ANST - Field Personnas?
Faramond Darkfox
faramond at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 3 12:05:37 PDT 1997
>>>>>Remaining true to your period regarding armor and weapons,
>*and* being competitive or even excelling on the list and war field
>-- can it be done?<<<<
>
>A lot of it depends on your persona, also. It's a lot easier for
>12th to 14th century European personas to be "true to their period"
>than (for example) a 8th century Celt (who would never wear that
>much armor) or in my case, a 13th century Mongol (who's preferred
>tactic was to shoot the enemy with a bow at range) For many of these
>cultures, "Tournament combat" would be a completely foreign
>concept. What I like to see (and what I am just beginning to try to
>do myself) is someone who captures the "feel" of what their persona
>would be waering/fighting with IF they were put in a "tourney"
>situation. To paraphrase Sir Penadaren, I don't care if it IS
>period, but I want it to FEEL period....
I understand the "8th century Celt vs. 12th to 14th century European
persona" thing. I think if you had a early Pict personna hte loin cloth
would not be considered enough armor to wear on the field.
Faramond Darkfox
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