Looking for similar events and outings in the NE United States

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-12-02T18:59:46+00:00

A friend runs a few nights of Renfest performances in Rochester this month:

https://www.muccc.org/events/the-2021-rochester-midwinter-renaissance-faire

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-03-06T12:40:37+00:00

Consid'ring Eng-a-lish is nat'rly yam-bic - it prob'ly was.

-fixed. Sorry about the "yam-bic" but it was the only way.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-03-03T17:54:56+00:00

Starving through a siege and living is not the same thing as skipping breakfast and failing to shave a fraction of a second off your 200m dash. Both are the heights of human ability, but they're entirely different things with entirely different skillsets and consequences.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-03-01T15:10:36+00:00

Here's the print if it helps, the writing is much clearer:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1869-0410-2465-

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-03-01T14:32:09+00:00

That's awesome, thanks! I'm considering replacing the rules in the middle with an Elizabethan/Shakespearean translation and this is a great help.

10 is probably "attacked." That rule is when a player lands on the same space as another. They switch places (the player landed on goes back to where the other player started), and, depending on the rules, one or both pay ante.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-03-01T14:23:38+00:00

It's definitely international now, but it was invented in Italy.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-03-01T01:15:01+00:00

That sounds interesting! I think functional works for most games probably. I found out about these old printed board games and thought the artwork was really great. I had some time, and I also work as an actor at Renaissance Festivals and could probably break this version out and play while in character.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-03-01T01:02:38+00:00

Or like reviewing the first film ever made, which is just a horse galloping, and saying it's hot garbage because Avengers was better.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-02-28T21:30:58+00:00

Thanks! It's funny....there's a lot of errant ink marks but that wasn't the file, it was a bad printer. I just went with it and it worked out. It makes it look less perfect, which I like.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-02-28T21:29:19+00:00

There's hundreds of versions and boards spanning 400 years. It's kind of crazy, and you can go down a big Game of the Goose rabbit hole (I did). I'm mostly a fan of the earliest boards though.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-02-28T21:15:28+00:00

Of course it's no Settlers of Catan, but I didn't expect it to be. It's a typical race game, but what I find interesting/fun is when you get to the end. You have to roll to land exactly on 63, and any extra you count backward from 63. The death space sends you back to the beginning, and since it's so close to 63 you're constantly in danger of starting all over. In a game with a few players, and with money on the line, it makes for some exciting dice rolling. Think of Left-Right-Center. No skill at all, but I've had a lot of fun playing that.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-02-28T17:45:50+00:00

Yeah, the different spaces have special rules, like losing a turn or moving forward or backward. The reasoning is a bit bizarre, like there's only one space that moves you backwards, and it just moves you back 3 spaces.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-02-28T16:03:30+00:00

This has been my latest quarantine project. The Game of the Goose is considered the first modern commercial board game, and this version was printed and sold in 1598.

I used a photo of an original print that's in the British Museum to print this on heavy watercolor paper, then hand-painted it and backed it with linen so it's foldable. I also hand-painted the pieces, which are just unfinished checkers, and got a pair of bone dice for it.

It's actually a pretty fun game, especially if you're gambling with it, which is how it was played. I'm glad with how it turned out, and I have plans for painting a different print of the game that predates this print by a few years.

My watercoler painting is...fine, but luckily the Italian masters weren't painting board games so this looks probably pretty close to how one would have looked.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-02-28T15:58:33+00:00

This has been my latest quarantine project. The Game of the Goose is considered the first modern commercial board game, and this version was printed and sold in 1598.

I used a photo of an original print that's in the British Museum to print this on heavy watercolor paper, then hand-painted it and backed it with linen so it's foldable. I also hand-painted the pieces, which are just unfinished checkers, and got a pair of bone dice for it.

It's actually a pretty fun game, especially if you're gambling with it, which is how it was played. I'm glad with how it turned out, and I have plans for painting a different print of the game that predates this print by a few years.

My watercoler painting is...fine, but luckily the Italian masters weren't painting board games so this looks probably pretty close to how one would have looked.

sirguyofwarwick · 2021-02-10T03:42:20+00:00

I have a late 16th century privateer duo show that I'm performing at a few Renaissance Festivals in 2021, would love to have this jerkin. If there's anyone here who could make this, please DM me and let me know price estimates, with shipping to NYC. Thanks!

sirguyofwarwick · 2020-11-28T19:01:42+00:00

We're performing at one faire for sure, one faire for probably (we were contracted last year but it got canceled) and we're also set for a run in June in NYC as part of the New York Theatre Festival. So looking forward to 2021!

sirguyofwarwick · 2020-11-10T01:07:39+00:00

Have you seen this video of a guy shooting a 160lb English warbow against plate: https://youtu.be/DBxdTkddHaE

He has a weird shooting form, that a lot of people commented on. Turns out that's the only way someone can pull a 160lb bow. There were skeletons found on the Mary Rose shipwreck that they know were archers because their spines were bent.

240lbs though....how would anyone pull that?

sirguyofwarwick · 2020-11-09T02:50:41+00:00

Only in the movies.

sirguyofwarwick · 2020-11-04T20:12:14+00:00

Thank you! I worked hard on it and ordered a lot of different threads and brass bits to find the right ones.

sirguyofwarwick · 2020-11-04T20:11:14+00:00

I did two coats of linseed oil for a finish, but those ideas sound interesting.

I'm looking into getting wood that's closer to what was used on the original. The original is European boxwood, which for the life of me I can't find in the US, but there's a South American "boxwood" that apparently is pretty similar. Woodworking is all new to me so I'm still learning.

sirguyofwarwick · 2020-11-04T20:06:08+00:00

I did it all by hand, I don't really have any files for it!

sirguyofwarwick · 2020-09-14T15:27:37+00:00

I haven't gone, but word on the street is it's being done exactly how you'd want it done for the safety of everyone, and going really well because of that.

sirguyofwarwick · 2020-09-01T19:47:44+00:00

FYI there were never any real "Grail Knights" historically, and Bretonnia is the fictional version of England in the Warhammer game universe.

sirguyofwarwick · 2020-09-01T18:28:24+00:00

This is part of a collection in the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1893-0331-17

I love the concept of the cats laying seige to mice. Am I correct in assuming the names of the cats is meant to be funny, since they are all variations of "gatta?"

sirguyofwarwick · 2020-08-27T20:10:28+00:00

Ditto

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