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Heather (3/6/2007)
The sword fight between the two guys who found out they were seeing the same girl was utterly spectacular from the publics point of view, sparks and everything, however trying to seperate them without either A) being decapitated or B) letting the crowd know there was a problem as a bit of an issue.
Did anyone think to film it and put it on youtube? I can imagine there's something very special about watching a pair of idiots try to genuinely murder each other while in full historical kit. It just sounds so much more classy than watching a pair of idiot football hooligans going at it with bottles and bar-stools (there's plenty of that on youtube already).
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| Most of these articles do unfortunately boil down to someone with a "my hobby's better than yours" agenda. Someone told me years ago when I first started reenactment- "If you get more than 10 people in your group, 2 of 'em will disagree with the rest about a minor point of detail/authenticity or policy and split off into a seperate group". Maybe it's true of anyone who's passionate about what they do? I just don't see why they can't value everyone else for their own passion?
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Did anyone think to film it and put it on youtube? I can imagine there's something very special about watching a pair of idiots try to genuinely murder each other while in full historical kit.
Sadly no  Frankly I never worked out what she saw in either of them.
"If you get more than 10 people in your group, 2 of 'em will disagree with the rest about a minor point of detail/authenticity or policy and split off into a seperate group".
Yup, be it LRP, Drama, Chess, Golf. There will always be disagreements about how things should be done.
Actually to be fair on him, I've heard a lot worse, at least he hasn't said
"I'm planning on starting my own LRP group and bringing in some new ideas, for instance we'll do actual fighting instead of throwing ping pong balls at each other."
Which one young lady from a vikings living history groups announced a couple of years back.
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Ping pong balls?
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Emii (3/8/2007)
Ping pong balls?
hehe! That was my reaction. Apparently instead of actual combat, live role players throw ping pong balls at each other. This was news to me.
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I do talk a good fight
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If only Treasure Trap's founders had been Viking re-enactors too, the whole hobby could have started out with people doing a modified form of re-enactment combat, only using gaffa tape and curtain rail swords rather than metal.
To think we could have saved 25 years of ping-pong ball madness! What were they thinking of back in those days?!?
(The irony being that Para 1 is in fact exactly what happened, just in case any ping-pong LRPers hadn't understood.)
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PD: Ghostdance ("The most irritating curse I've ever encountered" -- NPC played by H.)
Riftworld: Rossar Kuug ("Clearly mad, because he thinks he's a Com-Trow Skirmisher" - Aela)
Hyborian Tales: Crew, cook, dogsbody, general labourer, toilet cleaner ("Dangerously overoptimistic ref" -- Tom Nowell)
Otherwise usually crew ("Quite spry & fit, & willing to wear a big costume & run around a lot" -- various event organisers)
"My other oversized foam weapon is THE LORD" -- Questionable Content
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Squire
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Hah, you people and your little boxes.
The way in which this chap is surely missing the point in exactly the same way that so many do is that we are all doing slightly different versions of the same dance.
I know people who do Living History, Re-Enactment, Live Role play and every variation in between, maybe a few years ago the delineations were a little sturdier but the more I watch the more the lines seem to be blurring, people taking history/fantasy/mythology and engaging with our hobby of escapism and constructive self delusion (or as I heard it called recently 'Cross country pantomime'  ) at whatever level their time/budget/interest allows for.
Reading the history of his experience in our hobby between the lines of his actual text is interesting in a way his rant is not, he seems to have got a little scared of the pure fantasy at some point in time but in truth is his living history not just an escape into the past.
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He's obviously never been in an Seald Knot Pike block, it can be very competitive.
People get pissed all the time when a blow comes in badly but once they realise it's a mistake they usually calm down, what's generally annoying though is when the attacker is not trying to be safe and being deliberately rough that's when tempers really fray.
As long as I know my opponent is not aiming for my face, nuts and joints being hit badly is just part of the fight (Though nothings more irritating than missing out on most of a battle because you get bashed on the funny bone and can't lift your sword let alone pike.)
But then it's the same in LARP I nearly lost my temper as a monster at an LT event, dressed in a 6inch foam padding as an ogre construct I'd been frozen. Some knob seemed to think that paggering the back of my neck with a pair of dagger was acceptable, He didn't pull his blows at all and was aiming intentionally at my spine above the foam, I mean I was frozen to the spot and couldn't move while being attacked by about 20 people so death was certain, actually counting hits didn't really matter so it's not as if me missing any due to the foam was going to make any difference.
As for armour then they are different standards but if comes down to what's comfortable. One The SK field I have a set of metal back and breast It's quite heavy but not to heavy for me, however friends of mine are skinny runts to say the least and I would never at a LARP have a problem with them using pys-rep latex armour to avoid the weight. I would however disapprove of them wearing the same armour in front of the public at a re-enactment, even though I'm not a Living history buff and I camp on the plastic camp and don't yet own much LH stuff beyond what I need for the battle.
One thing I would like to know is, why, if he has all this re-enactment stuff, does he bother making a LARP kit. I have every intention of using my 1640s soldiers clothing and ,with a double check that there is no rough edges, my armour when I join maelstrom next year, plus I've also got a full set of posh Kit and boots I'd use as well.
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