For those of you who are interested, I ran a Majestic Wilderlands adventure for a group of gamers including our own Brendan. My preferences for fantasy campaign to lean heavily toward the medieval aspect of the genre. Warning it is a raw dump of the session and four hour long.

Overview
Nestled in the western eaves of Dearthwood is the Shrine of Saint Caelam the Dragonrider a popular pilgrimage destination. The monastery that runs the shrine are habitually late on delivering their tithe to the Bishop. This time even later than usual. His excellency is fed up with the continual delays and is sending the player characters to resolve the issue and collect this season's due.

But meanwhile others feel their due is owed as well and their payment is far bloodier.

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Why did you bring me coal for Christmas?

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Not sure what you mean?

It was a very fun session.

Here is the podcast where Brendan, Nick, Adam, and I talk about the session and authentic medieval roleplaying in general.

It's exciting to me to see more people talking about Medieval-Authentic gaming even outside the context of Albion/L&D!

Quote from: estar;1023662Not sure what you mean?

I think that Spinachcat's suggestion was that the red shirt and white beard = Santa Claus.

Quote from: finarvyn;1025257I think that Spinachcat's suggestion was that the red shirt and white beard = Santa Claus.

Not in medieval-authentic Europe! :cool:

It's the Hogfather!

Quote from: RPGPundit;1025243It's exciting to me to see more people talking about Medieval-Authentic gaming even outside the context of Albion/L&D!

The conversation here around Lion and Dragon (and the ensuing threads) is what prompted the idea to do a medieval authentic stream.

I can never watch more than 30 minutes of other people playing games, but I did enjoy the followup podcast discussion.  Along with the discussion in The Medieval-Authentic PC Party - What do they do? thread (madprofessor's contributions are fantastic), I'm really wanting to run something in this vein soon.

Quote from: under_score;1025463I can never watch more than 30 minutes of other people playing games, but I did enjoy the followup podcast discussion.  Along with the discussion in The Medieval-Authentic PC Party - What do they do? thread (madprofessor's contributions are fantastic), I'm really wanting to run something in this vein soon.

Brendan had the good idea of the Game Lab podcasts being based on only talking about something after we actually explored it in play. I don't think you need to watch the actual play to get something from the podcast, but I don't think the podcast would have been as focused if we hadn't first done an actual session of play around the idea. It's easy to drift into abstraction when talking about games.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;1025333The conversation here around Lion and Dragon (and the ensuing threads) is what prompted the idea to do a medieval authentic stream.

I know, but it's interesting to me that this is being talked about beyond the confines of just L&D.

There always been discussion of medieval roleplaying. Ars Magica and Harn are two long running communities that talk about this.

As for the OSR, Alexander and Travis of Autarch done a lot for example this issue of Axiom is filled with details about the economic life of the medieval time period. But more importantly show the work translating that into something usable for a fantasy roleplaying game.

Ars Magica even uses 13th century Europe as the setting. They call their take Mythic Europe. What nice about L&D is that it uses medieval Europe more holistically while Ars Magica is focused on the doings of the mages of the Order of Hermes. However if you have a lot of the product line, Ars Magica can support non-mage campaigns as well. Over time it morphed into a wide ranging medieval RPG.

Right now I would recommend folks who want to center their gaming around the medieval world that they cherry pick from L&D, ACKS, Harn, and Ars Magica. If you want to get a starter on how to roleplay medieval life start with the Peel Affinity a coffee table book put out by a medieval reenactment group obsessed with accuracy.