[Expeditious Retreat Press] Free PDF sample

[jgbrowning]

Well, we have a sample of our upcoming book, A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe up and ready for downloading at RPGnow.com. Go here http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=693& and get your gubby little paws on one of the best city generation systems ever created. Its the complete text from chapter four.

joe b.

 

[Storminator]

Hey! You might be a good person to ask...

If you go to a butcher in a medieval city, what do you put the meat in to get it home?

PS

 

[annadobritt]

I WANT THIS BOOK NOW!!!!

Sorry. Just finished looking through the preview. The information you provide concerning building a community is absolutely fantastic!

Since last year I've been working on figuring out the number of buildings that would be found in a community based on population. This is for making maps of cities and the like more accurate.

All I can say is, WOW! This is going to be one great book.

 

[jgbrowning]

Hey! You might be a good person to ask...

If you go to a butcher in a medieval city, what do you put the meat in to get it home?

PS

Well it depends. Often meat would be prepackaged like sausage (in intestines) or, as unpleasant as it sounds now, you'd just carry it in hand or throw it in a bag or basket along with everything else. Meat cross-contamination won't become apparent for hundred of more years. Also they'd often take the live meat to the butcher and he'd take care of if for you. Mostly this was for larger animals, as smaller animals were often home butchered, even if against city ordinances.

hope that helps!

joe b.

 

[jgbrowning]

I WANT THIS BOOK NOW!!!!

Sorry. Just finished looking through the preview. The information you provide concerning building a community is absolutely fantastic!

Since last year I've been working on figuring out the number of buildings that would be found in a community based on population. This is for making maps of cities and the like more accurate.

All I can say is, WOW! This is going to be one great book.

Thanks! We took as many sources as well could find and lumped them together to try and come up with an average. Its pretty good, and if you want a more dense or less dense area you now have an accurate base-line to draw upon.

We have similar things for manors, kingdoms, buildings, demographics, aristocracy, and economy...

You'll like... promise.

joe b.

 

[Azure Trance]

It took me the loooongest time on figuring out how to download it. But I figured it out Love the work you put into it, by the way.

 

[jgbrowning]

It took me the loooongest time on figuring out how to download it. But I figured it out Love the work you put into it, by the way.

Sorry 'bout that. First time on RPGnow can be a bit daunting since they have sooooo much good stuff.

Thanks for the compliment.


joe b.

 

[Krug]

Very nice. Some comments:

1) Get some royalty-free artwork from guys like Dover Publications. Woodcuts and such that can enhance the flavour of your book.

2) Where do I find a 10,000 sided die? That is the mother of town encounter tables.

3) Most importantly, WHEN WILL IT BE OUT? Looks FAB.

 

[CRGreathouse]

I agree, it looks great. I can't wait for it to be out! I've already started regressing it...

 

[jgbrowning]

Very nice. Some comments:

1) Get some royalty-free artwork from guys like Dover Publications. Woodcuts and such that can enhance the flavour of your book.

2) Where do I find a 10,000 sided die? That is the mother of town encounter tables.

3) Most importantly, WHEN WILL IT BE OUT? Looks FAB.

We'll have art in the perfect bound book. We debated about art in the PDF and decided against it since we think a lot of people are going to be printing it out and all the charts and graphs we have allready are going to eat a lot of ink. It would also increase total page count, to boot.

a, 10,000d? I got six of them.. I mostly use the 5 kobolds i managed to train to count to ten. I hit them over the head in sequence, and i get my number!

the PDF will available within a week at RPGnow.com. We're working on having print copies available in march. These will only be available on-line because we don't have a distribution channel set yet, at that will take several months.

joe b.