playing game headquarters barnesville georgia united states website nerolarp.com nero international is a live action role playing game larp played in the united states and canada . the nero name originally was an acronym for new england role playing organization but the game has expanded well beyond its original new england roots and thus simply adopted the acronym as part of the official name . nero is a lightest touch boffer style larp that uses simulated combat with padded weapons . at a nero event players gather at a group campsite often a state or national park on weekends reserved by the local chapter . a group of staff members write the plot and story for the event while a cast of volunteer npcs play the roles of monsters and townspeople . the heroes of the event or player characters called pcs play participate in the event . over the course of an event characters earn treasure in the form of fake gold and silver coins magical components or enchanted items through battle with fantasy monsters and by solving puzzles or other challenges . characters also earn experience points for surviving the weekend which they can use to buy more skills and become more powerful . contents 1 history 2 the tyrran campaign setting 3 see also 4 references history edit the first gatherings of the group that would later become nero were held by ford ivey in rural massachusetts under the name weekend warriors in 1986 after he was inspired by a new hampshire game called midrealms adventures . 1 in march 1988 they began to work on the idea that instead of each game being a separate game with separate characters and each game having a single linear plot line there would be a single game world persistent characters and multiple overlapping and long term plotlines . 2 in fall of 1989 they changed their name to the new england role playing organization and began to operate larger events . the first event in april 1989 drew approximately 150 participants and the game slowly grew over the next three years . by 1991 weekend event attendance peaked between 300 and 500 participants and the organization reportedly had over 1 300 paid members . in september 1991 issue 173 of dragon magazine published an article about nero . 3 in 1998 joseph valenti purchased nero from ivey and began selling franchise licenses to people who wished to open and operate a local chapter in their area . over the years a number of chapters or groups of chapters have broken away from nero to form their own separate organizations . among these are laire southern organization for live action re enactments solar alliance larp and heroic interactive theater . 4 the tyrran campaign setting edit the setting of nero is the world of tyrra a medieval fantasy world . the normal nero campaign is set on the continent of avalon . the world map of tyrra very roughly resembles earth with avalon being in the position of north america . other continents generally only appear as elements of rumor and lore or as the source of travelers or enemies from afar . 5 see also edit list of live action role playing groups monster camp references edit seth peck blast from the past an evening with ford ivey september 2001 1 6 21 2011 moore m. 2014 august 14 . larpers immersed in an alchemy of fantasy reality . philly.com . retrieved from http www.philly.com philly news larpers world is an alchemy of fantasy reality.html on may 29 2015 michael a. ventrella dragon magazine issue 173 p. 46 49 stark l. 2012 . leaving mundania inside the transformative world of live action role playing games . chicago il chicago review press . pg .47 nero nero rule book 9th edition 2011 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nero international & oldid 707986186 categories live action role playing gamesrole playing game associations navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 march 2016 at 23 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view