I like your use of old technology in the modern day; it's something I do all the time, although not really for specific functions. In my case, I know that in the great depression children often wore potato and flour sacks for clothes and had no soks because it all wore out and they had nothing else...

Just thought I'd share a link........ I'm not sure its in the right place though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGuO3ulu-JI


I've watched a few of this guy's vids

"A Beorning, a Gondorian and a Ranger........" Did you miss ".......Walk into a tavern" off that statement perchance?

Cimrandir:
Make the lining first and start with the browband.

I suppose being 'nice' is seen as weakness in Orc culture, and weaklings are to be despised, victimised and obliterated. It all comes down to Nature verses Nurture, are Orcs taught "at their mother's knee" to be amoral sadists, bullies and ultra-violent psychopaths or are they spawned that...

Tom_Ranger wrote: ↑Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:20 pm Those are great. I like the dark forest; I think I will have to make it my background image on my desktop.

I too would like 'Mirkwood' as my desktop........ Any objections Iodo?

Thats not that far away from an 'Envelope' knapsack, those are a squared off piece of leather (or cheap canvas if you're British!) with straps and a couple of big pockets to help keep it all organised (and make them look all military and uniform).

Like the style a lot

Cimrandir wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 4:06 pm Because it’s a bot. Rare but not unheard of. Older style forums like MERF can attract them.

Cast it into the fire!!

Does the vambrace impede the wrist ?

British WWII webbing was made from hemp canvas. I have the '44 pattern pack that my Dad bought surplus during his Royal Navy service, so that would of been after '53. He used it as luggage and later for tools, we also used it as a tool bag for most of my youth.... So it had a hard life for forty odd...

May I suggest pine, ash, larch, chestnut, linden, alder or walnut as lighter woods then oak.
I'm assuming you want to carry your pack rather then curse it.

Other then that I'll await your vision of a pack...... If only to steal the best parts for my own

I've always assumed that the Dunedain were basically two interdependent groups, I think of them as Steaders and Wanderers. Steaders are those who live in small settlements or semi-fortified homesteads scattered over the Angle and other areas that all commonly patrolled. They offer respite and resupp...

Good threads are like Rangers, they wander all over the place but do get back to where they belong. I think I'll forego the gauntlet knife. Definitely more rogue/assassin and not what I'm going for. Perhaps a small boot knife to give me an option off the belt. At what point do you carry too many kni...

My vote is for Raven or crows... as a mountain dweller, crows alert you of danger, incoming people ect. All the wild boars do is wreck shit, muck up the watering holes and cause general mayhem. Ok, I'm confused. You say your vote is for raven or crows, but then you give such a compelling argument F...

Can we make Eofor an honorary Dwarf??

Boar as a totem is still good though...... But I do have a personal bias towards Corvids