ES - Re: response to role playing

[Mordock von Rugen]

>From: willowjonbardc at juno.com
>
>Dear Everybody Greetings from  Willow

[snip]

>As to the matter of doing fantasy.
>I don't  think it is fantasy rather it is historical fantasy. The
>medieval construct we have made shows many of the fantasies that were
>popular in the middle ages.

Hmmm.  I think we are playing very different games.  I've always tried to 
play the game as stated in the SCA governing documents:

"The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international organization 
dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th-century European history."

It is that statement of purpose with which we got our tax exemption as a 
non-profit organization.  It is that purpose which drives us to do demos, 
and to document our arts and sciences.  It is that purpose which keeps us 
from trying to realize the fantasies of unicorns, and wizards, and elves, 
and so forth.

I agree that we take the best, and leave out that which we don't like, in 
our Society.  No heavy-handed Dukes exercising the right of high justice by 
having servants' hands taken off for daring to touch him without leave.  No 
bloodletting as cures to many diseases.  No deadly politics resulting in 
dead bodies.  No holy wars between adherents of different faiths.  And I 
think this is good.  However, I for one would like to see a somewhat greater 
focus on the "researching and recreating" than is frequently displayed by 
many.

I don't mean "period nazism" - but I *do* mean things like studying actual 
medieval warfare and trying to simulate those battle conditions.  I mean 
things like employing period practices for tourneys, and revisiting what we 
mean by "taking a wound".  I mean things like accepting that not everybody 
is playing the "courtly love" game - if they're early period the concept 
hadn't yet been invented.  I mean accepting that there were a huge variety 
of ethical codes in period, every bit as good as that of Chivalry, which may 
demand somewhat different actions that those demanded by the late-period 
Chivalric code.

But that's me.  And while I'd like to see it, I don't demand that others 
change their game in order to suit mine.  Enjoy!

Dux
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