[SCA-AE] Changes to armored combat regs

[Sir Koredono]

On 2/6/07, KaziBrionSCA <KaziBrionSCA at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> Period plywood?  Rolled aluminum?  Street signs?  Titanium (I did see one
> once)?  Pop rivets?


You will notice that the rule does not say "period wood, metal or leather"
but "wood, metal, leather, or other period materials", so that non-period
metals and woods would be acceptable (very important given how tough and
expensive it would be to have *only* period woods and metals be acceptable),
as well as all authentic period materials not previously given (canvas over
whalebone, for example, though I have no idea whether that was actually
done).

Is there a particular reason this can't be limited by taste and social
> pressure instead of making a Rule?\


For starters, because taste and social pressure don't appear to have much
effect in this arena, and I felt that the reasons given me were quite
reasonable and acceptable.


Sir Koredono