totallynotagentphilcoulson:

space-flannel:

Why is LARP so much more taboo than historical reenactment why is pretending you’re a wizard less socially acceptable than pretending you’re a confederate

This is actually pretty much just a thing here in the US; for example you can get high quality affordable LARP supplies in mainstream toy stores in Europe.

I’d guess it’s a combination of the DnD-is-Satanism scare of the 1980s with the fact that LARP in Europe is not only an evolution from tabletop RPGs but also descended from historical reenactment that has roughly 2000 years of history to mine from while American historical reenactment only has 400 with the earlier stuff being relegated almost exclusively to living history museum sites and a tradition of people in both sides (but predominantly the South during the first hundred years) reenacting victorious battles of the Civil War