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There is a very, very interesting discussion about the historical context of the I.33 document, the role of Monks and Monasteries in public defense and also, very interestingly, in training people for judicial combat. Apparently the fortified Churches and Monasteries were common in far more...

I want to get into this in a lot more detail, but I just want to say right here, you have a Dynamite idea for an RPG Campaign, I think a really good publishable campaign that could make money. I'm saying this as someone who has published 5 or 6 things in the industry. You should write this up...

On a totally unrelated note, for those interested in Elizabethan or Renaissance or English history, this is a pretty fascinating link which was recently posted to the Schola Gladiatoria forum by Matt Easton, an article about a 16th Century group in London called the "Blackfriar Gladiators" who...

I'm going to split my reply into two posts, since there is so much ground to cover here! Agreed :) And ... lets be candid. Everyone has a little bit of a bias. I'm probably a little biased in favor of the Barbarians, but I'm fascinated by all of them, and we clearly have knowledge here that...

I have to disagree with the lecturer, though this is a fairly common perception going back to the 19th Century. To me, by this logic you might think the Soviet Union would have been a hotbed of innovation, or that logically planned economies would thrive more than free markets. Rome, for all...

Ah, now you are talking some interesting stuff! That sounds like a pretty good adventure hook getting going right there :) I could definitely see a scenario like this happen back "in the day", with a couple of minor caveats. Yes or any decent sized church, or almost any University... most...

Over a year after the Codex was released and six positive reviews later, I believe I have proven it was possible. G.

Yeah quite a bit of the old fencing culture, perhaps surprisingly, was associated directly with the Church or Monks, such as the famous 14th Century I.33 or Walpurgis manuscript, which was written in a Monastery and depicts two Monks and a mysterious woman practicing fencing. I think of it...

There are actually editions of several of these manuals in Latin. Some German but it's Middle-high German in older dialects so that can be a bit tricky. This is hands down still the best overview of HEMA, Sydney Anglos "Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe" Amazon.com: The Martial Arts of...

Man, that is a weird coincidence, a friend of mine from my fencing group was telling me about Obsidian Portal on the phone tonight... synchronicity is a strange and powerful force.... EDIT: I see you also have La Maupin in there :cool:, one of my favorite historical characters of all time...

Yeah I agree with you but it was a very good start at setting the record strait and putting all this stuff in context, the rise of the HEMA movement in the last ten years, the difference from the SCA and re-enactors and collegiate fencers etc. Of the maybe 100 or so Medieval European martial...

Cool spear fencing vid from Spain YouTube - Spear training

Did anyone here play Warhammer FRPG back in those days? It seems to be the 'bridge' between 1E DnD and later fantasy RPG games for a lot of the Europeans. I had a fairly late exposure to, actually after I had kind of quit gaming for a while due to various things in my life, but I really liked...

Somebody upthread mentioned that D&D had lost it's edge, I think it was worse than that, the whole thing had become 'nerfed'. DnD jumped the shark. It went from open ended mystery evocative of the hard edged fantasy novels of Jack Vance, Michael Moorcock, Fritz Leiber, Robert E. Howard...

I had a kind of similar experience in high school except my friends were mostly punk rockers, some heavy metal kids too, and our girlfriends were a mix of punks, goths, etc... but there was a shift after high school into games with a more role playing and dramatic orientation, and this is what...

My favorite games were old ones like Call of Cthulhu, Warhammer FRPG 1st Edition, Paranoia, Traveller, and AD&D simply because it was so broken you had to customize it and it left room to actually role play a little. I also had fun exploring a lot of other games I didn't end up liking a lot but...

Peter Stubbe could very likely have been completely innocent ... or he may have been a serial killer. There were many other similar cases, such as Gilles De Rais in Medieval times, and Albert Fish in the US much more recently. Another case in Spain reminds me a great deal of Peter Stubbes...

When Wolves go big, bad.... This is one of my favorite historical subjects around this time of year. One of the scariest true life werewolf stories ever written, the legend and trial of Stubbe peter Peter Stumpp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter aka "The Werewolf of Bedburg" was...

Hey could you provide a link to that I was looking for it but couldn't find it, I like to check out the competition :) G

Hey guys, Thanks for the comments Madhi! I hope you clicked the tab for automatic updates there should be more coming in that document, we are adding a few more weapons and a couple more optional rules in the final release. Yes we are going to do a followup document for missile weapons and...