I invented LARPing

Heh… The funny thing is that when I was com­ing up with the concept of Griffin and the Spuri­ous Cor­rel­a­tions, I was try­ing to come up with a way to describe what was hap­pen­ing in the tour­na­ment, and I was think­ing ok, it’s a role play­ing game, but it isn’t a table top RPG, it’s 3D, it’s actu­al people actu­ally mov­ing about in the world, inter­act­ing, so it’s like…not the car­toon ver­sion of the movie, it’s… it’s… Live Action, that’s it, it’s a Live Action Role Play­ing game! And I can call it LARP­ing for short! How clev­er am I to have come up with that!

And not long after… I learned that LARP­ing is already a Thing. And that’s what they call it: Live Action Role Play­ing, or LARPing.

I thought, crap! But I made it up. Crap, someone else already made it up before I did. But then I was relieved because it meant that Hey, I don’t have to explain what it is, because people can fig­ure it out, or they already know!

Any­way, you heard it here. I inven­ted the concept of LARP­ing. Late to the party.