
No. Players are just players. "Albion" is an informal community of "Game Masters" (or, simply, organizers). And it was a single game last for 2 days, without any continuation.
> the game they are playing takes place about twenty years before the events of
> Fallout 3 and focus on the series' west-coast roots in California.
I don't know much about F3 but our game time supposed to be 15 years after F2.
> Familiar locations such as New Reno and Mariposa have been recreated in an old military base.
That's true. As well as Sierra Army Depot and couple of locations invented by ourselves.
> Great work, you crazy Russians!
Thanks :-)
Actually, that's probably the only LARP session I'd consider joining.
Judging from pictures it's airsoft and pyrotechnics for firefigts. So no need for make-belive projectiles.
(Well, at least we use ASG and pyro at Tornado.)
No, people are different - we're pretty far from Stavropol. Though we have local S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-based games as well, yes.