Why Has LARP Seen a Tremendous Surge of Popularity?
Posted by Sword N Armory on Jul 30th 2020
During the 1970s, Live Action Role Playing (LARP) was born into the world. In an age of dungeons, dragons, game masters, and massive amounts of notebook paper there was also another movement brewing. This movement stripped down some of the rules, rid themselves of the table and planted their own two feet into the story itself. It wasn't until the late 1990s that LARP achieved popular status, with the publishing of the first universally defined LARP system, Mind's Eye Theater. In the following ye
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Women Becoming Sword Collectors
Posted by Sword N Armory on Jul 29th 2017
While some might think that acquiring and maintaining a sword collection would be a decidedly masculine pursuit, they might be surprised to learn that women are both interested and adept at building sword collections as well.What might be responsible for the growing number of women seeking the perfect piece to add to their collections? One reason, surely, is the incredible popularity of HBO's television series Game of Thrones, based on the Song of Ice and Fire series of novels by fantasy author
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