10 Facts About Drachenfest | LARP in Germany 

40K Crusade vibes

Imagine if you had like a 100 buddies ... Oh, so we're going *high* fantasy? 😋

@@MrNisses that was actually a pretty good joke =D Thanks for making my morning haha

Typicall Mornin in the Copper Camp though.... But only after our Emperor had his coffee

lol

wohoooo well then welcome to the family, Ruben =) Go and explore LARP as a hobby if you feel drawn to it

I've always wanted to participate in one of these festivals this is awesome

@@ryulee458 well then maybe this is the one for you? 😊

They are indeed - Ive shortly met a couple of them by now and they were all super cool people

haha woooow, how much has changed over the years 😂 Have you attended the event recently as well?

So did you have a good time?

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Was there also with the "Nordlande". How long ago that was.

@@werekorden crazy, right? Drachenfest had it's 20 year anniversary this year

I have been to all three and I can recommend them all =) Bicolline is definitely the most incredible in terms of location, with all the houses etc..I love Conquest because of the huge NPC army. And because it's my first big love and all my friends go. Drachenfest is cool, too, because you have that PvP experience - so yeah. Do them aaaall =D

oh wow, that means a lot!! All the best to your daughter, may she be a strong warrior 😍

@@beowulff Haha, thats true, we are the only true China ! Thanks for your support !

@@beowulff what a shitty person you are, they mention they are chinese and you bring up something not even related? extremely sinophobic and disgusting, btw taiwan is a not a country

well said

oh that's cool!! Glad you had some nostalgia from this video (maybe you'd like to revisit Larp at once point?) From what Ive seen from videos and photos, a lot has changed in terms of the overall clothing and weapon standard though.

65 and SCA in the '80s. Friend said "Try this...," referring to LARP. So I read the rules, bought a Nerf basketball, made my weapon and put some SCA beat-down on the LARPers. It's all about the torque. :D The 'gear' has progressed leaps and bounds. I still prefer visceral SCA combat to LARP-ing, but each have their fun factors.

@@ridetillidie8090 I take it from your descriptions that you have larped and SCAd in the US? =) Have you tried Larp outside of the US before by any chance?

@@SonjasAdventures I have LARPed in the U.S. on numerous occasions, back when it was getting started in the '90s, mostly. I have participated in the Society for Creative Anachronism events in the U.S. (4 Pennsic Wars) and in Europe, mostly around Frankfurt Germany from '92-96. I have not LARPed in Europe, no.

@@ridetillidie8090 ah okay! That's definitely a big difference to European Larp but now I understand better 😊👍

oh wow, thank you Faizan! That's really kind of you and I hope you get to go and have tons of fun! =)

Hey there, I agree to everything you say. And yes, Larping Orcs are the best of the best - you should also check out "Orkheerlager" on Facebook or Instagram. Those are the Orcs form Epic Empires and they are incredible too. Yes you can find "Drachenfest US" on all social medias and as a homepage as well. It had it's first run this year (2022)

@@SonjasAdventures Awesome suggestions, I will definitely check them out. I hope to attend the US branch next year. Thank you so much!

@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life you are absolutely welcome! Have so much fun

ouuuuh, thanks mate - that's a big honor! Glad you like it

I'm glad you liked the video

Thanks so much! It is definitely immersive if you commit yourself completely to it. As with any big Larp events, there are costumes and roleplay that completely draw you in - and there are some, that don't really help your immersion =D But that's the talent of us Larpers, to simply concentrate on focussing on the immersive part. Thanks for the kind words!!

@@SonjasAdventures That's true :D but I think it's really fun to fiddle about your concept and costume so the events are more imersive for everyone. I love that part of Larp.

@@BumbleBauz I couldnt agree more! It makes it easier for everyone and just increases the immersion for everyone

@@SonjasAdventures Yes, absolutely 😁👍

oh how cool!! Have you LARPed before? If not: Just make sure, to get a little informed before as this is not a "festival" like Mera Luna but definitely has a big roleplay factor =) There's a super helpful community on Facebook if you need it. Have so much fun!!

@@SonjasAdventures Yes! I have been LARPing for decades. Thank you so very much for the warning. I can see how someone would be mixed up if they were not into the scene. I have played MMORPG's and the like for decades so this is already well in my veins. I am very excited to be a part of it. I am already devising my Orc look. :)

@@lisajennings2194 oh awesome!! Then you are all set - only one last thing: As an Orc you would belong into the Orc camp and would need to apply there =) But Im sure you will figure that out as well! Have fuuun

@@SonjasAdventures You covered that in the video. You were quite thorough. I am so grateful for the excellent video. You did such a fantastic job.

@@lisajennings2194 aaaaw cheers Lisa!! Have so much fun then

veeery welcome! Glad you like it and hope to see you there one day

yeaaaay! Hope you can visit one day

It would make me very happy if this video could have helped making yoir decision 😍

Thank you Caro! I'm so glad you liked it. We will try to push out more content until the end of the year =) And of course, we are always very active on ze Instagrams and Facebooks hehe

@@SonjasAdventures nice! :) I'm already excited :D

yeay! Glad you like it!!

thank you 😁 You're absolutely right - a lot of work and dedication of people goes into this

veeeery welcome!

Hehe we are trying our best! Hope you liked this one? =)

I know. 😊 I shot this video in 2019 - before we had this thing with the pandemic 😂 Glad you like the video

Oooooh how awesome!! Is it your first LARP, too?

@@SonjasAdventures yes it is!! EXCITIIIING🤩✨✨

@@reineckefuchs7920 awesome! Can't wait to hear what you say

You are very welcome =)

Ui, thank you! Love that you enjoyed it even though that's not your kinda thing! Really appreciate it..also liebe Grüße zurück aus Bayern =D

oh cool! Definitely worth a visit - also Conquest of Mythodea the week after. And they have cool Larps in Poland as well from what Ive heard

@@SonjasAdventures Indeed, haven't had the opportunity to get information about them but i'll do it when i'm more settled !

@@TheMrGobelin sounds like a great idea! Have so much fun

Haha, well we have our eyes and ears everywhere (or so they say) =D

Aaaw, thanks mate! You know we post almost every day on Facebook and Instagram, right? So if you miss me, you'll find me there more frequently =) it's @sonjas_adventures on Insta

yeay! That makes me very happy. Hope you have so much fun next year

aaaaaw what a freakin compliment! Thank you!! Much love back from Germany

Age shouldn't stop you from doing LARP. 😀 "old people" are great enrichment for any setting. Diversity makes LARP only better.

oh you can literally not be too old for LARP - we have a couple 70-somethings in Larp. There's still time to make your childhood dream come true =)

absolutely! Glad you liked it!!

well, it's actually a funny story from what Ive heard 😂 but you should ask the Copper Avatar

Haha, well have a wild guess...=D

I knew it but i think if you guess it would be better XD

@@wulfbane111 I know what happened, as well - so we should let someone else guess then haha

Vielen lieben Dank - freut mich

yes yes =D Althoug I was never gone from Instagram and Facebook =D Still posting almost daily there in case you wanna see more

ui danke Bero! Freut mich, dass es dir gefällt. Klingt als wärst du selbst auch schon da gewesen oder? =)

Yeah Ive seen quite some Larpers who have better costumes than some movie sets 😊 Thank you for the kind words - do you larp yourself?

@@SonjasAdventures absolutely

@@marcofrank2082 that's awesome!!

I love your channel. It has shown me a world I knew only that it existed, but had no idea how fascinating it is. Thanks for that. Your videos are also extremely well made. Am binging through em now. 👍🏻👏🏻

@@marcofrank2082 oh woooow, that's cool" Thanks so much for the kind words, that really means a lot

24/7 war/fighting LARP with many other posibilitys.

Because of the size, there are players for ever playstyle. Even deep roleplay is possible. But the main event ist more like Olympia then a deep story larp event

Yeah, so as people said before me: It's 24/7 roleplay - but everyone decides within their groups how deep they go. However, you wouldn't get out of character if you met someone - I've seen that at international events outside of Germany and that's not something people would generally do here. So long story short: Smaller events will always have a more "deep" immersion. But Drachenfest is definitely in-game and not semi-roleplayed

Love it. Been there since 2014

@@Valech0 yeay, that's a pretty long time!

oh thank you!!

oh cool! That makes me very happy =D Thanks

no cosplay please.

@@Kullioking ??? But that's what it is. You cosplay a character in real life.

@@WafflezDay Nop, cosplay is that you create a costume from a charakter out of a game, movie, manga, anime, etc... and perform as this charakter. LARP is you create your own chrakter and play it and gife it your own personality.

@@Kullioking Semantics. By definition, LARP is cosplaying your own character

@@WafflezDay With your logic every actor is a cosplayer

so you want to be either Imperial or Chaos? 😁 Sure thing, you can base your character on all kinds of backgrounds.. depending on that, you might want to choose a different camp though. Chaos characters are great in the "Eternal Change" camp for example

@@SonjasAdventures definitely 😁😁 and that camp definitely sounds perfect for a tzeentch cultist or sorcerer 😁 thank you so much for your response and I’m glad I’m not the only one that will be doing a Warhammer character 😁

@@brenton3796 yeah they do have Tzeentch sorcerers there as well haha - have so much fun!

@@SonjasAdventures that’s amazing 😁😁 I can’t wait for next year 😁 I definitely will have a great time ☺️ thanks heaps 😁

@@brenton3796 Happy to help 💙

Thanks Phill! I'm actually posting a lot more on Instagram and Facebook (every week) - but there will be a few more videos on RU-vid as well until the end of the year =)

Du findes fast überall Magier nutzer, außer im Weißen. Das sind religiöse Fanatiker die keine Magie dulden. Die Schwarzen haben einen besonderen Fokus auf Magie, dort findest du viele. In vielen Lagern gibt es sogar Bibliotheken wo du Abschriften machen kannst. Einen Magierwettstreit gibt es natürlich auch.

Das hätte ich jetzt nicht besser, als Herr/Frau Unbekannt sagen können =) Wo liegt denn bitte Dödelbayern?? =D

@@unbekannt7367 Ey... Die Stümper findest du bei Kupfer auch nicht... Da siehst du höchstens die Rauchsäule, die sie produzieren

wohooo, glad our video made you excited! Have fun in the Copper camp!

Freedom for Copper! Praise the Blue Avatar!

yeah! Which camp were you at?

Gold

yeah they have an entire group with the same Fantasy concept - if I recall correctly they were at "Conquest of Mythodea" this year with around 5 people

😂

Sogar hier tummeln sich die Kagghaiders! Meddl,ihr Wahnsinnichen

yeah I think they play some form of Fantasy knights inspired by Templars 😊👍

Thank you!! You absolutely can - next year in July it will happen again =)

ja cool! Würde mich freuen wenn du dadurch einen geilen Urlaub erlebst 😊 ist schon was Besonderes

@@SonjasAdventures ...bin ja eher aus dem Segment "Mittelalter", aber finde LARP deswegen nicht weniger interessant. Die "Arbeit" an der perfekten historischen Darstellung oder der Entwicklung eines Fantasiecharakters, ist die gleiche. Und sowas respektiere ich sehr.

definitely try it out =) It's quite an adventure

Thank you!! Have you Larped before, Igor?

Oh cool - Swordcraft is in Australia, I think, right?

@@SonjasAdventures it is! We just had the Melbourne Quest event. It was great 😁

@@DocAcher ha! Knew it! Greetings to Australia then

@@SonjasAdventures haha, thank you! Greetings to Germany 😁

you mean "Larpers"? =) Well thank you

It absolutely is

It sure is - maybe you wanna try it out for yourself one day? =D

Thanks Lasse! =) Have you tried LARP before?

@@SonjasAdventures No not really, haven't had the opportunity, and had some prejudices, but i'm definitely gonna try it out after watching your video 😁

@@lassemadsen3803 wheeey that's awesome! Wishing you tons of fun!

"For the Horde" as in World of Warcraft? =D haha fair enough! And yes, Orcs put in a looot of effort

oh great Iain! Makes me happy that it helped 😍 Feel free to pass it on to anyone who might get some value from this video 👍

@@SonjasAdventures Just a Shame we didn't get to meet at Drachenfest

@@iainmcintosh225 where were you at?

@@SonjasAdventures Gold Camp

@@SonjasAdventures und schönes Grüße aus dem Ländle

oh cool are you in the video? 😁 👍

@@SonjasAdventures yup!!! ^^

@@carlosmunoz1863 oh how cool! Where exactly?

it absolutey is =) Have you ever tried Larp?

@@SonjasAdventures hi! Not ar this level! 😊🙌

@@xlrouge hey =) Well maybe it would be a fun adventure to try out then?

@@SonjasAdventures Totally!! It would be so much fun and I'm sure the people attending are very nice

haha well that would be a different genre =D There's those kind of Larp events as well (postapo / scifi larp)

@@SonjasAdventures good to know )) May I ask where your “character” got inspiration from? being myself more into fantasy and Celtic I definitely appreciate that lol now let’s see if I can recruit a team and create a battalion

Yeah you definitely could - however you would have to apply for the Orc camp if you wanted to play an Orc =) Which is tons of fun and I'm sure they will help you with the guidelines and tips for a good costume and great roleplay

Whooo, love that you like it =)

Yeah, I have friends who go there - sounds great =)

Hey there, yes there is a Drachenfest US. How do you mean the same system? Do you mean the same exact rules? That, I dont know. 😊 But you can simply ask them: They have an Instagram and Facebook page (and probably a homepage too) 👍 It was their first year in 2022

@@SonjasAdventures Yes, as in rules and RP system. A shame I couldn’t attend any LARP for the past three years… I miss it dearly! Thank you for your quick reply, milady. I’ll pay them a visit on their social media!

@@sirevince3178 More than welcome! I think you better check with them directly. I know you guys usually have some differences in the US, so I'm not a hundred percent sure 😊

Freut mich total dass es jetzt auf deinem Radar gelandet ist 😍 Kanntest du LARP davor schon?

@@SonjasAdventures neee! Noch nie von gehört. Aber hatten vor nicht allzu langer Zeit mit D&D angefangen und sind jetzt alle drauf hängen geblieben! :D

@@TheMasterdisaster14 okay wenn du D&D magst und dir das ganze in "live" vorstellen kannst, dann schau mal meine Videos durch (und wenn du mehr sehen willst, schau dir die Fotos von Larper:innen aus aller Welt auf meinem Instagram Kanal an). Da bekommst du einen guten Eindruck 😊 Willkommen in einer coolen neuen Welt

Absolutely! Check out the Facebook group, describe your character, maybe explain where you come from out-game and what you are looking for, and I'm sure youll find helpful people that would love to have you

if you are into Player versus Player more so than a huge NPC army, then yes, DF is more for you =) It's smaller than CoM of course, but that doesnt do any harm =)

Haha a Gentle-orc =D

oh cheers

Glad you like it, Dave! Have you tried LARPing before? =)

yeah some people really go over the top with their costumes as well

Jawoll - darüber haben wir auch ein Video. Heißt "10 Facts about Conquest of Mythodea"

Freut mich, dass es dir gefallen hat =) Bist du Teil des kupfernen Lagers?

@@SonjasAdventures Jap und wir haben auch euer Lager schon gehalten. Denke mal du bist Rot! And we love all camps, but red, because they dont seize weapons, but give them away!^^

PS: Sorry,after copper camp, white camp best camp!

@@DasArzt Nö ich bin gar kein Camp =) Ich war nur zu Besuch zum Filmen in 2019. Mein Standard-Larp ist das Conquest

Jedem das Seine. Und für meine Leute: Unser Blut!

How cooool! Where do you live? (and welcome to the community then =) )

San Antonio Texas

@@gjstrife oh cool! Hello from Germany =)

Hello

yeay! What will be your first larp in 2023?

Glad you like it! Have you been there yourself before?

oh really, you thought LARP was fun from that movie? =D Well then you are in for a treat if you're ever coming to Drachenfest. It's definitely 10 epicness levels above that for sure

@@SonjasAdventures I'm taking your word for it. Seeing some of the stuff in this video got me excited

@@warriorsorb1111 can't wait for you to see it then. What excited you the most?

@@SonjasAdventures seeing actual armies clashing and the insane costumes.

@@warriorsorb1111 awesome!! thanks for the feedback!!

I've heard of both - and from what I've heard it seems to be very different from European Larp. I'm glad you had a great time, though!!

yeah quite possibly. Sadly it's the best season for families with kids in school it seems

😂 ja nice! Dann macht das doch! Nächstes Jahr im Juli gehts wieder los und wird bestimmt lustig

haha it f***ing is!! =D

ui, dann wird es nächstes Jahr aber höchste Zeit!! =)

@@SonjasAdventures Hoffen kann ich ja!