Because I am apparently quite mad, as in insane, I am considering running a second AD&D campaign. This one will take advantage of my Medieval Studies education and be based around medieval romantic themes, questing and chivalry. I actually intend to include a slightly remodeled version of the Cavalier class. Think what the high middle ages thought of earlier medieval times; King Arthur, the Grail Quest, Le Chanson de Roland, or even La Poema de Mio Cid. Maybe with a sprinkling of earlier stuff too, Germanic heroic stuff sneaking in and a wee bit of weird Celtic fairy stuff too. All of the characters will be human, and all of the monsters, when they show up, will be unique and really weird. I intend to read through both Pendragon and Fantasy Wargaming again before embarking on this odd little endeavor, but I think it'll be fun. I get DM ADD and like to change things up a bit every now and again too.
Now, we played the OA campaign this past Sunday and nobody died, but it was a close run thing. No spoilers though, I'll try and get the full report tomorrow. I wanted to get it today, but our dryer died yesterday and we had to spend today searching for a new one; it should be delivered tomorrow afternoon.
I also got some more OA stuff in the mail; OK technically it's Clan War/L5R stuff, but same thing to me.
Another medievalist! My BA was English Medieval Studies.
ReplyDeleteArt historian here. That's my period. One of them anyway.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, my concentration on an almost exclusively medieval course of study at university caused my best friend's dad to derisively comment that I had "Majored in D&D"; I also had entire, wonderful, surreal semesters where my courses never touched on anything later than the reign of Henry VII, I read medieval poetry and looked at medieval art and sang medieval songs and ate medieval food. I suppose that's why I am drawn to the SCA too, but the SCA gets easily as much wrong as it gets right. Still, there is some excellent scholarship coming out of the SCA, sadly being ignored by academia simply because of it's source.
ReplyDeleteSome sweet looking minis you have there!
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