Soo Ma Tai wrote:I have always considered myself both Dagorhirim and Belgarthian, at least until the last few weeks ago. Since I have been banned from participation on the Dag boards, I no longer feel as though I can participate in the Dag community. I am now simply a Belegarth fighter, and having had a bad taste left in my mouth more than once now from Dag and Dominus, I will prolly never attend another Dag event.
That's unfortunate. Please, though, don't blame all of Dagorhir for the ass-hattery that goes on in regards to the boards. 95% of Dagorhir either disagrees with board policies or just don't care. They don't care about intergroup politics, for the same reason that most Belegrim don't, that is, they just want to have a good time. I go to roughly 5 major events a year, from both games, and I have good friends in both games and have wonderful memories from events under both labels. The fact is, though, that the people who run the board are part of that 5% and so no matter how much you may disagree, you have to follow their rules on their board. Just the way it is.
bangor wrote:This is because Dagorhir is exclusive. You cannot be Dag and anything else, but you can be Bel/Amt/Dark/Laire/every other boffersportlarp. This is an incredible short-sighted ruling by Dagorhir, as it limits park creation and local numbers, and EVERY OTHER game doesn't shaft the other this way. It's high time that the board of Dagorhir show the age and wisdom that the oldest of the organized boffergames should display. These bannings, exclusive contracts, and other drama-starting antics have got to stop.
This is only partially true. Dagorhir does not actually seek to limit individuals' participation in different games (although some specific individuals are banned from attending Ragnarok), but it does require that its chapters as organizations are only members of Dagorhir. So, all of the members of hypothetical Dagorhir Realm X could go to Octoberfest or host an intersport event, but they are not allowed to do so
under the name of Dagorhir or the name of Realm X.
This may be manipulated in cases where there is a particular grudge at stake, I don't know. I've seen some fair evidence of pettiness and immaturity from both sides of the aisle, though.
To be honest, I'm just sick of the whole thing. I have a vested interest in the well being of both games, I want to see both grow to become the best organizations and the best games that they can be, and I want to do everything I can to try and help make a brighter future for our version of hard-core boffer fighting, under any name. I'd love to see more cooperation in the future, and I think that it will happen as the younger generations who don't remember the split take over the reins of leadership, but I don't think that the split will ever be repaired fully.
What it really comes down to is that I'm just sick and tired of people still fighting over **** that went down when I was in middle school. I mean, for Christ's sake, I'm about to graduate from college.
I don't care who's right and who's wrong, I just want to have fun, hit people with sticks, and see thousands of other people doing so around me.
To quote an old SCA song, I want to see us the builders of a new Valhalla. I want to fight all day, be resurrected by pretty girls, and then spend the night laughing and singing and regaling my friends with lies about my combat prowess, and I hate to see politics or labels get in the way of that.