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Post by rothri on May 7, 2010 19:54:35 GMT 9
Their Excellencies asked us this question at out video court. I though this would be a great place to capture that info.
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Post by rothri on May 7, 2010 19:58:55 GMT 9
I joined the SCA initially as an experiment in the practical application of sword fighting in my study of combat simulation. I played a number of different role playing games - mostly for the simulated combat. But with different systems have drastically different views on weapons shield and armor I was always asking myself - how protective is a shield, how encumbering is armor, how much damage do swords do? While rattan is not steel - I have gained, what I believe, is a greater understanding of combat for simulation.
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Post by rothri on May 7, 2010 20:02:03 GMT 9
I stay in the SCA because I LOVE heavy weapons combat. There is something not only about the fighting but the camaraderie among fighters and the common goal of chivalric excellence. I really enjoy trying to re-create the middle ages. I try to make all my own stuff, and be as period as I can - what would it be like to be a man-at-arms in the middle-ages.
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Post by FriarJak on May 8, 2010 7:46:25 GMT 9
When I was the vice president for software sales at Compro Computers, the VP for hardware sales and service invited my wife an I to a costumed Christmas party. There were a dozen courses to the weird but delicious meal. Between each course different people recited poetry, sang songs, played flutes, lutes, and a hammered dulcimer. There was constant talk of a recent battle and three person melee practice the next morning to overcome their short comings in the previous battle. I wangled an invitation to the practice and was told to bring my "personal armor". I have never been to Scotland in this life, but I was there the next day and have never since returned for long to the mundane world. I joined to escape an electronic world if only on selected weekends.
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Post by FriarJak on May 8, 2010 7:56:36 GMT 9
I stay because I am addicted to the adrenalin rush of battle. Though it has become a long time between fixes I manage maintenance drugging with kendo, training newbies, bike riding and praying for the day when I can again ride a horse to the battle to face overwhelming odds with a few good friends in a fight to the finish, over and over.
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Post by Gareth Hadley on May 8, 2010 13:52:35 GMT 9
I unfortunately am simply a nerd. I joined as an outgrowth of D&D. I'd had no luck getting a group together and hadn't played in a while, and one of the guys I knew mentioned the SCA to me and tempted me with metal working classes. Turns out I don't care for that, but who knew till I tried it.
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Post by erikvonthomasson on Jun 16, 2010 6:21:04 GMT 9
I had always been facinated by the middle ages. I had some friends in Adria in San Diego, and they switched to SCA, after we formed out own little clan. i would have to say that it is the comraderie and the friends that one has /makes while taking part in events.
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