Community Guidelines & Codes of Conduct

The greater Dystopia Rising community is a large part of the reason we moved forward with opening the Los Angeles branch. We ask that you do your part to foster and create a safe, open, and accepting community for your fellow players and yourself.

By participating in DR: Los Angeles event you agree to the guidelines below. You will also need to fill out a liability waiver and a photography waiver at all official in-person events.

Age Requirement

Dystopia Rising: Los Angeles is a 21+ branch of the Dystopia Rising Network. No one under the age of 21 will be admitted; ID’s will be verified at check-in.

Network Community Guidelines

The global network community guidelines can be found on the main Dystopia Rising Live page - Community Guidelines - Dystopia Rising Live LARP

Respect

Everyone at our events deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. If you cannot respect others and treat them as fellow human beings than this may not be the event for you. Los Angeles and Southern California is full of all kinds of people and some you may even recognize from various kinds of media, but in the post-apocalypse we’re all either survivors or the undead.

Personal Property

Corrective Experience Entertainment, Inc. and Dystopia Rising: Los Angeles are not responsible for the safety of your property if it is broken or stolen. Please keep your important personal items secured.

Alcohol & Drugs

Players cannot bring or consume alcoholic beverages while on site, which includes the parking lot. Players may not abuse drugs, prescription drugs, or other illegal or controlled substances while on site, including the parking lot. Players may not show up intoxicated by any of the above. This is a zero-tolerance policy and you will be asked to leave or be barred from attending future events for violations of this policy.

LARP/Boffer Weapons

Please keep in mind these are guidelines for contact-safe weapons, but all weapons will be checked at every event for safety.

Melee Weapons

Boffer weapons should be primarily made of foam.

Allowed Cores: fiberglass, PVC, kitespar, and carbon fiber.

Prohibited Cores: wood, bamboo, metal, or any other materials.

There should be a minimum of 5/8 inch of foam between the striking edge and the core.

A minimum of 1 inch of foam should cover the tip of the core.

Longer weapons should not significantly bend or flex when swung.

'Flail' type weapons are not allowed.

The foam of a weapon is recommended to be no denser than 4lb (the density of a gray fatigue mat), and should compress with simple hand strength.

Thrown Weapons

Thrown weapons should be made of foam and have no core. 

Thrown weapons should be a minimum of 5 inches and no larger than 13 inches. 

While there are rules for javelins, we will not be allowing them at our current location.

Firearms

Cosmetic alterations are allowed and encouraged.

Paint jobs should be genre-appropriate and the last half-inch of the functioning barrel should be bright orange, as per 15 U.S. Code § 5001 (b)(1)

Firearms may only fire a single shot per pull of the trigger.

Firearms may only shoot foam darts or foam balls.

Foam darts and foam balls may not be modified in any fashion, and must be clearly labelled with your player number. Only the same kind of foam projectiles used during the safety test may be used during the course of the event.

Do not aim at eyes or face with a foam blaster or packets. Use of eyewear recommended for players and people within range.

Repeated complaints about unsafe use of foam blasters will result in the privilege to use them being revoked.

Players may get weapons tagged as non-striking or non-shooting and fire with packets for ranged combat.

Bows

Bows are considered weapons in California, and are illegal to carry in public per Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 14, § 4313.

Bows can only be represented by string-less, non-functioning props and are used with arrow packets.

If you want to be able to block or hit with melee strikes then the bow must conform to safe melee standards in construction and the requirements listed on page 31 of the Player’s Guide.

Shields

Edges and faces of shields should be padded by a minimum of 5/8“ of contact safe material such as 4lb density foam.

Shield cores can be foam, plastic or light weight wood.

Shields should not be designed in a fashion to give them sharp edges or corners. 

Painting and decorating shields to be genre-appropriate is encouraged.