A Steampunk Guide to Tea Dueling

I thought it was just a very cute book.

Bought this for a steampunk party all of the information is free online and the book arrived beaten up with pages and cover folded.

I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I started reading A Steampunk Guide To Tea Dueling. I found it to be a light, whimsical read that transports one back in time to the Victorian Era of Tea Parties. The setting for this book was cleverly placed at the table of The Mad Hatter's Tea Party! I thoroughly smiled at all 30 illustrations, including the colorful characters depicted around the Mad Hatter's table! including the weasel. For your enjoyment there are even recipes for food for your tea party, including one for 1 DoDo Bird with Flutterby Crumbs. HA This little book is both enjoyable and amusing reading for all, not meant to be taken too seriously. I hope when you read this book you have as many fond memories about The Mad Hatter's Tea Party from your childhood as I did. This book made me want to put on a Victorian Costume and invite my friends for a good old fashion Tea Duel! Enjoy!

Ok, being a friend of the author and married to a British Citizen, I will try to walk a fine line on this review, so as to try not to offend anyone.In the Arizona Tea Dueling community, the author is a tea dueling champion, as for world champion, well, his moniker is the Dirty Weasel, and he can be a bit of a stinker, but he has a good heart and puts on a good show, and I can attest, he's not getting rich on this book.I have read all the reviews that are posted, and I can understand why some folks are upset about this book, but I wonder, just how many of those people have actually seen inside the book? I know that the rules and regulations are readily available online and why purchase them when you can acquire them for free? I tend to think of this book more as a quirky, whimsical picture book on tea dueling, that has the rules listed. I know some would still say that's not cricket either, and they are entitled to their opinion, but it would be a bit more fair if they had as least taken a gander at what's inside the book, before condemning it.

Absolutely disgusted that a member of a "splendid" community would ever consider cashing in on the Brass Pound. Tea Duelling was created in the UK by Doctor Geof and Major Thadeus Tinker, I should know I was the very first person to win the competition in a hotel in Corby New Years eve many years ago. The game was gifted to the community, the rules shared and the sport instituted throughout the globe, with certain provisos, one being that you need to get permission from the creators to play said game. These permissions were not paid for, in fact at no point did the co-creators set out to make money or fame from Tea Duelling, something Mr Khave should take note from. The sport is enjoyed by people all over the world, FREE OF CHARGE. Do not by this book oh splendid Steampunks Google Tea Duelling (the correct spelling) and find the FREE resource to run your competitions. Enjoy Tea Duelling, without lining the pockets of this most unsplendid of chaps!

It's a tongue in cheek guide that has numorous varations of the game, as well as tips, tricks, and recipes. The author doesn't claim to have invented the sport (nor is he serious about being a world champion, but I have seen him duel and he is very good). Nevermind the trolls who have obviously never even read the guide. This is a light hearted read, so enjoy it for what it is and get some new rules or moves in your game arsenal!

Good guide light hearted and fun with great pictures. Puts into print the Arizona variations on a fun take of an apparently UK based FAD. Taking yourself too seriously may keep you from "liking" this book. I however dont take myself seriously as I am a COS player that likes to imagine I live in an alternate time line from the rest of the "REAL" world on an almost daily basis. Blue Velvet Couch RULES!!!!

Whether or not plagiarism this appears to be a deliberate attempt to simply cash in on this fun steampunk game which enjoys a popular following around the world. The author has produced a book about a spoof sport created in the UK a few years ago claiming it as his own. He will no doubt claim that the fact that people dunk biscuits and cookies in tea anyway that the topic is fair game and that the inventors of tea dueling have no rights to assert. Indeed in comments on Amazon he has seen fit to insult them.The creators had generously placed tea Dueling in the public domain allowing anyone to play the game or run competitions on a non commercial basis. The author of this "guide" clearly has no respect for other creators.Please now Mr Khave respond with unpleasantness and a self important justification for your actions.