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Hi, My name is Dave Witman I am 16 years old and have been playing RPGS for 9 years of my life. I have played lots of console RPG's and I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons religously for about 4 years. Most recently I have started playing World of Warcraft but I am not addicted to that game at all. Aside from playing RPG's I'm pretty active I play Football, Semi-pro Paintball, and Swim. I am also a volunteer FireFighter. I have always been interested in Medieval combat, in my pursuit to find a safe way to sword fight with my friends I found Boffer swords and eventually LARPing then I stumbled across KR and was happy to find that its near by me. I have read the rules and regs. for the past couple of days now and finally made my account. I am not sure if I whil attended the August event due to the fact that the following monday 2 a days for football start ( for those of you who are not to savy with Football jargon it meands two practices in 1 day). However if I do go im not sure if I should NPC or PC, I have LARPed before but only with a couple of friends so some advice would be nice from you guys. And thank you all who responded I look foward to meeting you all as soon as I can.

Hey Dave!

Welcome to the forums!

Hi Dave,

I'll suggest NPCing your first event.  For one thing, it's free - if you don't like it, it didn't cost you anything.  Additionally, it's a good way to A) Get to know the game before you make a PC, Get to know the people who play, and C) You earn some additional Build and SP you can use to help your PC along when you do decide to make it.  Several people have done nothing but NPC for months, or even years, before making a PC!

Also, as a heads up - one of the rules of Knight Realms is that your PC cannot be named after an already established character from another series.  While your forum name is OK, you can NOT name your PC "Cervantes"  because he's an established villian in the Soul Edge / Blade / Calibur series of video games - we've already had to ask someone else to change their name for the very same reason!

It's easy to change your forum name down the line once you make a PC, so that should not be an issue.  (You can go into "My Profile" and simply change it there to whatever you want.)

Welcome Dave!

To PC or NPC your first event, is usually a very tough question in my opinion. I have known people who loved NPCing more than PCing and I have also known people who had a less than good experience, and because it was their first event, waited years to come back to try again and PC, only to realize they loved PCing.

The key thing to remember is simply that they can be two COMPLETELY different experiences. You might like them both, but you may hate one and love the other. There really is no good answer, because everyone's likes and dislikes are different, so really just think about what each entails, and decide which one you want to try first.

I understand the rule about names but thanks for pointing out anyway and I dont plan on using that for my character name. Thanks for the suggestions about whether or not to PC or NPC I think I'm going to PC as I see my self having more fun PCing however I'm sure I would have fun doing either but I think Ill PC. Once again thanks for the suggestions

Great, no problems on the Name thing.  I figured I'd rather warn you ahead of time, than need to change it after the fact.