GamePolitics has a post on public perceptions of a Live-Action Role Playing convention which may sound familliar to Friends of Video Games:
Klein's article is the definitive work on live-action role playing (LARP), a hobby for folks who like their RPG up close and personal. Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the same criticisms leveled at video gamers - addiction, obsession, geekiness, bloodthirsty - are directed at the LARP crowd.
The just don't get it, do they. And what they don't get, they fear. "Blurring a critical line between reality and fantasy"?! Oh for goodness sake. Let them have fun!
Original article in the Detroit Metro Times.
