[MR] Proposal for reducing the backlog of scrolls withhelpfromBarons/esses and Heralds

[David Chessler]

At 08:33 AM 6/20/2007, padrgroups at charter.net wrote:
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>However, the SCA is not, and has never been, a historical 
>reenactment organization.  At best, we are a historical recreation 
>group.  Anachronism is a significant part of what we do, and the 
>culture of the SCA should not be confused with the culture of our 
>own chosen areas of study.  If you expect to participate in the 
>culture of the SCA, including receiving awards, you have to follow 
>its rules.  If you don't like those rules, you should take the time 
>to find out what they really are and why they were written that 
>way.  If you still don't like them, you can write to the applicable 
>office to discuss the issue and make suggestions.  And if the rules 
>don't change, and you still don't like them, you can either choose 
>to live with them, or go find a different game.
>
>I do not believe that the SCA needs to be accommodating to all.  In 
>fact, being accommodating to all in the context of event planning is 
>what, in my opinion, has led to sub-par events that try too hard to 
>be everything to everyone (though I admit that is it's own can of 
>worms).  If registering a name and arms is not important to you, 
>then receiving a scroll with that name and those arms should not be 
>something you make a fuss about.  There are plenty of people for 
>whom it is important, and the sribes are working diligently on 
>creating scrolls (in their own time, at their own cost) for those 
>people.  If you want to get your name and arms right, then you 
>should also want your scroll to be right, and will just have to wait.
>
>If you don't have a registered name or arms, and yet still want to 
>have a scroll, you can commission one.
>

Someone might be interested in a historic art. Such a person might 
have a persona that does not and would not bear arms in 
the  period.  Perhaps the wrong period. Perhaps the wrong social class.

If SCA is   UPPER CLASS (primarily nobility), then that might well be 
stated. But, supposedly, it is (as the middle ages "should" have 
been) a classless society. In other words, such a person might well 
produce art or craftsmanship that is worthy of competitive 
recognition, but might consider that, historically, the greater of 
that article would not bear arms.