I have been banned from RPG.net for a ludicrous reason (read for yourselves: http://mergezett.blogspot.com/2023/05/permanently-banned-from-big-purple.html)... Has anybody else experienced that?
She does mention this factor, solved either by further immigration or by people from the countryside moving to the city and adopting its culture & language.
In one instance (the “Saxon” areas of Transylvania) the countryside itself became German-speaking.
I liked the beginning and the end; the middle episodes are waaaaay too long. They could have made a good long film or a good short series out of it, but for some reason they preferred to make a meh long series.
I've recently read a French scholarly book about the history of Central Europe (can't remember the title, and I've left the book at my parents' place); the author wrote that not only were all central European cities based on the HRE model, but their inhabitants also came from German-speaking...
Do you read French?
https://www.legrog.org/jeux/malefices/malefices-4eme-edition/malefices-4eme-ed-fr
https://www.legrog.org/jeux/crimes/crimes-1ere-edition/crimes-fr
If you like the swords and sorcery genre, I think the best “edition” of Tunnels & Trolls is Sarah Newton’s Lair of the Leopard Empresses. Instead of three character classes, you get a zillion of them, but they are more like a solid list of tweaks than the ridiculously bloated lists from some of...
Also since kids tend to remain together as a group and to not 'split the party', you can run a solo for them as if it were a GM adventure (done that too).
Just download a wilderness map or a dungeon map from the internet, print it out and use figures and improvise as they progress (I've done this several times with my kids and their friends when they were in that age range).
Since the opponents in T&T are literally a single stat (MR) this is super...