[MR] Clerk of Law Update: Polearms

[Siegfried]

> this sounds like a great law. now if only we could get
> it passed on a society level and ban the unpadded
> "polearms" society wide!
> Domenico

Domenico ... Please try to take a step back and look/understand the 
bigger picture.   Different Kingdoms play slightly different games, and 
that is their right.  Just like it is our right to ban the unpadded 
polearms from our game.

Personally, I'm all for standardizing rules across the Kingdoms for the 
point of simplicity and making less issues arise at Inter-Kingdom events.

However, we shouldn't just blatantly wish to impose how we want to play 
the game upon everyone else.

If that was the case, then some Kingdoms would be trying to get us to 
stop using padded polearms.  Another Kingdom would want us to stop doing 
all Rapier combat.  And yet another would want us to make every 
authorized fighter automatically an authorized Combat Archer.

Each kingdom has played their own game for quite a while now, and we 
need to respect that, just as we expect them to respect our feelings.

Siegfried

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