Curious Pastimes - Rules: Dangerous Play

We have drawn up these guidelones outlining what Curious Pastimes considers to be dangerous play. thankfully it is a rare occurance and often is the resut of genuine ignorance rather than malice. We ask that you all be aware of how you condusct yourselves at an event, for eberybody's safety and enjoyment. If a Referee or Security judges a player to be acting in a manner liekly to cause danger to themselves or others, they are within their rights to ask the player to 'sit out' of play for some time until they have understood what they have done to merit such action.

Charging or leaping at shield walls, with the intention to collide with your fll body-weight, is considered dangerous to both the charger and the recipients and should never be attempted. If, as part of combat, you charge a shield wall, you must pull short of collision, utilising a similiar cocept as pulling a vlow witha weapon. Parrying vlows with any non-padded weapons, such as a bow, is higly dangerous and will result in the offending item being confiscated immediatley. Further action may be taken at the Referee's/Secuirty's discretion. Any form of physical combat, such as kicking, punching or marial arts, is expressly forbidden. Even with padded LRP weapons, you should never make a thrusting blow, especially with Polearms and other long weapons. The rigid core of the weapon will still provide enough force to injure your opponenet. Do not pesistently hit peple on the head. This may be difficult when on either side of a large shield wall, but you must still be very careful of actualy injuring another player. Engaging in combat when drunk is esceedingly dangerous and will not be tolerated. If you are deemed to be drunk by either a Referee or Security, you will be asked not to get involved in combat until sober. Further action may be taken against you by Curious Pastimes

Above all remember to pull your blows. This is achieved by stopping your weapon swing before you contact your opponenet. The resulting tap from your weapon is suffcient to register a hit without physcially hurting some one. If you are new to LRP or are unsure of this then please find a Referee for some basic weapon training.

And so it began......

Dawn breaks, war looms, the evil Lord is gathering his armies to wage a campaign of destruction upon the free peoples of the world. It is up to I, Sir Maximilan Pegasus to stop him, with my trusted band of adventurers we must gather the enchanted sword of Tek, the Shield of Way-Lem and the amulet of Subsidence and together we shall slay this abomination! “TIME FREEZE” And bam, the fantasy world fades away, the enchanted sword of Tek in my hand is a rubber sword smothered in coloured ribbons with a laminated card cable tied to the hilt, I look down and I’m wearing plastic armour and unflattering heropants, and the magical world of my imagination washes away to reveal a field in Wigan, but you know what? It’s larp and I’m a larper, it’s what I do.
I started larping when I was 17, I’d never role-played before, I’d never played D&D or Warhammer, never played WoW or any form of online game, I’d never even read Lord of the Rings, I feel somewhat privileged that I hadn’t done any of those things, I think it gave me an untainted attitude towards what larp could be, I had no preconceptions about saving the maiden fair, slaying the dragon or smiting the liche, to me it was just a new thing to try.
It was cold, really cold, 10am on a September morning, the rain was battering down and I’d been given a faux fur tunic, a mouldy old sword and been pointed towards a man and told, “You’re monstering, there’s the ref he’ll tell you what to do.” I obeyed, I played wave after wave of zombies, orcs and various line monsters and to be honest, was cold, bored and hungry. That is, until lunchtime, the teams switched sides, I got into the kit I’d scrounged up, as with most first timers, a black trenchcoat. I took the mouldy old sword, stood with my fellow adventurers and it hit me, I’m a god damn hero!
Pow, there it was, a new larper was born.