Introducing a New Era in Live Action Role Playing

WarBall Avenger Fantasy LARP + Cosplay Club

WAFL + at SRJC brings to life iconic Super Heroes and classic Vikings, Samurai, etc.

For Cosplay, students are encouraged to use the club’s events to participate in costumes.

Live Action Role Play (LARP) is a popular group activity attended by thousands of people annually.

Its participants interact in a simulated environment reproducing past battles with physical force with the use of weapons and armor.

Cosplay, or Costume Play, involving fictional characters is popular at events such as ComicCon, etc. and local venues.

WAFL+’s version of LARP is dramatically lower in risk with methods devised from over 100 years of safety development. Its rules equalize opponents, skill over size and strength.

For our school, SRJC management can view the great attention to safety paid herein with an eye on risk/reward. Our school can take credit for founding a novel, safe but action filled unique activity with high social media visibility.

For our students, WAFL+ offers inclusive student engagement of a immersive activity that is safe for a broad range of body types. It is an opportunity for those who may have missed a team experience for fear of injury, lack of size or gender exclusion. Players who opt for a non contact positions offered by the club play a vital role on every play.

Our students athletes can enjoy role playing the heroes of their youth or heroes of history, the Super Heroes or with ancient warriors with attention to the conflicts of the past as learning experiences.

Off field events in Cosplay brings in students who enjoy the fantasy of role playing as artistic expression- “becoming” that character creates a community connection with a shared love for it, and is considered therapeutic escapism.

Their presence will greatly add to the fun and festive vibe WAFL+’s rules promote -there is no ‘kill or be killed’ mentality and violence is kept to a minimum.

Given the visuals of the Club’s culturally popular characters on and off field, and its athletic entertainment, it is reasonable that the club will grow in popularity, offering a chance for great student engagement.

The athletic, history, drama, music and dance departments or clubs can contribute. If this happens, the student body will respond in support and Student Life will be enhanced.

Safety First

Our Non Profit SRJC club, since its inception, made participant safety is THE guiding principle in its design and organization.

Conventional LARP involves both safe and unsafe historical weaponary, depending on the event’s organization. They engage in group combat with these weapons, with and without armor, and have rules of conduct to limit injuries.

Lacking in safety, events have no time limits, no standardized rules, random targeting of weapons and players, and no rules prohibiting full body contact.

Visually, it has no organized team strategy or clear objectives and has a chaotic riot of players improvising as they go. And, without clearly established victor LARP has failed to achieve as representative of a historical “battle simulation”.

What is the WAFL+?

WAFL+ serves to improve LARP’s chaotic and uncontrolled elements by adding structure to its battle reproductions while also reducing risks. To do so, it takes the best safety aspects of LARP and borrows structure and safety from another sport, and this hybrid greatly deviates from the dangers of both:

• Warball LARP and Cosplay Club uses the 100 plus years of safety development by American football to minimize the chaos, control interaction, interject strategy and reduce risk.

• However, there is no conventional tackling or blocking as found in football . WAFL+ has devised benign techniques for take downs/impeding a player that makes high speed collisions an extreme rarity, and body shots to the head or knee are nearly impossible.
• Weapons or hand strikes target devices, not a person’s body, a great safety feature over conventional LARP

• Participants are required to limit force- only using enough to ‘get the job done’. It has a name: “Payload Rule”

The sum of these efforts is a LARP event like no other, teamwork to gain territory with an organized strategy that encourages safety, skill, beauty and artistry.

To see our videos and understand more, go to See LARP Game page. WAFL+ also has a Safety Equipment Described page that list each piece of equipment and how they operate to protect or function, and organized rules of engagement. A partial version of the rule book is on the Rules page

A taste of what is enclosed is shown here:

AI generated (but a real life play was used and then converted) with some defects is latest uniform version due for release soon. Note visor on the ball carrier and successful light button triggered by Wolverine on Dead Pool, who is now ineligible to continue.

If Iron Man engaged weapon to weapon clash against the WarBall, or targeted the visor, only then would he be eligible to take Spiderman to the ground. If the visor was dropped by his sword strike, play ends without requiring a take down,

GO TO: SEE LARP GAME page how the game is played, important rules and risk analysis

GO TO:  SAFE EQUIPMENT page all equipment described, testing, stress analysis

AI generated (but was converted from a real life play) shows next project for WAFL+ – Fantasy warriors including archers with safe arrows