In a role-playing game players assume the role of a character.
In a live action role-playing game, or LARP, players use their entire bodies to convey the actions of their characters. The player dresses up as the character and assumes the role as completely as possible.
Usually the director of the game defines the setting for the start of a larp, and the players take the story in the direction they want to, and the director is not directly involved in the events of the game.
Helsingin Sanomat / First published in print 22.4.2006
