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Let there be light! In most FRPGs light sources are easily available, cheap to run, and have long ranges – mostly lamps burning something called 'lamp oil' (which is mostly the same oil used in the ever popular 'Flaming Oil Grenade') … Problem is (surprise! surprise!) they don't exist...

Bows vs Swords If you believe the typical FRPG (AD&D for example), a Longbow costs 75 gp and a Sword 25 gp … 1.5 and 0.5 pounds of gold respectively at their nominated 50 gp per pound. And that's a 16 oz pound, not a 12 oz Troy pound. At a historical conversion factor of 8.5:1 for silver:gold...

What is Orbis Mundi? Part 5 ... ... so, while Aelfric is loafing around Town waiting for his new suit of clothes to be finished he decides to keep his hand in by doing some light pickpocketing ... !BZZT! No pockets to pick ... though I expect most everyone knew that already. Most people had...

What use is Orbis Mundi? Part 4 ... So, when we saw Aelfric last, he was having a ludicrously expensive meal at The Silver Star tavern ... With the ill-gotten gains from robbing the Castle, he decides it's time he got some fancy new duds ... so he heads off to John the Taylor's workshop to have...

What use is Orbis Mundi? Part 3 ... While Aelfric is enjoying a well deserved, if overpriced, meal and mug of Ale at the Silver Star Tavern, let's move on to one of his acquaintances, Edgar the Black (so named because of his white blond hair)/ Edgar is the younger son of a Serf and, not having...

What's the use of Orbis Mundi 2? Part 2 So, Aelfric somehow managed to find some goodies in one of the chests in the Knight's chambers and renegotiated the potential minefield of the servants sleeping on the floor to let himself out the door ... and finds that it's pitch black outside as well...

What use is Orbis Mundi 2? Part #1 While I believe that the material out there does a fair to good job of explaining what use OM2 will be, one recent backer asked this question, so it probably isn't as self-explanatory as I thought. It was a dark and stormy night ... ... and Aelfric the Thief...

Putting Meat on the Table Without going into exactly how much Meat each class of people in medieval times ate, consider how much of a meat animal they ate (or otherwise used) ... Pretty much everything was consumed, one way or another. They didn't just eat what we consider the prime (muscle)...

A Project We Love! We've hit $7112 funding and have been rated as a Project We Love by Kickstarter! I am still trying to find freelancers who can do additional work on those countries/regions for which my access to English language sources has limited the amount of information I have been able...

As Medieval as Apple Pie Apples have been regarded as a good way to end a meal since at least Greek times and mention of Apple Pies dates back to medieval times, though the first actual 'recipe' isn't found in written material until the 14th century ... Take gode Applys and gode Spycis and...

Arbalests, Crossbows & Bows There's a lot of misinformation (Heck. There's a lot of downright wrong information) out there on these three basic forms of missile weapon … the following is gleaned from a variety of re-enactor sources ... Arbalest. These only start to appear in the late 14th...

You just can't trust 'em Those of you have have studied History at any level will probably be aware of Primary and Secondary Sources ... though, based on almost 4 decades of teaching the concept(s) as part of the NSW Junior and Senior History Curriculum, not everyone will have fully grasped the...

An Explosive Matter ... Orbis Mundi 2 covers the period from the 11th century through to the 14th century (1001 to 1400) for several reasons, one of which is that it terminates before gunpowder weapons start to dominate the battlefield. Still, something like cannon started to appear as early...

Furniture & Fakes Medieval displays in many museums include what is purported to be medieval furniture. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. What's on display in almost all second and third tier museums are reproductions ... the museum may think they're medieval, as may have the...

I am currently running a Kickstarter for a sourcebook on Medieval Life (Orbis Mundi 2: A Guide to Real Medieval Life on Kickstarter and it's just hit the last Stretch Goal I can fit into my schedule ... at ~A$5500 ... IF it hits A$6250 I have indicated to backers that I will investigate the...