Soucres for medieval Eastern Europe
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Desdichado
Hero
The book I mentioend is available in a fair amount of libraries. And for those in which it's not, that's what Interlibrary Loan is for.Afrodyte said:
tarchon
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fusangite said:
Norwich's Byzantium histories (Byzantium: the Early Centuries, B: the Apogee, B: the Decline and Fall) are very easy to find.
Books on Eastern Europe are commonplace anyway. Dewey Decimal 947, LOC DJK and DK. There must be tens of thousands of titles available.
Perun
Mushroom
fusangite said:Mercy! Mercy! I've already caved on Bulgarian and Hungarian. You guys are right. I require no more convincing.
See, it wasn't that hard to admit it
I'm almost ashamed to admit, but I know almost nothing of the cynocephali apart from the one-line mention in one of the poems of Vladimir Nazor (a Croatian poet and writer).
[qote]The game was not D20 but was BRP (Runequest). I can forward along some background material but most of it is just straight from historical documents or is adaptations of traditional magic to the Runequest system.[/quote]
If there's not too much of the material, I'd be interested in seeing it. It's not everyday that your home region ends up being used as a campaign setting
I suppose you'll need my e-mail for that, so here: deleted now that it's no longer needed
BTW, incidentally I'm from Split (Spalato)
JackGiantkiller said:
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Hi
Present day Rumania is composed of three major parts: Walachia, Moldavia (not to be confused with the Moldavian Republic, which is more or less only a part of historical Moldavia) and Transsylvania.
Transsylvania was a part of the Kingdom of Hungary throughout the Middle Ages. Walachia and Moldavia were independent principalities established in the 14th century, to a certain degree under alternateing Hungarian, Turkish (from the 15th century) or Polnish (in the case of Moldavia) control.
I can't tell you that much about Walachia or Moldavia, mainly things like who ruled when, whe fought with whom and basic stuff like that, but not things like how people lived and so.
But if you are interested in Transsylvania too, let me know, and if I find the time, I'll write some things up for you.
Present day Rumania is composed of three major parts: Walachia, Moldavia (not to be confused with the Moldavian Republic, which is more or less only a part of historical Moldavia) and Transsylvania.
Transsylvania was a part of the Kingdom of Hungary throughout the Middle Ages. Walachia and Moldavia were independent principalities established in the 14th century, to a certain degree under alternateing Hungarian, Turkish (from the 15th century) or Polnish (in the case of Moldavia) control.
I can't tell you that much about Walachia or Moldavia, mainly things like who ruled when, whe fought with whom and basic stuff like that, but not things like how people lived and so.
But if you are interested in Transsylvania too, let me know, and if I find the time, I'll write some things up for you.
Perun said:
The cynocephali were dog-headed men well documented in Roman encyclopedias. There was considerable debate about whether they had souls but it was generally settled that they did by the early medieval period because they wore clothes (and therefore must be descended from Adam).
Saint Christopher was the most famous cynocephalus; he lived to be 250 years old and was over nine feet tall. He never learned to speak before being martyred by the Emperor Decius.
I'll send along my campaign material soon.
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Based on what I've seen, I think that you might be able to mine some material from Green Ronin's SpirosBlaak.
