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- From: kleber@husc11.harvard.edu (Gwydden)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Midrealm Crown Policy
- Message-ID: <kleber.725160043@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 01:20:43 GMT
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- Quoth Bertram:
-
- > In the Middle Kingdom entering Crown Tournaments is restricted to
- > members of the Chivalry plus others on an "invitation only" basis.
- > I believe, though I'm not sure and would welcome confirmation or
- > contradiction, that the Midrealm's policy for entering Crowns is
- > the most restrictive in the Known World.
- [...]
- > Does the Middle Kingdom's current 'invitation only' Crown
- > Tournament policy provide a benefit to the Midrealm that
- > could not also be gained by setting some sort of 'minimum
- > level of SCA activity/experience' needed to enter Crown,
- > as many other Kingdoms do?
-
- I vote "yes", but probably to a different question than you were asking.
-
- The philosophical questions of whether you get better kings with the
- Midrealm's system are open to debate. But from a re-creational point
- of view, I like the Mid's system because it stays *within* the medieval
- aspect of the SCA. Requirements which make reference to "amount of time
- active in the society" or "number of events attended" inherently refer
- to mundane aspects; a tournament "open to the chivalry and others invited
- by the Crown" is something my persona can understand as well as I can.
-
- (The fact that the invitation would be to fight for the succession to
- the throne may not be *medieval* in origin, but it certainly stays within
- the *re-creational* aspect of the SCA)
-
- I admit that sometimes we need to mention the mundane side of things--
- the membership requirement for Crown, for example, or even the East Kingdom
- Law forbidding flash photography during court (which Arval, bless his soul,
- always announces *before* the royalty process in). But when either will do,
- a rule my persona can be told makes me much happier.
-
- ps- Justin raised a related issue at the recent board meeting when he
- pointed out that concepts like "membership requirement for registering
- arms" cross over the two levels: your mundane self must send money to
- a mundane organization before your persona may be armigerous...
-
- --Gwydden Lawen I don't have an overactive
- Borough of Duncharloch, Carolingia imagination... I have an
- --kleber@husc.harvard.edu underactive reality... --EG
-