What is LRP, exactly? Think dressing up, for a few hours or for a weekend, and becoming someone else entirely. Making decisions you'd never get to make in real life. Risking the life of yourself and your friends (no, not in real life, silly! In character! It's all a game!). Sleeping on a rug by a fire under the stars, battling - if you like - in dark woods, solving puzzles or hiding in the local inn and flirting outrageously. Most importantly, laughing and seeing you and your friends change as people and characters before your very eyes.

What is LRP? Basically, people get together to form a play for you, the player, to perform - but there are no words to learn, and although the LRP crew know what the plot is, the players don't. You're told the genre (Lord of the Rings-esque fantasy, 1920s horror, modern-day mystery, cyberomp - the list is endless) and the basic scenario (so-and-so has died and left a will, perhaps, and all his friends and enemies have gathered under one roof to see how the will might affect them...)