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Hi, I'm the designer of the Codex. I think El Madhi gave me a nice plug here, he seems to really "get it". El Madhi is right this system was designed for low - fantasy, games but is modular can be adapted to higher level play. I'd say it's ideal for something like E6. But I've found from...

Did a little more digging into historical sources for Germanic / Norse magic, here are a few "real" spells from the 10th - 11th Century: Here are two Germanic / Norse magic spells from the 9th Century AD, one to release prisoners and another to cure a horse: Merseburg Incantations -...

Did you know Cool Book rhymes with Adventure Hook? The first fechtbook in the Lichtenauer Tradition, MS 3227a, is known for it's verses from Lichteneauer, but it also includes sections on Magic spells, potions, fireworks, alchemy, asrology, and dental heigeine, plus knife fighting, staff...

Check out this excellent longsword fencing, intermingled with some silly dancing. If you want to know what sword fighting looked like in the 14th Century, think this is pretty close to the real thing. YouTube - Lichtenawer`s Kunst des Fechtens G.

Vegvisir The Viking Sun Compass The Viking Sun Compass " Hrafns Saga it says: "the weather was thick and stormy . . . The king looked about and saw no blue sky . . . then the king took the sunstone and held it up, and then he saw where [the Sun] beamed from the stone."" Modern...

Cool video of some Viking Age weapons being used quite plausibly with Talhoffer (Renaissance) techniques. From a HEMA group in Austria. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI_yH-8swXQ&feature=related I like the transition from the long spear to the Sax particularly. Gives you an idea how brutal...

Well, not in my game ;) That is a good question, the truth is I don't think they know but I can shed a little light on the subject maybe. I don't think it ever really went away*, iron armor just re-asserted metal as the top of the armor food chain. The truth is textile armor (padded /...

Some interesting news about an Ancient Greek form of textile armor. Turns out ten layers of linen could save your life.... http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/linotho...armor.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linothorax#Unive...ax_Project http://www.uwgb.edu/aldreteg/Linothorax.html...

here is an amusing and interesting anecdote about armor by Usamah Ibn Munqih: "Salah Al din (Saladin) stood in his place until a part of the army joined him. He then said, "Put on your armor". The majority of those did so while I remained standing by his side. After a while he said again...

Ranger wicket, You can fight that fight using the Codex system, including all the features you wanted like the counterattacking, changing the pace of the fight back and forth, desperation defense etc., and all at a fast pace without a lot of paperwork, no charts, and very little math. If you...

Yes this book is amazing, it reads like a series of "war stories" you would hear in a bar, except I know Usamah was a pious Muslim so I guess it would be more realistic to say, at the souk sitting around on pillows with tea and a hookah... anyway, lots of great, really surprising stories, very...

This is an interesting excerpt, an anecdote of Medieval Warfare highlighting the effectiveness of mail armor: “By this time the vanguard of the Frankish horsemen had reached me, so I retired before them, turning back my lance in their direction and my eyes toward them lest some one of their...

EroGaki, If I was going to recommend one book to you to give you a very good, quick but accurate overview of warfare in the Classical world it would be this one, which I personally found immensely helpful: Amazon.com: Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons...

I'd highly recommend getting yourself a copy of Xenophon's Anabasis / The Ten Thousand Amazon.com: The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) (9780140440072): Xenophon, Rex Warner, George Cawkwell: Books Amazon.com: Anabasis: The March Up Country (9781934255032): Xenophon, H. G. Dakyns: Books...

Just wanted to post this excellent HEMA demonstration video from a group in Finland. http://www.youtube.com/v/b8dky4r3nOA Finns are kind of scary. EDIT: fixed the link, for some reason having a hard time editing on this forum lately... G.

Ah... I know the feeling. The good side of this is, if my experience is any guide, starting to do that research will open up a whole new and fascinating world to you. The bad side is you have to explore some of that world to write your novel probably :) What period / region are you focused...

I agree with all of that... we are lucky to have Jack7 around here because his expertise in the Byzantines is so valuable to understanding such a wide swath of European History. A continuous literate culture which lasted from Roman Imperial times through the Dark Ages and almost into the...

I recommend, generally speaking, the Osprey Military books as very good research aids for gamers, and also cheap (around $12-$15 new) and focused on specific areas so you can get detail you need without swamping yourself with the entire broad reach of history. They are not free of mistakes and...

Question from another forum: Don't feel bad, Talhoffer is one of the most notoriously tricky to interpret if you don't already know the Lichtenauer system at least somewhat. Talhoffer has some of the most widely accessable and most clearly rendered drawings of the earlier masters, and he was...

Jack, Way over my head but sounds interesting. Don't rush or skip real life for a forum thread, we'll be around when things settle down for you. G.