Medieval European influence

[Nyaricus]

No, and I'm not looking for systems, settings or books. This thread is not meant to be a "sell me on Hârn" or anything like that either.

Just a question to discuss what y'all have done in your campaigns that directly mimic classic adventure stories set in a realistic medieval European environment.

Okay, I'm sorry. I'll say it right now. Sorry.

But while I haven't played it myself, or indeed, seen the book, I hear A Game of Thrones RPG is decent for social intrigue-type stuff. Try to ask people about that game, maybe start up a new thread - you might find correlation in what you are trying o do right now.

Sorry, again!

cheers,
--N

 

[Aaron L]

Medieval Lovefract all the way, J-Dawg and I would prolly love each others games

I use a mix of feudal Europe, feudal Japan, classical Greco-Roman, fantasy Viking, Conan, and Tolkien all jumbled together to form the societies in my primarily Lovecraftian/Barkeresque themed campaign.

Plus a heavy dose of the Belgariad series, the movie Excalibur, and the anime series Tenchi Muyo! for seasoning.

 

[Wik]

I like watching a lot of those fantasy medieval movies made in the past twenty years - Ladyhawk, Dragonheart, and all that jazz. Fun stuff, and definately D&D esque.

I think a nice way to make the game more medieval is to drop the magic content down a bit, and to trump up the idea of knighthood. A few years back, DRAGON released an issue focused around knights, and suggested a game model where the whole group was based around a single knight. Personally, I think a game where everyone in the group was a knight (or a servant/advisor to a knight, to accomodate mages, rogues, and clerics) questing for some goal or another would be a lot of fun.

 

[Desdichado]

I like watching a lot of those fantasy medieval movies made in the past twenty years - Ladyhawk, Dragonheart, and all that jazz. Fun stuff, and definately D&D esque.

Heh. I like movies that are considerably older (mostly) and considerably less fantastic. I already mentioned Errol Flynn's Robin Hood, but Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor's Ivanhoe is a great one too. Not all that faithful to the book, yet oddly still the best Ivanhoe movie, IMO. Very strange. Although you can forget about me watching Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave in Camelot. As much as I love musicals normally, that one just didn't work for me.