Mark Hulmes Answers Our LARP Questions!! | The Geekenders Ep 53

[@TheJaegersHunt]

YO ITS THE WEEKEND!

[@SherlockHulmesDM]

Just wanted to say a big thank you to Dodger and Jesse for having me on! Was an absolutely delightful chat! Hope folks enjoy it! :D

[@Deaddocus]

Glad to hear you enjoyed the Oddyseus LARP. Highest production value LARP I have ever been to, stood well above all others, though Witcher School got close, :)

[@matthewmacomber6278]

Glad to have you and learn about LARP!

[@calioriginalz]

This episode really sold me on larping. Was literally brainstorming a character while listening.

[@kimaclaret]

Good to see you! I could never, but larping sounds so cool 😂

[@TheQuestionMark0]

I would love a tutorial on how you get dressed and all the stuff you use for lady morrigan if you haven’t already

[@AgaricRook]

Jesse introducing himself to any RP thing whatsoever: "How can I best make things more difficult for the people around me (in character)?". Truely an agent of chaos.

[@assaultbunny3231]

"This *is* episode 52!" - Jesse Cox, episode 53

[@colbyhill4311]

As someone who LARPs and is in the mindset of playing to lift (making the story good and giving the spotlight to others through roleplay) Jesse would be awesome to have at any game. Dude just wants to hang out and make his own fun instead of having the story revolve around his heroic actions. Team Evil for life.

[@MrBrainFog]

I was NOT PREPARED to see Mark's character. It rocks lmao

[@gakulon]

Yo, Mark Hulmes!! Not a guest I would have expected to see here, but a very very welcome one indeed!

[@SherlockHulmesDM]

Thanks mate! So happy to do it! :D

[@tinybee7780]

My favorite episode. Jokes aside, I loved the LARP talk and how Mark explains how much it shares a lot of things with DnD. Hope Jesse and Dodger can invite Brett (assuming he's available to talk). 1:18:25 I don't think Crendor needs to worry about it too much. They fast-racked the story of Arcane so they move on to the other stories in Runeterra. Maybe in the future they'll explain Heimerdinger's past and what his race is all about.

[@thatgamingfreak]

I love Hulmes and I love the Geekenders. What a great friday!

[@mybelovedchaos]

omg his character is STUNNING

[@moonlily3464]

So what I'm learning is that my soul yearns for LARP

[@samfroggeh]

I can't think of LARPing without thinking of that video of the fight between the knights where one's like "Tell me how the grass tastes, little man!" then decks the other guy with his shield xD

[@joabeMT]

I've never LARPed, but Jesse's SCP/Control LARP idea is awesome enough to draw me into it.

[@michaelmiller4097]

I’d do that in a heartbeat

[@UtsukimiJerry]

Yo! It’s the weekend once again!

[@mokajones74]

Love the idea of Senator/Chancellor/Emporer of the Orc Muscle Mommies: Coximus Grimky retiring to a barkeep, taking a spill in battle and awakening in a fit believing they've died and been reborn as a Lich king.

[@FictionRaider007]

I think the best part about Jesse's approach to LARPing is that he's not actively seeking to disrupt or make the narrative revolve around him. He wants to do something that is interesting for other people and - most importantly - he's totally planning on losing to them, he wants to be defeated to tell an awesome story.

[@mokajones74]

Yo!! Its uh... The weekend?

[@HerculePyro]

I 100% agree with jesse about doing a voice for your character, it not only helps with roleplay but being able to tell when its a character or a player speaking is just really helpful

[@suthekb14]

Super glad to see Mark here! Such a delightful and pleasant guest to see here!

[@DwarfElvishDiplomacy]

After watching Arcane i dont want to paly leaque , i want to replay Dishonored

[@rat8294]

That game is the best

[@kaboomluong9373]

If Riot makes a Dishonored-styled Piltover/Zaun, that would go hard

[@PGMT22]

Its fun having deep dives on a single topic a guest is passionate about from time to time so im all for this style of ep!

[@gd1247]

Wow, never thought I'd see Mark on here, I love his DM'ing on highrollers!

[@wayneg552]

Love myself some Sherlock Hulmes, BEST EPISODE EVER!!

[@TheSnorlax7]

Food for thought. Raiders is the first movie, production wise to come out. But chronologically in the story is the second adventure in Indy's adventures..

[@MrZenzio]

Sam's character in West Marches was amazing. I especially loved how his instinct was to try to hatch a dragon egg.

[@sevearka]

Happy to see Mark! Hello there my lad!

[@Starfals]

Mark sure reminds me of Jessee, so this episode felt veryJessee packed :D Ill def save this 1, it was a ton of fun!

[@picaludica]

Mark is so lovely! Did not expect to see him in Geekenders, it was a wonderful surpise 😊 Great episode!

[@Mrknowladge]

It lovely hearing Mark taalk about their love of LARP cause that passion is what got me to do Empire LARP and i fell in love with it, good to see the passion for it is still strong!

[@Starlightean]

I never knew in detail what Larp was about but always wanted to know more. So this episode was super fun! And I'd love to see your little hut shop, Ghoul Grongus.

[@The.Raxing]

My favourite episode!

[@RatedX29]

I like how Mark came on a podcast called geekenders and is concerned we wouldn't like to hear about LARPing. I like him

[@corpralcobra420]

i fuckin love hulmes.

[@JMCD107]

Woohoo! I forgot it was the weekend!

[@EurekaBe]

Favorite Episode! bring Mark back on again!

[@TojiChiba]

I have been a larper since 2007 and I recently remodeled our guestroom to be a 360° immersive cyberpunk apartment where I actually host 4-people evening larps for ny friends where they just returned from a heist gone wrong and gave to hude from corporate security for a few hours and its super fun to gm larp experiences for your friends 😃

[@Ilcka]

This has deffo been a very interesting and knowledge filled episode!

[@christophera.-mckeown130]

nice here my favorite pod cast

[@sparkxl]

I loved this episode! Please bring Mark back after his next LARP ❤

[@LoquaciousGee]

I do believe it's the weekend

[@ElbyHere]

Yeah no I am extremely here for the LARP talk. I'm not a LARPer and don't intend to get into it any time soon (maybe eventually) but it is genuinely so fun to hear about.

[@JasperAyeee]

great episode~

[@shadow12k]

It’s not the weekend until I hear this intro morning or night

[@markoperatv]

Loved the LARP talk, but I'm imagining the smash cut from naive excited me listening here to me sad in a half-collapsed tent in the rainy, muddy British field!

[@nunyabusinesss1476]

Reminded me of that LARP episode of Supernatural or that movie Knights of Badassery :D Had a group from church that used to go the local Ren Fair and always had a blast. We'd all dress up and the leader of the group played the part of traveling royalty and the rest of us were either members of his court or fellow nobles that he'd met along the road. One of my favs was when the group leaders daughters boyfriend at the time dressed up as an elf in an Elvis costume and played the part of traveling minstrel called......Elfis lol. That time I was playing the part of a lesser noble they had met on the road and I got to do an improv introduction of Elfis to the king of the fair. Fun times fun times

[@LunnchBoxx45]

Yo, it;s the WEEKEND!!!

[@JediMimic]

Really cool ep. Great guest

[@Torkmatic]

I feel like Jesse would get along with the guys from the Skill Tree channel. Kit loves playing a shady rogue, and basically turned himself into a crime boss at Reckoning LARP. He brought a bunch of games and started a gambling den, he ran a bounty board where players could put out bounties on other players, and generally spent the week stealing things and sewing chaos.

[@ookamifuyu]

Here to prove you right, best episode yet!

[@sallymander3188]

Best crossover ever!

[@q.marcus7535]

Imagine a 100 people LARP, but everybody is some variation of Yoda XD

[@PureOctarine]

We need 100 people who can do quadruple front flips

[@Vicioussama]

You know, I listen to things at 2x speed (I am that madman), listening at normal speed, that intro is quite more chill :P hah

[@LadyUsakoB]

Yo its the weekend!

[@YggLart]

Amazing episode! LARP sounds so much fun and Hulmes is cool! bring EndyD20 someday pleease :D

[@MrBrainFog]

if Jesse runs his own LARP in L.A. area I would by so hype. i think he has enough on his plate already so I don't expect it, but I can dream

[@TheSpoegefugl]

I feel like I can grant a bit of clarification of at least my point of view when it comes to Viktor's rework. Now, I'm not super upset about it, but I do feel like there are a few aspects of it I am not fond of. And I am using this to practice articulating and putting words to my thoughts and feelings. SPOILERS FOR ARCANE, OBVIOUSLY! The Viktor in the show and the pre-rework Viktor has almost nothing to do with each other. Really only 3 things: Name, accent and talk of "Glorious evolution". And in Arcane, his accent has been turned down, cause it was excessive. League Viktor is a lot more steampunk-looking cartoon villain, which in Arcane could make sense with chemtech, but I also see that with his story, they had to lean more hextech. The designs are different enough that I am close to saying, they could've been different characters, but with the story of Arcane and the lore of League before Arcane, it would also be hard to justify using someone other than Viktor. 1 of the most iconic things of League Viktor is his third robotic arm that is constantly there. In Arcane S1, we get a reference to it when they show their invensions to Heimerdinger, and other than that, it's not really there other than when he shoots a lazer at Jayce ONCE during their flying fight. Something about the design of the 3rd arm didn't really sit right in my perception, and felt a bit crammed in because it had to be there, otherwise it wouldn't be Viktor. His visual rework looks great, but after talking with Viktor mains, they decided to not change his kit, which doesn't fit the story or design as well as it did previously. So to me, they compromised in places to make things for familiar in both League and Arcane, and I feel like the compromises lowered the standard of the design/redesign of final form of Arcane Viktor, as well as upcoming League Viktor. While I see that old Viktor could definitely use a visual upgrade, and the new design is great (sans aforementioned compromises), however I still feel like we are losing a very fun and more cohesive design in favour of something ever so slightly disjointed, albeit shinier. So short version: We now have 2 iterations of the character, who have almost nothing in common other than mostly surface level stuff. The new iteration seems to have a few things crammed in to make the character recognizeable with the old design, and just compromized on the kit to stay the same, while the kit doesn't really fit the new design at all.

[@TheUnspeakableh]

The most normal character Jesse can be is Cheezle. Rusts, Mark, are you trying to get all of these people storming addicted? They are going to be more ravenous that a blood-hungered Shade.

[@Gbusjones]

This was a fun and wholesome learning experience. I wish I still had the body to larp ♥

[@killhall021]

Jesse said it the best, they should have done that with Halo too. But they didn't. They decide to screw it up so bad because they didn't believe the lead in the actual story and the actual original genre

[@NicStride]

I dunno who the hell this guy is, and I don't care about LARP, but this was a bangin' episode

[@tedioustotoro4885]

If I was to do LARPing, I’d wanna do a plot about a hero looking for an ancient artefact and, when they find it, it corrupts them and, when they come back for the next LARP, the corruption has overtaken them and they’ve become a power hungry warlord.

[@hescutethough2419]

Great episode❤

[@wynnefox]

I expected Sandliches too and was like, "You missed it Jesse!"

[@darklightstudio]

My Favorite Episode!!!

[@yate0128]

The LARPing stuff sounds so fun 😁

[@jtf5223]

1.) Jesse, I would absolutely love to go to a Control/SCP themed anything hosted by you 2.) "On Cox and Crendor" Jesse that was during your last Watch Party 😅

[@KallinADM]

Is that the legendary SportsJacket!?!

[@Bengtssonsan]

Mark, you forgot to advertise the Jingle Jam!

[@anotherone5235]

Mark is such a lovely person to listen to :)

[@samueljacques9381]

oh my god. Realizing you've crossed over the one year anniversary.

[@TTRPG_Artificer]

Currently looking up different LARPing groups near me because of this episode

[@ulfar321]

pretty great ep

[@happyhatebot]

Dodger's mention of her "Should we play League?' convo with Sam reminded me of PyrionFlax's "Should you play Dota2?' questions from Team Double Dragon highlights. "No. God, no." And having played a lot of those games... man, I agree. They're a terrible thing inflict on people you care about. Just like Mario Party!

[@RedCoatGunmn]

Someone needs to convince these guys to check out Drachenfest US in June.

[@DrSmurrie]

I've been LARPing for almost a decade and a half now and it'd be really cool to share an event one day with Mark. I was actually part of a Flemish (Belgian) group of Uruks called the Gijak Sorr who now play at Empire but circumstances required me to step back just before they started going. Most my international LARPs are in Germany though, Conquest of Mythodea being the biggest one of course.

[@DrSmurrie]

I once LARPed a Witch Hunter/Robber Baron character in a very GoT/Vikings kinda LARP called Omen who was modeled after my *actual* Frisian Robber Baron ancestors (hence the heraldry pfp) and it was very satisfying but hard at times going against my true good, helpful nature. I was the court torturer to my High House's Lord as well so I tortured and burned other players at the stake. I got a lot of respect for that one.

[@breannam611]

I only larp-ed once but I fondly remember the climactic end where everyone fought a dragon and I was a level 1 or 2 and I did all of like 2 points of damage with my magic missile the guy being the dragon was so nice about my puny spell.

[@killhall021]

This is the first time I've seen Mark humes other than the last time which was back when Duncan did flux buddy stuff and they did a live action stuff from jingle jam

[@N7Shepherd]

Jesse it sounds to me like you'd be interested in SCA. (Society of Creative Anachronism). They have gatherings several times a year in the thousands. Think Renaissance Faire, but only for adults, and everyone (including the tourists) are in character.

[@In-Midnight-Clad]

It's the weekend!

[@StarStroid]

He invoked Brennan! He must be the next guest!!

[@TapKim]

gratz on 1 year

[@swedishZ0mBi3]

*new guest DLC unlocked*

[@goran3149]

You guys so cool

[@kimaclaret]

I feel like Jesse was made for larping

[@Vilis_Farthuk]

Mistborn was cool. I thought of the villain as being kinda like Magneto giving his underlings weak Mutant powers.

[@krausier]

Oh this is gonna be good.

[@mikeuniturtle3722]

Watch Temple of Doom purely so that you cry when you here Ke Huy Quan's story of reuniting with Harrison Ford

[@BlueWizi]

Mark!

[@flexcat]

LARPing really is misunderstood. I've been to a LARP in a fantasy zombie as a backdrop in a three kingdom situation. Lots of prep though and depending on the community, the armour and props is taken very seriously. It is definitely diffcult if you are an introvert though.

[@ForeverKite42]

Summer, the League of Legends encouraging friend xD

[@MinisterWighty]

Dodger already got me addicted to Warframe. You're not getting me back into League.

[@misskaydie]

Need to get back to the gym so I can join Jesse’s Amazonian muscle mommy’s 😅

[@OddCryptid]

Dodger, ARAM is a for fun mode and anyone who is super serious in it is the one we make fun of so play your heart out and have fun.

[@Atratzu]

I have never gone LARPING... But I do love the Ren faire, haven't really gotten into a group of people that plays d&d... So I don't know If I would actually enjoy it or not.

[@liamstubbins3000]

Jesse could be the potion seller! but the potions are to strong for everyone

[@Daealis]

@29:00 You mean the Potion of the Crimson Bovine?

[@JustDaZack]

Very good homework assignment. Sersiously, Stormlight and Mistborn ARE as good as everyone says. And those are only the entryway into the cosmere. Journey before Destination.

[@mariakert8265]

The GraphicAudio productions of those books are also great! They do fantastic voice acting

[@SigmaElement]

Best podcast ever

[@SpikeTiger]

its crazy mark n jesse havent done a dnd together yet... lol i was sure they had