Dagorhir Battle Games is a national live action role-playing game (battle game) with full-contact melee fighting and ranged combat as its primary focus. Fighters typically use foam weapons such as swords, flails, spears, bows and arrows, javelins, axes, and other medieval weapons.[1] Participants wear period costume and are expected to stay in-character during events, although the amount of seriousness the role-playing aspect receives varies greatly by unit and chapter.[2]
Founded in 1977, the Dagorhir brand has been licensed to groups in a few other locations,[3][4] with hundreds of members spread throughout the U.S., Canada, Britain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Germany, Australia, and Japan.
Unlike some other battle games or LARPs, there is no use of magic.[5]
- ^ "Gear". Archived from the original on 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2008-12-11.- Dagorhir Gear Construction
- ^ Dagorhir.com Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine-Handbook PDF
- ^ Dagorhir. "The Origins of Dagorhir". Dagorhir website. Archived from the original on 2007-06-29. Retrieved 2007-07-28.
- ^ Dagorhir.com Archived 2007-06-29 at the Wayback Machine- History
- ^ "Healing Poems" are used, but effectively just as a respawn delay mechanism – their essential feature is they must be 180 syllables long [1] Archived 2017-06-25 at the Wayback Machine