Vet Larper looking to get back into it, considering KR. Got some questions

Welcome Mitch!
Your armor/leather work is awesome. Can't wait to see it in July.
I'll see what I can do to get you someone to speak to before the event.

If your selling any of your items, I'm pretty sure you won't have a hard time finding customers at KR!

Just wanted to add a few things as a veteran player of KR.

The age level of the game has a large variation.  As stated earlier, we have had a recent influx of new faces, most of whom are younger folks.  There are also the people who started back in '98 and are now in their mid to late twenties (or older), and then you have people in their 40's and up.

We are a very family friendly game, in fact, there is one entire family who comes to nearly every event!  Other players bring their children, such as Chris Kane or Chris Ayala.  While they must be "Non-Combat" (details can be found in the combat section of the online rulebook) if they are under a certain age, those players still have a blast.

And also, as far as character death goes, permanent death can happen.  Trust me on this one.  However, you pretty much have to try to get yourself killed.  Granted, bad luck happens, and you may find yourself in a bad situation, such as fighting an all powerful Arch-Devil while completely alone (or getting attacked by brigands on the path).  However, final death is actually a pretty rare thing at Knight Realms.  The vast majority of characters that are no longer played were "retired" instead of actually dying for the final time.

Thanks again for the warm welcome and kind remarks. Charlie/Geezer gave me a pretty good layout of how I won't be the only grey hair at an event

I would love to bring my son to larp one day, but he's still a bit young. I'm sure one day he's going to dust off dad's armor and want his own set (or acquire mine). My wife has no interest at all. Her limit was playing WoW and other online games, but she won't even go camping or on a day hike. Not an outdoors gal.

I'm hoping to come for at least a day in July. Its a bit complicated since its not only a major holiday, but also my 5th anniversary lol. I'll see what I can do. I'd like to show up for the merchant's faire and npc awhile. I don't know about pc'ing, only because I will at least want to put in one npc shift while there and if I can't be there the whole event, that's a priority (and a good way to learn the rules and lay of the land quicker).

I'm pretty excited to get back into it, so forgive the child-like exuberance in a grown-up's body. I've never fully grown-up anyway.

I'm considering checking out Dexcon and I see you will have a booth, so I sent the guy who started that thread a pm. Not sure if helping generates SP but either way, it'll be a good way to meet people. AND...its right next door to me. Morristown is like 15 min away. I'm awaiting details on that but I think I can come out on Friday for that.

I would indeed love to talk to anyone who can give me some suggestions and advice (beyond a thread like this) and clar up some questions I still have (so I don't write another novella on the boards lol). I've exchanged pm's with Geoff, but I think I bombarded him a bit too much too fast I forgot what that's like. I've run events and long term plots at games in the past, but its been awhile and I forget how some people get overwhelemed with a ton of correspondance from all directions. Geoff has been real good about answering my questions though!

Looking forward to KR! Thanks again

Mitch

Take her out someplace really nice BEFORE the Larp.  Seamstress and I hardly ever celebrate important dates on the "button" due to logistics.

HAHA, yep, I did just that. Taking her out to a very nice place on Friday (our anniversary actually) and already have the greenlight for going to the event on Saturday. I need to be back Sat eve though, for part 2, but its a fair trade-off lol. I'll npc all day and get more familiar with the rules and atmosphere. Thanks for the suggestion. I'd already had that planned, been down this road before, but not with larping lol.

Hi Mitch!

I am a very new player but I can answer number 11

If you don't have a group you go with (you drive there by yourself) there are a lot of more ways to make pals and travel together.

EX: I carpool with all my friends but some of us don't get along because of my race/profession ect. But i am a barbarian and I am joining a barbarian tribe the asguards.

So just look around when you figure out exactly what you are and find your asguards

cody