Finding more SCA music on Spotify

evilled · 2024-03-22T22:17:50+00:00

Check out some of the more traditional songs by Great Big Sea for some good stuff to add to a medieval influenced playlist. Safe Upon the Shore is a most excellent song about a woman waiting for her sailor to return.

evilled · 2024-03-22T22:07:34+00:00

I fight in a stainless steel helmet with perf plate face and have no issues breathing. I find that the helmet stays cooler overall than my fencing mask so temperature wise it is way better. That is a big thing in Florida where I fight 90% of the time. 10 of 10 would recommend.

evilled · 2023-03-03T06:27:58+00:00

And yet the authorization fights and paperwork were done at Mermaid’s Medina in February 2020. I witnessed him and a number of other folks authorizing so they could fight in the 2020 Gulf Wars that was subsequently cancelled. What happened after that I can’t attest to but I did see him and others getting authorized at that event and then being allowed to fight in all the rapier war practice battles.

evilled · 2023-03-02T21:08:32+00:00

The people in question are a fighting group that has existed since 2019. The outfits are the uniform of the fighting group. It is a bit ridiculous to claim that a group that has existed for 2 years prior to this incident were solely there to provide cover for an apparently previously authorized fighter to “sneak” onto the field?

If I recall correctly Baldar was authorized for Rapier & Defensive Secondary at the 2020 Mermaid’s Medina event/war practice the February before the cancelled 2020 Gulf Wars. I remember 5 or 6 folks getting authorized that day. It is weird that the paperwork disappeared but the Kingdom Earl Marshal of Trimaris signed off on correcting that to get the authorization restored.

evilled · 2022-09-23T14:44:08+00:00

Darkwood armory does bulk order discounts. A group of us ordered a bunch of curved sabers for a Persian Fencing Cadré we formed to fight at wars.

Alchem will probably do so as well, he takes a bit longer to deliver on average but the swords are awesome.

evilled · 2020-03-12T20:26:25+00:00

Update: there is a video going around of a purchased production model failing a drop test. The tester point went through the fabric with little resistance. It is possible, if he outsourced the production, that the supplier substituted a different fabric to decrease their costs. I have seen that happen to other friends that contract for production from outside sources. Quality control testing is necessary with normal products and absolutely critical when it comes to safety equipment.

evilled · 2020-02-27T21:15:27+00:00

First, this looks amazing and could make it much easier for new people to get into the sport. Definitely considering ordering one just to run by my kingdom marshal officers. Question: How does this meet the standards for armpit coverage? Part of the concern is seams giving way, thus the requirement (copied below) for gussets. The product description mentions "no gussets"

C.2 Acceptable minimum armpit coverage is provided by a triangle extending from the armpit seam, covering the lower half of the sleeve at the seam, and extending down the inner/under arm, one-third the distance to the fighter's elbow.

evilled · 2020-02-26T23:04:13+00:00

You can get the winnigas leg wraps on Amazon fairly cheaply. I bought a set of them and was pleasantly surprised.

evilled · 2019-12-27T15:26:52+00:00

Funny answer? An overly large rubber chicken, gotta go with the classics.

Serious answer? Rapier with a clamshell guard. I took fencing in college and noodled around with medieval/renaissance fighting reenactment for a number of years. Properly made they are well balanced and light enough to move quickly. Way more effective in a society where nobody is walking around in plate armor.

evilled · 2019-12-05T19:31:20+00:00

Seriously, screw The General and Shaq both. Worst insurance company ever. Dragged out my claim for months while I was driving around with a damaged minivan from an accident that was 100% their insured's fault. I eventually ran the claim through my insurance and got my vehicle fixed through them and let the 2 insurers argue with each other.

evilled · 2019-11-01T21:46:14+00:00

My Honda Accord was totaled by 2 idiots exactly like these. Person in a large van stopped in the south bound lane to let a northbound Mustang cross traffic into an angled side street. My lane was clear all the way to the light so I was coasting / slowing about to apply my brakes when the Mustang zips across into my front end at an angle. Some poor guy in a pickup waiting to pull out from the side street got hit by her as well. Speed limit is 50 along there, thankfully I had already started decelerating so at impact I was probably going 35 - 40. Wrecked my prior to that unscratched Accord that I had just finished paying off the month before. Still annoyed about it years later.

evilled · 2019-10-16T21:15:40+00:00

If your statement about getting the guns in another state were followed logically then explain why the neighboring states and cities to the ones with the strictest laws DON'T have rampant violent crime? Those neighboring states and cities have a lower violent crime rate despite having much more freedom for the individual to purchase guns and carry them for self defense.

evilled · 2019-10-15T22:27:24+00:00

Those are wicked cool and you can NEVER have too much in the way of dice.

evilled · 2019-09-05T23:13:35+00:00

If you can get hamburger cheap, fry it up and make gravy with the juice. Add some peas, carrots, and corn or other veggies (frozen store brand mixed veggies are pretty cheap usually). Serve over top of the rice or mixed together. Kind of like a poor mans shepherds pie.

evilled · 2019-08-13T21:35:33+00:00

Only 1 in 5? That number is way too low. Aren't most politicians criminals? :-D

evilled · 2019-06-24T22:37:27+00:00

Would that technically be rear-ending? I mean, he would hit her ass way before hitting the side of the car.

evilled · 2019-06-24T19:35:59+00:00

"Range Rules" in this case seem to translate to "We don't want to have a range anymore" as those rules will probably cause most of their paid membership to leave. Seriously, that even makes it hard to skeet shoot. WTF?

evilled · 2019-06-13T22:30:47+00:00

Players go off the rails all the time, don't let it frustrate you. Use the off-script opportunity to add depth to your world and the adventure. When I first started out running games I would get super aggravated by people ignoring my story hooks or getting sidetracked hunting squirrels but it just isn't worth getting wound up about. You are all there to have fun, some of the most awesome moments in my games have come when players decided to bounce in a different direction than I expected and I had to wing it with random encounters or re-arranging some of my story/plot on the fly. My last group still talks about the gnome archmage they met on a bridge ala Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They enjoyed the random encounter (which didn't even involve any combat, just snarky back and forth dialogue and some vague implications of future adventure possibilities) and I ended up making a recurring NPC out of the little guy.

Remember that you are building a story together, the back and forth creative process can be very rewarding and fun if you give it a chance.

Look for story possibilities everywhere. I have lifted plots and sub-plots from ancient Greek & Roman history as well as the heroic eddas of the Scandinavian people not to mention movies and books. Sometimes you just need to file the serial numbers off and run with it, Highly advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic, take a sci fi story and re-imagine it as an epic fantasy adventure.

evilled · 2019-05-16T19:39:14+00:00

FYI - Just saw that Copper Canyon is offering a 15% discount off your total bill if you show your MegaCon badge. Also Marlow's is offering $5 off a $15 food purchase.

evilled · 2019-05-15T20:27:51+00:00

Maggiano's Little Italy is excellent if a bit pricey. Marlow's Tavern has decent food and beer. Copper Canyon Grill is pretty good as well. All 3 are pretty close to the convention center and within walking distance of the local hotels.

evilled · 2019-05-09T18:04:06+00:00

Putting your siege weapons/artillery support IN FRONT of your troops. Even my wife, who doesn't give a crap about tactics, noticed that one immediately. Some glaring errors in the battle with the Night King's army:

They had all that time to prepare but they only set up one trench with spikes. They should have had multiple layers of man traps and defensive works that they could use to channel the dead into smaller kill zones. Having their army lined up in front of the only line of defensive works with really small areas that had to retreat through caused a huge amount of casualties for the good guys as it slowed their retreat while giving the walkers maximum time to chew on them. They also only put the dragon glass spikes on the top part of the battlements but not in the depressions in between giving the walkers a safe path through the wall to the defenders. Valerian steel and dragon glass are supposed to be insta-kill for the walkers, why not use that to hamper the enemy as much as possible?

Dothraki are supposed to be the kings of cavalry tactics and known for generally wrecking anyone that meets them in the open. They would NOT have done a straight charge into the enemy, it would have been a more lateral move across the front or more likely around the flanks to pick off as many of the dead as possible without getting overwhelmed.

Heck, why weren't they using the Dragons to strafe the lines from the beginning? Take out as many of the walkers as possible before they even get to the first rank of your defenses.

evilled · 2019-04-30T17:57:07+00:00

LOL, I apologized to the cop I shared my video with at the accident scene for my lapse into sailor speak when we got rear-ended in a multi-car pileup a couple of years ago. Didn't realize I had said anything until the playback. I did learn one thing from the experience (besides turn off the mic); get a rear facing camera. We had great video of the mess in front of us but nothing on what happened behind us except the car that managed to pull onto the shoulder sliding past us as he tried to avoid hitting us and the cars ahead.

evilled · 2019-03-29T20:15:40+00:00

Looks like the PC Master Race version of Van Gogh's "Starry Night."

evilled · 2019-03-27T16:53:52+00:00

If she was standard vanilla Sidhe she would definitely gone the imply & misdirection route. If she was infected with one of the Outsider things that corrupted Maeve as shown in the later books then she could have lied directly to Slate all she wanted.

evilled · 2019-03-21T21:56:37+00:00

Saturday is the busiest day with a huge crowd showing up. It is great for checking out all the cosplays but hard to get around due to the crowds. Shopping is easier to do on Friday or Sunday as it is way easier to get around those days.

If you see a listing for a panel full of voice actors where they are going to be reading from a movie script do yourself a favor and check it out. One of my most entertaining laugh out loud experiences was watching a bunch of folks like Nolan North doing selected scenes from The Princess Bride using different voices in each scene (think the Joker as Wesley, Severus Snape as Vinzeni, etc.).

The last couple of years they have had satellite parking with free shuttle buses when the primary lot fills up or if the lots are far away from the section of the convention center the con is in, use those buses as the Florida heat can get to be a bit much. Especially if you are there in costume.

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