[TOPIC] Sports and Games
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Belongs to: Lazlet
Permission: Currently this idea is held to an RPG I am playing in but frankly, if anyone likes the idea they are welcome to refer to RT as a wizard sport.
Real Tennis is exactly the kind of sport that would be invented and played by wizards. It's overly complicated, entirely bizarre in its rules and smacks of the kind of thing only someone with a skewed perspective on what is or isn't a reasonable/playable sport could possible come up with. There is some historical evidence for Real Tennis as wizard sport: Henry VIII played Real Tennis and he was married to Anne Boleyn -- who was widely believed to be a witch which is how it came to become a popular game for muggles to play. Of course the muggles, not being able to get a good grasp of some of the more magical aspects of the sport, gradually developed the game until it became what is now the much more common, and easier to understand, sport of Lawn Tennis ( ... )
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Belongs to: Conversant
Permission: I'll use this someday, but you're welcome to use it, too, if you'd like.
This is may properly be two different ideas, but in general it works off the model of Muggle 'pushcart' races, wherein home-made vehicles, which must carry at least one passenger, are pushed (un-motorized) in a race. It's mostly a middle-class, community sport, though it is sometimes sponsored in feudal style by a local baron or institution to entertain/placate the lower sort ( ... )
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