Kit Requirements

All Hadrian clothing, weapons, and armor must meet the following requirements.

Clothing

• Red must ALWAYS be the primary color of a kit.

• Hadrians CANNOT wear the colors of another culture in large quantities. This includes Green, Yellow, and Blue.

  1. Small accents or accessories in those colors are allowed upon approval by staff.

Weapons

• Hadrian weapons include arming swords, great swords, maces, hammers, longbows, crossbows, and halberds.

• No home-made, boffer, or modified (except cosmetically) weapons are approved. 

• All arrows must be flat tipped.

• Bows and Crossbows: The max allowable draw-weight for bows is 30# at a 28” draw. Crossbows have a max allowable power of 650 inch-pounds. All bows and crossbows shall be medieval or period appropriate. Modern or compound bows cannot be used at the event.

Shields

• Hadrian shields are heater, square, rectangular, or coffin shaped.

  1. Bucklers may be of any shape as long as they are 16” in diameter or less.

• Shields may be painted as wood grain, red, or red with the Hadrian sigil. Alternatively, the shield may be tightly encased with a removable cloth cover painted with the culture sigil.

  1. Other blazons or embellishments such as personal sigils or heraldry are not approved. 

Armor

• Hadrian armor includes decorative gambesons, fine leather, splinted armor, chainmail, coats of plates, brigandines and plate armor.

• Foam armor is not allowed. 

Kit Approval

• All kits have to be visually approved to enter the play area. Email hadrianempire@reckoninglarp.com with photos of your kit for approval.

Kit Examples