by RedBeard » Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:15 pm
I have found in our fledgling satellite realm that borrowing weapons hasn't been a problem. I have made about 8 blues, a javelin, one red, and one four bladed stabby glaive. Of those, I tend to loan out one or two per practice.
The first week, we had passersby stop and want to play with only the three of us out there. The next week we had six who came out with a bevy of their own weapons (non of which were safe or passing).
I worked with the guy who had brought his friends that night until we had build him a short stabby glaive using basic box technique and talking about safety. But the next week, all were armed with passing weapons, and the next we had all kinds of stuff showing up.
I still find myself loaning more weapons at the main practice field than on my satellite field, but that may change as we attract more people.
Garb is something that you have to be careful about. Most people getting in seem to be those with little income for themselves, so getting real period garb is tough, and slightly expensive. Getting them an idea of how to make some stuff and the wonders of Goodwill, is a great start, but pushing people to spend a bunch of money on garb will probably have a negative affect.
I like the approach of limiting advancement. We tend to put a garb tax down by the end of summer requiring all non garbed players to fight only single blue.
Don't know if it helps, but there's my experience.
RB
RedBeard
Dimma Ulfur - Dark Wolves