Skull World (2013)

Danny e Wheeler são vendedores de uma companhia que produz bebidas energéticas. Um dia, os dois se envolvem em um acidente com o carro da empresa e precisam cumprir 150 horas de trabalho comunitário em uma associação com fins pedagógicos. Enquanto um se torna mentor de um nerd chato, o outro é responsável por um garotinho preconceituoso e respondão.

Três melhores amigos dedicados ao RPG vão à floresta para reencenar um cenário de masmorras e dragões como um RPG de ação ao vivo. O problema surge quando um livro de feitiços comprado da internet acaba sendo um grimório genuíno e involuntariamente invocam uma súcubos que cobiça o sangue do inferno.

Quatro amigos que estudam na mesma faculdade juntam-se para jogar um RPG chamado Labirintos e Monstros (Mazes and Monsters), onde interpretam o papel de heróis místicos e enfrentam seres imaginários e sobrenaturais. Quando eles decidem jogar o RPG "ao vivo", trocando o tabuleiro por uma caverna sombria a alguns quilômetros do campus, um dos rapazes acaba assumindo a personalidade do seu personagem, e não consegue mais distinguir ficção de realidade.

Após o fim de um relacionamento, uma garota se junta a um grupo de jovens para fazer parte de um jogo medieval nos bosques do Canadá em que os participantes fingem ser guerreiros antigos. Mas o ex-namorado despeitado da garota aparece, tingindo o jogo de um vermelho sangue.

Welcome to Monster Camp, the true story about a world where people transform into creatures, heroes, and monsters to escape their daily lives. In the vein of Lord of the Rings, World of Warcraft, and Dungeons and Dragons; these enthusiasts have developed a complicated world to bring their fantasies to life. Romantic relationships are forged between characters. Friendships are destroyed over plot disputes. Characters are slain and never return. But keeping this world alive takes a lot of real world work. And unless someone is willing to take charge, the fantasy may be lost forever.

Every year during summer one of the biggest battles of mankind takes place amidst the hillsides of middle earth. Knights, elves and magicians are fighting orcs and the dark powers. What looks like a scene from Lord of the Rings actually takes place in a field in Germany, where thousands of role players meet to plunge into a fantasy world of their own. More than 250.000 people in Germany regularly make this transition. The documentary accompanies five role players in their daily lives and their parallel ones. Where does their yearning for a shared world of fantasy come from? What does this reveal about our hectic, technological life? Sunday warriors is a film about the passion for playing and the ambition to exceed your limits.

Darkon is an award-winning feature-length documentary film that follows the real-life adventures of the Darkon Wargaming Club in Baltimore, Maryland, a group of fantasy live-action role-playing (LARP) gamers.

The Dungeon Masters explores the subculture of role-playing games, specifically Dungeons & Dragons, which for over 30 years has offered gamers the chance to escape their mundane lives and participate in a world they might otherwise never experience. Popularity and power are based on creativity and imagination rather than social status or wealth, and success is based not on who you know but on what you do.

An in-depth look into how the World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade created a phenomenon in the 1990s – a zeitgeist that helped shape film, literature, fashion, club culture, and ultimately fans, whose lives it forever altered.

A coming of age saga about a 14-year old boy whose life alternates between the medieval fantasy kingdom of Adria and the real world trials of a challenging adolescence.

Meet Jon Gallagher, a LARPer with Asperger's syndrome, and see how LARPing helps him make friends, learn social skills, get a job, and in many ways, saves his life.

Caught between two worlds, one real and one imagined, three filmmakers have travelled 4000-miles across Europe to understand Live Action Role-Play (LARP), the hobby where these worlds collide. In its essence, LARP is an extension of how you experienced games as a child. When tabletop games grew too big for the board, players put down their dice, picked up their swords, and have been playing make-believe ever since. The culmination of years-old conversations in a local pub, Treasure Trapped is part-documentary, part-road movie; a film that charts the journey of Mike, Al and Nick, as they explore this often misunderstood pastime. Casting a unique look over a worldwide community that is known for its eccentricities, this project aspires to bring the hobby to the masses. Game on!

Assombrado por traumas de infância, Veera está tentando se tornar mais independente através de interpretações ao vivo. Enquanto ela se guia e a seu irmão mentalmente desafiado através de mundos de múltiplos papéis e identidades, bruxas e bruxos, ela encontra a coragem de enfrentar os demônios de seu próprio passado e o legado de seu pai abusivo.

Follows two years in the life of Greg Sommer, aka Skull Man, as he builds the Canadian chapter of Box Wars, an international underground movement of cardboard-based combat.

A documentary about three people with an extraordinary hobby: live Game (LARP). A weekend to be someone else, experience adventure, fight battles, be a child again; recovery from reality and yourself.

Über Goober focuses on the often-misunderstood, sometimes-controversial, and always-kind-of-geeky world of Gamers. Director Steve Metze examines several different groups including historical miniature gamers, role-players, and those known simply as "LARPers." The film also explores opposition from religious groups, negative media portrayals, and some of the meanest 'man-on-the-street' interviews ever committed to video. Meet the Gamers, learn their exotic language, see their bizarre rituals, gasp at their semi-authentic costumes, and thrill to the painting techniques on their miniatures!

For some it's a cathartic release, and for others a means of escape, but for everyone who chooses to commit the time and expenses of doing it, Live-Action Role-Playing is addictive fun that allows fully grown adults to engage in the magical realm of make-believe-- a place that, as we all age, becomes increasingly less accessible.