>SCA: live weapons and armor, no magic.Not perfectly true. They're padded, but certainly no nerf bats. Those bleepers hurt. The SCA is run on an honor system, in which you "die" when you feel a blow through your armor you feel is sufficient. So they're just padded enough to remove most injuries, but hard enough that the guy in plate mail still knows you kicked his butt.
>I'm told they require metal armor to join in for user-protectionNot quite accurate. You can get by with real leather armor (stiff leather plates) but they definitely have rules on minimum armor. Metal armor is more common in my area, because it's easier to make.
Now there is some elements that cross over with LARP, such as having a character, though they tend to be rigorously and scarily well researched. I know two people who got historical doctorates as part of their character research (not JUST for that, but still).
SCA people are crazy sometimes.
Weapons for Sale:
http://www.elanthipedia.org/wiki/User:Caraamon#WaresHunta Talna Kortok, built by Gor'Togs, for Gor'Togs
http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/caraamon/home.html
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