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I like the big bright window with the flowers on the sill too... Edit: Undoubtedly he used the sword to cut these on the way to work, probably with a single zwerchau...

I am struck by how contemporary this 16th Century barber shop looks. The combs, the shears, the 'barber cape' wrapped around the guy getting his hair cut, the water basin (and clever 'shower' device) to wash the hair. The different medical and hair treatment concoctions up on the high shelf...

....and video. Ever wonder how medieval swords were really made? It wasn't one sweaty dude with his shirt off working outside over a camp fire

More medieval mining tech, still standing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frohnauer_Hammer

A rather fairy-tale esque panorama of the gold mining town of Leipzig, Silesia (today Poland) by Mathias Gerung, 1536

In much of the medieval period, there appears to have been almost no human habitation in the higher peaks and valleys of many of the mountain ranges. Starting in the 13th and 14th Centuries, small numbers of prospectors began to venture into some of these areas and explore for valuable metals...

That little oil lamp, by the way, is probably the most likely means of illumination for dungeon, cave, mine etc. exploring in your pseudo medieval world. Torches are not good for that role, candles are good but mostly used inside, and lanterns would be pretty expensive back in your...

Some pretty interesting images to do with mining in the 16th Century, from an Austrian mining book printed in 1556 Two miners looking at ore Mining Exploring with an oil lamp Testing depth with a plumb line Making accurate measurements so the shaft is strait Some tools of the...

I just ran across this today (via someone on my Discord) which I'm finding pretty helpful, (if not as epic as all those maps) https://medievallondoners.ace.fordham.edu/occupations/

Wow that is really cool!

That sounds like a great adventure hook. And Ars Magica is super cool, I've long been a fan of that game from a design perspective, although I've not yet played it.

I was serious, I've been a little out of the loop on a lot of games. I hadn't read Zelazny since i was a teenager, but just recently found Chronicles of Amber audiobooks on Youtube and have been enjoying them a lot. It's "Epic in Scope" without being cliche or trite, IMO. Works on both the kind...

Hey just FYI for any Codex fans who might be around here - Monsterberg III was just released today.

I think people tend to look at conditions in 19th Century London or New York, and then project backwards to what they assume must be poorer and more backward, slovenly, and miserable conditions. But that is not how history works. Same for reading about things like Witch Burnings in the 17th...

Yeah it's partly just a matter of taste. I've never got into the really high powered type of gaming, I was always inspired by the original REH Conan. He was tough, but often barely getting by. Or say, Jack Vance's Cugel the Clever etc. But I've had friends describe very high powered games that...

Yep that is one of the major tropes, absolutely... 100%

(continued) Villains and Monsters Don't think real life villains could be as scary as monsters in the fiend folio? Check out a few of these historical characters. Gilles de Rais, 1404-1440 AD French aristocrat, soldier, and serial...

This is a redux of a post I made on another forum way back in 2008 (with a few new additions) One argument I have heard many, many times from people who don't like low fantasy, is that they don't want a boring game about some peasant who has fleas and dies of the plague anonymously at age 27...

Chronicles of Amber (as inspiration, not sure if anyone has done an RPG on it)