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  • Category: Amtgard
  • Founded: Mar 5, 2007
  • Language: English
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We meet on Sundays, in Southern Burnet Woods Park. From heading East on Martin Luther King Dr, go past Clifton, and turn left on Brookline Dr (first street past the light, accross from the University). Park along the side of the street. You should see us on on the left side, in the flat area or the right side, up near the large circle of stones (Stonehenge). We start around 1:30 PM. We pick teams for our first battlegame/scenario promptly at 2:00 PM. If you have questions, join our Yahoo! group, or contact Viktor, Gabriella, or Obie.

What is amtgard, you might ask?

Amtgard is a live-action fantasy boffer combat game (with a TOUCH of live action role-playing thrown into the mix).

The primary focus of Amtgard is combat. The abilities of the classes are generally related to combat. Non-combat oriented talents and attributes are left up to the imagination and actual capabilities of the players and are not covered by specific rules.

Amtgard combat is resolved with actual physical fighting, though there are some rules in place to enhance safety. The weapons are boffer weapons (with less emphasis on realism and more emphasis on safety) but a player's physical ability, rather than game-based attributes as with other LARPs, determines the outcome allowing for a more realistic experience.

Despite this, injuries are quite rare due to the stringent attention paid to SAFETY. Contact is limited between fighters and non-weapon tactics like grappling or shield bashing are strictly prohibited. Amtgard is similar to many LARP Boffer groups. One of the main differences between Amtgard and other groups is the inclusion of a magic system for some battle-games.

Amtgard fighting tends to be much faster and more technical than other groups. The universal round blade used widely in Amtgard has led the game more away from "fantasy scenario battles" and into a stick tag sport at its

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Excellent! Now, when a few of us went up to BFP we did some jugging up there. They have acctual jugging tabbards like jerseys with there park symbol on the
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Save the big guy. I've got a skull and goals. I'm thinking I'd be happy to work on some flails, too. Obie
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I will bring some copies of the rules for Jugging to the park on Sunday. We have mostly everything we need weapon wise, though we are short on flails. We do
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Oh I can pretty much make that a definite....Kanus like jugging... Kanus Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ... From: Obie Williams <obielando@...>
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