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what is a modern construct is the need for Large housing and trappings that go with house as in children, all their aid for activities sky tv keeping other family members happy by expense of visiting them holidays and expectation to take one each year, taking loosely related family on holiday...

Thats hillarious....and yet not

I saw some TA bushcraft videos on house making doing that appreciate its only adjacet to bushcraft, but It makes sense that for a ranger, modewr, 18th century or fantasy, it makes sense for backup weapons to also be tools....

Im all for being able to improvise and use things/tools in different ways i use my leatehrman for all sorts of things every day. but as they say right tool for the job. so just in a theoretical ranger concept, assuming bow as primary weapon ( much like musket for Roberts rangers ) would a...

Thats exactly what I was thinking, both for the woods and the axe small axe head on a long handle, if you have a knife, and your life depends on it, why baton with it when you could use an axe

9-5 grind job being depressed at a monday morning waiting for friday to arrive knowing that having children that was forced upon you by societal expectations which then end up costing hundred of thousands having to buy a bigger house etc for them you end up having more expenses which means you...

Thats interesting, didnt know about the spikes. in renactment bows were to precious to be used for fighting with, but I do remember a lot of peoples bows were very tall, almost 6 ft, mine was less than 5 ft and shorter draw length, more to chest, found it much easier to shoot in enclosed...

From what I rememeber of the few larps I did, the arrow heads were huge and quiver had the arrows upside down as a result and they tended to bounce out. I did find that quiver on back was so much faster, but with a shorter bow I had shorter arrows which was faster to shoot, never had a problem...

I quite agree If a fantasy film/book has realism, its so much better There were some good bits of realism in teh recent witcher, and LOTR films had loads A film immediately gets bonus points in my books when the characters travelling actually have and are shown to carry camping gear.... The...

Good point, although to be fair if you had to.... But then in a fantasy woodland setting of old forest, would there be much undergrowth?? Most of my local undergrowth is less than 20 years old where nature is trying to reclaim....

Excellent, well found!!

Really good points, thanks I had looked at the tomahawk/kife combo as used by Roberts rangers thinking that in D&D setting, small axed and spike or hamemrhead on the back would have good force while lightweight, not much good for parrying but for minor sheltermaking/survival tasks, making poles...

Just to put things in context, he designed a wooden scabbard that has a slit so that it can be drawn from the back, argument being easier to move, jump etc He is a fantasy author and hostorian, specialising in castles A lot of his videos are referencing/explaining weapons and warfare in pop...

Thanks everyone for the replies folks.... Has anyone here found they have replaced their axe with a machete on trips while I have a small machete, and use it on some things, if machetes are so usefull, why dont people use instead of axes ( apart from legal aspects) ...

Thats why it was in off topic section, and looking for countries experts on axe/wilderness tool use.... but I know from previous posts there are a lot of roleplayers on this forum, there is a lot of crossover

Just to be pedantic, the fellowship getting hands on lembas was very unusual, normally elves only most of the otehr races had some sort of travelling food in the various lotr canon tho... referred to as waybread. https://www.middleearthrangers.org/ there are posts here that describe what people...

Exactly, Shad was saying falchion, as blade profile is similar to long machete.. but then his austalian brush he was clearing is very different to UK being in somerset in clear a lot of hazel and willow and so for wood processing im often using my bill hook more often. while as UK...

Perfect, just what I was looking for, thanks on various weapon based youtube discussions, everyone has being saying falchion/messer and agreeing with Shad, there are otehrs that do LOTR larp cosplay that are agreeing, Thought id come here to ask the experts on woodskills....

Personally I like the idea of UBI a lot of people would be able to leave jobs they didnt want to work in, more jobs then for those that need more money and cant find work

Shadiversity recently posted this regarding weapons for a D&D ranger in summary he suggested falchion/messer as its blade profile is like a machete Personally i prefer the tomahawk/knife combo as used by roberts rangers, and in the film Last of the mohaicans Can I have some expert views on...