I have a witch hunter character inspired by the Van Helsing film from 2004, and needed a bigger, main, shoot-y weapon. This is lever action (So you can reload doing cool tricks and such), and the runes in the grip allow the rifle to be blocked (So you cannot shoot it without the right combination, that is hidden like a little puzzle around the rifle itself).
I am making a witch hunter LARP character and I wanted a bigger weapon a la Van Helsing film from 2004. I love the lever action!
Hey all! Lately I've been working on a witch hunter / investigator character, very inspired by Warhammer and the Van Helsing movie from 2004, and that made me curious to know about how other heroic fantasy LARPs deal with having guns, either gunpowder, steampunk, magical, mechanical or whatever other way you have to justify them!
So for example, at the most used LARP ruleset close to me, gunpowder weapons do exist on lore, and cap powered ones are the ones admitted (The ones that make a loud noise and smoke). As of late, and since many other rulesets that are much better are starting to appear (That's... A subject for another day, but the biggest larp is not the best by any means, they were just first to do big events and hence why they are "dominant") and they also allow guns, they are not recommending (and in some cases even prohibiting) cap guns in favor of foam dart blasters. The reasoning behind, which I share quite a lot, being that we play in natural parks and loud noises and explosions could pose a risk of fire and scare the wildlife (also, having to hit someone with a dart instead of it being some kind of automatic hit is way much more fun to do).
Of course, it comes with the discourse of someone bringing a bright orange, semi auto blaster while dressed as a dark elf being quite disruptive for the immersion, but it also opens up to some fun shenanigans (how about a ratmen duo with a warp stone powered mini gun?).
Does anyone else have specific rules in your systems for the conditions a dart blaster should have? (Other than being not dangerous, taking care of not losing ammunition and being revised by a dm so it complies with some minimums about aesthetics and themes).
Are guns in your LARPs something special, limited by DMs? Or are they something any character can opt to? Or even do you just leave them for specific occasions such as siege weapons, certain groups, etc?
Does any other LARPs you know use cap guns and how do they deal with them on the ruleset?
Have anyone else got a character that works with guns, such as a hunter, artificer, engineer or such? I'd love to see those characters!
I'm looking forward hearing your opinions!