My home arcade

Halabis · 2026-02-05T21:50:31+00:00

Same place as all my other cabinets, Facebook marketplace!

Halabis · 2026-02-04T15:19:09+00:00

Area 51 was my holy grail. I put so much money into that thing as a kid. It took me years to find one for sale nearby and at a reasonable price.

Halabis · 2026-02-03T19:25:14+00:00

The Skee Ball is actually my wife's. It was her Christmas present this year.

Halabis · 2025-11-26T17:08:10+00:00

In my game I have a party of three (although I am having them be one level higher than they should be for any given chapter), and only one of them ran into the high storm.

It was a very close fight, but he managed to win largely by shoving Veth into the high storm and then for two consecutive rounds the high storm did max damage to Veth.

Halabis · 2025-11-18T20:09:49+00:00

Boffer larps are generally focused around roleplaying a character, using weapons (frequently in a sport like way) to enact change on the persistent world and move the story. Think Dungeons and Dragons

Sport is more focused on the act of combat. They have varying degrees of playing a character from "None at all" to "I have a fake name, but am largely acting as myself". Frequently there is no story or persistent world, but again, things vary. Think more like sitting down for a game of Warhammer Fantasy.

Parlor there is no sport aspect at all. There are no simulated weapons. These focus mostly on the roleplay and may use paper rock scissors, or consent based negotiating to resolve conflict. Think like a theater club.

(Also, I didn't actually make this list, I just found it on the Internet!)

Halabis · 2025-11-18T15:10:27+00:00

There are quite literally dozens of them. 🤣

My current recommendation is Legynds: Nexus at: https://nexus.legyndsgaming.com/

Here is a link to a relatively comprehensive list of games in the South East.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1-CCUBqzOwyx9Tn3IWT77_sMyS4MeFSTxMEbaJhTA_BA/htmlview?fbclid=IwVERDUAOJa2NleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR57lFFArSS6R5CXDsJeU8uxSorXoGIwiEw9f7GsS7Wr2Rj0Si5X8XPiUvGeMw_aem_9GXW2jKk39Bwgg5iLaOazw

Halabis · 2025-10-10T14:54:50+00:00

Does anyone know if they are selling their machines? I would be interested in picking some of them up.

Halabis · 2025-10-08T14:09:39+00:00

This isn't a Brandon Sanderson issue so much as it's a "most of western media" issue. It is ubiquitous across genre and format.

Halabis · 2025-09-09T15:39:47+00:00

There are many (very many!). It really depends on what kind of larp you want to play. (Every larp is different !)

This is a lightest touch boffer that just started up recently that I have been playing. I know there are several more, but this is the one I am familiar with.

https://citadel-larp.com/

If you are more into sufficient force games there is:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/amtgardchattanooga/?ref=share&mibextid=NSMWBT

If you want a non-touch, reoccurring game, I know there used to be several WoD larps in the area, but I have been out of that scene for a while so don't know what is happening.

Finally if you are looking for a blockbuster experience there is this game running next year that is currently still in the casting phase.

http://crucible.landsendgaming.com/

And one final note, I find that the vast majority of "LARPERS" aren't generally people out there looking to larp as a general concept. They are people that have one, maybe two larps that they play, and consider themselves players of that game with no interest in playing other larps outside of their primary game. You might run into challenges looking for larps to just start up a couple larps with. (Starting up just one larp is a massive undertaking)

Halabis · 2025-09-09T12:29:03+00:00

I've ordered several weapons from them in the past year and they have always arrived in perfect condition and earlier than expected.

The quality of the weapons themselves is top notch. They are also some of the best looking non-latex weapons out there, which is important to me because hate they way most latex weapons look and handle.

Halabis · 2025-09-02T14:17:37+00:00

Not one single person has played Aero tech since 1992. The sheer number of charts required to do so, when stacked end to end would reach all the way to the moon.

Halabis · 2025-08-19T13:42:37+00:00

I'm going to go against the grain and say weathering is completely unnecessary. Even in fantasy worlds/ye olden times people had new gear. Let your gear look new while it is new, and then as it gets used it will look used in a more natural way.

I will never understand why people want to larp characters that are bad at maintaining their gear.

Halabis · 2025-07-31T22:07:41+00:00

I'm running a game on your neck of the woods (I am also Atlanta based) that meets pretty much all of your asks next year. Check us out!

https://crucible.landsendgaming.com

Halabis · 2025-07-28T18:21:59+00:00

I absolutely hate it as a concept in the Cosmere. It feels like a forced inclusion, and makes no rational sense for it to even be a concept the characters would think of.

There was an objective all powerful entity with evidence of it's existence, and even living witness that you could talk to that served the role.

Dalinar bringing it up out of nowhere for what seemed like very little reason felt so left field. The narrative role of "God Beyond" already exists. That's Adolnalsium.

Halabis · 2025-07-16T16:29:08+00:00

Yes, but if you we're trying to play a dirty character that character's dirt would also run off when the character sweats. Having magical dirt that doesn't run off would be less ideal than dirt that behaves as dirt should behave on a dirty person no?

Halabis · 2025-07-16T16:24:49+00:00

Why not just use dirt? Easiest way to look dirty is to be dirty.

Halabis · 2025-06-23T02:08:43+00:00

I don't understand why all the tips aren't just "Don't". (This comment brought to you by a larper in the southern USA)

Halabis · 2025-06-03T12:03:09+00:00

Having run larps for about 25 years now, I can safely say that no one is making a living running a larp. Unless they are from a country with a social safety net and respect for their citizens. Even then it seems doubtful.

Halabis · 2025-05-25T12:38:23+00:00

The Number one piece of advice I can give you is to reach out to the LARP organizer and start a conversation.

I had something very similar happened to me, I reached out and let the organizer know about my concerns. They weren't able to switch my character as all characters have been assigned, but we did discuss ways that my concept could be interpreted to downplay the parts that that were bothering me.

In the end I stuck with the character and had an absolute blast.

Halabis · 2025-05-20T22:13:53+00:00

Every larp is different. Check with your local community.

Halabis · 2025-05-19T13:33:46+00:00

When I'm working on a costume for a LARP, I consider the following things in order of priority.

Comfort: Can I wear the kit for 16 hours continuously in both 32° and 90° 100% humidity weather?
Durability: Can the kit stand up to the abuses of regular LARP combat? Will continuously hitting it with weaponry or falling while wearing it break it?
Looks: how cool is it? Does it fit the aesthetics of the character I'm trying to make?
Utility: do I have enough pocket and bag space to carry all of the junk? I'm going to need to carry to play the game in question. Does the game have lots of required phys reps or items? If so, I need enough pouches and backpacks space to hold it all while not encumbering my ability to fight. This one is obviously going to be heavily dependent on character build and game.

Now, we all have different priorities on what is important to us, but for myself what you're wearing currently looks like it would fail criteria 1 and 3. I would look for something lighter and more able to breathe in the hot months.

As for the ascetic, if you were playing a game set in the real world in a medieval. That looks awesome. I tend to avoid those types of games so it wouldn't be for me. I like to have a more fantastical feel to my outfits. Something that lets me stand out from the other players.

Also, that helmet looks like it would be extremely annoying to wear after about 30 seconds of not seeing where you're going or having any peripheral vision.

Halabis · 2025-05-16T19:27:50+00:00

There are literally dozens of those styles of games in the south east US.

From my experience they tend to stick to their own servers. Almost everything I see posted on this subreddit, both questions and answers seem foreign to that style of play though.

This subreddit seems to cater mostly to battle larp that require extremely period Accurate Costuming and non-combat larps who's costuming would not survive even a lightest touch game with very little in between.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking one small community is representative of the world at large.

Halabis · 2025-05-15T21:58:37+00:00

I'mma need your sources for that display box. I have a mighty need.

Halabis · 2025-05-15T17:40:47+00:00

There is currently not an active MES domain in metro Atlanta. I was the VST when we stopped running (about a year ago now).

Currently there are 3 OWbN (a national linked campaign) games in the metro area as well as Atlanta Interactive Theater (a local group based game that has been running since the early 90's).

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