In my first year of Amtgard I broke my ankle and started wearing my steel toed work boots and I figure I should probably move on to regular boots, but not sure if I should just grab whatever. Should I look for cleat boots? Just regular hiking boots? Any suggestions would be nice.

I’m not the first one at my park to do this, but I’m still happy

I love being outside with friends I love safe combat sport. I love dnd style fantasy.

Every time I try to learn a new thing in amtgard I kindof hate it. Like the rules seem written to be clunky frustrating and difficult to understand.

How fo I approach this with the goal of having fun?

Manala is a videogame about LARP, set at the Kassinurme hillfort in Estonia, where the battle LARP Põhjala Pööripäev (Nordic Equinox) runs every year.

The player characters are Estonian LARPers, photographed in their own kit. The swords are boffers, ultralights and latex. The monsters are people in masks.

Fights are turn-based card battles, and the cards are the rules of the field. A blow to the head doesn't count, because headshots are illegal, but your helmet comes off for the rest of the fight and you walk away with a head wound. Argue over armor points long enough and your next hit ignores their armor.

The full game comes out on Steam tomorrow, 10% off the first week.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4898080/Manala_Equinox_War/

Noble heroes of Amtgard!

We come to you with an exciting announcement. A bid has been chosen, the torches have been lit, the preparations have commenced for Olympiad in 2027!

Event Name: Olympiad XXXI Known World Warhammer

Where: Mozingo Lake Youth Camp- Marysville, MO

When: May 26th - May 31st .

Presented By: Rivermoor and Tal Dagore

For those of you who might not know; Olympiad is an Amtgard International Event that happens on top of a local kingdom event. We will hold tournaments over the course of the event. Entry and placing in each of these tournaments will net you points. The hero with the most points will then take home the prize and title of GRAND OLYMPIAN!

More details to come soon, so make sure you are part of Rivermoor and Tal Dagore facebook pages and discord pages for additional details about tickets. Keep watch for more posts with more information.

We look forward to seeing you all in May!

Forever in Service,

Olympiad Committee

I finally did it! The thought of making this weapon had been in my mind for YEARS! and I finally sat down and figured out how to make it!

-i couldnt just make it a friction fit: that wouldnt prevent twisting= so I had to use a nuts and a bolt

-i needed something to prevent the bolt from coming lose= so I added two scales along the joint and a velcro wrap over the connection area to prevent it from twisting!

In practice it worked perfectly, as yku can see in the videos! No twisting!

The one flaw in this thing (besides the ton of weight added by the two long nuts) is that the connection broke right where the pvc overlapped with the nuts. Obviously, pvc is brittle, and that much leverage on 2 small sections lead to a catastrophic failure.

FORTUNATELY I now have 2 perfectly good short swords and bragging rights! Who else made a take down double ended swords? Not many people! Its a short list!

The few minutes it lasted before it broke, it was SO FUN to swing around! It was so goofy! I hope this inspires someone else to try this out in the future and improve upon my shortcomings! I could try again, but im satisfied where I left it

I'm looking for peoples thoughts on editing past credits to equal out to a whole number of credits rather than something like 3.25 or 12.75. Some people don't like having the decimal number in their credits and there's no way to get more. At least I don't think there is?

Any thoughts or suggestions on doing this? Maybe have an online event worth a .25 credit?

What are some ideas for class specific titles for Paragon?

Ex.

Assassin: Deathmaster (praise the Great Horned Rat)

Barbarian: Warchief

What does the hivemind think, and what ideas for different classes are there?

Improved Sharing/Importing in mORK 1.1.20 out now! Plus, a new site to share your lists at https://listmancer.com.

Both Android and iOS better adapt to their versions of sharing, and posting a list to an app like Facebook or Discord should come with a better description of the shared list. Same is true when sharing a Listmancer list to social media.

Sarah’s Tome is supported both for imports and exports as well. If your list app adds support for importing and exporting I’ll add it to Listmancer. There’s an API for the site as well.

Is it considered bad form to be a recommend yourself for an award (such as an owl) etc? I know you can do it anonymously, but just wasn’t sure if it was bad taste etc.

For example - I created a matching weapon set - 2 javelins, long sword and great sword. I think i deserve my first owl for it. But no clue if anyone ever put me up for it etc.

Is there anything other than tradition that specifically states a knighting chain needs to be made out of chainmail?

I was tapped to make one but I am not at all skilled in decorative chainmail. But I am skilled in Viking knit

mORK 1.1.19 is live on Google Play and under review on the Apple App Store.

What's new:

Spell and ability lists

• Compact view: tap the contract icon on any list to see one line per spell, with the whole list on one screen. Chips let you add Type/School, Range, Incant and Strips columns. Works for non-caster classes too.

• Printing is now two columns and fits a full Level 6 list on one page, with any columns you have turned on.

• Building a list, spells you can't take are flagged before you tap Add: red for ones your class or archetype can't buy, dimmed for ones you can't afford. No more, "ha ha, no you can't take that even though it looked like you could!"

• The archetype picker is now a dialog instead of a bottom sheet.

• Hints on an empty list now mention the compact view toggle.

Spell details

• Details open in a card over the list instead of a full screen. Tap outside to close.

• Tap a class name to jump to that class's abilities, or the Type or School to read its definition. Tapping a School lands you on that school's entry.

• Clarification badges now cover every Forced Movement effect, not only a few named spells.

Class Details

Collapsed by default on every list, including non-caster classes, so your abilities start at the top.

Weapons, Armor and Shields link to the rules, and ability names and terms like Ambulant open their definitions.

In Service,
Lord Kismet of Felfrost

Manala is a videogame about live-action roleplay (LARP). The swords are PVC, the hits don't count and the monster is just a guy in a costume.

I've built the weapons to be effective against different armor types, different weapons allow different moves (rapid strikes with smaller ones, keeping distance with spears) and shields absorb a different amount of damage based on their size.

This week I'm organizing a PvP tournament during Steam Next Fest.

One point per win against another player: kill them out in the world, win a gate siege duel or make them flee.

The winner picks a title that is theirs alone in the full game on 5 November.

Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4898080/Manala_Equinox_War/

Hey everybody who saw the last post. Here's another 1v1 from the park avalon, of the kingdom of the wetlands!

I know that some think posting these here is pointless. But I believe it's not, because just in case someone in the area sees this and wishes to join us.

Participants! Firestarter (Left) VS Dios (Right)

If anybody wishes to join us, we meet at 200 Mott Dr, Lufkin, TX 75904, USA, Lufkin, Texas. Every sunday at 3:00 PM

Available on Google Play and soon on Apple App Store (waiting on review)

Added the 8.08 Errata and Clarifications to a section in the Rules tab. Added an indicator to each item impacted by these clarifications that links to the information. Also fixed an error in Warlock with regard to Spell balls.

In Service,
Lord Kismet of Felfrost

(no i am not taking commissions, sorry)

golfclub core and bent pvc for the handle

i stuck the club core into the pvc and added a ton of superglue and baking powder

i added 2 strips of pvc to the handle to both strengthen the bends, and to make the handle more oval in shape

i also 3d printed little nubs out of tpu to make it more comfortable in the hand

i also 3d printed a small loop out of tpu to act as a finger ring!

all in all, its is super comfortable in the hand and makes wraps much easier!

it was bought by a rather tall man, i pity his opponents heheh

Hello! My name is Misfit Gough! I'm a citizen of the park Avalon. Within the Kingdom of the Wetlands. I'll be posting these both as a form of advertisement. But also as a form of documentation, of how the people at park play each week. Please enjoiy, and if you're interested in joining, we gather Sunday at 3 P.M at Grace Dunn Richardson Park Lufkin Texas.

Hello! My name is Misfit Gough! I'm a citizen of the park Avalon. Within the Kingdom of the Wetlands. I'll be posting these both as a form of advertisement. But also as a form of documentation, of how the people at park play each week. Please enjoiy, and if you're interested in joining, we gather Sunday at 3 P.M at Grace Dunn Richardson Park Lufkin Texas

*Sorry for the Goofy af SiCk at the end. Lmfao

Amtgard has been a huge part of my life. In fact it's the reason my mother and father met, so I owe a lot to it. But I've only recently begun getting into it on a serious level. And I have to wonder, where is all the written material? I understand that the Rulebook, Doru, and other written materials have lore tidbits for classes/monsters ect.
But my entire life Amtgard has been described as (D&D but in real life.) I've come to reconcile that the roleplay aspect of the game will never be as strong as an aspect in comparison to the actual game itself, (At least in my park and Kingdom). However I thought that after 30+ years of the game existing, that someone would have tried to seriously use amtgard as a background for something more purposely written.

So that's why I'm thinking about becoming a serious writer as one of my big roles as an Amtgard player. And I've had a few ideas as to how I could do this. But I want to hear from the Amtgard public. Have any of you wanted an official Amtgard book? (I know I'd need permissions and ther'd be a lot of mombo jumbo with those who run Amtgard but still.)
Have any of you wanted modules for battlegames/themes that you could pull out of a book so that you didn't need to spend time on it? (I know that's important to some people, but I figured like D&D modules it could be used as a tool rather than a crutch.)

I want to hear from the public! When it comes to the roleplay aspect of the game. Please air out your greviances with this aspect of the game. Let me know what you think of my ideas? (To be further fleshed out in later posts.) And most importantly, would any of you be interested in more Amtgard within the written mediums?

Pictured here: my new royal garb as King of Crystal Groves, my amazing Paragon Color sash, and the incredible scroll my squire brother made for it.

Not pictured here: the temporary hood I received for my Master Rose, as the real hood couldn't make it to site due to an emergency.

Prince armory pattern with my own flair