My wife Leyla and I are avid LARPers (that’s Live Action Role-Playing for you non-dorks).

Once a month, we go to the woods with twenty of our friends, dress in costumes, and pretend to be fantasy characters. We camp for the entire weekend, staying in character the whole time. It’s basically Dungeons and Dragons IRL.

My wife plays a half-elf ranger in an all-female war band called the Bloody Sirens, while I’m the straight-laced mayor of a small human settlement. Rainfall (her character name) frequently raids my town with her gang, stealing resources and people that she then ransoms back. Our in-game currency is mostly alcohol and favors (occasionally sexual, in our case). It’s a riot.

There’s one problem, though. Frederick, AKA Shadowleaf, is my wife’s in-game... Leer Más