[Archers] Archers Digest, Vol 135, Issue 17

Tue Dec 16 16:08:55 PST 2014

Nicki, yeah I think it will be fun. Just let me know what you come up with. We want to try to induce some chance and friend / foe at each station to make it more interesting. Keep that in mind when you are designing. 

The Evil One….

Janyn

From: Nichola Blackwell [mailto:nichola_blackwell at yahoo.com] 
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I love the theme, Jay.

It offers great room for creativity.

Right now, I'm thinking something with magic missals (lollypops) and not sure of the creature yet.

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I claim Displacer Beast.

Godai

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Wonderful!

Janyn

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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)
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M'Lord Barre,

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.

Yours Aye,

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,
>>
>>
>> Lord Mungo Napier, Lover of Archery History
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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;

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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