I've tried LARPing, plus both "tabletop" and online RPing, and they're definitely an interesting experience. Online has less issue with the Fourth Wall because it's a lot like being in an interactive (and extremely frustrating) book, whereas the other two can be extremely uncomfortable until (unless?) you work out how to separate your "in character" brain from your "out of character" brain.
One of the things I found about LARP was that I eventually learned not to see things. In the system I played in, people who were OOC put their hands in the air to show they weren't to be interacted with and the games masters wore yellow tabards. After a little while it was possible to simply tune them out. I might register they were there, but my character simply didn't see them. It was very odd.
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Date: 2009-01-09 10:12 pm (UTC)One of the things I found about LARP was that I eventually learned not to see things. In the system I played in, people who were OOC put their hands in the air to show they weren't to be interacted with and the games masters wore yellow tabards. After a little while it was possible to simply tune them out. I might register they were there, but my character simply didn't see them. It was very odd.