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Our History:
The Heartlands was formed in the year 2000, originally called Lyoness it was formed by combining the rules from Curious pastimes and Heresiarch to create a role play with unlimited possibilities for plots and character development.
Over recent years the rules have changed so much that they are now very different to Curious past times and any other system, we are proud to say after much work that we have now created a rule system that is unique, easy to understand and fun to play.
What is The Heartlands?
Lyoness was designed some time ago to be a free local system to make it easy for players to discover and get used to LARP, while helping more experienced players keep their role playing & combat skills up to date as well as learn new things. Over the years the system changed and evolved, resulting in its eventual recreation as Heartlands. The idea behind Heartlands was to stand alone rule wise while keeping in mind several others LARP groups many of our players attend and allowing an ease of transition between them. Unlike some larger LARP systems, where characters tend form a number of different factions or groups which interact with each other, while sometimes facing off against other creatures, Heartlands style our games differently. Typically our events and
games focus on a party of characters undergoing a mission or task, facing and attempting to overcome opponents, traps and monsters which are in their way. Most other factions and groups encountered will be NPC's. This means that all the action and encounters will involve everyone who attends and the characters played are often in the middle of things and able to get straight into events without difficulty or missed opportunities.
What is Larp?
Live action role-play or LARP, as it’s more commonly referred to, is a hobby in which you dress and act as a character that you have created. This character has a race (orc, goblin, human, elf etc) and a class (rogue, artificer, warrior etc). Each race and class has its advantages and disadvantages.
Role-playing gives you the chance to take on the spirit and identity of someone or something else. You can basically be whatever you want to be, well within reason and rules.
For more information on what is LARP please download our rule book and turn to page 2.
 
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