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[Craig Levin]

Sajah:

> But consider the words to "Dragon Road" ... all the "old timers" know that 
> song and can tell tales of singing it around fires at revels. Cause almost 
> EVERYONE was a gamer. And our group had not yet determined whether we were a 
> history group or a fantasy group. There are names taken from Dragonlance 
> registered and used within the Society - but there won't be any new ones as 
> long as the current naming conventions are in place. We allowed a great deal 
> in the beginning that has since been disallowed. I don't see it as 
> "mavinning" - simply as focusing one what we really want to be as a group.

Dunno. Never heard "Dragon Road", and I've been in the SCA for
about eleven years, and I'd been gaming for years, before I found
the SCA. 

The early history of the SCA is as fascinating a tale as any,
really. You can find all sorts of things in the early records,
such as the old Laurel letters. Many, but not all, of them are
online at: http://sca.org/heraldry/loar/ .

> and from my own experience it is far more dificult to assimilate todays 
> young gamers into a group that is now far more divergent from their inerests 
> than it was ten years ago or twenty.  That's all.

Dunno. Could it be that there are also a larger variety of game
genres, so that they're less familiar with the mediaevally based
stuff?

Pedro, <sigh> hasn't tossed the dice around much since '95 </sigh>