Stepping back from the forefront of the adventure to focus on a support character or even a simple commoner can be an amazing experience in LARP. Taking the time to perform the life of an ordinary person in the context of roleplaying allows for interesting reenactment possibilities, such as cooking historical meals and serving beverages and foods that increase everyone’s immersion, or performing a trade or classic occupation.

Similarly, the presence of non-heroic characters can improve the whole community’s experience by providing ordinary folks that can be saved, or crushed by repressive nobles and tyrants. A threat will always feel more real and more dire if some characters react with fear instead of stoic bravery, and people of importance are glorified when met with reverence and submission by some players.

There is a lot of fun in playing someone that is utterly overwhelmed by the events taking place, and at the mercy of the powers in play. Such character can take many forms, like worried shopkeepers and lowly artisans trying to make a living, pragmatic innkeepers playing the information game, easily fooled village idiots or naive maidens, old wizened townsfolks full of tales and stories, groveling peasants, diseased beggars, superstitious farmers, opportunistic minstrels, lumbering drunks, and grumpy bigoted country folks.