We would like to take the opportunity to thank Kim Blake, one of our players, for writing this excellent guide for beginners.

Bear in mind that Kim is a player so any references to rules need to be double checked in the rulebook.

Kim’s Idiot’s Guide To LRPing

I shall assume that you know nothing ;) so please forgive the occasional teaching-elderly-relatives-to-suck-eggs bit… I’m going to try and approach this in an orderly fashion (although I just know it’s going to ramble all over the place lol). So we have the following headings:

• Characters

• Costume

• What you need to know before attending an event

• The difference between main events and sanctioned events

  • Heartland Games

  • Moots 1 & 2

  • The Gathering

  • Sanctioned Events

  • Character Cards

• The Ritual of Peace

• What you need to know at an event

  • Refs

  • Lammies

  • NPCs & Faction Command

  • Combat

  • Spells

  • Language & other things we don’t do

  • Food & drink

  • Bar

  • Loos

  • Sticking your finger in the air

  • IC/OOC theft & searching

  • Time Freeze, Man Down & other OOC calls

  • Powers Cards

  • Monstering

  • OSPs

  • Costume