Weapons

All weapons must resemble realistic historical or fantasy weapons and must be made by an approved LARP weapon manufacturer and inspected for any damage. If damaged, a weapon CANNOT be used. If a player notices a damaged weapon at any time, they are to point it out to the player using it or an Admin if the player continues to use it.

If a LARP weapon is a custom-made piece or made by a non-approved manufacturer, it must be assessed by an Admin and documentation provided of its construction before entering the playing field.

Current approved manufacturers are Ateliers-Nemesis, Calimacil, Elysian Forge , Epic Armoury 

If in doubt, check with the Admins before you purchase.

Ranged

Ranged weapons are divided into 3 categories:

• Throwing weapon - less than 45cm, coreless, and resembles a real weapon (food items do not deal damage) and not a Spell Tag (roughly ball shaped and colour coded for magic). Throwing weapons are ranged weapons that are thrown at an opponent by hand. Throwing weapons do not take up weapon slots but players are limited to 3.  Ideally throwing weapons should be identifiable by their owner for retrieval.

• Bow - must be a traditional design and no more than 28 pounds draw.
  Arrows: Players may carry a maximum of 12 arrows. Arrows must be LARP-safe arrows sold through a LARP vendor such as Epic Armoury  or Of Science and Swords and must be inspected before use and marked to identify them as their owners' arrows.  Arrows may be retrieved and reused during a round by their owner.

• Bandgun - must loosely resemble firearms from before 1800 A.D (meaning no modern firearms), have a trigger guard, and be single shot only
  Band Pistol: one-handed up to 50cm
  Band Rifle: two-handed up to 160cm
  Bandgun Ammo: Players may carry a maximum of 18, (regardless of number of guns carried) and they may only be retrieved by their owners at the end of the round.  Bandgun ammo must be no shorter than one-third and one inch of the draw length of the gun. The elastic tube must be blue tubing (usually bought from Clark Rubber) and marked in some way to identify the owner. Cable ties on bands are not acceptable.

Armour

For worn clothing to count as armour, it must look like armour from a movie or be historically accurate. It must be made to a high quality standard and offer some level of protection or padding.  It must cover more than half the specific protection area in order for it to count as armour points for that area (there are 8 total areas)

Shields

Players who wish to use a shield may do so as long as they fit the following criteria and are used safely. Shields may only be used to block hits from opponents, and nothing else.

A shield uses one arm entirely, nothing else combat related may be used by the arm holding the shield (you may hold an item or objective as long as it is visible)

Note: Shields are not classed as weapons, and therefore cannot be used to strike opponents - if you do so, even accidentally, there is an immediate penalty.  

Shields negate any damage from:

• melee weapons.

• missile weapons.

Shieids have no effect (and count as a valid hit location if struck) for:

• magic spells either delivered through a valid melee weapon or as a thrown spell tag.

• siege level damage weapons (anything that effects a castle such as a cannon, explosives or mortar)

Shields reduce the Mana total of the user by 1.

Shield Types

• Round Shield

  • Maximum diameter: 70cm

• All Other Shield Types

  • Maximum dimensions: 60cm x 90cm

Shields may be made of any materials, but must have both foam edging and no potentially dangerous protrusions (eg: bolts, nuts, etc). We recommend that all shields be made of foam, in particular the front face - but this is not required.