[Ansteorra] White Diamonds

[Elaine Starkey]

there are society wide minimum standards for both combat and armor. 
variation occurs when kingdoms add to those minimums, as it should be.  what 
a Duke in Atlantia or the West thinks is the right way to do things is not 
necessarily what we want to do here in Ansteorra.  the rule variations are 
not that extreme, and are pretty easy to become accustomed to.  interkingdom 
wars are generally the place whre you see the result of the variations, and 
where, at times, one kingdom adopts the ideas of another way of doing things 
for their own.

AmaRyah
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deirdre" <ladydeirdre at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:35 AM
Subject: RE: [Ansteorra] White Diamonds


>I wonder (as many have before, I'm sure) why combat and armor rules are not
> set as society-wide standards, instead of at kingdom levels. kinda like
> having different drug laws in each state.
>
> deirdre
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ansteorra-bounces+ladydeirdre=sbcglobal.net at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:ansteorra-bounces+ladydeirdre=sbcglobal.net at ansteorra.org]On
> Behalf Of Eadric Anstapa
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:07 PM
> To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] White Diamonds
>
>
> Corey Van Zandt wrote:Eadric said:
>
>    If we MUST use the RED PHEON....does this mean we CANNOT use the
>    WHITE DIAMOND?
>    Couldn't we just use BOTH?
>
>
> Sure ya can use em both.  Just not an the same person at the same time.
> At the Society Level  Red Pheons and White Diamonds mean different
> things.  To use them both would violate Society Rules.
>
> Basically a Red Pheon is a combatant.  A White Diamond is a
> non-combatant.  Ya cant be both at the same time.
>
> I am going to try and fix it.
>
> Non-contact IS a problem because it is done differently everywhere ya
> go. Many kingdoms have no non-contact participation. Some do but they
> make people wear plumes instead of diamonds or pheons.  Some place you
> gotta touch em to kill em.  Some places you gotta get within 10 ft.
> Some places you gotta get within 10 ft and point your weapon at them and
> yell "Light you are dead!" .  Some places that wont work if there is any
> of their teammates that could have possibly intercepted you before you
> could have actually have gotten to em. etc. etc.  Some places have a
> clear the bow minimum range, some places it is 10 ft, some places it is
> 15' some places it is....  well, what it is... is a mess.
>
> This is why the trend at wars is to simply not have any non-contact
> participation.  Rather than have people from from umpteen different
> kingdoms, who each  play a different game ,come together and have
> tempers flare because non-contact means something different here as
> opposed to there... The answer more and more is to simply say NO to
> non-contact
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> HL Eadric Anstapa
> Deputy Society Earl Marshal for Combat Archery
> /eadric at scabrewer.com/ <mailto:eadric at scabrewer.com>
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