# Possible SCA variation? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 15, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853 "2010-09-15T14:52:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/1 "2010-09-15T14:52:04Z")
I am trying to design a variation of the Society of Creative Anachronism. Imagine it is 2000 years in the future, and people of that time start up something like the SCA, only it would involve people of _our_ time(perhaps from 1800 to 2010). The trouble is due to a world war or two there are limited records of our time, so how our time is reenacted might be a _bit_ inaccurate. This game would need an official list of sources that would survive the wars that the participants would draw from, and feel free to throw in some fiction-maybe a movie or two, or even comics. I would like to limit the number of sources to maybe twenty, but additional sources could be “unburied” in the future to make the game interesting. Also, the game needs a name. I am currently using the name _Area Age_, which is mistranslation of “Space Age” that the future gamers make, but I am willing to change it. What do you think of my idea, and what sources would make this LARP interesting? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/2 "2010-09-15T15:18:32Z")
Also, no dictionaries or encyclopedias, and all internet sources were wiped out by the _Armageddon 2-Electric Boogaloo_ virus of 2165. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/3 "2010-09-15T15:26:16Z")
I would hope that a copy of _Lady Chatterley’s Lover_ might survive, to encourage the believe that the main social classes were baronets, ladies and gamekeepers. Of course, no one would want to play the role of the baronet. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/4 "2010-09-15T15:32:50Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > I would hope that a copy of _Lady Chatterley’s Lover_ might survive, to encourage the believe that the main social classes were baronets, ladies and gamekeepers. Of course, no one would want to play the role of the baronet. I would like nothing earlier in fiction or fact than the early to mid 1800’s, and nothing later than our current time period. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/5 "2010-09-15T15:40:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I would like nothing earlier in fiction or fact than the early to mid 1800’s, and nothing later than our current time period. LCL was written and published in the 1920s, so doesn’t it fit your time period? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/6 "2010-09-15T15:42:38Z")
_True Grit_ because all Americans were cowboys. _Sands of Iwo Jima_ because sometimes cowboys joined the Marines. _The Green Berets_ because sometimes cowboy-marines joined the army to make a political statement. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/7 "2010-09-15T15:57:32Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > I would like nothing earlier in fiction or fact than the early to mid 1800’s, and nothing later than our current time period. > > LCL was written and published in the 1920s, so doesn’t it fit your time period? But it is about an earlier time period. I am looking for fact/fiction _about_ the time covered by the game, not written during the time period of the game. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/8 "2010-09-15T16:00:02Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > _True Grit_ because all Americans were cowboys. _Sands of Iwo Jima_ because sometimes cowboys joined the Marines. _The Green Berets_ because sometimes cowboy-marines joined the army to make a political statement. Too much similarity, and I would like more clashing of cultures, so to speak. All are excellent choices-pick one. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/9 "2010-09-15T16:00:29Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@Giles](#): > > > > LCL was written and published in the 1920s, so doesn’t it fit your time period? > > But it is about an earlier time period. I am looking for fact/fiction _about_ the time covered by the game, not written during the time period of the game. Sir Clifford Chatterley was injured in World War 1: the book is clearly set in the 1920s. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/10 "2010-09-15T16:02:41Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@Oakminster](#): > > > > _True Grit_ because all Americans were cowboys. _Sands of Iwo Jima_ because sometimes cowboys joined the Marines. _The Green Berets_ because sometimes cowboy-marines joined the army to make a political statement. > > Too much similarity, and I would like more clashing of cultures, so to speak. All are excellent choices-pick one. Hmmm…I was sorta riffing on the sameness as a mis-remembered history element, but if I had to pick only one, I’d go with _True Grit_. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/11 "2010-09-15T16:04:09Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > But it is about an earlier time period. I am looking for fact/fiction _about_ the time covered by the game, not written during the time period of the game. > > Sir Clifford Chatterley was injured in World War 1: the book is clearly set in the 1920s. What the hell was I thinking? I blame a poor education. _Lady Chatterley’s Lover_ is in. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/12 "2010-09-15T16:05:17Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > Too much similarity, and I would like more clashing of cultures, so to speak. All are excellent choices-pick one. > > Hmmm…I was sorta riffing on the sameness as a mis-remembered history element, but if I had to pick only one, I’d go with _True Grit_. True Grit is in. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/13 "2010-09-15T16:06:09Z")
_Bonfire of the Vanities_ by Tom Wolfe is a pretty good top-to-bottom overview of American urban society in the Eighties. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/14 "2010-09-15T16:06:19Z")
How about something from our times that might give a wrong impression of how we live? Edited to add-Something trashy and/or poorly written would be nice, because sometimes trash survives. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/15 "2010-09-15T16:11:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > _Bonfire of the Vanities_ by Tom Wolfe is a pretty good top-to-bottom overview of American urban society in the Eighties. _Bonfire of the Vanities_ would accurately portray the period, but a copy of _Doc Savage magazine_ would be more fun to reenact, wouldn’t it? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/16 "2010-09-15T16:14:41Z")
You could be very meta and include a copy of [Diana: Warrior Princess](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana:_Warrior_Princess). ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/17 "2010-09-15T16:20:48Z")
If you want some culture clash, maybe throw in something like _Hair_ or _Rocky Horror Picture Show._ For wrong impressions of how we live, how about _Married with Children_? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/18 "2010-09-15T16:25:44Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > If you want some culture clash, maybe throw in something like _Hair_ or _Rocky Horror Picture Show._ > > For wrong impressions of how we live, how about _Married with Children_? _Married With Children_ is in. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/19 "2010-09-15T16:26:15Z")
Do any bound volumes of the _Weekly World News_ exist? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/20 "2010-09-15T16:26:53Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > If you want some culture clash, maybe throw in something like _Hair_ or _Rocky Horror Picture Show._ Y’know, throwing in a musical might not be a bad idea. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853.md?page=2)