As I yelled about at the park today...

There will be an Arts & Sciences tournament on Saturday, April 5th.

The rules are...
1. Only one item may be entered by each participant.
2. You must not have started making the item as of 5pm March 29th.
3. The item must be Amtgard related in some way.
4. The item will be judged only on it's outward appearance.
5. Judging will be held after the first battlegame of the day.

Best 5 items will win coins.

Since these items are only being judged on their appearance, construction methods/techniques are not being scrutinized. That means if you want to make something that is held together with chewing gum, you can.

- Glenalth

PDF Rule sheet and character sheet for this reign's special battle games attached.

How to get rid of some leather scraps and wind up with something useful...

These are the cultural event results from the Crown Qualifications held on February 1st, 2014.

Cultural Event Scores

PV!!! Today's tournaments were great!!
Had an awesome yet frigid time today but I feel it was all worth it.
I'd like to commend the fighters for all their hard work and honour.

Single short-
1) Shadowcaster
2) White Wolf
3) Balder
Flo-
1) Belthil
2) Shadowcaster
3) Alexander
Sword & Board-
1) Shadowcaster
2) Belthil
3) Jak
Reach-
1) White Wolf
2) Belthil
3) Shadowcaster
DS Open
1) Belthil
2) White Wolf
3) Amatiel
Dagger
1) Shadowcaster
2) White Wolf
3) Belthil

The top spots today were
Third place - White Wolf with 14 points and win streaks of 3,4,7,4.
Second place - Belthil with 17 points and win streaks of 5,3,4,5,5.
First place - Shadowcaster with 19 points and win streaks of 5,5,7.

Crown Quals for the 2014 Spring/Summer reign

Sign-ins open at 12:00p and close at 1:00p. Cultural and war events will be judged until completed but will likely be finished by 6:00p.

Duke - Alucard Draconis
Regent - Lila von Weiss
Champion - Shadowcaster
Chancellor - Belthil Randeer

Guild Masters
Archers - JAK
Assassins - Amatiel
Barbarians - Balder Lance
Bards - True That
Druids - Silverwalker
Healers - Amatiel
Monks - Balder Lance
Monsters - Alucard Draconis
Guildmaster of Reeves - Shadydeal
Scouts - Shadydeal
Warriors - Balder
Wizards - Squirrell Lathraios

I was contemplating a new project and happened to be reading through the play test document for V8. I spotted was a nice little +1 bonus to torso armor for wearing a helm. I was intrigued and had never made a full helmet before, so here is part one on making a leather helm for Amtgard combat. This guide covers basic pattern making and applies to just about any sort of leather armor.