/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Lets do this.

>>7321404
That brush doesn't look very authentic.

>>7321419
it wasn't game-time either

>>7321404
Hey there ladies of /cgl/, nice to see you again, I think you will find our costumes quite enjoyable and our humour quite humourous.

>>7321419
I didn't want to say anything and be "that guy".... But yeah, even a simple wood-bodied brush with synthetic bristles would look cooler.

>>7321422
So, who is your luxuriously locked larper? I assume you use him as the party face?

Or do you keep him around in the manner of the clergy?

>>7321430

>>7321432

Do we really have to start every thread as a picdump? Let's continue the last thread with LARP anecdotes and urban legends.

>>7321437
Hey gropey, I was curious, when I get around to choosing my SCA name and jazz what should I consider, also must heraldry feature animals/creatures that were known of at the time, or could I use something that was only discovered later on(IE Sabertooth cat, Moose)

>>7321430
I told a lot of stories about him on /tg/ but I rarely name the people in my stories. Mostly because the name wouldn't mane anything to anyone around here.
He is one of the guys I met during my first larp and we are friends since then. Also as we soon found out we can work together pretty good. For years we two were THE team evil in a larp and even today we can pretty much fuck shit up for anyone.
You could say that while I'm cunningly brutal he is brutally cunning. Or the other way around. The thing is I'm the sneaky ruthless guy who backstab everyone and gather all the information and sneak around undetected while he is the ruthless party face and one of the best fighters in larps. Also has a tendency to hit people on the head

>>7321415
Darn. From the thumbnail I thought it was a scarecrow. Interesting concept.

>>7321443
I'm with this anon. Although as I said I have less urban legends and more actual stories. But I will ask around for any particularly interesting urban legend around here

>>7321404
>tfw your fiance has hair that long plus the facial hair

>swoon

Urban legend? There is the one about the swedish reenactor guy...

Again I must ask, anyone got any sources on how to make landsknecht outfits?

>>7321457
Gay?

>>7321457
same here. its awesome

>>7321465
I have a few patterns and stuff like that but most of it is in hungarian what we scraped together. But fear not!
most of the landsknecht stuff is actually pretty easy to put together with very simple patterns. On the other hand most of it requires a huge amount of textile compared to other cloths so there is that.

>>7321443
It was started as a pic dump as continuing a story across boards would be confusing.

>>7321449
You don't have to choose a period name, and many people dont (I didn't)

Moose are period. Moose is just the native name of the Eurasian Elk. check out this part of the Wikipedia article for more info on moose in period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose#Europe_and_Asia

Sabertooth cats are right out. I would also wait a bit until you understand what the animals mean, what their positions translate into, and that you don't need animals. It also helps to use heraldry from a culture you focus on, and you're not quite focused yet.

>>7321452
Actually, scarecrows are common in LS&DT as they absorb residual magic, and animate.

>>7321465
What TIME FRAME. And understand, it is the most complicated sewing you'll ever do.

Fucking image swaps.

>>7321443
It was started as a pic dump as continuing a story across boards would be confusing.

>>7321449
You don't have to choose a period name, and many people dont (I didn't)

Moose are period. Moose is just the native name of the Eurasian Elk. check out this part of the Wikipedia article for more info on moose in period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose#Europe_and_Asia

Sabertooth cats are right out. I would also wait a bit until you understand what the animals mean, what their positions translate into, and that you don't need animals. It also helps to use heraldry from a culture you focus on, and you're not quite focused yet.

>>7321452
Actually, scarecrows are common in LS&DT as they absorb residual magic, and animate.

>>7321465
What TIME FRAME. And understand, it is the most complicated sewing you'll ever do.

>>7321470
>a huge amount of textile
I got dosh enough. Because I work a lot. And I dont spend it all on hookers and blow.
>>7321471
Time frame?
Kind of open, really. 15-16th century.

>>7321471
>What TIME FRAME. And understand, it is the most complicated sewing you'll ever do.
LKs have not that much of a time frame and mostly the decoration changes and became more and more baggy. Plus it's not reenacting so isn't that important to be 100% authentic, 40-50 years difference are fully acceptable.
And as I said LK cloths are svery simple compared to other cloths but need way more textile.
Another problem is the cuts which only a real problem if you don't use thick enough wool or something similar otherwise you have to sew around all of it so it won't fall apart. That is a time consuming thing. But with 500 gr or more wool you will be safe (preferably 70% or up on how pure is the wool)

>>7321471
Gotcha, thanks Gropey as always. And yeah I was going to ask if you even had too, because the girl I am doing it all with doesn't want to choose a name because it seems odd to her. Personally I'd do it once I get a focus on a culture.

Just from speaking too a lot of the people who had been there for a few years or more it is obvious choosing a culture can be a bit hard because a good bit of them hadn't chosen one.

>>7321479
I should ask my textile merchant. But I am fondling some of said wool right now. This is good shit.
Strong, a bit stretchy.

>>7321460
Don't tease us, storytime it.
>>7321468
Remember that we're on a field trip, Anon.

>>7321486
Nothing wrong about being homo.
We all want the occasional penis here, ammarite?

>>7321478
well then find someone who can sell you 100% wool because that's pretty much important to this (I can say that stoffe.de is a pretty good place for this and they ship to all over the EU AND with a very good shipping price. For example they ship it for free here if you orders value is more than 300 eur). Also you will need linen too.
Of course you can use more expensive materials too like velvet and silk which would be authentic too but I presume you aren't looting villages because those shit ARE expensive.

Alsoalso little thing that most people got rong with most cloths from that period: doublets and stuff like that ends at your hanging ribs. Doesn't go lower. period. your hose what goes up and covers your belly. Kind of important.

Also you may or may not will need a leather jerkin or a waffenrock

>>7321489
I was referring to the audience demographics, not implying that you're a homophobe.

>>7321489
>case in point

>>7321490
I concede.

>>7321478
That is 200 years, mostly without LK as we know them... Try to narrow that down.

>>7321479
I totally agree, but I just want to make sure he wants actual lk stuff and not weird abominations like the pic in >>7321478. That is not LK, and dosn't even remotely look like it, being a missmash of 20thC double breasted coat with early 15thC civilian openwork arms.

Here is a real LK coat pattern.


>>7321483
The whole "choosing a period name" thing is for people that feel odd presenting themselves as a 13thC Hassdin warrior and being called "Frank".
Hell, my name is period, but not for the culture I portray, I give no shits.

>>7321489
Good enough for the ancient greeks!

>>7321468
it's only gay if the beards are touching

>>7321492
I got the coat covered. I'm going with an armless wallachian coat.
(decided to go with the wallachian outfit)
I think I'll re-design the pants a little though. Make em fancier.

Totally bookmarking that page. Finding a good selection of wool here is HAAAARD. got a ready supply of white linen though, easily coloured.

>>7321498
>abominations
He's a clerk in the guild. Not a combatant.
Calling the outfit an abomination is a bit severe, I'd say. It is really well done and fits the game perfectly.

>>7321498
savedsavedsaved

>>7321498
I still say that something like that not bad for a larp. I go further: it's good.
Noone cares if it's authentic or not because it's a larp and more often than not he will play in a fantasy setting. So things like that are entirely acceptable to draw ideas from LK stuff

>>7321507
Ah, but I think the slits in the upper arms really should be pink too.

>>7321468
nope. very much penis and vagina type stuff. he just happens to have long hair. he used to have just a creeper mustache, but now he has a beard too <3

>>7321511
Has nothing to do with his combat status, but the fact that its a cross between 500 years of fashion just sticks out to me.

>>7321512
its not about authenticity, but about getting what he wants correctly. Slash-and-puff does not a landsknecht. For example, people think >>7321507 is landsknecht, when it is not even close.

Its a very particular style, and its something people get 300 years of clothing mixed up in. I just want him to look GOOD and not like a scrap bin date raped him.

pic related. They have a very distinct style.

>>7321507
I have patterns like this. IT's for a hose for example and doesn't show the more "logical" parts like how you make a joined hose and other unimportant shit like that

>>7321524
More proper patterns

>>7321524
>cross between 500 years of fashion
Ah but are they not arranged in a pleasing manner?

>>7321524
yes but other than folks like you and me noone will realize that it's actually mixed up. And people don't have the same taste. I for example would like to mix my armor parts from all around the time scale because there is always some cool thing in every century. But if I want to be a reenactor I cant, I have to make compromises. If someone is larping than he has way more freedom. So as long as someone doesn't say that hi IS wearing an authentic landsknecht costume then I don't really care he can draw ideas wherever the fuck he wants. And mix up all kinds of times.

>>7321538
Not really. It looks like shit.

Have a hat. The most important part .

>>7321543
Its not about being authentic, its about trying not to look like a retard. If you're going to call yourself something, try looking like it.

>>7321543
and to be fair, their entire culture has been landsknekt for a coupla hundred years.
IC, that is.

>>7321549
But he's not calling himself a landsknecht. he's calling himself a Guild secretary.

>>7321553
It just the watering down of ANYTHING slash-and-puffed being call Landsnecht that bothers me, you dig? Its like people walking around with an AR15 in a fantasy larp that muskets fire arms, because "guns are guns"

>>7321549
>its about trying not to look like a retard.
what I'm saying that he looks like a retard to you. But for others probably not (or at least not more than a proper LK fashion that is called retarded all the time) because they don't have this bias that it's all mixed up.


Also I think I mentioned in one of the previous thread but the civilian clothing from the Maiar codexes are good enough for larp too. Those are not really LK cloths have more than a few differences but again that's not something that people will really care about.
example

>>7321560
Im get get where you're commining from. Its the generic lumping that makes your rage.

>>7321560

>>7321563
Its not about Civilian clothing being wrong.

>>7321564
This guy gets it.

>>7321549
>THE hat

Thankyou based clown!

also another important thing: the shirt. The more frills are the better at neck and hands.

>>7321568

>>7321568
...is that a ferret?

>>7321568
why does it matter if it is a fantasy culture?
No one is complaining when people mixes shit from various viking centuries as long as it is larp

>>7321577
trust me. There are more than a few reenactors that are raging all the time about larps

>>7321577
Its not that, its the fact that they misidentify it. Not all Asian swords are katanas, not all shoes are turn shoes, etc. As you've seen from the pics I collect and post, I am perfectly fine with fantasy, if it looks good.

>>7321576
And yes. What idiot would go into battle without a battle ferret?

>>7321586
>not a battle badger

>>7321575
for an LK shirt that pattern is "too complex" it should be four rectangle, and you don't have to cut out the hole for the head just make it into frills. Also the plus width at the end of the arm? frills.
The armpit should be baggy as fuck, etc.
As I said simpler but needs more textile.
Also why not everyone used full hosens just something that go down to knee height and used it with a kneesock type thingie. Sometimes left their leg bare if it was a hot day

>>7321586
the one who has a battle cat

alsoalso on the not of hats
http://www.historiclife.com/pdf/landsknechthatandcoif.pdf

>>>7321588
What ho, good sir? I think no man but men-of-arms in the kings service need such battle badgers to defend thy holds!

>>7321589
I don't have any stondhosen or plunderhosen patterns, and I am quite aware of fighting hoseless.

>>7321596
note entirely hoseless mind you. Sometimes it's just one leg or half of the leg. Sometimes it's the upper part sometimes it's the lower part.
But in reality you want your tights to be bare if you fighting in hot temperature, but that's another matter

>>7321599
I know. notice mister cigarello in the pic i posted has his loosened for comfort, as he has in this pic too.

I've done it a time or two. Its wonderful on a hot day.

>>7321596
If thou dost desire taking mine battle badger, thou shalt have t' pry it from my frigid, lifeless grip, wretch!

>>7321608
...goddamnit moot.

>>7321608
>>7321610
I fucking lost it, hearing that polar bear scream it in a highpitched voice.

also anon. another important thing about LK cloths. most of the time it's made out of several layers, the first one is more or less fitting and preferably made out of linen. Then you can have as many layers as you want for the decoration. You sew this to the first one and you slash this layer(s) but it mast be always have a different color than the other layers.
Rule of thumb, the more we advance in time the more baggy and frills/insane stuff will have the cloth. The really early LK stuff doesn't even resembled the stuff most people associate with them

Also about the layers you CAN make your upper cloth from one layer but generally that meant back in the time you didn't had enough money for something better. Then it's absolutely important to have a really good white shirt. The whiter the better. Then others can see your very good white shirt through the slashes and see that you can afford to wear a clean white shirt every time. If it's dirty and stuff like that.. well then you are not that cool (but you can still burn down peasant houses)

>>7321589
>not using neck cut out to make gusset

>>7321617
THIS THIS THIS THIS.

>>7321619
>Ishiggity diggity doo-daa day.

>>7321619
stay plebs

>>7321617
I learn so much

My LARP group just spent a weekend advertising at a small convention. Demonstrated combat, talked about our game, and otherwise entertained con-goers with the nerds in clothing. It was a damn good time - got to chat with a really awesome French guy who's been pretty heavily involved in the French LARPing scene (or "jeu de rôle grandeur nature") about mechanical differences and a bunch of other stuff.

Driving out to another game in mid-February - they've got access to a giant indoor arena that they've been decorating as an Underdark market. Whole place is goddamn amazing, even if I'm not a fan of the underlying mechanics of the game. Either way, it's plot and people, not rules, that make a game good - great rules and a shitty set-up can really screw people over, although I will concede that good rulesets make life easier.

>>7321647
take it with a grain of salt and don't be afraid to do your own research too. I'm still just "learning" this stuff so it is pretty much possible that I say a few retarded things here and there

>>7321647
That is the magic of /tg/.

>>7321652
Which group, which con?

>>7321654
salting everything. yes.

>>7321652
>"jeu de rôle grandeur nature"
they have awesome videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmaUu2M34tA

>>7321661
Last Hope, Midwinter Gaming Convention.

>>7321422
i'ts always game-time...always

>>7321687
Bonsoir mon ami! Hows the weather in Nagaroth?

>>7321697
i'ts getting quite cozy at -19
This morning we had a -30

pic related : A Canadian at -5 (i kinda wish i was joking)

Sure why not.

I kinda want to buy pic related, but I have no character that would use it currently.

I kinda want to buy pic related, but I have no character that would use it at the moment.

We have seen a lot of clothing tutorials lately, but what about armour?
Thinking specifically of maille.

>>7321806
not much to know about it at beginner level.
you just have to learn the 1 in 4 sewing and start to hate the armpits.
Plus getting links

>>7321590
>maine coon
>give it armour
Can cats adapt to wearing a couple pounds of stainless steel? Do you think I could teach it to wield a polearm in its forepaws?

>>7321842
why not mount it on the armor?

>>7321799
Is that your new halberd head?

>>7321842
Man.... My maine coon just passed away. Now I have feels.

>>7321847
nope. That's the old one. The new one is black and still half a country away.
I will get it at february 8 and hat to assembly it until 15.

>>7321852
I want to get one or two for the LS&DT loaner/NPC armoury, but they are costly here in the states.

>>7321856
we bought it before christmas when there was a huge discount. MAybe there will be another one before easter or something

>>7321857
Nah, all the American suppliers know they got our nuts in a vice, and are typically "on sale"....for $70usd...

Gah, gonna have to go to the opticians soon too. Need to get my prescription noted down so I can get contacts lenses. Fuck wearing glasses during combat. That and the helmet I want wont let me wear them anyways.
Does also mean I can get coloured ones to fit with my characters lineage.

I am kind of at a loss as to what I can do until I have the moneys to get stuff, ideas for something LARPy or SCA folks?

>>7321863
do you know if viking leathercraft sometimes go on sale?

I know it's not really costly but if there is a sale it would be more easy to convince my sergants to make and effort for their shoes ''some wore white sneakers this year...''

pic related, one of my sergeant training with the bow

>>7321863
So one could make a profit selling Calimacil et al to the States? Intriguing.

>>7321869
Ask if any LARPS nearby are needing crew. Most decent LARPs have kit for crew to help with monstering. That way you can LARP, help out and not have to worry about kit so much.

>>7321870
no because most US games banned calimacil as they deemed it "dangerous" or "unsafe" or "easily destroyable"

>>7321874
What? How do you even do that?
I've heard the complaints about them being too stiff, but breakable? Seriously?
Sounds more like they were too cheap to upgrade from badly done boffers.

>>7321881
>too cheap
>Americans

Surely you jest

>>7321881
we have a theory that calimacil never sold any weapons in the US and the larpers there only got chinese knockoff or something.
I have no other logical explanation to all the complaints they give against calimacil weapons.
Except that they are retarded

i had a calimacil
They're not made to figth , they are made to look good

In french we call calimacil weapon , CaliMALcil

*Mal means pain (or bad)*

>>7321913
but is it the good pain?

>>7321913
Pain is good! It discourages cheaters and encourages better inventory creation!

>>7321916

Nope, i had people get mad at me for ''hitting too hard'' while i was actually watching my shot because people are too dumb to wear padding under their helmet/chainmail

now i have a latex sword and i dont get that complain

>>7321652
>underdark market
Any pics?

>>7321890
Still, I have an ancient Calimacil (bought it used like 5 years ago) and the only thing I had to do was to touch up the paint twice.
It seriously baffles me how you can break these things without actively trying to do so.
>>7321913
Yeah, a lot of the older batches were excessively hard, most of the newer ones are softer. Still hurts more than normal latex though.

>>7321923
That might just be because a Calimacil has more mass and thus impacts harder.

>>7321923
that is the good pain. The pain that only idiots suffers.

Also I'm off to sleep

>>7321913
>Calimacil
>Made to look good
>Fucking ugly ass big thick lego brickswords
>Look good

>>7321870
You could if there was a bigger market.

>>7321873
All the time! Mostly around holidays and major SCA events, but he has regular discount sales to members of the Armour Archive, if you watch the forum.

>>7321874
>>7321881
Never heard a complaint on durability. All the BS complaints I heard were "They are dangerous!!!1!!".

>>7321889
Yes. Most Americans are cheap fuckers. Instant gratification rather than buying something worth the money.

>>7321890
No, we have official Calimacil dealers... Who charge $100 a sword.

>>7321922
I agree with this.

Requesting the 'I had fun once...' pic of hungarian. I need it for reasons...

>>7321928
Beyond teaser pictures from the EC? None yet, although here's one of the teaser pictures they tossed up. I've toured the site - it's pretty great, plus the owner is expanding into game hosting.

>>7321974
I don't have the exact one, but I hope this will suffice.

>>7321984
thank you good sir...

>>7321974
I don't have one, but take this as cosolation

>>7321976
That looks AWESOME. 10/10, would delve.

Bump

>>7322047
>dat scale
>dat shield

Damn that looks tight. . .

>>7322054
Tighter than fat hipster in skinny jeans.

>>7321922

I sure wish Amtgard had stuck to this philosophy. I bailed on them after their 6th edition construction regs basically amounted to "a pillow wrapped around funoodle" for a basic sword design. Made all my flats illegal. Pandering to children and cripples wrecked the game.

>>7322064
>fatties in skinnies

The Profligate One likes

>>7322065
Ah yes... dickswords...

>>7322078
Yes?

>>7322078
Speaking of dickswords...

http://www.calimacil.com/weapons/shortswords/light-saber-green.html

That's a dildo right?

>>7322065

I only have two sets of LARP gear ATM

>>7322094

I can only play what's around me. The local SCA group consists of 6 people who are all geriatrics and don't even fight. I don't have the resources to travel great distances to find a decent group that isn't patterned off of the Amtgard model.

>>7322108

That's two more sets than I currently have. Good on you.

>>7321990
Yeah, it's fantastic. There's a lot of space available - including some rather nice secret passages between places, a full marketplace with an inn, tavern, and shops, dungeon areas, and a large room with modular walls. Like I said, they're opening up to hosting more games if this one is a success.

The only problem is that it requires that candlelit appearance - it's thoroughly modern when it's not decorated well - but thankfully, it works for any game someone would like to run there.

>>7322108

Any my newest piece of armour.

>>7322094

I dont even get what the fuck the point of dickswords is. You can buy a cheap LARP sword for like 50-60 bucks, a real good and decent one for 120 albiet two handers go for like 170-250, but jesus you get fucking quality and its worth it.

>>7322110
What about the next SCA barony over?

>>7322127
Mostly the illusion of safety.

>>7322123
>including some rather nice secret passages between places

YA BLEW IT! it's not secret anymore

>>7322131
Oh please lord...let Bicolline's balista look that good

>>7322131

That's a 400-mile road trip that I can't afford. I live in fucking Tatooine.

You're spot-on about the "illusion of safety".

>>7322144
Start Star Wars LARP, earn mad creds.

>>7322132
They're incredibly well-concealed and require you to be willing to crawl through some incredibly tight spaces. It's part of the brief for people - I just have the advantage of knowing where they are. Imagine trying to find a well-concealed opening in what is basically candlelight.

>>7322144
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tataouine

>>7322156
>Imagine trying to find a well-concealed opening in what is basically candlelight.
So...it's kinda like a teenager first time then

I'm off to my home planet ! my job here is done.

>>7322144
Arizona? Nevada?

>>7322193

Middle of the TX Panhandle, actually.

>>7322200
Thats rough brother.

>>7322205

It sucks. Kind of like this, actually.

I love these field trip threads. Thanks you guys for stopping by.

What are some good fabrics to use instead of wool for someone who can't wear wool (I'm allergic apparently and I get hives when I wear it)? I would love to attempt a kampfrau sort of gown before I cut into my gold brocade and go full Cranach, or to add some more authenticity to my current renaissance fair kit (which is all linen and sort of half-assed Italian ren). I started out wanting to do historical costuming but there aren't a ton of places to wear that stuff here so I ended up getting my pretty princess fix with Lolita fashion instead.

>>7322274
Linen, cotton, silk, piled velvet, piled cotton, felted cotton, various brocades...

Just avoid artificial fibers and you're gold.

Were you in the historic costuming thread?

>>7322274
Also if you have the chance, please post pictures of the different step of the costume, it could be interesting

>>7322290
There's piled and felted cotton?

There's a historic costuming thread?

>>7322274

Linen fiber, silk, cotton, velvet. . .the list isn't really long for period fabrics that aren't wool or wool-based, but there's a couple.

>>7322290
So Gropey, since we are on the topic of clothing, should I bother to order clothes online or just make them myself? Folks at the meeting said it is fairly simple to do, and fabric really doesn't cost too much.

>>7322302
Yes, and yes.

The historic costuming thread was 7282815 if you wanna look it up on Rebecca blacktech.

>>7322311
I do both, and there is no shame either way. Obviously, getting something to wear, even a simple tunic is priority #1. Its the question of what would make you happier:

Would you feel better having something to wear now, so you can participate ASAP?

*or*

Would you feel better having something you did yourself, even if you don't have it right away?

There is no wrong answer!

>>7322290

Gropey, are you that guy who dresses up as a sexy faun girl?

>>7322090
>http://www.calimacil.com/weapons/shortswords/light-saber-green.html
What the fuck? Who would be retarded enough to drop 130+ bux for that crap? Prancing around in woods while dressed like a retard I can ignore, but buying a light saber is just too much.

>>7322327
No no no.... He chases faun girls through the woods.

>>7322327
WTF?

>>7322327
Pic related : it's Gropey

>>7322338
LOL.
Man that is hilarious.

>>7322343
Looking good Gropey.

>>7322327
>>7322338
>no ropey you are the fauns!
>and then gropes was a fae

>>7322338
.....Gropey is that really you?

>>7322345
>>7322343
Funny... I don't feel pretty.

>>7322353
As far as I am aware, no.

>>7322353
Of course it is, haven't you paid attention?
He loves to prance around the woods getting chased by burly hunters.

>>7322353
Totaly
he's the guy in >>7322325 if you don't know

apology for poor english

when where you when ropey became fae?

i was sat at home eating poutin when Telephone ring

''Ropey is fea''

'no'

>>7322363
I mean...if you wanted I could...ya' know dress up like a big burly man and...c-chase you around the woods...THATSIFYOUWANTMETO

Somebody said something about trap fauns?

>>7322359
>>7322374
Sounds like a fine weekend, but I'll pass.

>>7322371
[spoiler] Spoilers don't work on /cgl/ [spoiler]

>>7322373
Wat am you write?

>>7322376
Only if they are passable...

>Dressing up as a man

>>7322343
S-Senpai!

Oh gosh I hope he notices me

>>7322386
WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME I'M PRETTY!

>>7322399
We all thought you knew and it would be improper to bring it up to you

>>7322399
by the way that's me , in case some of you wondered what my kit looked like

>>7322399
Because we all thought you knew you were a beautiful princess.

>>7322274
Yay another lolita with historical interests and a particular interest in German styles!

Could you wear wool if you had another layer in between, like a chemise? Some of the Cranach gowns are worn with a high neck chemise. Photo related.

How are you thinking of doing the bustruck (breast band)? I like the idea of it being part of a kirtle under the gown.

>>7322290
No that was me.

>>7322411

Hardhat and broom isn't even period!

>just kidding, that's actually amusingly clever

>>7322407
>>7322412
D'awww....

God damn, I love women in 16thC German*. UNF.

*Severed head accessory not included

>>7322422
It made me giggle.

>>7322399

Yes, Fulgrim, you are the prettiest of princesses.

>>7322421
>lewd

last pic and i'm off to sleep , also notice how the big yellow sponge ruined this pic

Moral of the story ...make an effort when you make weapon...if not for you, do it for everyone who hate these kind of eyesore

Damnit, I forgot you were all over here today

>>7322440
Please, at least use Sigvald the Magnificent from WHFB. Im classier than 40krap.

Man... The only time some people reached out to me locally after seeing my cosplay pictures and invited me to their LARP they didnt have costumes this nice. I think if they did I might have been interested to go. But no instead I was show pictures of people in hot topic clothing or this fat dude with a batman cowl, halloween bat wings and a pvc evening gown. He was a dragon apparently.

>>7322451
haha yeah, maybe I should have picked this one instead. Not at all sure what is supposed to be going on in that painting...

>>7322489
I assume you're from the US?

>>7322489
You go to the wrong larps. if you're near VA, I suggest you join up my larp, Lost Stories and Dark Tales. We're about to do our first big game.

Link in the email.

>>7322491
That is a group of German ladies being tended to after a day of riding.

>>7322494
Nope Canada. :( There is SCA here but I dunno I didn't like the atmosphere when I went to a couple gatherings.

>>7322501
ah-ha makes sense now. The musicians on top of the building leaning over was a confusing element.

>>7322506
So you're not even close to Bicolline or something? Maybe you should ask our two Canadian namefags whether they can help.

>>7322506
I am going to tell you the same thing I tell everyone: The SCA is HUGE and diverse. If you don't like your local group, you can always go play with the neighbors!

I HATED the New Orleans local SCA. I would literally drive an hour each way to go play with our nieghbors in Gulf port MS, because we meshed better

I've been thinking.
Thinking about a Call of Cthulhu LARP. Just a personal thing for a smaller, tight-knit group. Hiring a cottage or country house out in the faire English countryeside for 6-10 players, with a handful of monster crew, with player fees going towards the cost of rental.

A rich old benefactor/relative/friend/client/mentor of the PCs has passed on after years as a recluse at his home in the countryside. The PCs have been invited to stay at his former home while his lawyers go over the fine details of his will and apportion the players that which has been left to them. However, things begin to go terribly wrong. All IC from time-in to time-out, mysterious NPCs, terrible clues left around the house, linears out into the surrounding land/woods to delve further into the mystery, and horrors in the surrounding woods that prey on weak minds at night and prevent anyone from leaving until help arrives.

Any issues that immediately arise with this idea? Other than the astronomical cost of actually renting a good site for the weekend, of course.

I'm just talking pipe dream stuff at the moment, but planning for the future is always nice.

>>7322512
Yeah, Ontariofag just went to his first meeting and had a blast. Was also given a coal forge. I mean, seriously. Good SCA groups are awesome. Bad ones are horrible.

>>7322516
Sounds good to me!

>>7322516
I still have to read the rulebook for Cthulhu Live, but this has been one of those things I've wanted to do for years now

>>7322512
Unfortunately no. I am in British Columbia. There might be a cool LARP scene here now but I dont know. Something to look into now. Just didnt realize that there were such cool groups out there period. Cool thread LARP bros.

>>7322514
The local SCA seen here seemed to like to get together in the woods and bang each other. Which is nice if your into that I guess.I however only like getting my daily dose of vitamin D from my boyfriend. This also was a while ago though so not sure if the dynamic has changed.

>>7322551
Unless you are in like, rural BC you should have more then one group of SCA in the area, I only have one group that I can go too because I live in an area with no SCA presence.
>>7322521
Maybe I should just drop the Newfag part, everyone knows I am inept as hell

>>7322551
According to this (incomplete) map there area few LARPs in BC, but that says nothing about their quality, sadly.
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=209551695769559784141.0004e041f475045210e09
>>7322556
Yes, step in line and name yourself [Area] LARPfag, you know you want to.

>>7322556

Ontariocerous? Ontariosaurus Rex? Ontarioscopic Examination?

>>7322562
Oh cool. Thank you for the map. Its a good place to start.

>>7322562
Hah, I really have nothing around

>>7322584
Oh there is stuff in and around Toronto, only Elegy looks good though

GUYS.

Besides Sportkilt, where can I get some good kilts? Authentic woolen ones from the UK are pretty costly and I don't want to ruin them in a muddy old LARP.

And for the love of fuck please don't say utilikilt.

Also I have an OC (yeah yeah I know) whom is of the Stark family from GoT. Anyplace I can get a Stark tunic or some sort of shirt with the Wolf on it?

>>7322584
As I said, the map is far away from being complete - there are a few cons around Toronto, IIRC. Ask Ontario LARPfag for details.
If all else fails, you can still take the trip to Bicolline.

>>7322590
I've seen some of their pictures, and it looks good. And post-apoc is a little more my flavour than fantasy. But I'll be damned if a weekend lines up where something is happening and life didn't go to shit again lol

>>7322591
http://www.redbubble.com/people/absynth/works/10713282-house-stark-black-worn?body_color=silver&p=t-shirt&print_location=front&ref=shop_grid&style=mens

>>7322594
I've looked around at some stuff, but I haven't been to anything, and being the picky bitch I am I don't really want to go to most of them

>>7322591

No idea about kilts, but for Stark and GoT-related gear, it's hard to go wrong with Cafepress, Redbubble, or Etsy,

>>7322591
*Not* making an OC character would be poor form, you're kind of expected to create your own. But... y'know, I'm not judging you for it, but making up a completely new character from House Stark is going to ruffle a few feathers. You might want to consider choosing a smaller house or creating your own.

>>7322605
There's nothing wrong with being picky. If you think a con sucks, don't go.
Still better than having to endure dickswords and the beanbag apocalypse.

>>7322620
One I saw had a picture shoved right front page of a guy using a dicksword and wearing a T-shirt and swim trunks.

Yup, toats immersed

>>7322421
Probably not because even with an underlayer, I'd touch my face with my sleeve or something and BOOM giant itchy face hives.

I have made a square necked chemise, kirtle, and skirt/petticoat out of linen, figuring I could reuse them as underlayers when I had fancier stuff/things from different regions. I like Italian and English styles too and when I was researching I found those easier to understand structurally. I have a pattern from Reconstructing History for a "Saxon gown" and I think she just has the breastband integrated into an overdress, over a chemise. I'm pretty busty so I think your idea would probably support me better.

Reason I was asking about wool because I thought kampfrau type stuff was always wool, vs. brocade/silk/velvet for the fancy ladies in the Cranah paintings. But I haven't looked at anything in so long and I just found this and hnngggh

>>7322641
Oh hey, it was actually a pillow axe, with other people using dickswords

>>7322645

Personally, I say go with cotton and make that happen. If anyone gives you grief over it because you're allergic to wool, administer groin kicks to them until they comprehend the magnitude of their erroneous opinion.

>>7322662
such authentic, much fit, wow

>>7322662
Ya this is the kinda thing I have seen locally.

>>7322662
Christ, that looks awful. Have so YuroLARP to counter that.
>>7322666
>cotton
Not that common during that period, as most cotton had to be imported from Egypt among others. Flax or linnen would be much more common.

>>7322667

Authenticity rarely factors into garb for Amtgard-style LARPs. So long as the bare minimum garb requirement per class (usually a colored sash or belt) is present, anything else is acceptable. Most players concentrate their funding on weapons and make garb a secondary concern.

>>7322674
There is still this horrible taste of shit left in my mouth
>>7322677
And that is why I will never touch anything Amtgard-style.

>>7322677
>concentrate their funding on weapons
so judging by that pic, they're all piss poor and aren't getting any better

>>7322645
>Probably not because even with an underlayer, I'd touch my face with my sleeve or something and BOOM giant itchy face hives.

Makes sense, I'd go for linen or a thick cotton (not broadcloth) then.

>>7322645
>I have made a square necked chemise, kirtle, and skirt/petticoat out of linen, figuring I could reuse them as underlayers when I had fancier stuff/things from different regions. I like Italian and English styles too and when I was researching I found those easier to understand structurally. I have a pattern from Reconstructing History for a "Saxon gown" and I think she just has the breastband integrated into an overdress, over a chemise. I'm pretty busty so I think your idea would probably support me better.

Here is an example of someone who did the breastband as part of a kirtle. Here website is sparse and in German so I haven't been able to figure out her reasoning.

I'm with you on the support. You might find these tutorials helpful in that area. They are for fitted cotte (an earlier dress) but the idea seems like it would work.

http://cottesimple.com/tutorials/straight-front-seam/
http://cottesimple.com/tutorials/curved-front-seam/

>>7322677
Which is a shame, as it reduces the entire thing to simple boffertag, which, while it can be fun, is usually populated by the worst kinds of people.
>>7322683
They don't even want to, that's the worst part. They're perfectly fine with wallowing in shit, which applies to most NA LARPs.

>>7322686
No shit eh. It's almost depressing that my wedding outfit was more authentic than anything they'll try for

>>7322686

Compounded by the people that make the rules the game is played with refusing to adapt the game to current weapon-crafting technology, so it perpetuates a system where for about $15 at a Home Depot and a bit of dumpster diving at a construction site, you can make a legally-acceptable sword that looks terrible but performs its function within the game.

>>7322645
>>7322685
Early Florentine dresses are actually not that different in shape then the kampfrau dresses. The style and trimmings are different, and the well born Florentine lady wears a overdress/cape.

>>7322698
missing my image

>>7322685
If you need translation help, just ask. It's 6AM and I don't have anything better to do either way.
>>7322689
It's not even the authenticity, it's that they're not willing to invest a minimal amount of money to look half-decent. For all I care they can combine a frock coat with Kastenbrust armour as long as it looks good an makes sense IC.
>>7322694
Not to mention the fact that they decry everything that goes above and beyond what they're used to.

>>7322701
I think it is more that they don't want to invest any effort, you can get decent looking clothes for cheap, just ask Gropey.

>>7322709
I actually wanted to say "money and/or effort", but I suppose I fucked that up.
Have a remembrance service for a snail the Landsknechts adopted on the DF years ago.

>>7322717
Poor snail, the boot came too soon for him

>>7322686
Dat brass helmet

>I jelly

>>7322701
You are so kind. Unfortunately when I looked up the website again it turned out it was in Czech not German. That's what I get for doing binge researching.

>>7322700
Florentine lady with the overdress (giornea).

>>7322701

Well, they (Amtgard) did break away from the SCA for reasons, one of which was the cost. That they provided a game for lower income folks that would have never LARPed otherwise was pretty altruistic, but the fact is that this isn't 1983 anymore and crafting materials and technology have progressed beyond the game's scope. Instead of upgrading at least the weapons (if not the garb requirements) to match what's available out there in other LARP systems (which would provide for a larger NA market for latex and what-all), they continue to pander to the cheapest and simplest possible paradigm.

>>7322722
Not that Latex weapons will arrive there anytime soon after they've basically been declared the devil's spawn...
>>7322718
Unfortunately I don't know any Czech beyond what you need to order beer in a Prague bar. I think we had someone in these threads with some ability to speak it though, if I'm not horribly wrong.

>>7322742
Well if that person shows up here is the website: http://www.krea.wz.cz/16_stol/1520_nika_svrchni2.htm

where at in VA?
>i wanted to get into larping but never saw any groups around RIchmond
>i also have little knowledge about Larp aside from rules like DnD

>>7322685
Thanks! I vaguely remember looking into that as well as hemp "boning" either in a corset or bodice layer - it adds support but retains a bust curve like you see in German and Italian ren. It was kind of a fad when I was at the height of my research but the woman who did the most with it doesn't have any of the info on her site anymore. I'm pretty sure I have printouts somewhere, but this is the best image I could find for now.

>>7322826
I figured you probably knew about it; I'm very excited to try it sometime.

I used hemp boning as a bodice layer in an Florentine dress I made and I liked the results. I wasn't happy with the fit so much though, which is why I want to try the fitted cotte method. Perhaps with the hemp boning.

>>7322718
Yeah the hemp boning theory lady was doing mainly Florentine stuff at the time. She used the soft boning for fancy earlier stuff, and working class later period stuff. It makes me really sad that her old work is mostly gone from her blog. She used to post detailed progress shots and all her research. (Still does I guess but she does Victorian now which doesn't personally interest me as much.) I mean, look at this.

>>7322857
I had to post one more of hers because dat cutwork but I don't want to spam the thread - if you search Festive Attyre you can find her current blog and some images of her old work is floating around on pinterest and such.

>>7322866
yeah I remember those, her site was great. So frustrating that she took down all that stuff.

Cutwork scares the heck out of me.

>>7322866
I wish I could be a pretty princess some days.

manly viking will have to do I guess

>>7322882
Looks like she plans on putting the corded boning research back up on the website, and her costume page has a "check back later" so we can hope.
http://www.festiveattyre.com/p/research.html

>>7322884
On the note of manly viking, could someone post tutorials on making period clothes for 800 AD danes and/or swedes?

>>7322882
I don't think she took it down on purpose - I think it got lost when she was transferring site hosting or something, and she has to do a lot of reformatting to put it back.

Also for fellow Lolita/historical costume person, I finally read the historical thread in the archives and saw you mentioned Eleonora de Toledo. Apologies if I'm telling you something you already know, but a historian named Janet Arnold used the dress Eleonora was buried in to figure out a pattern and construction methods for gowns of the period. I believe her book on it is out of print and/or expensive but so many people base their stuff off that research that there are decent diagrams online.

>>7322884
Welcome to cgl where you can be a pretty viking Lolita princess.

>>7322551
Yeah.... That is crap. Try looking into the surrounding baronies.

>>7322662
This makes baby jesus cry.

>>7322677
>Most players concentrate their funding on weapons and make garb a secondary concern.

...But their weapons SUCK! I don't believe this.

>>7322722
Common myth. Amtgard had nothing to do with the SCA. Adrian Empire, Markland and Empire of Medieval pursuits are breakoffs.

>>7322793
We are brand new, based out of Williamsburg (because that is were I am living), but have no "range" except wherever we can get play space.

The facebook group's address is in the email field of this post, and we have out rulebook in the facebook page. Its only nine pages, so its an easy read. I hope you join!

>>7322857
>I gave the bitch an ermine. Bitches love ermine.

>>7322930
LOLI. FIBULII. APRON DRESS.

AWESOME.

Anyone have any good webstores that are based in Australia? I'm in QLD but know of none in Oz

>>7322591
how about making your own? from 7 meters of fabric as it was meant to be?

>>7323292
Its 9 yards. We measure in yards, not communism!

The belted plaid is pretty damn easy once you get the hang of hand-pleating.

Sup Hungarian?

>>7322884
you know... there IS a way...

>>7323297
>Its 9 yards. We measure in yards, not communism!
whatever. I was never really into this pokemon stuff.

>>7321974
here is one of the versions

>>7323305
and the original picture

>>7323305
> I was never really into this pokemon stuff.

Ya lost me.

BTW, do I still have your blessing to use gravediggers inc in LS&DT?

>>7323309
be sure that the names alliterating plus that the members are mentally challenged and/or need mental treatments then you are good to go

>>7323312
Already made a dick dagger for our idiot to play with while wearing his pants around his nipples.

The "west empire" branch of Grave Diggers Inc will do you and your boy proud.

>>7323315
lung pants for everyone \o/
Oh yes another important thing: hats. Any kind of headwear really, A pot could do it too. If nothing else get a handful of hay and attach it to the head with a ribbon or something.
But headwears are a must have

>>7323318
Old, dirty coifs, and a ratty looking muffin cap for Claude Clubfoot, leader of the bunch.

I am letting my old muffin cap sit on the patio for a few days, then I'll cover it in patches. I also have a torn-up old ostrich feather that was my buddy's parrot's old toy, for that "trying to look classy and failing" look.

So, wassup?

>>7323339

>>7323339
Just learning to sew

>>7323346
Whats your pattern? Not bad for a beginner.

>>7323353
Took an hour or so to figure out how it was put together.
But now I know how it works!

Are there any good websites to check this kind of stuff out? Something just opened in my state and it's horse shit. I have land, the will to do it and the thoughts of how awesome this is going to be. But I have no idea where to start.

For instance;
- Do you set people up in separate groups and they play the same quest different times?
- Do you charge people for this?
- Who organises food?

Oh god help

>>7323359
>- Do you set people up in separate groups and they play the same quest different times?
Why not have factions instead? and intrigues?
If everyone has a personal intrigue and a faction intrigue then everyone is the hero AND the villain of someones story
>- Do you charge people for this?
Yes. Just enough to cover the expenses, maybe a liiittle bit more. To avoid the red numbers.
>- Who organises food?
This how they do it at my regular larp:
You bring your own food OR you pay extra for food that the tavern-people(people who play tavern people tend to go to the game free of charge) make (bought in by the game arrangers, of course). They make breakfast, dinner and an evening meal.
But it is always smart to bring a little extra food of your own.

>>7323357
Not bad, but the leather you used was much too light to get the shape you want.

>>7323359
What state are you in, because all three of those questions are answered differently, by different groups.

Lost Stories & Dark Tales (my group) for example:

- Everyone plays all at once, and there are several story lines to pursue, and npcs to interact with. Everything happens in realtime, so if you do A, B is still happening, but with other people, etc. You do as your character would. Would your character go explore the woods? Become a bandit? Accept a job to help protect a research group? Go heroically rescue a child for no reward? etc.

-usually there is a small fee, due or donation to help pay for site rentals, and meal plans if they happen.

-We offer a meal plan of freshly cooked medieval food. NPC volunteers get fed for free as thanks.

>>7323364
If you want to have zombies, goblins and the like. Do you supply the props to the people playing NPCs or is that stuff that they organise on their own?

I'm worried about setting it all up factiony because we have a lot of newbies and I don't them to feel overwhelmed by LARP and never come back. The theory is they get built up to it over time.

What are the common pitfalls for a shit LARP?

>>7323369
I live in Adelaide. Australia.

If everyone plays all at once how do you make sure there is a story? How is that organised? I currently have about 20 people interested in being NPCs, a few are bar tenders and what the rest are monsters? How do you make the story flow, is there a story?

>>7323371
Most groups will have basic stuff for NPC mass-groups. Again, using my group as an example (not trying to sound self involved), I'll have some torn up shirts/tunics, stage blood corpse-palour makeup and eye khole for undead, but if the NPC has fake teeth, better makeup, fake organs, etc, It is more than welcome!


>>7323377
The NPC's have basic "life scripts", we have wandering monsters, clues and oddities hidden before the game etc. Its not A story. Its several stories at once. You have to honestly stay at camp and do nothing to not be swept up in adventure.

>>7323384
How often are these events run? I was thinking once every two months.

Who creates the story and makes it organic and able to be involved in? How do you make sure that you have enough NPCs to people? Does that rotate?

Do you guys have insurance?

>>7323397
We just started. We'd like to have at least monthly or bimonthly games.

Right now, we got a thinktank headed by a few of us veterans. We will in the future accept story/quest submissions from members.

No, nor do we need any unless we become incorporated and charge membership. As of now, there is an Article VI Self sufficiency waiver, that states that any and all activity is taken at ones own risk, and with the exception of county, state and federal laws, anything that happens to you is your own fault. This is coupled with the venue's event site waiver that each player must sign that states the conditions of use (IE, if you're running in the woods and jump into some poison sumac, it not the Boy Scout's camp's fault).

As an informal not-for-profit group, LS&DT has no body or bodies to be legally liable, any more than if you joined a game of some random people playing football in the park. It is your choice, and you take responsibility.

>>7323416
Do you guys have a rule set or does everyone just have ten hp (or whatever) and then each time you hit someone it counts as a point of damage?

>>7323416
>clownfag is more legally sound than my group

I need you to email me if you can. My LARP is barely protected and filled with douchbags who would sue in a heartbeat.

>>7323430
As I have said several times, the facebook group link is in the email field, and the PDF of the rules is on the facebook group.

We have no numbers involved in our game. No levels, classes, hit points, etc. Its honor-system based, but works amazing well, and is realistic.

>>7323431
Sent.

Well folks, I am going to grab some sleep.

Just one more shout out to >>7322793
We are brand new, based out of Williamsburg (because that is were I am living), but have no "range" except wherever we can get play space.

The facebook group's address is in the email field of this post, and we have out rulebook in the facebook page. Its only nine pages, so its an easy read. I hope you join us!

>>7323447
...Is that a lifesized dragon? fuuuuuuuuck.

>>7323502
yes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonbane

>>7323369
My knowledge of hides and leathers is pretty limited.
The leather in the tutorial LOOKED pretty soft...

>>7322930
I know I am supposed to behave on our field trip but hot damn the things I would do to her.

>>7323573
you would do a lengthy courtship with the approval of her father I presume and bring her to a larp

>>7323604
Of course, and then I would fight in her name at the grand tourney in hopes of solidifying her love for me.

Also, I dropped the new part, yet I feel due to my plan to do both LARP and SCA, that a simple LARPfag would not quite do. When I get my SCA name down and all that jazz Ill probably switch to it.

>>7323607
maybe you are over-complicating this name thing

>>7322434

>>7323610
Maybe, but that is my plan now and I am sticking to it.

Also being as I am not entirely educated on how one must court a fair lady in accordance to customs, lets discuss that, is there a certain ritual one must adhere to in order to show their love other then fighting in tourneys?

>>7323617
I only know that according to talhoffer there is a pretty much lady related reason to start a judicial duel

>Thus the first is murder.
>The second is treason.
>The third is heresy.
>The fourth is becoming an urger of disloyalty to one’s lord.
>The fifth is betrayal in strife or otherwise.
>The sixth is falsehood.
>The seventh is using either a maiden or lady.

>>7323621
Well from what I can read the norse had rules on how one is to court a maiden who is of age to marry, and not following tradition could lead to blood fueds, I shall post most when I know of it.

>>7323502
>>7323447
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr39RvXr8GA

>>7323447
>them costumes
That's... That's not a dragonball Z LARP or something is it? Please tell me it ain't.

>>7323625
This is actually somewhat depressing
>Most marriages were arranged, although it was common to get the approval of the maiden being married
>If a maiden's honour was tarnished then so was the whole families.
>Love poems were considered something someone should never do, as poems are magical and could curse the maiden's whole family
>Courtship is considered the most dangerous period in a young man's life

Welp, I guess I could always find a pretty german girl.

>>7323634
landsknechts man, you have to be a landsknecht and there will be no problems like that

>>7323652
And be a filthy heretic? Odin strike you down sir!

>>7323658
hey! it's not our problem that the town couldn't pay our services other than melting the cross from the temple!

>>7323652
knechts gonna knecht

>>7323369
strangely...i love this hair

>>7323664
Have some Knechts knechting from Knecht perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgKmR-Z5UTA
>>7323674
Why wouldn't you?

>>7323677
not really knechts and not really a larp but a battle game and cool headcam footage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq_WJqEQpuI

>>7323685
i got this video filmed with a headcam also

I'ts not me who's filming , and it's a campaign of 100 vs 100

Not really representative i'd say but still amusing to watch

>>7323699
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO1WRJJmwO4

Yeah , forgot the video

>>7323685
Have another one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEcMmDTcoV8

>>7323711
have some SCA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYv3bbMTbKE

thats Gn de guerre ( Literaly : Warlarp )

People are a little more rough with each other because everyone is there for only one reason, combat

also since it's usually 60 people max (get as low as 30 during really bad weather...pff pussies) and max 100 , it's easier to keep everything at one place and play with objectives

What i mean by that is the rules are so simple

- all weapons do 1 damage
- ligth and medium armor ( leather, gambeson , ringmail where the ring are super spaced) protect for 1 damage (so you get 2 hitpoint everywhere you have this armor)

Heavy armor (chainmail, plate...) protect 2 points , so you have 3 hp total

the objectives are told to the leader of each group at the beggining of each scenario , and the success or the failure of a scenario could mean you will have to play defense or attack at the next turn

For an exemple :
part 1 - the mission is to capture the leader of the other group
part 2- if you succeed , you must protect it inside a fort from your ennemies who try to liberate him
if you fail , you must liberate your leader
part 3 - if you are able to defend him , you must escort him to the other end of the terrain ,and he is not able to leave the main road
if you fail to defend him during the siege, you must lay an embuscade and stop your ennemy from escorting him at the other end of the terrain

thats an exemple of one scenario we had, at the other end of the terrain was lunch ...and i'm always really hyped for lunch

Pic related, ridiculously photogenic spearman

>>7323768
aaaand i forgot the damn video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I4W1qpgvIY

>>7323768
>>7323781
So, essentially it's what bullshit like Amtgard should strive to be?

>>7323790
i dont know amtgard
it's a larp ?

But it's what many would like bicolline combat to be , bico have the number, the decor , and the virtual wargame

But for the combat...Gn de guerre is superior

>>7323824
Amtgard is terrible dicksword combat that somehow spread across north america.

We're making a banner and want our motto to be in german.
Can anyone tell me if this is anaccurate translation?
"Brennen Sie es auf!
Schlag sie alle auf!"

>>7323840
What are you trying to say... ?
Right now it's very much gibberish.

>>7323844
"blow it up!
Blow it all up!"

>>7323854
While this isn't exactly literal, how about
>Sprengt es! Zerstört alles!
?

So I just learned that if your mother was raped and that was how you were conceived, according to Norse you are not a bastard.

>>7323870
I dunno, is that more correct?
I know jack all german I'm afraid.

Sure SOUNDS mean enough

>>7323870
Or the other way around
>Zerstört alles! Sprengt es in die Luft!
>>7323879
FIELD TRIP!

>>7323881
>FIELD TRIP!
you mean... we should make not-bastards here?

also, autosage

>>7323880
If you want to be more poetic about it I'd reccomend something like
>Der rote Hahn kräht!
which essentially means that you're setting fire to shit, but in a pretty metaphor.

>>7323883
No, that we promised to play nice and not end up like a few threads earlier.

>>7323888
well, I think it was educational. Good to know things like that, it can be handy any time

>>7323884
or something really simple:
>alles töten

>>7323881
Hey I am speaking of true history here man, and I'm not saying we should go about raping.

>>7323897
But that's boring and will make you look lazy.

So gentlemen, I am curious, does anyone know of some period games similar to chess? something other then playing cards to pass the time at the camp.

>>7324013
nine man morris
Chekers

>>7324013
something like this?
or the "viking chess"?
Although I can never remember the name of those games... the viking chess is maybe taffl or something like that

>>7324013
While it's not similar to chess, backgammon and mills are as period accurate as it gets.
There's also hnefatafl/tablut for the norse and alquerqe for the mediterranian. Checkers is also period, I believe.

>>7324033
diregard pic, didn't see that it has to be similar to chess

>>7324013
nine mens morris and hnefatafl is all you need

Thread seems to be stagnating a bit, I guess it is that time of day when no one is around. Also I've looked up nine mens morris and I still don't entirely know how to play it, sure I would if I took the time to read though.

>>7324137
Pretty simple, really.
For the first stage both players start with 9 pieces and take turns putting them on the corners and crossings on the grid. If either of them manage to put 3 in a straight row, they may remove a piece of the opponent as long as it's not part of a straight row itself.

Now comes the second stage, where the players take turns moving one of their pieces to the next free corner or crossing along the grid, again attempting to form a straight row of 3 pieces (after which you obviously may remove a piece every time you create a row). Again, you can't remove pieces from a row already on the field.
If either player loses all of his pieces but 3, he gains the ability to put them anywhere on the grid in his turn (still only one per turn though). If he goes below that, he loses.

>>7324137
Thread's in autosage, so it's getting further down the page and new people aren't seeing it. I don't know how often you guys do this, but new thread time maybe?

>>7324225
Yeah I am unsure if it should be made in /cgl/ again or go back to /tg/

>>7324225
We usually keep rolling until the thread almost 404s. Granted, /tg/ is probably faster, but Idunno.

>>7323677
On those halberds in the video, are that pole parts covered in foam/latex as well? or are those just straight wood/plastic?

>>7324307
DF rules mandate a minimum 6-10mm of foam covering all parts of the polearm.

>>7324225
in /tg/ there are times when we fill out 4-5 threads in a day. Then there are times when there is no larp thread for a few weeks.

That said I'm making a new one here, when we finish that one too we go back to /tg/ again for a while

>>7324307
normaly the organisation ask for atleast the 3 first feet of the spear/halberd to be covered in foam

new thread
>>7324333

>>7322921
Ah well that makes sense and it's great for her to do the work to get all that helpful stuff up.

No apologies necessary, I've only made two historical gowns so I very much consider myself a novice.

Janet Arnold really did some wonderful work, it's too bad her more extensive books are so expensive.

They have republished a few of her pattern books
http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Fashion-Construction-Clothes-C1560-1620/dp/0896760839/ref=la_B000APR3TQ_1_3/179-0044205-9359830?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390507349&sr=1-3

I have the 18th century one, and although I haven't used it yet, the patterns and info look wonderful. I'd love to get that 16th century one too. I also have "The Tudor Tailor" which has some good patterns (although limited to English styles) and some really invaluable research into what kinds of fabric was available then.

>>7324013
Or dice games, I'm curious about dice games.

>>7324236
Tg seems much faster. /cgl/ is a slower board generally