I’m ramping up to run a game set in Lenga d’Oc at the end of the 12th century/beginning of the 13th century at the ramp up to and during the Albigensian Crusade. One option we’re looking at is adapting M&M to the time period. Normally I wouldn’t try to force a game as opinionated as M&M into a setting it wasn’t intended for, but I think that the Albigensian Crusade might squeak by because the Mentalities of the 30 Years War have similarly important dimensions in the 13th century: Nationality is important given the involvement of Aragon (or proximity to Catalunya), England, France, and ..read more

Hi, I have finally reduced my pile of shame and gotten to start this read, and I have to say I am delighted so far, 40 pages in, and looking very much forward to run this. I wonder if the autors would appreciate some feedback, mainly in terms of typos detected or the odd inaccuracy or questionable items I have spotted. Thanks! 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ..read more

Monsieurs, Madames… I have come to tell you about our first game of M&M, which we played last Saturday morning with a couple players I met on an online group. As I mentioned in a previous post, I chose The Illumination of Monsieur Foucher by DagaZ here with some minor tweaks, as it looked an easy and interesting way to get into the game. So I set up a simple Roll20 game, with just a few images to get in the mood, and the characters and we went on our Saturday earlyish breakfast sprinkled with a bit of bones and Paris. As I only had 2 characters, I decided to let players choose between 3 pr ..read more

Hi, I think this is my first post so I might as well introduce myself. I am writing from Barcelona, Catalonia, and am obviously planning to run the beautiful campaign written by Luke for this game (actually I am one of the guys in the unboxing announced elsewhere in the forum, sorry I didn’t see that message at the time, so I couldn’t reply). But before I do that I was planning to run a preliminary game and, since I was quite impressed by The Illumination of Monsieur Fouchier, I thought that’d be a great start. I plan on running it with some modifications, and 2 players only, a Jesuit and an e ..read more

Sir Luke de Crane unfortunately forgot an important portrait in his Figures of Note of Paris 1648, that of mylsef, Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Rouvroy,_duc_de_Saint-Simon I highly recommend that you read my “Memoirs of XIV and His Court and of the Regency”. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3875 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1332 It is rather long (you can find version with some selection)… but it is is considered as “one of the least-read masterpieces of the age”. It had a huge influence on writters such as Proust, Flaubert, Tolstoi, e ..read more

If you need on the fly a short description and a map of town houses in the Parisian mode, go and check “Manière de bâtir pour toutes sortes de personnes” https://cnum.cnam.fr/pgi/redir.php?ident=FOLKO5 (go to the Export tag to get the book in pdf) published in 1623 (Paris) by Pierre Le Muet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Le_Muet. 3 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ..read more

Les Trois Mousquetaires : D’Artagnan is the first part of a two-part movie based on Dumas’ The Three Musketeers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqCiVRbwMvQ I hope that you can see in English. 3 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ..read more

A nice tribute to Dumas’ Three Musketeers is Pierre Pevel series of “Les Lames du cardinal”. It was a hit in France! The three books were translated into English. – The Cardinal’s Blades – The Alchemist in the Shadows – The Dragon Arcana, published by Gollancz ed. If you want to get the feeling of this period of time, especially in Paris, I highly recommend to read them (note that there is a touch of fantasy). 6 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ..read more

Three fine gentlemen from Catalunya posted an unboxing video of Homage to Catalonia (and some of our other books). Does anyone speak Catalan? Did I do a good job? Did I insult their honor? Will they reap my chains?! 5 posts - 3 participants Read full topic ..read more

Hey all. So @luke convinced me to post a play report from a recent ‘campaign’ I ran. Unfortunately, I’d like to preface it with two points before I get into the story. We began before the material on moments was released and, not being familiar with the source material - the history that is, we decided to say it was December of 1647. Maybe we would plan on starting January 1648 as we continued but we didn’t get there. That leads me to my next point. We played multiple sessions but didn’t get to finish the scenario. I got sick and was hospitalized at the end of the Spring and then we took a ..read more