Quote from: Timothe;1118366I have already bought a bunch of the individual articles. Has much of it been changed in the new book?

Well, no. It would depend on which articles you've already bought. It has all the non-adventure medieval-authentic Presents issues up to issue #50.

So, if you've been one of those people who has bought almost all of the medieval-authentic books (and if so, THANK YOU) then you wouldn't get a lot of new stuff. But it is all put together in a nice orderly fashion, by topic sections, and it's the way to get the material all in one print book.

Bought this morning, will read it tonight, but a quick browse leads me to believe it's pretty good.

Quote from: Brad;1120091Bought this morning, will read it tonight, but a quick browse leads me to believe it's pretty good.

Thanks!

Feel free to let me know what you think after a further read!

Quote from: RPGPundit;1120620Thanks!

Feel free to let me know what you think after a further read!

Took me a while to get back to it as I ended up making a brisket and drinking a handle of whiskey over the weekend in preparation for the Super Bowl. Never let it be said that there is any better wood than post oak for smoking...

Anyway, overall probably one of the better RPG supplements I've bought. The best part of the book is the Domain Management section; I greatly prefer your approach over similar implementations I've seen, and the terseness means it might actually get used! Also really like the Faerie Wells stuff. Evocative and easily integrated into any game. I'd say I'll never use 75% of the content in my games as presented verbatim, but it's so easily modified that's almost irrelevant. It's truly a medieval resource in the real sense of the term. If you had no idea how to run such a game, you could read this book and figure it out without much effort.

A+, please publish additional tomes soon.

Aaaaaand the hard copy got here today. I was annoyed at the digest size, but I see you used an actually readable font size, so this is perfect.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1117654Well, I understand what you mean but I'm not sure if that's applicable in the case of this particular product.  The Medieval-Authentic companion has a bunch of material that is based on real medieval history, legend, folklore, myth and occultism, and is the sort of thing that the average GM probably couldn't just write up for himself (unless he has a topical history degree)!

Yes, looks handy for people that want to help suspend disbelief by tracking with authentic conditions where practical.
While not required, it does help establish a "known" Medieval setting.

Quote from: Brad;1120977Took me a while to get back to it as I ended up making a brisket and drinking a handle of whiskey over the weekend in preparation for the Super Bowl. Never let it be said that there is any better wood than post oak for smoking...

Anyway, overall probably one of the better RPG supplements I've bought. The best part of the book is the Domain Management section; I greatly prefer your approach over similar implementations I've seen, and the terseness means it might actually get used! Also really like the Faerie Wells stuff. Evocative and easily integrated into any game. I'd say I'll never use 75% of the content in my games as presented verbatim, but it's so easily modified that's almost irrelevant. It's truly a medieval resource in the real sense of the term. If you had no idea how to run such a game, you could read this book and figure it out without much effort.

A+, please publish additional tomes soon.

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it. There will be further Companions released in the future.

Quote from: Brad;1121137Aaaaaand the hard copy got here today. I was annoyed at the digest size, but I see you used an actually readable font size, so this is perfect.

Yes, I wasn't totally sure about the size (which was the publisher's choice) but I was really pleased with how it turned out too!