Reflections on more Historical Gaming
As I get older and learn more about history I learn more about the delicate elements and details that are harder and harder to communicate without being given the benefit…
Read more →Category: History
Extra Credits’s Byzantine Empire Justinian and Theodora Series
I wonder how many hours will it take me to dig up my old notes for this campaign? I love how Crusader Kings, Extra History, Crash Courses History, and many…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Season 03 Episode 01.5
Thanks to the players:+Mike Dulay, +Il Pella , +Wilton Heath, +Dan Mungham , and +Ken Kthulhu Summary The army separated. they divided between the two paths. This is because of the rising tension between Mauger and Tancred.…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Time Line Leading up to 1092
The detail and how often the pieces fit from the various Wikipedia entries are awesome. This is for my players but the amount of work it took to assemble this…
Read more →Sins of the Crusades Notes on Army Organization
Sadly its really hard to research Komnenian Armies. This is because of the haphazard situation and the constant conflicts unlike Justinian/Belisarius and Maurice’s time as well as titles being a…
Read more →Sins of the Crusades – Season 02, Episode 06 – Betreyal
Thanks +Wilton Heath, +Dan Mungham, +Thunder Clonch , and +Il Pella for playing. The team was planning an attack, the problems and challenges were plenty the closest target was Nicomedia (Izmit), assailable by sea and land…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Season 02 Episode 05 – Byzantine Allies
Note: Listening again to the game, I was really out of it. Thank you goes out for my players patience this session: +Dan Mungham , +Wilton Heath , +Milan Runic , +Il Pella , and +Mike Dulay for…
Read more →Low Tech Education Notes – The Cost of Education
I don’t really enforce these rules and details, that would be too much of a buzz kill for a game. Still when I tinker, I am aware that the world…
Read more →Very Quick Roll20 Tokens for my Warring State Game.
Here is my non-professional work lolz. Hope you can find it useful. Some notes on the scale I use which I had to resize to fit in properly (and to…
Read more →Warring States Pilot Episode
Characters Thanks to: Zhaoze Zhexue +Steven Donaldson Yi Qin +Filip Vukanovic “Da” Yuan +Dan Mungham Anguo Aiguo +Daniel Tallor Summary The party begins in Hebi, a fortified village that serves as a way station…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade E05, A Petty War
Thanks to +Il Pella , +Thunder Clonch , and +Wilton Heath for playing! We finished the battle where we left off. I kept rolling 15-16 in defense. After the game I checked the books and a…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade S01 E03 – Taranto
Thanks to +Wilton Heath – Cato Vorenus an Honest Naepolitan Merchant and client of House Milessenos.+Il Pella – Xenophon Papagiannopolous, Captain of the Zardakos+Thunder Clonch – Teritus Maxentius, Guardsman of the House Milessenos…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade E02 – the Sin of Weakness
Thanks to +Wilton Heath – Cato Vorenus an Honest Naepolitan Merchant and client of House Milessenos. +Il Pella – Xenophon Papagiannopolous, Captain of the Zardakos +Thunder Clonch – Teritus Maxentius, Guardsman of the…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Pilot
Some Background, the reason I chose 1092 is because if there is anything going to be done that will alter the course of history of the crusades its going to…
Read more →Sins of the Crusade Art
cramming some art for the Campaign. No pressure, its just been 5 years in the making.
Read more →Fall of Constantinople Game I once Ran
This was before GURPS Mass Combat 4E and City Stats. One day I hope to write up a meticulously prepare campaign for this that can be used in a variety…
Read more →My 10 year old RPG thesis
+Alexander Osias in Armchair Gamer happens to have on of the few surviving copies of RPG thesis. Looking back it was a very good experience, unfortunately it was a very very…
Read more →History as a Campaign Setting
I always liked history as a campaign setting, practically it saved me money and memory. One big advantage was it fed to each other, immersing in history and designing a…
Read more →from 2010, Axial Age Setting and D20 based system.
I was really inspired to play or run a game set in the Axial Age. So I made a fantasy setting that is pretty much the great powers of the Axial…
Read more →Philippine Cartography 1320-1899 by Carlos Quirino
Philippine Cartography by Carlos Quirino First Edition in 1959, 2nd Edition in 1963, and this edition is 2010. History books are my Campaign Setting Books. This would make a great…
Read more →World of History Podcasts
I listen to Laszlo Montgomerys china history podcast, Lars brownsworth 12 Byzantine rulers, Robin Piersons the history of Byzantium and I will be download a whole ton more of history…
Read more →Digesting a lot of Chinese History
Thanks to Laszlo Montgomery I found it easier to follow chinese history. As a filipino, i pretty much fall in between western and eastern culture… especially since our culture is weak…
Read more →Wold Building Research Mind Dump
I broke my own home brew rules. I’ve gone back to the basics and tried again. This time a little bit more detailed. As I’ve always got game in the…
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