Narthecium

SPR (www.stonypointrefugees.com) will be sponsoring a "scarce resources" tournament coming up soon. Local yokels are welcome to sign up ;)

Stony Point Refugees has changed boards guys. Tournament coming up on the 29th. www.stonypointrefugees.com is our new site. Come join us!

Stony Point Refugees is still going strong guys. Had a table at Gamesday this weekend and everything. Feel free to drop on by.... http://z8.invisionfree.com/Stony_Point_Refugees

Had our first meeting this past weekend...ended up with over 20 people. Not bad :)

www.stonypointrefugees.com for those of you interested. Four tables, no charge, lots of fun! ;)

www.stonypointrefugees.com There's a link to our upcoming gaming club. All locals (and all visitors!) are welcome to come play a game with us. Four tables, no charge, 40k preferably but there are some fantasy and bloodbowl players too...lots of different ages and mixes.

If you are a local of Richmond, Virginia or at least live close by, you may have heard the news that our local GW store at Stony Point is being shut down as of January 28th. Dammit. Moving on. We are trying to get together a gaming group to continue to game, meet, etc. Not sure where, or whatever...but feel free to PM me if you live near by. Thanks.

Society for Creative Anachronisms. It's a re-enactment group. Y'know how you see those Civil War reenacters on TV, where they replay great battles in Civil War History? Same sorta thing, but the SCA is all about more medieval times, you'll see everything from people dressed as samurai of feudal japan to vikings to hoplites to...the list goes on and on. But many of the "purist" SCAdians (the self-given term for those who are members of the SCA) have a big thing with everything being "period," that is, accurate to the time period from which it comes. No science fiction stuff, no fancy fake armor, none of that kinda stuff. And heraldry is a large part of it, there are entire huge groups in the SCA devoted to accurately knowing heraldry and reproducing authentic "Coat of Arms" or "Arms" or "Devices" however they are termed by the user, to use on your own armor and shields and whatnot. And when I say armor and shields, I'm talking 12-16 guage steel, totally authentic (often handmade as well), and the "swords" they use are 3-4 inch thick pieces of ratan (a very strong, durable wood) that they beat the tar out of with. People regularly walk away with concussions and broken bones from it. It's like hardcore nerdom. :(

Right, got what you're saying. But I think the masses might appreciate it if you made stuff a little less flowery, I've always found simplicity is the best way to communicate ideas. :P (That's just a tease btw.) I learned a lot about heraldry through the SCA -- grew up with parents who were very active in it. Of course once I hit about 15 or so I decided I'd much rather chase girls than play knight, so off went the SCA and I've been to maybe one event in the past ten or eleven years. Your article is pretty complete and stands up to scrutiny. ;)

Seems like someone might know a few SCAdians? ;)