Fencing Draft notes:Rules For Marshals

Notes from Earl Marshal for next update

Rejig into multiple pages

• Inspecting equipment
• Supervising combat (single, melee, rubber band guns)
• Authorising fencers and marshals
• Other marshal responsibilities

Update requirement for Kingdom Fencing Marshal to hold an Authorising Fencing Marshal authorisation

Means if they are authorising people, it's generally under that individual authority and not magic powers of the office.

Add Earl Marshal section

steal relevant text from Armoured Combat rules to remind people that the Earl Marshal can be a fencer!

Changes for v6.0

3.8.3.4

Was

You can also use your discretion to authorise a fencing marshal in any category that you believe is required to benefit the Kingdom and the Society. This might include appointing experienced fencers or marshals in a category in order to promote that type of fencing within a group.

Now

You can also use your discretion to authorise a Fencing Marshal or Authorising Fencing Marshal without undertaking the normal processes, should you believe it is required to benefit the Kingdom and the Society. This might include appointing experienced fighters as marshals in order to promote that type of fencing within a group. This should only be done when the normal process cannot be appiled, and does not overrule any other requirements. For example, Authorising Fencing Marshals must still be authorised in a form of combat to authorise fencers in that form.

Functional change

Clarifies the role of the Kingdom Fencing Marshal and removes the ability to authorise a fencer without any practical or verbal test.

Reason

Normal procedures should be followed as closely as possible. We don't wish to see any fighter being authorised for combat by fiat without a proper physical test of their competence on the field.

For notes section

April 2023 - Combat authorisations must include a practical combat test. There may be extreme circustances where the normal procedures for authorising an authorising fencing marshal may not be able to be followed, just as an inability to access other authorising fencing marshals to conduct the test. The Kingdom Fencing Marshal will endeavour to replicate the normal process as closely as possible given the circumstances.