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Weekend Warrior Our goal is to create an immersive world, in a cinematic fantasy universe, to give you an unparalleled experience at the event.

We are treating this event like a film and we see your garb and gear as wardrobe for your character, specific to this world and time period. With these efforts and an attention to detail we will work to suspend your disbelief, opening up your imagination, and allowing you to become the hero, or villain you've always dreamed of being.

06/05/2025

Are you wanting to engage in roleplay or character development, but you don’t know where to start? Do you have a character, but you want to learn how to deepen it? Do you just want to come and hang out with your friends (old and new) in character? Then Training Grounds - Character is for you! We will be offering sessions, workshops, and fun opportunities to help you learn more about how to create a successful, fun, and fully developed character.

*Character Dinner at the tavern:*
Stay for a hearty bowl of stew and an evening at the tavern! From 6pm-9pm We will be serving dinner, (non-alcoholic) drinks and have the area open for you to role play with your friends!

*Major Sessions Offered:*
Session 1 - Cultural Values in Bygone Worlds: How different societies’ values — be they historical, or be they fantasy - can lead to unique character building and interactions Session 2 - Character Origins, Background and Equipment: How your characters history influences motivations, personality, clothing and weapons
Session 3 - Lore Events & Your Character: How ‘current events’ in your real or fantasy world or, or even long past events, can impact your character and roleplay.
Session 4 - Memory Building and Character Motivation: How to build historical memories by yourself and with friends and how they impact your story.

05/05/2025

THANK YOU for a record-setting veteran ticket sales weekend!! We know the times are tough, and the fact that y’all are choosing to invest in our community means more than we can say. We have been blown away and massively encouraged by ticket sales this weekend!

Sharpen your weapons and hone your healing - autumn is coming!! ⚔️

01/05/2025

Veterans, form the battle line! Tickets go on sale to veterans today at 12pm EST! Make sure you’ve signed up for our newsletter via our website so you’ll get the link at the right time. And when you check out, make sure you’ve checked the box to receive news and updates! We promise we will only send you useful information, and not spam!

Can’t pay in full today, but want to reserve your spot? Email [email protected] for details!

We look forward to seeing you on the battlefield in October!

Are you a new player and want a ticket? Tickets go on sale to the public on June 1!

24/04/2025

Training Grounds:
Character Development is just a few weeks away on May 17!

This special edition of Training Grounds shifts the focus from combat to the role-play element of our events. Role-play is a large part of events like Weekend Warrior and War of the Barons and we’re excited to help players dive more deeply into how to build their character and how to drive story with other players. We will learn from professional acting coaches, experienced role-players, and costume designers as they help us build our characters and get the most out of our experiences to better help us build more beautiful stories together

Don’t forget to purchase your Character Dinner Ticket!

Want to put your new role play skills to good use? Stay for a hearty bowl of stew and an evening at the tavern! From 6pm-9pm We will be serving dinner, (non-alcoholic) drinks and have the area open for you to role play with your friends! Tickets for the evening are $25 and include a bowl of stew (it is naturally gluten free), tavern snacks and non-alcoholic drinks.

We hope to see you there! Purchase tickets, rent gear, and add the dinner ticket via the link in our bio!

11/04/2025

We know it’s an essential - so we’re providing as many opportunities for running around in armor in the woods as possible in 2025.

Training Grounds - Skirmish is tomorrow!! You can still get tickets at the gate!

Training Grounds - Character Development is May 17!

Weekend Warrior Experience is October 24-26!

is November 13-15!

Details in the links in our bio. Are you joining us for an event this year? We can’t wait to see you! ⚔️

05/04/2025

Training Grounds - Skirmish is just a week away!

This Training Grounds focuses on skirmish-style fighting, woodland movement, and asymmetrical fighting. Perfect skills to hone for any of our events!

Training Grounds is a mostly immersive event based around your character being sent to a training camp to increase their combat skills. This will be a great event for returning players looking to enhance their skill set, or for new or potential players looking to test the waters and get a feel for what combat at Weekend Warrior, The Hearthlands, & War of the Barons is like.

Unlike our main events, Training Grounds will be less story-driven and more skills-based. We will focus on training and exposure to a variety of weapons in the morning and will teach and practice battle tactics in the afternoon. However, while at the event we will be in character, so prepare to learn how to play your role!

Camping will be available on-site for both Friday and Saturday night for the cost of $20 per person/per night. Porta Johns will be available but no showers or electricity.

For this one-day event, weapon rentals are free. Basic costume rentals will be $25 for the day.

Our hope is that many folks who are considering Weekend Warrior or War of the Barons but are not ready to take the plunge will join us for a little taste of the event. We also expect there will be quite a few veteran players there to set an example for the new recruits!

All normal Weekend Warrior & War of the Barons rules and policies apply.

01/04/2025

“In the year 1117 YL, even with the fate of the king’s son Prince Randar unknown — he never returned from his quest for the Sword of Hope — a spirit of harmony and brotherhood between the factions flourished. All were enjoying the autumnal bounty festivities … until it turned deadly. The king and queen lay dead on the ground, poisoned by anonymous assassins.

And with their passing, so too was gone any semblance of peace in the kingdom. Violence ensued, as each faction struggled to claim the throne as its own.

Who lived? Who died? Who took the throne?

We don’t know because the story is still unfolding. Not in a book, not in a movie, and not in a six-episode Netflix mini-series. It is being acted out, in real time, through the Weekend Warrior Experience, which lies under the umbrella of Fell & Fair Productions, a costume, design, and film studio, located in Taylors, South Carolina.

Fell & Fair was founded by Zan Campbell, who believes that “good stories are worth telling.” “I use film, photography, costume creation, and live events to give life to such stories,” he says.

Zan’s sister, Meg Sanders, a professor of English who currently lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, with her husband and son, is the executive director of Weekend Warrior. Both Zan and Meg were born and raised in Columbia and credit early childhood experiences for their immersive storytelling passion and their fascination with all things medieval...”

- Vona Weiss,

We have been so grateful to work with our friends at for this month’s amazing article about .shop and Weekend Warrior! We were privileged to have magazine editor Margaret Clay join us at this past Weekend Warrior, and her letter from the editor in this month’s edition of the magazine is all about her experience at the event.

To read the full article, check out the link shared in today’s story and on our profile! Thank you to all our friends and supporters for what you do to make this event possible.

27/03/2025

2025 UPDATE: Diningware Upgrade!

This year we are changing how we do utensils and cups at the event!
In an effort to cut down on waste, and improve the aesthetic of the game, we will no longer be handing out copper cups and using disposable utensils at each event.

Instead, players will receive a medieval wooden cup and one hand forged metal utensil set (spoon and fork) for free at their first three-day event, (whether that be War of the Barons, Weekend Warrior or The Hearthlands) after which the player will be responsible for bringing back their utensils and cups to each following event.

This is a substantial investment we are making to make the event more immersive and to reduce waste! Making this happen is going to be a team effort, and we will need your help and honesty to make sure it works! We have faith in our players and hope this will be another way we can all work together to create a better experience.

This update will remove the need for you to return the items at the end of the event, and will give you the chance to use them throughout the year on all of your other adventures! It will also significantly decrease the waste the event produces, while increasing the immersive aesthetic. If you happen to lose or forget your cup or utensils, we will have a limited stock for sale in the shop tent.

Once you get your cup, we highly recommend you customizing it by adding a strip of linen, painting a design on the outside, or writing your name on the bottom - that way, it won’t get mixed up with other players’ cups.

How will you customize your cup? Let us know below!

19/03/2025

GAME UPDATE FOR 2025:
Friday Festivities Update

Folk of Adrasil,

As we look towards our NINTH event this October, we are continuing to consider how to run the event in as fun and engaging a manner as possible.

Several years ago we created the in-game event “Night of the Unseen” when the event was held over Halloween. While we have continued to have that event as a low-key part of Friday night, we are officially moving away from that this year (2025).

As the factions grow, each has introduced unique and engaging ways of bringing players into the faction and world on Friday night, so we are going to shift our focus to faction-wide festivities rather than an event-wide festivities. These will look different from faction to faction, and could be as simple as promotion ceremony or as complex as a religious ceremony. If you need any information beforehand, your faction leaders will make sure you receive it.

Many of the above events will still require slightly more formal kit, and may even include the chance to wear the masks you may have already for Night of the Unseen. As usual, festival gear and kit will need to be approved via the normal method: by emailing your faction email (see below).

We have loved watching you invest in your faction culture, and look forward to continue working with your faction leaders to make each year one in which the different cultures feel more real and wonderful.

Emails for kit approval:

Kingsmen: [email protected]

Hearth-Guard: [email protected]

Rangers: [email protected]

Sea Lords: [email protected]

Themisians: [email protected]

Wold Folk: [email protected]

The Order: [email protected]

15/03/2025

Training Grounds: Battle is just a week away!! Join us for the first of our signature one-day events where you can get a taste of our immersive world, reconnect with your friends, meet new ones, and hone your skills! This year for the first time we are introducing a veteran and new player training track for some of the day - new players will focus on basic formation skills while veterans will practice more advanced tactics!

Looking to dive into the world of Weekend Warrior, War of the Barons, or The Hearthlands, but not sure where to start? Training Grounds is for you!

Join us for a full day of training and fun at any (or all!) of our three sessions! Each is geared for a specific part of our events— Shield-wall combat, Skirmish combat, and Character Development.

Unlike our main events, Training Grounds will be less story-driven and more skills-based. We will focus on training and exposure to a variety of weapons in the morning and will teach and practice battle tactics in the afternoon. However, while at the event we will be in character, so prepare to learn how to play your role!

This is the easiest way to get involved with the community and get a feel for what an immersive event entails!

Training Grounds: Battle
March 22nd, 2025

Training Grounds: Skirmish
April 12th, 2025

Training Grounds: Character Development
May 17th, 2025

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28/01/2025

Looking to dive into the world of Weekend Warrior, War of the Barons, or The Hearthlands, but not sure where to start? Training Grounds is for you!

Join us for a full day of training and fun at any (or all!) of our three sessions! Each is geared for a specific part of our events— Shield-wall combat, Skirmish combat, and Character Development.

Unlike our main events, Training Grounds will be less story-driven and more skills-based. We will focus on training and exposure to a variety of weapons in the morning and will teach and practice battle tactics in the afternoon. However, while at the event we will be in character, so prepare to learn how to play your role!

This is the easiest way to get involved with the community and get a feel for what an immersive event entails!

Tickets for each event go on sale at 12pm EST this Saturday, February 1st!

Training Grounds: Battle
March 22nd, 2025

Training Grounds: Skirmish
April 12th, 2025

Training Grounds: Character Development
May 17th, 2025

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10/01/2025

Mark your calendars: “Knights of Winter” is Saturday, January 25th!

Join Fell & Fair for our Knights of Winter Medieval Tavern night at 13 Stripes Brewery! Sip a pint while watching people duel in the fight area or join yourself!

This is a free event - the perfect excuse to reunite with old friends, or bring new ones! Kit is optional. All ages welcome.

The event starts at 5PM and we will have live folk music, good food, drinks, and a warm welcome to knock the edge off the winter chill.

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