rust Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 For my Thule setting I took a look at some roleplaying material for the design and description of medieval societies, to complement the RuneQuest II Empires supplement I intend to use as the setting's "background metagame". Two of the sources I found seem good enough to mention them here, because they could be useful for others too. The first one is "A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe (Second Edition)". It was written for the d20 System, but almost all of the ideas and informations are generic enough to be used for all systems, including BRP. And it truly covers every element of a medieval society that co- mes to my mind, from the manor to the kingdom, including magic and religion. A part I espe- cially like is the building system in the appendix. http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=55417&filters=0_0_40050_0 The second one is "Grain Into Gold". It deals with a medieval / fantasy economy, from the sta- ple food up to the costs of goods and services of all kind. It is completely generic, a tool to build a plausible economic system from the basic informations about a setting. The text is sometimes slightly dry (economy tends to be ...), but the charts in the back also contain all the necessary informations (including an almost endless example of a price list), just without all the explana- tions. http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=13113&it=1&filters=0_0_40050_0 If you are interested in the details of a medieval society and its economy, and how to design some for your games, I would recommend to take a look at these two PDFs, at least for my little project they already proved to be quite useful - in the case of "Magical Medieval Society" even extremely useful. Quote "Mind like parachute, function only when open." (Charlie Chan) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solardog Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 A Medieval Tapestry for Ars Magica, is an good medieval RPG source book. http://paizo.com/store/downloads/atlasGames/arsMagica/v5748btpy8a6j&source=new Quote It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agentorange Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 These are also interesting: Farm, Forge and Steam http://www.rpgnow.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=farm+forge+and+steam&quicksearch=1&search_filter=&filters=&search_free=&search_in_description=1&search_in_author=1&search_in_artist=1&x=4&y=6 and for trading: Silk Roads http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=12185&it=1 same people that did 'A magical medieval Society' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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