[Ansteorra] Why I Joined was ideas was Presentation at Round Table

[Susan Tillery]

My experience is different, but then I am old.  

I joined early.  I went to my first event in 1977.  I don't feel like I was 
trying to fill a void but rather it was more that I fell in love with the 
game.   I could make a persona, dress in the costumes, and go to places with 
candle light and the romance of the legends and fairy tales I enjoyed so much 
growing up.  But then, there was no online roleplaying, nor LARPs in my day and 
it was much more fun for me to dress up and play a part rather that roll dice 
and talk about what my little figure was doing.  The game I play now is very 
different by necessity.  I am not as young and quick to befriend and join in as 
I once was and the game my fellow players play is very different from the one 
available then.  Instead, I turn my attention from fighting and dancing and play 
to archeological evidence and the recreation of artifacts.  Do I miss the old 
days? Yes.  Could I play that way again if there were a venue?  I would like to 
try, but it would be difficult. My role would be different and for I am older 
and slower. 


Something I don't see as much now, (Perhaps because I run in the wrong circles, 
more likely because we are a much more family oriented game than we once were 
with less extra room in the cars.)  are the carpools and caravans to events we 
once did.  Nor the offers and expectation of crash space.  Instead we arrange 
group rates at motels which fits the demographic shift from young singles to 
more prosperous and established population but makes it harder if we want to 
catch and keep said young singles. 

AEla


----- Original Message ----

From: Barone Orlando Di Gilead <orlando at agilejedi.com>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wed, January 30, 2013 12:39:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] ideas was Presentation at Round Table

Good points. I have single point. Last night in speaking with our
Hospitalier Lady Sybilla, we started discussing why people we know joined
the SCA. The one common thread we found was that people were trying to fill
a void in there lives.

Orlando