Step 1: Gather your materials. You’re gonna need foam (I hear ½-inch thick LD45 works best, but I’ve elected to “tactically acquire” my wife’s yoga mat instead), a sword core (a solid ...

On a recent Sunday in Volunteer Park, a medieval melee broke out. The sound of rustling chainmail commingled with deafening thwacks of foam swords against flesh. An armored knight dropped to his ...

Members of several Amtgard of Alaska parks battle with foam weapons in Fairbanks at a statewide LARP event on May 28, 2016. (Scott Jensen / Alaska Dispatch News) ...

LARP-friendly ‘Star Wars’ lightsaber could make dueling safer and more ... Foam swords are traditional, but for obvious reasons it’s kind of difficult to make a foam lightsaber look ...

Being active in LARP, ... 39, demonstrates to new players how to handle a foam sword during an Amtgard meeting at Sylvan Springs park in south St. Louis County on Sunday, ...

“LARP” stands for “live action role play,” and Aftermath players gather for one ... ‘You mean the thing where people dress up and go out in the woods and swing foam swords at each ...

But as time went on my curiosity became too much to bear, and in May 2022 I attended my first ever LARP. I’ve now attended three events, and I can safely say they have been some of the best ...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 — Malaysia’s largest live-action role-playing (LARP) community, MyLARP, has once again brought the magic of immersive role-playing to Malaysians with the ‘Maelstrom ...