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Because you talk about hobby, what about LARP ?
It's creative, is about problem solving, and involves a lot of skills including
Sewing and crafting, the community has a huge DIY culture (even though nowadays, there is a few brands doing larp fashion, and it's cheaper to buy and chainmail, than to buy it's weight in steel wire). So getting all these awesome kits is the opportunity to craft a lot
Acting : As it's name stand larp is about role-playing, which is basically improvisation theatre with a scenario known only by the director. So you try to put up your best acting to be a realistic, mafia boss, naive kid, or lord
Problem solving and social interactions : Larp are a social game, where people face a common problem and need to find a solution, while finding the right balance between their character faction/interest and the common interest. So there is a lot of social negotiation (often around some spiced wine), mystery investigation, and exploration to solve the main problem
Combat, in some larp, if you play a fighter character, you may even have the opportunity to fight. On my experience, I end-up fighting in less than half of the game, there is game with no combats, games where my character either can fight or is too busy with other stuff to fight, and some games where I go fighting.
Came here for this. You can basically use LARP as an excuse to further almost any creative hobby. For PAX Unplugged I made a LARP Escape Room, and that was an excuse for me to learn how to use Arduino controllers and wire hardware in order to make a robot puzzle for the event.
Any kind of RP is good for that. Personally I find LARP/Cosplay kinda cringe, but TTRPGs also encourage creativity in problem solving.
American ?
I really have the impression that on this side of the pond larp gets well accepted. And it offers way more way to be creative/craft than TTPRG. But i understand that if you're used to see people in Short-Tshirt fighting each other with pool noodle in a public park and calling it "LARP" you have a biased view of the scene
Canadian. And yeah either that or the LARP scene from Peep Show.
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Just check the "drachenfest" (Larger larp in the word, in Germany) trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1IQO3xer-Q it's still a "mass larp" so not the most intense/immersive/strange,and tell me if it's still feel "cringe"
Yeah it does to me. Not trying to yuck anyone's yum, I think it's great that those people are having fun. But for me, cosplaying in general is just really lame. I never understood the appeal of dressing up. For roleplaying, I feel that it would hinder my suspension of disbelief to be looking at someone's conception of what fantasy costumes look like for them.
Also, roleplaying is an intimate activity in my mind. Not necessarily sexually intimate, but there is a trust component. I wouldn't want to attend a larping convention for the same reason I wouldn't want to play Pathfinder with a different group of people every week. In order to really be comfortable getting into someone else's head, you need to be a bit vulnerable. And to do that, you need to build up some trust with others. Trying to roleplay a character at a convention full of people I don't know sounds like my version of Hell.
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