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The difference between diceless and LARP

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Wolfhowls:
Ok I have gaming for about 16 years now and I still have no clue what the difference between diceless and LARP. Could someone please explain this to me?

Blaze:
Happily: 

Diceless can be done via the net, over the phone, just chatting with one another, where a story teller type person makes decisions to say when things work or don't, in such a way to create a fun and imaginative role playing adventure.  A LARP is literally Live Action.  This means costumes, and equipment and people playing good and bad guys interacting on an individual basis.  So, if you are a real klutz, or get tongue tied, you can't make a blanket statement to save yourself.

Diceless:  I make a really cool jump over the heads of my opponents and attack from behind.

LARP:  Uhm, *wishes he could actually do a really cool jump* hi guys...  Nothing going on here.  *whistles*

Likewise--

Diceless:  The baddies see you an attack, even though you snuck as quietly as you could.

LARP:  The bad guys totally don't notice you as you steal all their supplies.  Even though any idiot could see you doing it.

See?  More reality.

Diceless:  Player:  I speak that obscure language.    ST: Okay, you can speak Fulani-Hauser.

LARP:  Player:  WTF is he saying?  Player2:  Sounds like Oooga booga booga splurm to me.

KeyMasterOfGozer:
Yeah,

LARP mean live Action, so that means the players are physically acting out the what is happening.

Diceless just means you play the story out through story telling without using numbers and dice to determine the outcome.

Most LARPs are probably diceless, but it would be possible to have one in which dice were rolled to determine damage done by hits or something.

It's also possible to sit around a table with characters printed on paper, and tell stories without acting them out, and never use dice.

Wolfhowls:
Ok I get it now.

Quantus:
I knew, for example, a Masquerade LARP that resolved everything with a rock-paper-scissor system.

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