Rules Overview - Immersion and Roleplaying

 Valiant LARP places an emphasis on the roleplaying aspect of our game.

Garb Standards

To enhance immersion, we require players to wear medieval-style garb during our lore battles. We may make exceptions for newer players, but encourage them to get garb as soon as possible. To encourage participation, players wearing appropriate garb will receive an extra hit point during battles.

Garb does not need to be complex or expensive. With appropriate accessories, you can even transform modern clothing into medieval garb!

Here is an example. The base layer consists of an Under Armor shirt, sweatpants, and brown sneakers. Adding a tabard and a costume helmet transforms the look from modern to medieval.

Here are a couple tutorials to help you get started:

You can also find decent garb at Dark Knight Armory. We recommend starting with a tunic.

Class System

To enhance our players' experiences, we also introduced a simple character class system. To keep the game simple, we don't have a myriad of classes like modern Dungeons & Dragons. Instead, we pared it down to three basic classes.

The classes are:

• Militants - specialists in melee or missile combat. This class includes warriors, archers, scouts, assassins, and others specializing in physical combat.
• Mystics - spellcasters like wizards and clerics.
• Maesters - non-combatants who can provide healing, repairs or spell recharges.

Each class has a small list of optional abilities, allowing players to tailor their characters. For example,

• choose healing and protection spells to be a healer,
• stock up on blast spells to be a pyromancer, or
• play a militant with the weaken and sneak abilities to represent an assassin.

These are just a few of your possible options.

Leveling Up

With experience, a player's character can gain levels and additional abilities.

Leveling up requires (a) participating in lore battles, (b) acquiring and wearing appropriate garb, (c) demonstrating prowess in your character's class and proper game etiquette, and (d) completing quests assigned by your game master.