Leaving Mundania

Author: Lizzie Stark
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1569766053

Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games

Exposing a subculture often dismissed as "geeky" by mainstream America, Leaving Mundania is the story of live action role-playing (LARP). Get Leaving Mundania computer books for free.
A hybrid of games-such as Dungeons & Dragons, historical reenactment, fandom, and good old-fashioned pretend-larp is thriving, and this book explores its multifaceted communities and related phenomena, including the Society forACreative Anachronism, a medieval reenactment group that boasts more than 32,000 members. Author Lizzie Stark looks at the hobby from a variety of angles, from its history in the pageantry of Tudor England to its present use as a training tool for the US military. Along the way, she duels foes with foam-padded weapons, lets the great elder god Cthulhu destroy her par Check Leaving Mundania our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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A hybrid of games-such as Dungeons & Dragons, historical reenactment, fandom, and good old-fashioned pretend-larp is thriving, and this book explores its multifaceted communities and related phenomena, including the Society forACreative Anachronism, a medieval reenactment group that boasts more than 32,000 members Along the way, she duels foes with foam-padded weapons, lets the great elder god Cthulhu destroy her par

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