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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1358104" data-attributes="member: 6533">One thing to remember when you are casting about for language rules is that most people who travelled at all during this period, which is an if if a lot of common histories are to be believed, probably spoke many many more languages than the modern equivalent.So my initial suggestion would be to either up the PCs ability to speak multiple languages or just assume that the standard rules are an abstraction of the many language groups a PC is proficient in.Also, in terms of your cultures, you definitely want a courtly noble culture and a wilderness culture.Wilderness characters are an important trope of the period in literature, religion, and histories.  The thing to remember is that the wilderness is a lot closer than we think of it.  People in most of the cultures of the period were extremely community bound and living outside of community boundaries certainly made you weird and probably made you supernatural.  St. Francis of Assissi's monastary is good half-afternoon's walk from the town and that was considered tremendously rugged.  There are also plenty  of records of strange folks who practically consitute a barbarian culture and probably live no more than a day's travel from the local municipality.  Those are the types yer barbarians, rangers, and druids come from.Courtly nobles are just a very different breed from the sort of nobles at arms or on the land that we generally think of.You might also consider a wandering men sort of culture to simulate the people who lived their whole lives in the merchants troops or mercenary bands that moved from market to market and never left camp.I highly recommend the Chronicles of Ash.   They are an extremely well researched alternative history with small amounts of impressive magic that take place in a period maybe a century after the one you have decided on.  Really really fantastic books.</blockquote>

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