cstyle said:OK, I'm into this sort of thing, and I've been meaning to purchase ONE source book. I had heard from more than one person that Expeditious Retreat's A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe was the greatest thing since sliced bread. So I'm reading this post, and there is overwhelming support for Green Ronin's Medieval Player's Manual. So much so that I feel like MMS is getting thrown under a bus. Now, I know that isn't true, a few people actually did briefly say good things about MMS, but all this praise for MPM certainly has me second guessing my next purchase!
In defense of MMS: WE (for which I have a small credit), the book is absolutely fabulous; it just doesn't do anything with the magic system. Even when it comes to religion, the part about how to graft poytheism onto medieval society is, in my view, the weakest point in the book. I think it's a brilliant document; it just assumes that people want to run D&D and that therefore, violent modification of the magic system is out of the question.