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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4972903" data-attributes="member: 1879">You ignored most of what he said you know. 11th century europe is a complex place that is hard to model with a detailed yet simple system. Either an abstract system, or a more complex system would be better. As it stands 4e could be used to portray, sorta, the 11th century but it would have all the historical feel of "Robin Hood: Men in tights." You're talking about a time and place with wildly varying levels of levels of technology and social organization, dozens of languages, dozens of competeing tribes, many of which are still pagan, hundreds of petty kingdoms constantly squabbling. In little England alone you have the Scots, the Welsh, the Angles, the Saxons, and the Normans all duking it out depending on the year. So 4e with it's lack of craft skills and skimpy attention to languages is not the closest fit. It can be done, but it's a lot of work trying to hammer a square peg into a isocohedron shaped hole. WRT Chritianity btw this is still the era of mystics, saints and relics. Priests would be routinely waving around saintly body parts and there was a brisk trade in such artifacts.</blockquote>