1. Tents taken by others to be set up during land grab weekend will only be done by persons acquainted with tent set ups. There shall be a minimum $10 fee per tent to the land grab weekend group to buy food and drink.

2. If you are unfamiliar with setting up your tent by yourself, you are responsible to pre-arrange helpers to aid you in setting up your tent. Practice at home, especially if it is a new or borrowed one. Plan for things to go wrong!

3. There will be, under NO circumstances, setting up of tents after dark. If you arrive at 9:00 pm (2100hrs) and night fall is in 15 minutes, you will not be allowed to set up your tent. If you persist, you will be asked to not camp with us the following year.  Plan ahead to make sure you have help to beat the time schedule. Setting up late detracts from the fun and plans of those that are already set-up. Darkness increases the trip hazards, and the noise will awaken not only our camp, but also our neighbors. If you arrive during ‘fight’ time, you will have to wait for help. If you arrive during dinner, you will have to wait. Offloading your tent is your responsibility. The group will lend a hand to SET UP the canvas, poles, ropes and main pegs. The remainder is YOUR responsibility as it is all of your personal gear. If your tent is on the bottom of all your gear, it is your job to clear it all and get the tent out. Your gear: Bring less stuff!!! There is no reason to bring every pillow, carpet, bench, shield, etc to war. We will help you best we can, but expect no help unpacking clothes, armor and personal belongings. Have your family help you or plan ahead. What was the key phrase of topic #3? Plan ahead and bring less stuff!!!

4. By Saturday morning of the middle week, no vehicles will be allowed to stay overnight in camp.  Park out front away from the gate if you dare to do so, making sure there is room for the incoming people and their cars.  These are Pennsic rules.

5. Curfew for kids will be 10:00pm (2200hrs). Curfew means the kids must be in back by the family firepot. If we are short on pots, one will be purchased for that purpose. If this does not please you, you may camp elsewhere or be advised not to bring your kids. The front firepot is for adults with adult talk and the consumption of alcohol may/will be taking place. The core of the group is not there to baby-sit your children. Be the adult, follow the rules, and don’t expect them to be bent for any reason.

6. The front gate banner will be redesigned for 2008. A barrier may be built to prohibit wanderers from coming into camp. People not invited into camp are required to stay at the gate until they receive permission to enter. This means someone must get up and greet them at the gate and ask them to state their business. If we know them, they are allowed into camp.

7. Armor and shields will be taken out of the cart before dark. Shields are allowed outside if used for display. Armor shall be hidden. Hang it to dry behind your tent. Special circumstances may occur overriding this rule.

8. The only shields allowed for display are: Company shields at gate or in front of camp. Personal shields are allowed at individual tents. Other shields, like Kingdom shields, are not allowed.

9. Templar shields shall be hidden so as not conflict with company shields, hence not to confuse guests.

10. Templar banners shall be (at this time) not left out over night or overly displayed in the camp. It conflicts with company devices.

11. Real weapons will not be left out over night!

12. The immediate area of your camp/tent shall be cleaned everyday if it has a front gate exposure. It shall be cleaned after breakfast each and every day to make the camp clean and safe.

13. If you do not want people sitting in your personal chair in the shade tent, remove your chair every time to your tent or fold it up and put it aside.

14. Do not enter or intrude upon another’s tent or shade fly unless permission is asked and/or given. 

15. Future purchases of tents should be okayed by Sir Adler or Sir Bran. This may sound harsh but we need to start making sure tent 'sizes' are within acceptable sq. footage to allow better use of the camp space. Having ultra period tents are not as important as good use of a cheaper tent that sets up easier. sq/ft shall be determined later. Presently, the allowance is 250 sq/ft per person per Pennsic rules. Bran's tent is a 12'x16' which is 192 sq/ft. giving back 50 sq/ft. In essence, future purchase of tents used at Pennsic should be square or rectangular, and about 190 sq/ft per person. This will allow us to have a bigger group canopy for group use. The 190 sq/ft should include the ropes (18” per side). This also includes any shade/fly you might have. We may have to move our camping location to a bigger area that may be further from our friends and battlefield/village.

16. When packing up for Pennsic, go through your stuff three (3) times. Take out something each time. We all bring way too much. Leave the junk at home.

17. We will no longer need to bring tiki fluids or water to Pennsic. We will now add $5.00 fee each year to cover that cost per tent.

18. Each tent shall bring an el cheapo Kmart or similar fire extinguisher per Pennsic rules. It shall be mounted or stored near the front door of each tent. Posts shall be erected in front, mid-camp, and rear camp with an extinguisher mounted upon it.

19. If it starts to rain, you should have the good sense to have semi-prepped your equipment to be stored in your tent already. You have the right to tend to your own tent first in the rain. Secondarily, please make the rounds to ensure your neighbor is also buttoned up if they are not in camp. Anything left outside by your neighbors is solely up to your good nature to retrieve from the weather, but not required. Stupidity is a privilege that is often abused by the many.

20. High wind ropes will be anchored close to your tent. If there is no danger of wind they shall not obstruct pathways or other people’s space.

21. If you have an emotional wig out on the group or an individual, a formal apology will be made to that person that day in front of the majority of the group. It will simply not be allowed for a person to rip someone else a new bungholio in public and then apologize in private. We are grown ups, or so I thought.

22. When complaining about someone to another, keep it to the point and do not do it in their presence. Common sense, eh?

23. What happened last year, remains last years happenings. Move along, new topic.

24. What happens at Pennsic stays at Pennsic: Whether it is drinking, partying, fighting, bitching, romantic interludes, sassing, anything. It is Pennsic and sh*t happens. Get over it.

25. Before Pennsic War and again at War, the camp boss shall go over the schedule of tasks with either Sir Bran or Sir Adler. The schedule shall encompass the duties of filling and lighting the tiki torches at dark, covering of firewood, attending lit firepots, checking the water level in the shower, etc.

26. Fires shall not be stacked to the point that they cause excessive flames and smoke that may damage tents nearby.

27. Fires shall not be made then abandoned by the fire starter. This is common sense.

28. Camp tear-down. We will institute a group tear down of group structures: cart, gate, shower, day shade, and firepots. All tent owners shall be responsible to tear down their own tents. If you'd like, I’d recommend having a buddy system for people to assist you in tear down. We can, as a group, help with tent tear downs limited to: tent canvas, tent poles, tent ropes, tent pegs, ground cloths. All personal contents are your responsibility to pack and stack in your vehicle.

29. Contents: pre-pack as early as Thursday for Saturday departures. If you are packing your gear, clothing, etc on Saturday morning, you may not get the group help you might need to tear down your tent.

30. Once you are packed, remove your vehicle to another site to allow more cars to enter the site to pack up.