Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!cjh@CCA-UNIX From: cjh@CCA-UNIX@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: SCA Message-ID: <3729@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 15:22:35 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3729 Posted: Tue Aug 2 15:22:35 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Aug-83 11:03:38 EDT Lines: 27 From: cjh@CCA-UNIX (Chip Hitchcock) There's been quite a bit of nonsense about the SCA in this digest. Since I am in no way an official speaker for any part of the SCA and since this is getting rather far off the topic of the digest, I'll put in a very short summary: 1. The SCA is generally considered to cover over a millennium temporally; common dates are ~500 (fall of Rome) to 1600. 2. The original orientation of the SCA may have been Western European in some peoples' minds, but this limitation has basically been erased. There are in fact ronin* of various periods seen as well as everything geographically between there and Ireland; the Fan Guest of Honor at the 1984 Worldcon is known in the SCA as Mandarin Vuong Manh. The tendency is toward peoples with established cities anywhere in that period (but I haven't seen any African personas, which is a big hole, and there have been woad-wearing Britons). A recent issue of the SCA quarterly, TOURNAMENTS ILLUMINATED, was devoted entirely to period Japanese subjects 3. Jim Washburn's rodomontade may be answered (although not to his satisfaction) since there will be some very capable ronin at this year's war. CHip (Chip Hitchcock (CJH@CCA-UNIX (...cca!csin!cjh))) * Japanese warrior (usually means unattached, since "samurai" means "servant")