SC - sugar paste info

[Stefan li Rous]

At 11:38 PM -0500 1/23/98, Mordonnade wrote:

>I can just see what would happen to me if I did not have the coffee and hot
>tea ready for my fighters when they woke up.  If I offered them a pill
>instead, I'd be fired as cook.  I agree that coffee and hot tea are not
>precisely period, but neither is Kydex armour, nor shrinkproof cotton.
>Perfectly medieval might be a joy to contemplate, but it is not practical in
>the Current Middle Ages.  We all do the best we can with what we have to work
>with, and if we do not allow the lack of what we could have done if things had
>been different to ruin the fun we have we actually enjoy this game.

I can well believe that the people you cook for would object to that
particular element of authenticity, and I agree that, within broad limits,
each of us has to decide what elements are worth doing.

I do not agree that that particular dimension of "perfectly medieval" is
not practical in the SCA, however. Lots of people manage without tea and
coffee at events. I even manage without diet coke and internet browsing.
And, of course, lots manage without Kydex too.

Or in other words, I think you are confusing compromises that some people
choose to make, perhaps reasonably, with what is or is not practical. The
problem with doing so is that it may make people less willing to consider
that perhaps they could have more fun if they figured out ways of making
fewer compromises with period practice--indeed, that figuring that out is
one of the fun parts of the game.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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