""Double Double"" Topic

LARP goes mainstream : link

What does double double mean?

One of the first LARPing games in the UK (back in the early '80's) was a sort of "real life D&D" which used foam weapons in a system which marked clothing with paint to score a hit. If you hit someone normally you did a single hit, but "gamey" people learnt to do a swift wrist jerk which left two paint marks. To draw the DM's attention to this they would shout "double double" as they did it.

I thought it referred to the number of chins on some of those LARPers.

Double was the call when you had a magic weapon or two handed sword that did twice as much damage. It is an informative call in theory but fights did degenerate into massed shouting of damage.

There was of course also triple and quad for really nasty super magic weapons ;)

It is not about telling the referee, it was to tell the monsters what you are doing. The monsters in the early years had paint on their weapons which left marks on the players so that the referee could tally damage at the end of a fight. If you could do a sleazy rapid blow and leave two marks as a monster then the player would count as hit twice.

I was thinking of In-N-Out Burgers myself…

"For most people, this is their holiday."

Yer kidding, right? If I am taking a vacation (or am, "on holiday," as they say across the pond), I'm going to Lake Shasta, or Hawaii, or visiting a series of historical sites or whatever.

LARPing is the best option these people think of for vacations?

I would think LARP would be a weekend or long weekend thing, something they'd do where the rest of us would play other games.

LARP as vacation? I could NEVER swing that with even MY supporting wife were I inclined. A waste of rare time off!!

I never really feel able to criticise people for doing "stupid stuff". Having a room full of plastic and metal men, aeroplanes, ships, etc and a stack of "games" that revolve around pushing bits of card over a paper "map" I really don't feel I have a strong position to mock from !

Glass houses and all that never stopped me from throwing stones!

A double double in Canada is your coffee – two cream and two sugar.

I had friends try to get me into LARP, and I just could not do it. I just could not play act. But SCA I was all over that. I was Lord Noel Heavy weapon fighter for Hau Von Halstern. In the SCA you use solid rattan weapons, and you hit hard.

But to each his own, I am for it if it make people happy.

Weirdos!

I can never understand the levels of scorn LARP get from folks?
I always found it a buzz, especially the big battles at "the Gathering", but it used to beat the hell out of sitting in a basement for hours rolling dice with a load of sweaty RPGers!
At LARP fests there's a lot of good socialising, beerdrinking, carousing and general mischief that makes for a fine old time.
If that makes me weird, then so be it!!

I would hope the weirdos comment was tongue-in-cheek.

As I hinted before – anyone who spends half their life painting Napoleonic armies in multiple scales hardly has room to sneer at someone who dresses up as an elf warrior and goues out to drink beer.

Thank you 20th Maine!