LARPs are the great exception to the no acting rule. In a LARP the players dress up in costume and do their best to become actors and actresses.

HOWEVER there are a number of very strict rules for this sort of behavior and these rules are stressed over and over again the rule books for LARP games. Some of these rules are:

• Players must always take care to choose a location where they won't be observed; it should not be possible for a passer by to misinterpret what they see.

• Players should not get physical. In most games this is extended to no touching at all - no matter what has to be acted out.
• Players should not have any props. If the character in the game is armed with a sword, then the player should carry a card with "Sword" written on it, which can be displayed in a prominent location or shown to other players when the occasion calls for it.
• If the characters are capable of magic then once again cards are normally used. These cards have a suitable description written on them for example: "You are now a frog" and are handed to the other player. Or the player might have card pinned to their jacket stating: "I am invisible".
• Chance is still used to help determine the outcome of an action. For practical purposes dice are almost never used, instead the old Scissors, Paper, Rock game is used.