Like all pursuits and hobbies, LARP has different trends who focus on different elements, and the most caricatured is the ‘boffer’ subculture. And, in all fairness, the stereotypes do have a grain of truth. Stereotypes abound of people running around in the woods in flappy home-made costumes, and whacking one another with sticks wrapped in pillows. Live action roleplay (or LARP) used to have a bad name, or at least a pretty tragic reputation. A whole new subculture specifically dedicated to WoW-themed LARP is springing up – have a look at these fantastic pictures from a WoW-themed LARP battle in the Czech Republic in 2018. Players might painstakingly create their own armor, weaponry and equipment to go with their character, or they might purchase high-quality off-the-shelf equipment from a reputable LARP store. Whilst individual organizations and clubs might have a uniting theme and some basic rules, there are no limits for the self-expression that players can wield when LARPing – and WoW provides a rich mythology to situate your own character within. LARP (live-action roleplay) is a general term for a whole range of different roleplaying games, philosophies and martial arts that all revolve around the idea of portraying your character with your own body and actions. We are speaking, of course, of Warcraft and LARPing.
A growing slice of the WoW community is seeking to bring the vivid characters and lore of the WoW canon through into the real world – and they don’t even need a Ritual of Summoning to do it. But for more and more players, just logging in is not enough. Whilst scaremongers have made great hay from falling subscription numbers when viewed in the long term, there are still 26 million dedicated WoW players who log in every week to guide the fate of Azeroth. Reports of WoW’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
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