Has anyone been to a Renaissance Fair?

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They're fun.
Been to several in different parts of the US - Bristol in Wisconsin, Scarborough in Texas, Great Georgia Renaissance Festival south of Atlanta.
The ones with permanent grounds are the better ones.

The one thing I don't like about them is some of the "traditional" foods like "Ye Olde" funnel cakes, chicken on a stick, and dippin dots.
Most of them do serve mead, though. Delicious.
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Posted by CancerOnTheCusp
They're fun.
Been to several in different parts of the US - Bristol in Wisconsin, Scarborough in Texas, Great Georgia Renaissance Festival south of Atlanta.
The ones with permanent grounds are the better ones.

The one thing I don't like about them is some of the "traditional" foods like "Ye Olde" funnel cakes, chicken on a stick, and dippin dots.
Most of them do serve mead, though. Delicious.



The one I went to didn't have the commercial fair food. They had pig spits roasting meats, roasted veggies, stews in bread bowls....at least a little closer to aiming for a traditional fare in the food department.
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Posted by CancerOnTheCusp
They're fun.
Been to several in different parts of the US - Bristol in Wisconsin, Scarborough in Texas, Great Georgia Renaissance Festival south of Atlanta.
The ones with permanent grounds are the better ones.

The one thing I don't like about them is some of the "traditional" foods like "Ye Olde" funnel cakes, chicken on a stick, and dippin dots.
Most of them do serve mead, though. Delicious.



We're going to Scarborough.
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I just remember everyone dressed up as somthing fantasy like, so elves, half cat half humans, dwarfs, vikins, and anything you can imagine gathered in the dining hall eating. Afterwards everyone was chatting, and some were playing instruments I've never seen befor, and everyone was acting a role. Out of no where people dressed up as God knows what stormed in and started killing people. The high level characters rushed to the entrance to push them back, but low level characters were dropping like flies. Once they got the enemies outside I remember seeing one run right past me the flank and ally, and with cat like reflexes I threw a lightning bolt killing the monster instantly. I was my first kill ever, and I looted the monster and found a necklace that had protection from charm. That charm trinket saved my life multiple times that event.
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been to Scarborough in dallas a few times, once is all i needed tho, I only say that cus its the same thing every time.

But they do have the permanent buildings and structures so it does feel like your walking around a ye 'ol town and shit. There is some retarded dude, that sits in the middle of the square banging his head, fucking with people and asking for money, that's good for a 3 mins laugh. They have these stories and plays that are entertaining. the jousting blows imo just boring.

There's lots of handcrafted shit to look at and buy, glass blowing and shit you can watch.

Go to the gypsy wagons and get a tarot card reading for $ 20
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Posted by Astrobyn
been to Scarborough in dallas a few times, once is all i needed tho, I only say that cus its the same thing every time.

But they do have the permanent buildings and structures so it does feel like your walking around a ye 'ol town and shit. There is some retarded dude, that sits in the middle of the square banging his head, fucking with people and asking for money, that's good for a 3 mins laugh. They have these stories and plays that are entertaining. the jousting blows imo just boring.

There's lots of handcrafted shit to look at and buy, glass blowing and shit you can watch.

Go to the gypsy wagons and get a tarot card reading for $ 20



Cool!
I would totally do the tarot read. Maybe I could get the aqua to do it.
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It is about race duh.
Well let's be realistic.
Why would I want to role play as a European?
If it has anything to do with "European" antiquity or dark ages I would probably be a slave... The only way i would be a free man if I was from a North Africa, so it's not really European is it? I've never seen different cultures represented at these fairs.
I guess if I would have to choose while still being accurate, a pirate!

CAUSE FUCK Medieval EUROPEEEE. Pillage and steal from all you fuckers.

stfu
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I've been to one. It was small, but neat. The items they sell there are really cool and mostly handmade. I got myself a neat ankle bracelet. They also had rping and the one guy who played music with multiple large bells was even on America's Got Talent, I heard. Haha. It was a neat experience, but it was so small that I can't say it's worth it to go more than once. Hopefully the ones in your area are bigger
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Posted by b1tchcrafts
It is about race duh.
Well let's be realistic.
Why would I want to role play as a European?
If it has anything to do with "European" antiquity or dark ages I would probably be a slave... The only way i would be a free man if I was from a North Africa, so it's not really European is it? I've never seen different cultures represented at these fairs.
I guess if I would have to choose while still being accurate, a pirate!

CAUSE FUCK Medieval EUROPEEEE. Pillage and steal from all you fuckers.



Go protest at one.
Get in the face of some person in armor with peace tied weapons .
Ever hear of the phrase "going medieval on your ass"?

I've seen plenty of people of different races participating

It's a Renaissance Fair. That period was probably the greatest lift of the human condition since ancient Greece and Rome.

Pirates, when caught, were hanged BTW.
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Posted by b1tchcrafts
It is about race duh.
Well let's be realistic.
Why would I want to role play as a European?
If it has anything to do with "European" antiquity or dark ages I would probably be a slave... The only way i would be a free man if I was from a North Africa, so it's not really European is it? I've never seen different cultures represented at these fairs.
I guess if I would have to choose while still being accurate, a pirate!

CAUSE FUCK Medieval EUROPEEEE. Pillage and steal from all you fuckers.



Yes It was a hard time for the theiving scumbag jews
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Posted by b1tchcrafts
It is about race duh.
Well let's be realistic.
Why would I want to role play as a European?
If it has anything to do with "European" antiquity or dark ages I would probably be a slave... The only way i would be a free man if I was from a North Africa, so it's not really European is it? I've never seen different cultures represented at these fairs.
I guess if I would have to choose while still being accurate, a pirate!

CAUSE FUCK Medieval EUROPEEEE. Pillage and steal from all you fuckers.



So you're not interested in going. That's ALL you had to say. Now stfu and stop trying to derail my thread!
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We went. We had a good time! Loved the costumes. I wanted to dress up, but he didn't, so we didn't. The shows were entertaining and we enjoyed them. It was artisan's weekend, so we got to see how the craftsmanship was done - very fascinating. I did get my Tarot cards read. Haven't done that before, so it was pretty cool. The jousting exhibition was fun, but you could tell it was really staged. There were people there from all walks of life and it was fun to see everyone having a good time, especially those who were really getting into it.

All in all, it was fun to experience something new. And, yes, it IS expensive, especially if you want to do some shopping.