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.
[video=youtube;z4rj5YsBqc8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4rj5YsBqc8[/youtube]
Cool.
Why did you bring me coal for Christmas?
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Quote from: Spinachcat;1023653Why 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 (https://bedrockgames.podbean.com/e/authentic-medieval-discussion/) 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? (http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?38203-The-Medieval-Authentic-PC-Party-What-do-they-do&highlight=authentic+medieval) 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? (http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?38203-The-Medieval-Authentic-PC-Party-What-do-they-do&highlight=authentic+medieval) 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 (http://forum.atlas-games.com/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=17536a4b401ded8cea979fcad888cc04) and Harn (https://www.lythia.com/forum/) are two long running communities that talk about this.
As for the OSR, Alexander and Travis of Autarch (http://www.autarch.co/forum) done a lot for example this issue of Axiom (http://www.rpgnow.com/product/194008/Axioms-Issue-3) 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 (https://www.amazon.com/1381-Affinity-English-Household-Fourteenth/dp/0980072603/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518701337&sr=8-1&keywords=peel+affinity) a coffee table book put out by a medieval reenactment group obsessed with accuracy.
Quote from: finarvyn;1025257I think that Spinachcat's suggestion was that the red shirt and white beard = Santa Claus.
:rolleyes: I get that a lot especially around Christmas.
One time during the holidays I was in a supermarket check out line and a 3 or 4 year old was acting up in the cart in front of me. He turned to me and started to give me that "Is he Santa or not?" Stare. The Dad whispers to his kid, "If you don't behave Santa will put you on his naughty list.". The kid then looks at me and I give a low "Ho Ho Ho". Perhaps one of the most threatening "Ho Ho Ho" ever made. The kids eyes grew as big as saucers and behaved for the rest of the time he was there. The Dad gave me a look of gratitude.
Quote from: estar;1025556There always been discussion of medieval roleplaying. Ars Magica (http://forum.atlas-games.com/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=17536a4b401ded8cea979fcad888cc04) and Harn (https://www.lythia.com/forum/) are two long running communities that talk about this.
Yes, for sure. I'm just happy L&D has reignited conversation about medieval-authentic gaming as opposed to other trends in OSR and general RPG gaming.
Interesting stuff. On a more abstract level, Turchin's War & Peace & War and Secular Cycles talk about the sorts of conditions which the typical D&D player would find familiar, with the chaos of nobles fighting it out in a depopulated wilderness, invading nomads and so on. Nicely summarised here (http://energyskeptic.com/2014/book-review-secular-cycles-and-war-peace-war/). Just ignore the last bit about Western society collapsing, unless of course you also like postapocalyptic games ;)