(The best from the discussion on rec.games.frp.live-action)
...when you feel naked attending a party without your finest sword.
...when you regularely ask bartenders for mead.
...when you buy liquor based on what you think your character would prefer.
...when you reach to make sure that your sword hilts won't snag in the door.
...when you realise that you're wearing a bandana over the tops of your ears.
...when you panic for a bit because your spell books are missing.
...when you take your undead familiar for a walk.
...when you cast 'Breathe under water' at the local swimming pool.
...when your eyes glow red in the dark.
...when you greet your
friend with his in-character name/s:
"Hi Gweran - er - Rasputin - er - Bluebottle - er -
Mike".
...when you wake up, jump out of bed, reach for a dagger and hold the (nonexistant) dagger at the throat of you mum, who was just going down the stairs.
...when you go out to the Chippy for a takeaway and realise that your real money is with the rest of your "normal clothes" in your pack back at the LARP site.
...when you go to the latest
Indiana Jones/adventure movie and say:
"Oh, I've done that."
...when your Netscape "home" is set to rec.games.frp.live-action.
...when you go back to work/college after a long event and realise that you keep slipping back into your characters accent.
...when someone asks you a relatively simple question about a specific deity and you realise you have just given them a half hour lecture on in-game mythology.
...when you think the local pub is the best place to look for a job.
...when you think the Police will believe that that 3 foot long shaft sticking out of the back of your bag is a tennis racket......(whoops).
...when there are more people at your wedding in "period" garb than there are in "normal" clothes.
...when there are more weapons (real and boffer) than there are cameras at said wedding.
...when you spend more on your kilt (and accessories) than your wife-to-be does on her wedding dress.
...when you look at a porta-john (= baja-maja) in a state park and start analyzing how easy it would be to defend against orcs.
...when your medieval garbs starts taking up more drawer space than your regular clothes do.
...when you've bought enough PVC pipe that you're getting subscription cards to construction and industrial magazines sent to your house.
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...when you write your name with runes - on official papers.
...when you do your homework/thesis/report on a piece of parchment.
...when you consider digging a moat in your front yard.
...when you address your kid sister with "fair maiden".
...when you show up at the Neighbourhood Watch with a crossbow.
...when you contribute to silly things like this...