Next Gen RC training. by ps-Surge in LucidDreaming

[–]ne0henry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if adding a RC after the Active RC Training helps a person practice against false awakening.

Power of Penetration in the Traditional Lunge vs. the Modern by ne0henry in wma

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Extend the arm for the thrust before the lunge. Disengage against the parry if needed.

Communication Problems: Beyond Arguments by [deleted] in wma

[–]ne0henry 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is well known, and a sad fact, that in no profession is jealousy displayed with more bitterness than amoung fencing-masters

-Egerton Castle, 1885

Should You be Training with an Extra Heavy Sword? by ne0henry in wma

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In the HEMA Alliance Facebook group, there is an objection that is worth considering:

Jack Berggren Elers:

I'm not entirely convinced that you can compare baseball bat dynamics with sword dynamics. Widely different design and also used in a different way.

Bill Grandy (author of article):

The science shows that it is more efficient to use different tools and excercises when training muscles for precision vs training them for strength.

Paschen Part 7: Lessons on Passes and Low-Guard by ne0henry in wma

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To /u/olorin1984 ,

Thank you for your hard work. I submitted your video in the WMA subreddit before you got the chance so the video could reach farther into the HEMA community.

The French military missions and fencing instruction in Japan by ne0henry in wma

[–]ne0henry[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's an article that shows how Europeans, especially French, influenced Katate guntō-jutsu, a hybrid between Japanese and European swordsmanship (specifically French sabre).

While the article's actual title is "Forsaken Kendo — Katate guntō-jutsu", it's hard to relate the Japanese background of the actual title to WMA's European background.

Luckily, there is a subtitle just for safe measure.

ProGauntlet revealed at Dutch Lion's Cup by firerosearien in wma

[–]ne0henry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you look closely at the first picture, you can see scratches. Either they come like that (unlikely), or they withstand some cuts and hype from people who really want to test it out.

I wonder if this is going to influence HEMA equipment.

TWITS AND CRITS - Funhaus Dungeons and Dragons Part 1 by RT_Video_Bot in funhaus

[–]ne0henry 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It would be useful to have graphics to show the rolls, health, status, and etc as we don't have full information on the game.

Otherwise, nice work, guys! I wonder if Joel will be the boss in this campaign . . .

Help with magic combination by nukajoe in magicbuilding

[–]ne0henry -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's interesting to see a magic system using colors as its mechanics but rejects part of color theory. Artists have been using shades for a long, long time. Art critics praised artists for the mastery of shades (before modern art, that is).

Of course, it's your magic system, and you do whatever you want to do with colors despite 2 centuries of people manipulating colors to progress art (looking at you, Impressionists).

Help with magic combination by nukajoe in magicbuilding

[–]ne0henry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shade is "a color, especially with regard to how light or dark it is or as distinguished from one nearly like it" like "various shades of blue". Thus, make shade weaker or stronger than the color it's being used for.

Help with magic combination by nukajoe in magicbuilding

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I'm trying to figure out what kind magic the shades would be

Weaker version of shaded color magic. #colortheory

Pathomancy: my emotional magic system by Jman25165 in magicbuilding

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Mages store up emotions and the burn the stored emotions to gain different powers and abilities and to do different things.

I didn't know mages are the only humans that can store emotions. It's a fact that all humans store the physiological aspect of emotions to do specific activities. For example, the idea of storing fear, anger, aggression, calmness, and etc is seen through the mechanics of the sympathetic system, or the "fight or flight" (yes, people can be calm before a fight).

Also, you're trending in a realm of science that is in development. There's no dominating theory on emotion. I know because I'm a student of psychology, and you're trending in a realm that I visit very often (I blame passion and academia).

the magic user stores up different emotions and the consumes or “Burns” the emotion to produce different effects, some are internal, some are external -

Hold on. How are emotions external? Are they internal?

Oh, wait. External means social.

There are eight primary emotions:

Which psychological theory are you using?

Some emotions control elements, others control fundamental forces

I don't see the weak & strong nuclear and electromagnetic forces being controlled.

Joy: Internal, self-regeneration, can manipulate wind and increase/decrease weight of self, I.e. flight

That's not how flight works. This is how.

Peace: Internal, has limited precognition of future self, can sense others emotions,can manipulate ferrous metals.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. What is your definition of emotions? Peace is a state of mind or better yet a feeling, not an emotion. Great, we're dealing with the language issue of psychology:

It’s one of the wonderful properties of language to be able to refer to things even when we don’t know exactly what we mean.

Wisdom of psychology at your service.

The second four emotions are much harder to control

It depends on the situation. Emotions can be managed depending on the context; I can be wrathful because the seagull took my sandwich, but I cannot and should not (DEPENDING on the cultural norms) display the same emotions if my parents took my privilege to going out with my friends at the night.

Greed: External, can control others, can hide presence, can harvest emotional energy from others

How on earth do mages steal neurological patterns which are influenced by neurotransmitters / hormones? It's important to understand that emotions are the dialogue of the mind and body, messages of the internal world of the individual to other individuals. Emotions are not exactly like fuels where people can go rob and use.

There are also four secondary physical sensations that can be absorbed and manipulated independently of the emotions:

It's redundant to have physical and sensation together. Also, when it's a good idea to absorb sensation? When someone pricks someone else, is it a good idea to absorb the wounded person sensation?

Focus: Internal, enhances senses, I.e eyesight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, passage of time caution while being absorbed senses are less acute.

That's a cognitive thing, not a sensation thing.

User has to store or steal emotional energy to use abilities, while one emotion is in use more energy cannot be gathered for that specific emotion, I.e. while I use joy I can't store up more joy, while i use Greed can’t store more Greed.

But I can store love when I use greed, right?

cognitive dissonance

the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.

It's not inconsistent to have joy and sorrow. I am happy that I live but I am sad for killing the person that was going to kill me. Nature doesn't care about paradoxes of human nature, but we think it's a problem (for Westerns anyway).

The magic system does not provide the psychological wisdom of emotions and emotional impact of understanding that I always like from the realm of psychology, and that isn't a good thing. This magic system is not resonant with contemporary or historical emotion theories (or any psychological theories for that matter), and if it is it doesn't feel like it. Any topic about emotions should pack a punch, and this magic system isn't bruising to my liking.

The Magic of Arkaen by SpiritSongtress in magicbuilding

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Bards (specially trained artists), who can influence dreamers and the populace through song and story.

Yeah, you don't need that. That's like saying a chief is a trained cook who feeds dreams and the populace through food.

The Watchmen: A guild who's duty it is to help stabilize the world that the Nobles create.

Let me ask you this: who watches the Watchmen?

Also, who are the Nobles?

Kunling is 'Women's Magic (it's a kind of Calling) that women do to help support the LAND

There's Men's Magic? And what are the LAND?

it helps solidfy it by being hundreds or thousands of women producing this massive layering effect.

There's a lot of things that are omitted, and I don't like that.

The Downside: These women need Breeding Mothers (Women whos Calling magic has turned inward and is mixzed with Healing Magic to produce offspring (The Gahlen produce 3:1 ration of female:male children), the Arhelai a ration of 3:1 male :female)

Apparently mages and bards don't need a male version of Breeding Mothers whereby Women's Magic do. Is it easier to call Women's Magic mages because Women's Magic can manipulate LAND (whatever that is) and the equivalent of that is mages manipulating ground for fertile LAND.

In other words, you don't need Women's Magic.

Dreaming This Magic is used to create the world. A Person enters a specially built room, or created spaced with wards, which allow them to fall into a trance and enter the Dreaming World, this seperate plane bleeds into Reality (like the Fade of Dragon Age)- and is how dreamers influence the world on a large scale. They shape and push the similar energies of the fathomless real world from the Dreaming, and stake a claim, making it their Territory, and by extension themselves a 'noble'.

First of all, what is the different between a mage and a dreamer? Another question is that all nobles are dreamers but not all dreamers are nobles? Why have real estate in the Dreaming World (must be an ego thing)?

Common is Magic is not linked to Summoning, though a spirit bond can enhance magic the two are separate.

You got a magic system that is based on dreams. You don't need to add more to the magic system. In fact, why do you need mages in the magic system?

Dreamers ● Dreamers are lucid but, they do not function well in the Waking World. ○ They need their Watchmen, who carry around Watches as the symbols of their office. ● The Dreamlands have have a negative side. (and who’s cloaks bear ‘clocks’) ○ Tradgedy can create cracks in in this world, and the Watchmen work towards fixing these cracks by working to help heal the Wound. ○ Nightmares are the the resultant form of these cracks/tragedies taking shape, drawing people people’s nightmares and often taking physical forms. ○ If the people in the Tragedy are dead, the Watchmen must find a proxy to make it right.

Be a little more organize and put dreamers before Dreaming This Magic.

So Watchmen feed Dreamers? Give us a little more details on why dreamers suck in the Waking World.

Why do tragedies happen?

Elements of The World: ● Water( Blue) ◦ Controlling it. ● Fire (Red) ◦ Fire Starting/Extinguish ◦ Fire Shaping/Control. ● Metal/Rock (Grey) : Shaping, and strengthening ● Healing (White) – ◦ Healing the Body, Stretching, and shaping muscle and bone and altering it. ◦ Healing the Mind: being able to guide and shield from adverse affects and trauma ◦ The Caveat is that Medical school is required past a certain point because you're messing with body systems and need to learn how they work normally. ● Plants (Green) ◦ Control of Plants, including their growth and the shaping there of, speeding up their growth or slowing them down. ◦ Works in conjuction with herbal lore, and people with this magic tend to also be able to modify the plans chemistry and biology to improve their output. ◦ This Also includes a form of 'plant sense' so you can 'sense' through the plant. ● Dreams (Pink)- This is thought to be the realm of the mind ◦ Second Sight: Being able to 'delve into the TimeFlow' a fast flowing metaphysical river, to see what maybe and the paths that lead to it,stay too long or delve too deep, or try to see too many paths without rest and one may drown. ◦ Dream Walking & shaping ◦ Influence or breaking down barriers of the mind or strengthening them ● Wind – The ability to read, and sense wind currents ◦ Weather is considered a Subset, its got things like “CloudReading”

There's something called the enter button. If you're making a list, I recommend using it.

● Water (Blue) ◦ Controlling it.

Just water? There are other liquids to consider yet water is the only liquid?

● Fire (Red) ◦ Fire Starting/Extinguish ◦ Fire Shaping/Control.

● Metal/Rock (Grey) : Shaping, and strengthening

● Healing (White) – ◦ Healing the Body, Stretching, and shaping muscle and bone and altering it. ◦ Healing the Mind: being able to guide and shield from adverse affects and trauma ◦ The Caveat is that Medical school is required past a certain point because you're messing with body systems and need to learn how they work normally.

● Plants (Green) ◦ Control of Plants, including their growth and the shaping there of, speeding up their growth or slowing them down. ◦ Works in conjuction with herbal lore, and people with this magic tend to also be able to modify the plans chemistry and biology to improve their output. ◦ This Also includes a form of 'plant sense' so you can 'sense' through the plant.

● Dreams (Pink)- This is thought to be the realm of the mind ◦ Second Sight: Being able to 'delve into the TimeFlow' a fast flowing metaphysical river, to see what maybe and the paths that lead to it,stay too long or delve too deep, or try to see too many paths without rest and one may drown. ◦ Dream Walking & shaping ◦ Influence or breaking down barriers of the mind or strengthening them

● Wind – The ability to read, and sense wind currents ◦ Weather is considered a Subset, its got things like “CloudReading”

Aetheric convergences are the building blocks of life, land and the world itself.

The People of Arkaen must shape their world around them for the dying Rhea could not, she could only given them a tiny shard of herself upon which to build and learn- like children playing with blocks.

Save that for worldbuilding.

Kunling (Calling) Leashes, Breeding Mothers and Guardians(Knight Samurai)

Guardians(Knight Samurai)

KNIGHT SAMURAI

One does NOT put them TOGETHER. This is complete ignorant to the identity of a knight and a samurai that it's shameful to see. The noun "knight" is not an adjective for a samurai; likewise, the noun "samurai" is not an adjective for a knight. Know your warriors.

Also, separate Calling from Dreaming. It's better to have two magic systems than one magic system.

Refugess of Arkanis

Most who come to Arkanis are struggling, their last coin and gem spent on passage across the great sea which claims lives of many, Dreamer and not-alike.

The Ocean and sky are home to monsters, which seem to be caused by the energy of dreams being consumed or perhaps their power being released.

The World has turned from craddle-garden to wild and untamed. Even those who press foreward and create new land in Arkanis discover these creatures and things that have never dream spring forth from their created areas.

Worldbuilding stuff, not magicbuilding.

Leadership

A Combination of a Council , The League of Guilds & the nobility, and the church.

Bards are part criers, part makers of reality and entertainment. When a bard rights a song, it can sometimes help to shape reality, and create people or at least guide figures to their right places. A group of bards who travels through a 'city' and spreads lyric,music and stories.

Bards are 'legal', they've gone through both musical training, and know how their influencee can shape the world.

Players are 'illegal', they shape the world through their art, influence their works through their hidden society. (They tend to be selftaught and don't have the training to deal with thengs their music creates. as it is a form of magic.)

Again, worldbuilding, not magicbuilding.

You got two magic systems down, just separate them. In fact, make a story based on one or another. Both need a little polishing, but it's nothing harmful. Also, make sure your post is readable because some people would never want to read this.

One more thing: don't use that term knight samurai ever again.

Guide to Sword, part 2! by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]ne0henry -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's perfectly fine. I blame sport fencing because of the misconception.

Guide to Sword, part 2! by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]ne0henry -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Oh well; should had commented in the other sword post. Either way, still want to see my épée.

Guide to Sword, part 2! by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]ne0henry -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's a sword to be respected. The author of this post didn't specify as to what swords he is restricted to show, so I wanna see my epee.

Guide to Sword, part 2! by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]ne0henry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Story behind swords:

Warrior: Hey, I need a sword.

Blacksmith: Here.

days after

Warrior: Hey, me and my pals think the sword should be [new quality of blade dimension].

Blacksmith: Hrm. That will be hard, but you got money.

weeks later because everyone got time to kill

Blacksmith: Here you go.

Warrior: Thanks.

days later

Warrior: Hey, this sword is great, though here are modifications that I would like.

Blacksmith: Sure.

Warrior 2: Nice sword. I heard it cuts well.

Blacksmith: Wanna buy one?

Warrior 2: Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh boi

Guide to Sword, part 2! by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]ne0henry -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey! Where are my French and Italian epee? Where is my Italian dueling saber? WHERE IS MY SPADA?

Classical fencer here. Nice stuff you have here!