[Archers] Archers Digest, Vol 135, Issue 17

Mon Dec 15 14:38:08 PST 2014

Thanks for a great theme Janyn! Ha! What a panic! The possibilities for
this shoot are endless!

I'm already scheming er..planning for my station!

yours,
Martelle

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>    1. Re: 15th Century Archer Portrait (Garth Groff)
>    2. Theme for the 5th St. Sebastian's shoot at Pennsic 44
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> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:11:29 -0500
> From: Garth Groff <sarahsan at embarqmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Archers] 15th Century Archer Portrait
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> M'Lord Barre,
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> My suspicion about the shafts is that they are probably all about the
> same length, but were arranged in sort of a "cascade" effect by the
> painter for ease of execution, or to better show that they are arrows.
> Fletches all bunched together might be a painters mess.
>
> I'm not sure about helical fletch. Possible, but I can see that well
> anymore.
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> Yours Aye,
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> Lord Mungo Napier, Just Back from the 18th Century at Colonial Williamsburg
> On 12/12/14 8:12 PM, barysears wrote:
> > Interesting details on the shafts. Self nocked, sure, but with very
> > little space between the nock and fletch. Interesting that not all the
> > shafts are the same length. I'm trying to decide if there is a helical
> > twist to the fletch.
> >
> > barre
> >
> > On 12/10/2014 3:50 PM, Garth Groff wrote:
> >> Noble Friends of the Bow,
> >>
> >> Today I happened to run across this photo on the cover of a book:
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_de_Luetz . I didn't take me long
> >> to locate the photo on line, along with this brief biography of the
> >> subject. You can blow this photo up a bit by clicking on it. I was
> >> immediately struck by the arrows he holds. These are apparently
> >> gentlemen's sporting arrows. They feature a parabolic fletch, are
> >> crested with three black bands, and the color of the shafts suggests
> >> natural wood, probably sealed with beeswax and lard, danish oil, or
> >> boiled linseed oil. Good images of arrows from our period are hard to
> >> come by, but this shows that by the mid-16th century, some sporting
> >> arrows were not that different from what we use today.
> >>
> >> Yours Aye,
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> >> Lord Mungo Napier, Lover of Archery History
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> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:15:56 +0000 (UTC)
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> Subject: [Archers] Theme for the 5th St. Sebastian's shoot at Pennsic
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> Good afternoon my Brothers and Sisters of the Bow. I have decided on the
> theme for the 5th St. Sebastian's shoot next year; it will be based on
> "Dungeons and Dragons." The thought in this theme is to make the shoot more
> fun and a bit more random in scoring, everyone responds well to the
> "Chance" shoots we held this past year. So in your target design, I am
> looking for things like this; here is an example of one of the targets I
> will be designing.
>
> D&D Dice Hanging targets;
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> Each archer will roll 4 dice based on their type of bow; once rolled, the
> archer must shoot those representative point values to get those points.
>
> Crossbow shooters will shoot the 1d6 dice as Crossbows in D&D scored 1d6
> for points
> Hand bows will shoot the 1d4 dice as bows in D&D scored 1d4 for points
>
> So you determine how many points you get by which representative numbers
> you shoot based on the roll of your dice first.
>
> Also I will be putting little gelatinous cubes on my targets so if you
> miss and hit those, you loose your points because your arrow or bolt was
> consumed by the cube.
>
>
> I think this gives us many possibilities and it helps make the shoot a bit
> more fun because it introduces some randomness to it as well. So those
> "eagle eye shooters" that win year after year have the same odds in the
> rolls as any of the other archers do.
>
> So I'm looking for each target to have a dice roll and also to include
> some type of bad monster to act as a foe if you hit them. Maybe dice rolls
> can be a saving throw after an archer has shot, so lets say they shot for
> 25 points, if they don't make their saving throw they might loose a third
> of their points, or something like that.
>
> Lets have fun with this!
>
> In Service,
>
> Janyn
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