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The Medieval Calendar Year

Started by RPGPundit, September 24, 2024, 12:05:49 PM

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September 24, 2024, 12:05:49 PM

Pundit Files 21: The Medieval Calendar Year is a month-to-month guide to the different events, seasons, religious festivals and traditions (as well as adventure cues) of the medieval world. Make your setting more authentic with the various traditions, practices and festivals throughout the year. Usable for any OSR game.

https://moordereht.com/product/the-pundit-files-issue-21-the-medieval-calendar-year/

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September 24, 2024, 03:22:43 PM
This was the first of your products that I've bought and I'm pretty pleased with my buy.  I could see the many details adding a feeling of depth and reality to an authentic medieval rpg.  I don't do authentic, but I do lean heavily on historical information to try to keep the setting believable.  The calendar for the setting I'm working on now will be very different, subtropical region, nonhuman races, 1600s level technology, and the religions not even defined yet, but you've given me a lot of ideas for things I could do with the calendar.  Out of curiosity, how do you do your research to get this information?

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September 24, 2024, 07:43:31 PM
Quote from: Mishihari on September 24, 2024, 03:22:43 PMThis was the first of your products that I've bought and I'm pretty pleased with my buy.  I could see the many details adding a feeling of depth and reality to an authentic medieval rpg.  I don't do authentic, but I do lean heavily on historical information to try to keep the setting believable.  The calendar for the setting I'm working on now will be very different, subtropical region, nonhuman races, 1600s level technology, and the religions not even defined yet, but you've given me a lot of ideas for things I could do with the calendar.  Out of curiosity, how do you do your research to get this information?

Well, how I research varies, but in this case it is right in my wheelhouse as a historian of religion with a focus on the late medieval. So I knew most of this already. There are a couple of interesting medievalist articles online that give some small details about the medieval year which I used as quick references while writing the product.
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September 24, 2024, 08:20:56 PM
Quote from: Mishihari on September 24, 2024, 03:22:43 PMOut of curiosity, how do you do your research to get this information?
A limited bibliography/further reading section in Pundit books would be absolutely grand.

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September 25, 2024, 03:37:53 AM
Seems too much to me like Appendix N, except instead of easily accessible fantasy novels its full of scholarly paper references.
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September 25, 2024, 07:35:46 PM Last Edit: September 25, 2024, 07:38:45 PM by WERDNA
Quote from: RPGPundit on September 25, 2024, 03:37:53 AMSeems too much to me like Appendix N, except instead of easily accessible fantasy novels its full of scholarly paper references.

A bibliography of where some of your info came from, particularly in larger books, is just handy to have for anyone who desires to look into things on their own. I guess that is somewhat like an inspirational literature appendix (kind of?), but I'm not sure if that's even problematic. It's just a helpful tool. TSR's historical supplements in the 2e days were fairly good about doing this.
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