(Monday) History in Your Game (Prisons)

[alsih2o]

Today has a short but bitter topic with real promise- Prisons.

Here is a great site full of ideas, hit all the links- http://www.notfrisco.com/prisonhistory/index.html

This part, origins is especially good- http://www.notfrisco.com/prisonhistory/origins/

The Bastille as prison-(There is some political moronism up top, please avoid bring it to the discussion-) http://members.klosterneuburg.net/handerle/bastille.htm

Medieval dungeons, as presented by the folks at Nuremberg- http://www.museen.nuernberg.de/english/lochgefaengnis_e/index_lochgefaengnis_e.html

A nice British hostory piece (Man, but the British have cool history sites!) about prisons and gallows in Britain- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=36384

A map of a small jail/prison, ready to use- http://county.centreconnect.org/prison/summary.htm

Medieval torture (without magic ) - http://www.fidnet.com/~kawlaw/medieval.html

AND-

ONE OF THE BEST hIyg LINKS EVER, AND ADVENTURE WAITING TO HAPPEN!!!! A Paranormal group goes to a "Haunted" jail and has recordings, pics, and video for your players. Amazing resource! - http://nnjpr.org/Burlington.htm

 

[fusangite]

Thanks! Those look great. Congratulations on researching prisons while avoiding Michel Foucault.

Completely off-topic but interesting for the historically-minded is a really cool article I had to read for a course that gives a really striking picture of an early medieval town that I'm attaching to this e-mail in PDF format. Usually the articles I have to read for school are too dry or ridiculous but this one...

 

[diaglo]

in my field of work, prisons and jails come up all the time.

so adventure ideas with time constraints and possible disease... with no cure or limited treatment always give me ideas.

here's a typical paper: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no5/pfyffer.htm

 

[alsih2o]

Ah, contributions....my plan is working (3 years later)

 

[MonsterMash]

And another couple of contributions

Clink prison museum website

Capital punishment and prisons in the UK

 

[Hand of Evil]

Wild West Tech had a show on prisons in the west and I was shock (TV/movie misinformationeducation) to find out most town did not have them, chaining people to trees, locking them in outhouses/root cellars, or just plain shooting them.

Had a bit on handcuffs too, with was more trouble to put on and take off someone that shooting was easier!

Some stuff on handcuffs can be found here: http://www.handcuffs.org/

 

[alsih2o]

Thanks for the input! Great stuff y'all!

 

[Greylock]

Late Monday *bumps*. Kinda like an apple for the teach', ya hope the DM thinks you're just being nice.

 

[Silveras]

Not a free resource, but I thought I'd mention Crime & Punishment, from Atlas Games' Penumbra line. It gives pretty complete coverage of crime, investigation, punishments (including prisons), and so on in a D&D universe.

The downside, as I see it, is that the book sometimes takes a very modern view of the topic... like forensic magic... turning your game into CSI:Greyhawk or Elminster, M.E. (for us older Quincy, M.E. fans).