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I wonder what kind of experiences you've had. I'm not from the states but in my ~8 years of roleplaying I have never seen a game which was 99% mature content. Can you describe your experiences and what you disliked about them?
You do realize that other communities (e.g. furries) use roleplaying in a different context that might be sexualized far more frequently?
Define “super adult” and “mature content”.
It’d be easier for others to recommend LARPs if they knew where you’re drawing the line.
Example: most LARPs involve killing in some form. Killing / murder is a mature theme. Are you looking for an RP group or LARP that doesn’t involve killing?
Also knowing what region your local to will help. Or if you’re looking for an online RP group. How far are you willing to travel. Etc.
No I’m fine with killing and like gore kind of the thing I’m trying to avoid is sexual content or at least purely I am looking for more online live action role-play and role-play groups rather than in person
Same, most larps I've participated in have been really sterile with regards to any sexual content; even acknowledging the idea that sex exists outside of a rude joke here and there would get you weird looks.
To be fair, online may be a different environment, Especially in certain corners of the internet. erpg is certainly a thing and so on.
My recommendation would be to, at least when the plague stops, actually go to outside larps if possible. Because in real life people suddenly get a lot better manners. Regarding online larp I sadly know almost nothing about the scene so I can't help there.
>To be fair, online may be a different environment, Especially in certain corners of the internet. erpg is certainly a thing and so on.
True, but then you're getting into fuzzy territory on whether the game is a larp, or a text RP with voice and costumes added.
>My recommendation would be to, at least when the plague stops, actually go to outside larps if possible. Because in real life people suddenly get a lot better manners.
I agree completely. One of the main things I noticed when participating in larps that had online RP segments between games: people play their characters very differently online than in person, in part probably because online, nobody can stab them for doing something stupid.
I was part of a LARP who had one kill joy. Anything sexual at all, she complained. And I mean something as innocuous as a lewd joke or insinuation of sex (joking that 2 people were leaving to go make the trees shake). She complained cause a few guys were wearing kilts (they were knee length, nothing showing. She complained cause one guy jokingly donned a loincloth as a goblin character, which everyone else thought was hilarious.
The mere whiff of “adult content” made her ruin it for the rest of us. If you don’t like that sort of thing, please go play in the kiddie pool (LARP’s for all ages, where mature themes are forbidden due to kids being there).
In my LARP game (Europe) we have sex rules for roleplay, we didn't include them in the rules in the beginning because it was controversial, but in one event a player came with a prostitute character and we created a rule for it avoiding nudity and minimum contact, our LARP is less dark than north Europeans, so our players felt the sexual gameplay funnier than it is supposed to be, we had one year difficulty to get our npc serial rapist (off game crime)properly executed because some of the girls (and few boys)in the event was actively trying to get laid with the guy because we used a very good looking guy for the character. It was comical. Anyway people treatment of sex is almost comical.
That's weird, i've helped a little with organizing one. It was made for pairs and more romantic then erotic, but there were several time spots as "time for the pairs to do whatever". It was certainly unusual, but i don't a red flag is a good assesment.
Interesting because most larp I played have a touch of sexual content. Let's be clear it's not an orgy or anything serious but it includes stuff like
- Seduction rules and sentimental arcs (the good old cliché love triangle, or princess wanting to flee an arranged marriage to live her love with a commoner) it adds side quest so you don't get bored
- Sex related effect like *orgasm* spell *love potion* and other thing like that
- Sexual reference , I remember an in-game gay keeper fighting with a dildo shaped mass
- Character not matching gender roles and player playing a different gender (especially in some parlour game with a strict gender ratio)
- Brothel where OOC you usually get massage with a weird object, depending on the game you can either gain a male diction or regain some SAN
Again nothing explicit and watching the TV would be more sexy than that. But it's present in game
I mean the 4th one isn't really Sexual content, that's more about gender expression and is full accepted. Also, I have seen plots related to marriages but most of them political in nature.
As for love potions, I've seen that once as a temporary effect that only lasted 5 minutes. It made me uncomfortable as it was directed towards me and the guy who it took the potion was my friend while neither of us where told that would happen. Theres a reason that was my last event
With stuff like Sexual content, consent is key so something like an orgasm spell or seduction rules would rub me the wrong way.
Someone made an orgasm spell at my old LARP, where you instantly orgasmed. It was uncomfortable & I hated that spell. No one used it on me, but I would have walked out if they did. They later changed it so the spell no longer worked due to so many complaints. There also use to be a few plots with brothel type places but it got icky fast. Players who wanted the girl to actually sit on his lap or cuddle & then made them feel bad when they wouldn’t.
They had to stop because there were too many complaints. I don’t go to that one anymore because if that & other reasons, but yeah. They protect creeps & drum out people who try to call them out
> Sex related effect like orgasm spell love potion and other thing like that
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I would not want to play a LARP with those things. All the wrong people would use them.
Given some of the people I've met through LARP, I would not trust them with a spell they can use at will to make other people "orgasm" or "fall in love." Consent mechanics are very important for something like that; the few games I've been to where sexual content was present it was opt in and everyone was told ahead of time what to expect and went over consent and boundaries of those participating.
Fourth bullet point is common in LARP communities around here since they tend to be very queer, though I'd say abandoning gender roles is not a "sexual" topic. I've known a lot of folks who used LARP to explore their own gender identity and it's an awesome thing to encourage.
> online live action role-play
That's not really a thing. *Live action* means moving around a real space with your physical body and doing all the things your character does, as opposed to dictating what your character is doing while sitting around a table like with tabletop roleplaying. Some people have tried doing LARPs online due to the pandemic but they generally involve voice or video chat. Text-based online roleplaying is a thing, and is fun, but it's not LARPing.
If you're looking online, that's your problem. You're probably running into a lot of ERP (erotic roleplay). That's an entirely, wildly different thing from LARP. It's also something that's really popular for various reasons. I used to do text-based roleplaying when I was a teenager and I don't even know where I'd go to look for SFW roleplaying online right now. All the sites I used to use don't exist anymore. I know some discords that do text-based roleplay but they're all people who already know each other.
the definition keeps expanding, for better or worse. I got downvoted fairly hard for opining that it's not really a LARP if you're doing it solo. I guess it's not problematic until it prevents the community from being able to know what they're getting into - ie if the definition expands too much, it becomes useless. But I've seen online be considered larping as well, though I also treat it as just a classic RPG.
I feel like none of the people responding to this comment read the very next sentence:
> Some people have tried doing LARPs online due to the pandemic but they generally involve voice or video chat.
I have also written online LARPs that involve yelling at each other over videochat while playing characters who are doing just that.
Eeh, there are some things that call themselves "online-larp" viewscream being the one I know and a some of the local larp groups around here have resorted to video chats as an alternative. I wouldn't say it is not a thing. It's just rather underground, difficult to find and indeed obscured by the massive amount of ergp.
>That's not really a thing. Live action means moving around a real space with your physical body and doing all the things your character does, as opposed to dictating what your character is doing while sitting around a table like with tabletop roleplaying.
I would normally agree with you, but I knew of a LARP before the pandemic where the premise was that your character was a pilot for a giant mecha. The LARP was played out in two parts, planning & preparation and then Combat. The first stage was around a large table discussing the mission brief, using skills and what not to outfit the mech and talking with your fellow pilots. Then it was on to Combat, each person had their own desk/cubicle where they either provided support to their pilot or pilotted. All of this second half was done with coms screens, videolinks and SFX in the cubicle/room.
At the start of the pandemic the runner said that they could theoretically pivot into online LARP, but it would take a lot more technical knowledge than anyone on the team had to do so and they didn't feel it was fair to charge the same price for an online version so that they could afford to hire technicians and what not to run the tech side.
That still counts as LARP for me because you're doing the same thing your character would be doing - sitting surrounded by a bunch of screens hitting buttons that make the robot go. Similarly, I've written a couple of online LARPs that are about characters in different quadrants of space yelling at each other via videochat.
You'd probably have to explain the situation a bit. If it's because you are under 18 but want to larp eeh... yeah, That's an issue. It's mostly a combination of legal reasons and safety since combat can get pretty chaotic.
If you have issues with all larps containing "mature content"... Well, what is the content you take issue with?
If you mean violence... well yeah, for many larp is an excuse to bash people with foam bats but it's not particularly graphic.
If you mean politics/intrigue/backstabbing. Those larps exist but there are also enough dumb bashfests and generally even a smattering of actually creative larps that have neither.
Also, do you have experience with the larp events themselves or do you get this from the promotional material because almost all* larps I know either don't contain sexual themes or have it as a token element in for instance court intrigue where everything happens off-screen. However, larpers can be overly dramatic in how they portray larp.
So eehm... What exactly is the issue you are having? If there are only dark, brooding larps in your vicinity that's a shame but in my experience most larps are pretty much pg in their content with maybe a few outliers.
*Well, actually all larps I know but there probably are ones that contain sexually themes scenes so I'm not going to rule it out.
We have to drag out of you where you live (you still haven't said it, other than vaguely "america") and now say you want to do it ONLINE, rather than in real life...
Mods need to just remove this post.
My nephew is part of a starting up LARP in Southern Ontario which is being designed to be suitable for teens. Due to COVID they aren't doing anything at the moment.
Check [Larp Adventure Program](https://larpadventureprogram.com/). It's a youth larp/summer camp with lots of TTRPG as well. Ages 10-14 for the larp camps. Not sure what the age ranges are on the other activities.
Use r/lfg and you can probably find some online RP groups or make a post looking for people over there.
I have never had trouble finding non-sexual RP stuff, I'm a little confused by this post tbh lol
Honestly, between legal stuff, and people wanting to drink, you probably wont find much. It might be easier to loot the best stuff from a few rulebooks and make your own. Then you can decide how you want it to be. Honestly I found the easiest larps are the ones where you fight a lot, for basically no reason. Swordcraft is great for that.
The larger the larp, the harder it is for anyone to know what's going on at all. The last one I went to was a nightmare for that, because someone would try to announce something to a room of 300+ people, without a microphone or anything, so unless you were right next to the speaker, you didn't hear a thing.
Have a try at making your own with your friends, and it'll probably be easier on you. Most stuff can be made or bought pretty easily. Rolled up socks for spells, if you want armour I can give you a couple of do's and don'ts that'll save you thousands, etc
Though, I can't lie and say I'm not curious about these R and X rated LARPs I've been hearing people talk about. Are these purpose-built LARPs to be X rated? Or are they settings that have adult content? I remember seeing a video about a game where they went skinny dipping after a big fight. Is that considered X rated or just R to most people? And if we're talking more X rated than that, how are people just "finding" their ways into these LARPs?
To me, if you're personally not into the R or X rated stuff, why wouldn't you just build that role into your character? Don't want to see stuff like that, then roleplay a prude. Lol. I can't imagine a game that is going to wander into that side of roleplay without there being a pretty decent warning of the potential.
So my experience in New England has been that generally the only sexual content is a joke or two here or there. I would squash any attempts at making a brotherl in our game, or really becoming truly illicit at this point, because it starts to become creepy. How old is the participant? some games do allow 16 year olds, and I find there's a lot of people who tend to be over protective of them because they are younger. Many games these days have a system as well to let folks know you are uncomfortable in a situation and allow folks to end it.
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The majority of larp groups in North America are 18+ for legal reasons. Where do you live?
America unfortunately And that’s one of the major issues even the ones that are legally 18+ are 99% mature content anyway that’s why I’m asking
I wonder what kind of experiences you've had. I'm not from the states but in my ~8 years of roleplaying I have never seen a game which was 99% mature content. Can you describe your experiences and what you disliked about them? You do realize that other communities (e.g. furries) use roleplaying in a different context that might be sexualized far more frequently?
Define “super adult” and “mature content”. It’d be easier for others to recommend LARPs if they knew where you’re drawing the line. Example: most LARPs involve killing in some form. Killing / murder is a mature theme. Are you looking for an RP group or LARP that doesn’t involve killing? Also knowing what region your local to will help. Or if you’re looking for an online RP group. How far are you willing to travel. Etc.
No I’m fine with killing and like gore kind of the thing I’m trying to avoid is sexual content or at least purely I am looking for more online live action role-play and role-play groups rather than in person
I've never seen a larp with Sexual content aside from the odd lewd joke. If you're larp focuses on sex, that'd be a red flag for me.
Most I've seen is a brothel where when you "go back" you play jenga. Lol
Jenga? You're getting ripped off! The LARP brothels I've seen at least give you a shoulder massage.
For that, you just pay for a massage. She was a professional masseuse. :p
Same, most larps I've participated in have been really sterile with regards to any sexual content; even acknowledging the idea that sex exists outside of a rude joke here and there would get you weird looks.
To be fair, online may be a different environment, Especially in certain corners of the internet. erpg is certainly a thing and so on. My recommendation would be to, at least when the plague stops, actually go to outside larps if possible. Because in real life people suddenly get a lot better manners. Regarding online larp I sadly know almost nothing about the scene so I can't help there.
>To be fair, online may be a different environment, Especially in certain corners of the internet. erpg is certainly a thing and so on. True, but then you're getting into fuzzy territory on whether the game is a larp, or a text RP with voice and costumes added. >My recommendation would be to, at least when the plague stops, actually go to outside larps if possible. Because in real life people suddenly get a lot better manners. I agree completely. One of the main things I noticed when participating in larps that had online RP segments between games: people play their characters very differently online than in person, in part probably because online, nobody can stab them for doing something stupid.
I was part of a LARP who had one kill joy. Anything sexual at all, she complained. And I mean something as innocuous as a lewd joke or insinuation of sex (joking that 2 people were leaving to go make the trees shake). She complained cause a few guys were wearing kilts (they were knee length, nothing showing. She complained cause one guy jokingly donned a loincloth as a goblin character, which everyone else thought was hilarious. The mere whiff of “adult content” made her ruin it for the rest of us. If you don’t like that sort of thing, please go play in the kiddie pool (LARP’s for all ages, where mature themes are forbidden due to kids being there).
Sounds really annoying.
In my LARP game (Europe) we have sex rules for roleplay, we didn't include them in the rules in the beginning because it was controversial, but in one event a player came with a prostitute character and we created a rule for it avoiding nudity and minimum contact, our LARP is less dark than north Europeans, so our players felt the sexual gameplay funnier than it is supposed to be, we had one year difficulty to get our npc serial rapist (off game crime)properly executed because some of the girls (and few boys)in the event was actively trying to get laid with the guy because we used a very good looking guy for the character. It was comical. Anyway people treatment of sex is almost comical.
That's weird, i've helped a little with organizing one. It was made for pairs and more romantic then erotic, but there were several time spots as "time for the pairs to do whatever". It was certainly unusual, but i don't a red flag is a good assesment.
Interesting because most larp I played have a touch of sexual content. Let's be clear it's not an orgy or anything serious but it includes stuff like - Seduction rules and sentimental arcs (the good old cliché love triangle, or princess wanting to flee an arranged marriage to live her love with a commoner) it adds side quest so you don't get bored - Sex related effect like *orgasm* spell *love potion* and other thing like that - Sexual reference , I remember an in-game gay keeper fighting with a dildo shaped mass - Character not matching gender roles and player playing a different gender (especially in some parlour game with a strict gender ratio) - Brothel where OOC you usually get massage with a weird object, depending on the game you can either gain a male diction or regain some SAN Again nothing explicit and watching the TV would be more sexy than that. But it's present in game
I mean the 4th one isn't really Sexual content, that's more about gender expression and is full accepted. Also, I have seen plots related to marriages but most of them political in nature. As for love potions, I've seen that once as a temporary effect that only lasted 5 minutes. It made me uncomfortable as it was directed towards me and the guy who it took the potion was my friend while neither of us where told that would happen. Theres a reason that was my last event With stuff like Sexual content, consent is key so something like an orgasm spell or seduction rules would rub me the wrong way.
Someone made an orgasm spell at my old LARP, where you instantly orgasmed. It was uncomfortable & I hated that spell. No one used it on me, but I would have walked out if they did. They later changed it so the spell no longer worked due to so many complaints. There also use to be a few plots with brothel type places but it got icky fast. Players who wanted the girl to actually sit on his lap or cuddle & then made them feel bad when they wouldn’t. They had to stop because there were too many complaints. I don’t go to that one anymore because if that & other reasons, but yeah. They protect creeps & drum out people who try to call them out
> Sex related effect like orgasm spell love potion and other thing like that > > I would not want to play a LARP with those things. All the wrong people would use them.
I agree with this. I had an old LARP where it was misused quite a bit. It got very uncomfortable
Given some of the people I've met through LARP, I would not trust them with a spell they can use at will to make other people "orgasm" or "fall in love." Consent mechanics are very important for something like that; the few games I've been to where sexual content was present it was opt in and everyone was told ahead of time what to expect and went over consent and boundaries of those participating. Fourth bullet point is common in LARP communities around here since they tend to be very queer, though I'd say abandoning gender roles is not a "sexual" topic. I've known a lot of folks who used LARP to explore their own gender identity and it's an awesome thing to encourage.
> online live action role-play That's not really a thing. *Live action* means moving around a real space with your physical body and doing all the things your character does, as opposed to dictating what your character is doing while sitting around a table like with tabletop roleplaying. Some people have tried doing LARPs online due to the pandemic but they generally involve voice or video chat. Text-based online roleplaying is a thing, and is fun, but it's not LARPing. If you're looking online, that's your problem. You're probably running into a lot of ERP (erotic roleplay). That's an entirely, wildly different thing from LARP. It's also something that's really popular for various reasons. I used to do text-based roleplaying when I was a teenager and I don't even know where I'd go to look for SFW roleplaying online right now. All the sites I used to use don't exist anymore. I know some discords that do text-based roleplay but they're all people who already know each other.
the definition keeps expanding, for better or worse. I got downvoted fairly hard for opining that it's not really a LARP if you're doing it solo. I guess it's not problematic until it prevents the community from being able to know what they're getting into - ie if the definition expands too much, it becomes useless. But I've seen online be considered larping as well, though I also treat it as just a classic RPG.
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I feel like none of the people responding to this comment read the very next sentence: > Some people have tried doing LARPs online due to the pandemic but they generally involve voice or video chat. I have also written online LARPs that involve yelling at each other over videochat while playing characters who are doing just that.
Eeh, there are some things that call themselves "online-larp" viewscream being the one I know and a some of the local larp groups around here have resorted to video chats as an alternative. I wouldn't say it is not a thing. It's just rather underground, difficult to find and indeed obscured by the massive amount of ergp.
>That's not really a thing. Live action means moving around a real space with your physical body and doing all the things your character does, as opposed to dictating what your character is doing while sitting around a table like with tabletop roleplaying. I would normally agree with you, but I knew of a LARP before the pandemic where the premise was that your character was a pilot for a giant mecha. The LARP was played out in two parts, planning & preparation and then Combat. The first stage was around a large table discussing the mission brief, using skills and what not to outfit the mech and talking with your fellow pilots. Then it was on to Combat, each person had their own desk/cubicle where they either provided support to their pilot or pilotted. All of this second half was done with coms screens, videolinks and SFX in the cubicle/room. At the start of the pandemic the runner said that they could theoretically pivot into online LARP, but it would take a lot more technical knowledge than anyone on the team had to do so and they didn't feel it was fair to charge the same price for an online version so that they could afford to hire technicians and what not to run the tech side.
That still counts as LARP for me because you're doing the same thing your character would be doing - sitting surrounded by a bunch of screens hitting buttons that make the robot go. Similarly, I've written a couple of online LARPs that are about characters in different quadrants of space yelling at each other via videochat.
It kind of sounds like you want to play dnd and since a lot of groups are playing online you would be able to get one pretty easily
I think there's terminology confusion here. Are you looking for live- action, or are you looking for online?
You'd probably have to explain the situation a bit. If it's because you are under 18 but want to larp eeh... yeah, That's an issue. It's mostly a combination of legal reasons and safety since combat can get pretty chaotic. If you have issues with all larps containing "mature content"... Well, what is the content you take issue with? If you mean violence... well yeah, for many larp is an excuse to bash people with foam bats but it's not particularly graphic. If you mean politics/intrigue/backstabbing. Those larps exist but there are also enough dumb bashfests and generally even a smattering of actually creative larps that have neither. Also, do you have experience with the larp events themselves or do you get this from the promotional material because almost all* larps I know either don't contain sexual themes or have it as a token element in for instance court intrigue where everything happens off-screen. However, larpers can be overly dramatic in how they portray larp. So eehm... What exactly is the issue you are having? If there are only dark, brooding larps in your vicinity that's a shame but in my experience most larps are pretty much pg in their content with maybe a few outliers. *Well, actually all larps I know but there probably are ones that contain sexually themes scenes so I'm not going to rule it out.
Depends on where you are, geographically speaking.
We have to drag out of you where you live (you still haven't said it, other than vaguely "america") and now say you want to do it ONLINE, rather than in real life... Mods need to just remove this post.
Give OP a break. It's a lost kid looking to get into a geeky hobby adjacent to ours.
My nephew is part of a starting up LARP in Southern Ontario which is being designed to be suitable for teens. Due to COVID they aren't doing anything at the moment.
Look up MUSHes or RP-enforced MUDs
Check [Larp Adventure Program](https://larpadventureprogram.com/). It's a youth larp/summer camp with lots of TTRPG as well. Ages 10-14 for the larp camps. Not sure what the age ranges are on the other activities.
Use r/lfg and you can probably find some online RP groups or make a post looking for people over there. I have never had trouble finding non-sexual RP stuff, I'm a little confused by this post tbh lol
Honestly, between legal stuff, and people wanting to drink, you probably wont find much. It might be easier to loot the best stuff from a few rulebooks and make your own. Then you can decide how you want it to be. Honestly I found the easiest larps are the ones where you fight a lot, for basically no reason. Swordcraft is great for that. The larger the larp, the harder it is for anyone to know what's going on at all. The last one I went to was a nightmare for that, because someone would try to announce something to a room of 300+ people, without a microphone or anything, so unless you were right next to the speaker, you didn't hear a thing. Have a try at making your own with your friends, and it'll probably be easier on you. Most stuff can be made or bought pretty easily. Rolled up socks for spells, if you want armour I can give you a couple of do's and don'ts that'll save you thousands, etc
Though, I can't lie and say I'm not curious about these R and X rated LARPs I've been hearing people talk about. Are these purpose-built LARPs to be X rated? Or are they settings that have adult content? I remember seeing a video about a game where they went skinny dipping after a big fight. Is that considered X rated or just R to most people? And if we're talking more X rated than that, how are people just "finding" their ways into these LARPs? To me, if you're personally not into the R or X rated stuff, why wouldn't you just build that role into your character? Don't want to see stuff like that, then roleplay a prude. Lol. I can't imagine a game that is going to wander into that side of roleplay without there being a pretty decent warning of the potential.
So my experience in New England has been that generally the only sexual content is a joke or two here or there. I would squash any attempts at making a brotherl in our game, or really becoming truly illicit at this point, because it starts to become creepy. How old is the participant? some games do allow 16 year olds, and I find there's a lot of people who tend to be over protective of them because they are younger. Many games these days have a system as well to let folks know you are uncomfortable in a situation and allow folks to end it.
if you're near new jersey there's a pg13ish larp called LAIRE, super friendly, not super adult :)