SCA, a subset of geekdom

[Sir_Catherine]

Comments in another thread on the Force, dice bags and Firefly only reinforced how intertwined all these interests and the SCA are. It makes sense when one realizes each is a subset of greater geekdom.

To this end, while we all would love to meet up at an SCA event, many of us attend other geek events as well. So, if you want, post what non-SCA geek related events you might be going to. I don't mean to sway away from the SCA but rather to facilitate SCAdians meeting each other.

Besides, nothing's quite as amusing as watching gathered SCAdians swarm together at an anime convention. Introducing fellow geeks to a fighter practice and bardic circle is a blast.

For my own part, I'll be at No Brand Con in Eau Clarie, WI the April/May weekend.  

[Out to the Black]

I might be going to Penguicon next weekend (not this upcoming one). I'm not sure yet.

http://www.penguicon.org/  

[MorganOfCalafia]

My friends who I got into the SCA and the Wheel of Time book series and I do a d'nd based RPG based on that series almost any weekend we don't have events.  

[Out to the Black]

I play several tabletop RPGs and I'm a registered member of the 76th Independant Battalion.  

[Sir_Catherine]

Independent Battalion connected to what? US military, an RPG group?

This weekend is No Brand Con. I consider it my home convention though it's two hours away.  

[MorganOfCalafia]

My guess would be that Independent Battalion is a browncoat group  

[Out to the Black]

Exactly. It's a fangroup. Link is here.
http://76thbattalion.dragonfyredawn.com/

It's like the 501st for Star Wars, though a bit smaller at hte moment. We even march in the Parade at Dragoncon. I haven't gotten to that yet but I will.  

[MorganOfCalafia]

Was it dragoncon that RJ's wife is going to this year?  

[Sir_Catherine]

My local city just held a Bard-a-thon and I missed out on the whole thing. *very, very sad* It was a reading of everything by Shakespeare over the course of eight full days. I didn't find out about it until the last day and then had to work while my favorite play, Measure for Measure was being read. *sadder still*  

[Runa Whynd]

Ok. Tommorow I'm going to see a broadcast of Hamlet, staring David Tennant and Patrick Stewart at the historical theater in my town. So we have Shakespear, Doctor Who, and Star Trek fandoms. All present in a single show, in a lovley old theater? How can I say no to that?  

[Out to the Black]

Yay fandom!  

[Sir_Catherine]

*groans* I couldn't agree more, Kitty. There's a reason I say it's a subset of geekdom rather than fandom.  

[MorganOfCalafia]

I saw a Cloud cosplay at Potrero few years back. Sword and everything. It was a little sad.

Seanchan make me lose the game because our tabletop RPG group got wiped by a group of them and we had to restart. It was sort of sad. I mean granted we have a ten year old and a twelve year old in our group and most of the rest of us it was the first time ever doing a real RPG but it was a pretty royal a** raping.  

[Runa Whynd]

I'm all for cosplay but it belongs at Cons, not SCA events.