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Re: (TFT) notes+ The Mysterious Geometry of Swordsmanship, Gorgeously Illustrated
EAP,
I got nothing. I never cut my counters out. From the get go our group always used minis. I hand cut 7 hex bases and then plopped the whatever we had, old dragon mini on top of it. But then again I was an art major. I understood the mechanics of an xacto knife!
Thanks for sharing that memory from 1978. 13 huh? Hell, I was a Junior in college. Makes me an old guy I guess.
I should frame those counters. Liz drew them, bell bottoms and all. Should get her to sign them some GenCon.
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David O. Miller
Miller Design/Illustration
www.davidomiller.com
www.meleewizards.com
On Sep 26, 2014, at 12:30 AM, "Edward Kroeten" <ekroeten@farmersagent.com> wrote:
> Did you get in trouble for using mom's scissors? It was 1981 and we had
> a single pair of orange handle Fiskers that I borrowed from my sister (wi
> thout her permission) who was in college. This eleven year old got yelled
> at from older sister then whacked by dad (open palm to top of head) for
> taking without asking to this day it was still worth it.
>
>
> Edward Kroeten
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> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: 08:22 PM PDT, 09/25/2014
> From: EA Press <ototeman@pacbell.net>
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Subject: (TFT) notes+ The Mysterious Geometry of Swordsmanship, Gorg
> eously Illustrated
>
> 25 September 2014
>
>
> TFTrippers:
>
>
> Hey y'all!
> This is my first post to the list, yet I've been receiving such
> for just about a year now.
> A reminiscent niche of comfort for me, yes. Thank you all.
>
>
> Today I came across a Slate article which made me sit up and go
> En Garde!
> Article referring Girard Thibault’s *Académie de l�
> ��Espée* (1628) which I had never heard of before.
> Check it out.
>
>
> "The Mysterious Geometry of Swordsmanship, Gorgeously Illustrate
> d"
> http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/09/25/history_of_fenci
> ng_geometrical_images_of_sword_fighting_by_gerard_thibault.html
>
>
> The notion of swordplay proxemics proportionate to a combatant's
> personal geometry is fascinating and brought immediately to mind GDW's *
> En Garde!* rules chapbook from 1975. I have a sharp specimen of this in m
> y archives yet I have not played it. Still *En Garde!* came to mind like
> a bolt from a crossbow at 15-feet, from a different rulebook.
> [*En Garde!* game design: Frank Chadwick, Daryl Hany, John Harsh
> man, Loren Wiseman]
>
>
> "Retrospective: En Garde!"
> http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/11/retrospective-en-garde.ht
> ml
>
>
> However, what rose top to mind looking at these Thibault images
> from 1628, was the lace of intersecting geometry, the line-cut ink deline
> ations of his visual thesis.
>
>
> Ha! Reminded me of the 7-hex dragon from the *Wizard* micro-game
> cut-sheet and my experience cutting those counters off the card.
> It all circled-up. Thus my first post here.
>
>
> Yeah, 1978 13-years old in suburban-edge Baltimore and our two p
> air of house scissors both had blades too thick for the task. A different
> time: no Fiskars at the Rite-Aid; no scrapbookers' supplies from Michael
> s stored in some fidget room. Yes I had x-acto knives from doing airplane
> and car models. No I didn't think to use them, having not yet gained the
> insight of tool cross-purposes. Idiot. However I was resourceful on my "
> scissors needed to cut paper or card" stuckness. Counters needed to be cu
> t.
>
>
> What about my mom's nail scissors? Fine edge, yes. Very sharp, y
> es. Curved tip at point... urgh, yes.
> Let's make lemonade!
> A thousand little cuts to free the 7-hex dragon. Yup.
> What a long strange fantasy trip it's been...
>
>
> Thanks TFT list-members for for all your sharing to enable mine.
>
> Best Regards...
> En Garde!
> Enjoy.
> -EAP
>
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