So.. As one of the founding officers of the original Grindstone FC and former overseer, I'll throw my 2gil in. (disclaimer: I am no longer affiliated with, or have anything to do with the Grindstone in it's current form and anything I talk about is regarding the Grindstone as it was before I left.)
This was something that people have asked about since almost day one, and have even purposely gone out of their way to have been personally offended about. Cause heaven forbid we were not all inclusive.
The fact of the matter was magic was never included as part of it or as even a separate function for several reasons, first of which the grindstone premise was meant for fighters to sharpen skills of a martial nature and meant to be non lethal.
Magic no matter how you look at it doesn't have a non lethal "tazer" setting outside of sleep or stun, put simply? fire burns, lightning kills, stone crushes. And, one person's imaginary fireball could be the size of a baseball compared to another persons that leaves craters and scorches earth. With martial weapons there is none of this, "This is my lance, fist, sword, axe." etc. There is no imaginary B.S. to deal with as it is clearly defined.
And then you have man power, We ran 2 tourney's a week, I Oversaw every other weds due to work, and because as Roleplayers, we tend to be long winded by nature, it was regularly 5+ hours to get through all the fights. Even at every other week I often wound up Overseeing alone or having to pull in outside assistance if we got more participants than anticipated.
These are the primary reasons we never catered to magic users and made it's use in the fights against the rules. The amount of work required to create and maintain a system that was fair, while dealing with the eccentricities of Rper's of all types in not one, but two different events, was simply too much, we had people leave due to burn out over just having to deal with Overseeing one day a week in the events we were having.
Now that's all said, we were always fine with someone else running something if they could make it work and no one has been willing to put in the time or effort to do so to date.
This was something that people have asked about since almost day one, and have even purposely gone out of their way to have been personally offended about. Cause heaven forbid we were not all inclusive.
The fact of the matter was magic was never included as part of it or as even a separate function for several reasons, first of which the grindstone premise was meant for fighters to sharpen skills of a martial nature and meant to be non lethal.
Magic no matter how you look at it doesn't have a non lethal "tazer" setting outside of sleep or stun, put simply? fire burns, lightning kills, stone crushes. And, one person's imaginary fireball could be the size of a baseball compared to another persons that leaves craters and scorches earth. With martial weapons there is none of this, "This is my lance, fist, sword, axe." etc. There is no imaginary B.S. to deal with as it is clearly defined.
And then you have man power, We ran 2 tourney's a week, I Oversaw every other weds due to work, and because as Roleplayers, we tend to be long winded by nature, it was regularly 5+ hours to get through all the fights. Even at every other week I often wound up Overseeing alone or having to pull in outside assistance if we got more participants than anticipated.
These are the primary reasons we never catered to magic users and made it's use in the fights against the rules. The amount of work required to create and maintain a system that was fair, while dealing with the eccentricities of Rper's of all types in not one, but two different events, was simply too much, we had people leave due to burn out over just having to deal with Overseeing one day a week in the events we were having.
Now that's all said, we were always fine with someone else running something if they could make it work and no one has been willing to put in the time or effort to do so to date.
