AMTGARD and webcomics.

Jin-roh · Post by **Jin-roh** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:24 am

I friend mentioned that my comic yesterday was the first time he'd ever seen AMTGARD in a comic strip. But I can't really be the first. I'm actually surprised its not more common. Has anyone else put larping or such in their comic? I just think that kind of think is funny in-itself.

War · Post by **War** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:20 am

What the hell is AMTGARD?

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:46 am

Its an anagram!!!

Checking Wordsmith.org...

DRAG MAT - for yoga when crossdressing
GRAD TAM - a hat for people who have finished their schooling
DART MAG - a periodical for dart game enthusiats.

Gotta be one of those.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:48 am

Could also be a DAT GRAM - you know, one gram of binary code.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:53 am

I discounted that because I wasn't sure how one would measure the weight of binary code.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:59 am

Noise Monkey wrote:I discounted that because I wasn't sure how one would measure the weight of binary code.

Print it out?

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:06 pm

but at what font size? what if other people contradicted my measurement by printing it at a different size? I'd be a laughing stock!

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:07 pm

American Made Tool Guard And Rotini Dispenser

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:09 pm

I need one of those.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:13 pm

Available Male Tries Groping A Righeous Dame

Jin-roh · Post by **Jin-roh** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:13 pm

Cute guys.

This is Amtgard. It's when you make padded swords and boff eachother. You also "level up" and get to use imaginary specail abilities.

Swikan · Post by **Swikan** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:16 pm

I looked it up!

It appears to be the fantasy version of Society for Creative Anachronisms. Neato Mosquito!

I think it would translate into most comics as generic LARP, JinRoh. I'd never heard of it until this thread.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:23 pm

Oh. We didn't have a name for it. We just made our own swords out of pvc and camping foam following the specifications from the Illinois State Univerity Combat club. We didn't do the level up thing, just fight on the quad before dinner every once in a while. Though now I remember the word. I just thought everyone was saying Ampguard and I never really questioned it. Also, my favorite sword isn't legal to use in official combat because I wanted one that I could use like a rapier so it has one less layer of foam than the requirement.

And it's funny you brought it up because there's going to be a scene of two characters fighting with boffers pretty soon in my comic. The sequence has been planned for over 2 years now and I'm just now getting to that because I'm slow when it comes to updating. I wrote the outline on the backs of receipts and post-it notes on a bus in British Columbia. Scrap paper was all I had at the time and didn't want to forget anything. I just carry a small notebook everywhere I go now.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:30 pm

Swikan wrote: Neato Mosquito!

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:42 pm

Right. We called it 'swords' when I was growing up...but Down Here we aren't clever enough to have fancy names for stuff.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:49 pm

It seems so.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:04 pm

Dutch! wrote:Right. We called it 'swords'...

That reminds me of a scene in Cop & 1/2. Burt Reynolds gets peed on.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:15 pm

Ignoring the comments about me saying "Back in the day..."

Back in my days, we used broomsticks as swords, willow branches as whips, and heavy sticks as clubs, and we beat the crap out of each other. And loved every minute of it!

If you were lucky, you had a trash can lid as a shield, but they were metal lids and it shook your hand something awful when you used it to deflect a blow.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:17 pm

The first time I did it, someone had some bokken (wooden Katana). There were many bloody fingers that day.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:19 pm

Bloody fingers just means you're doing it right.