Humans are actually pretty regular animals. We fight for resources most of the time, with things like respect, morals, religion, and other reasons being artificially attached. We've had and have religious wars, but some of that is likely from crowding, need to obtain material goods, etc. If everyone was fed, happy, and had some space, we'd likely avoid a lot of war.Wyrmwrath wrote: First the "real world" motivations you are using are being drawn from the modern civilization....modern motivation and modern political structure and philosophy are anachronistic in a fantasy LARP as they are almost all medevil settings...different paradigm back then different motivators....different needs and all that....
Huh? How did you draw that conclusion? Perhaps my statement didn't have enough context around it. This seems to be the second time a response has come very close to questioning my morals.Second....do you consider yourself an Evil person?
I agree with all of this, but I'm not sure what point your trying to make. There are those who are sociopaths and don't care and those who could care, but justify their actions. Good people don't kill habitually unless forced.Have you ever talked to a serial killer, professional assassin, yakuza/mafia/triad member, drug dealer, terrorist ( one that did it professionaly....the rest think they are the good guys doing bad thing out of need), or true sociopath?
If you havent I will assure you getting to understand the reason somone would end the life of another can be and is so alien that it often is unfathomable to a "good" person. Few can be "good" and kill on a regular basis and of those fewer still remain free of the ice that settles in a persons heart (a refference to the strain on those like NAVY SEALS and such).
I can't always know the reason behind their motivation, but 'Haha! I'm evil!" is usually obvious. Not saying I can't see the GOOD PVP results, just sometimes it can be cheesy and motivated by a need to basically prove one's 'awesomeness'. Rules cannot eliminate these bad roleplayers, but many cry foul if a GM tells someone what they can play as they may show favorites. So its a gamble either way as both systems depend on people being mature and good sports about things.So in saying the PVP in a LARP seems to by illogical and incorrectly motivated may be in error for two reasons. First is yuo dont always get to find out why PC/NPC BOB kils PC/NPC DAVE. Second, you are looking at this, it seems, with logic from the wrong paradigm. What i suggest you may be doing, in essence, is judging the reasoning behind the crusades with the perspective of a modern small parish priest. Just an example...
As far as paradigm, it really doesn't matter. Political machinations happen, crazy people happen, and people just following orders happens. Hate happens. Its all pretty basic.
Its not like nasty stuff doesn't happen in real history. There are Vlad Draculs and bandit cannibal cults in medieval times- but its rare. Its the same messed up stuff that happens today, we just didn't label or study it as much back then.
Not to mention that paradigm for medieval rarely matters with fantasy as true evil does exist in such settings. You can just label your character demon possessed, on a mission to destroy and kill in an effort to sow discord on the mortal realms versus saying he is a serial killer. It will operate in a similar fashion. I just don't think such characters add to the RP environment if they have no point other than to rack up a body count.
