We're looking for 1 or 2 more players for a new game set in medieval Europe. Perfect time to join if you want to influence the direction of the game.

It is the year 1190 in Languedoc, a southern province of the dissolving Kingdom of the Franks. King Philip II has just styled himself King of France and is busy with the Third Crusade in far away lands. Not much of this reaches the sleepy, rural part of Languedoc where our story starts but there are still castles and estates to manage, conflicts to settle and dangers lurking in the shadows.

Edit: We're full for now.
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The stage is set, the plot has not yet started to thicken much but the game is on.

We have an opening for a couple more players creating original characters in this pseudo-historical game set in the year 1190 in the south of the dissolving Frankish kingdom. Play a chivalric knight or another medieval concept. This is a small (cast-wise) game with an overarching meta plot but there is plenty of room for players to influence any part of the game.

Edit: We've recieved a lot of applications so we're good for now.
This message was last edited by the user at 05:37, Thu 18 Aug 2022.

Looking for 1-2 players this game. There are a few characters eligble for adoption as well as the opportunity to create original characters of your own. The characters are currently investigating a recent outburst of random violence.

We are leaning heavily on the real medieval Languedoc but this is a game, not a historical reenactment so some changes have been made. Focus of the game where it concerns the player characters will be at the micro level rather than macro: meaning personal struggles -physical, practical and otherwise- will be at the forefront and the larger political schemes is something that mostly happens somewhere else.

It is the year 1190 in Languedoc, a southern province of the dissolving Kingdom of the Franks. King Philip II has just styled himself King of France and is busy with the Third Crusade in far away lands. The larger conflicts have yet to reach the small but growing market town of Saint Volusien where our story starts but unrest is indeed brewing.

For decades the church and crown have expressed their displeasure at the Albigensian lack of respect for authorities. Local church councils have repeatedly condemned the cathar heretics. Thus far the counts of Toulouse have managed to keep the church and crown at bay but 11 years ago the Third Lateran Council decreed that all Albigenses should be put into prison and have their property confiscated.

What happens in the days and years to come is still anyone's guess. In Saint Volusien life goes on. Count Ramon Roger is off fighting in the crusade, leaving his wife Emma de Trencavel to rule in his stead. The half-finished castle build have all but ground to a halt since her coffers are growing empty and for a couple of weeks no stone is delivered from the quarry. With the rumors of disease and some recent acts of random violence the mood in town is tense.

Edit: We've got all the players I can handle once again.
This message was last edited by the user at 22:03, Thu 17 Aug 2023.

Once again we find ourselves short of valiant knights and knightesses willing to risk life and limb to find out what sinister plots threaten the budding merchant town of Saint Volusien. The game is set in medieval Occitan in the years leading up to the Albigensian crusade but is a game of mystical adventure rather than political intrigue.

Still looking for another player or two to join our current party in a quest to stop the sinister plot of an evil baron.

It is the year 1190 in Languedoc, a southern province of the dissolving Kingdom of the Franks. King Philip II has just styled himself King of France and is busy with the Third Crusade in far away lands. The larger conflicts have yet to reach the small but growing market town of Saint Volusien where our story starts but unrest is indeed brewing.

For decades the church and crown have expressed their displeasure at the Albigensian lack of respect for authorities. Local church councils have repeatedly condemned the cathar heretics. Thus far the counts of Toulouse have managed to keep the church and crown at bay but 11 years ago the Third Lateran Council decreed that all Albigenses should be put into prison and have their property confiscated.

What happens in the days and years to come is still anyone's guess. In Saint Volusien life goes on. Count Ramon Roger is off fighting in the crusade, leaving his wife Emma de Trencavel to rule in his stead. The half-finished castle build have all but ground to a halt since her coffers are growing empty and for a couple of weeks no stone is delivered from the quarry. With the rumors of disease and some recent acts of random violence the mood in town is tense.

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Deeply troubling happenings seem likely to force our lady's knights onto the road, to parley or confront a powerful baron who may be harbouring a sorcerer. There are rumours he has sold his soul to the Devil, or at least the King, a concerning play for power to his semi-independent neighbours.

We're looking for players interested in a low-magic, fairly historically accurate world, where they can experience the closest thing to a real Golden Age of Chivalry that existed: when Eleanor of Aquitaine played at a Court of Love, when troubadours - male and female - wandered with their instruments as a badge of honour and songs as weapon against any uncouth noble short on charity or tolerance for other loves of those politically married to them. When old monks and nuns of the fighting orders came back, loaded with scars and tales of crumbling Outremer, to tend the monastery lands and manage horses among neighbours not quite of the faith.

The free Occitania of the late 12th century was where the courtly French hub of the Western mediaeval world met the cultural vigour of Catalonia, resulting in a flourishing of art, ideas and freedoms little seen elsewhere. We would welcome a lady or knight (or lady knight) met on the road, a wandering Perfect who'd like to preach heresy at us, a mendicant friar to save our souls, squires, servants, maidens, shepherd or mixed-race Saracens, pilgrims on route or other mediaeval folk to round out the group.

No system experience or books required, system and historical support available.

You may like this game if you like de Troyes' Arthurian Romances, the Cadfael series (books or TV) or the works of Guy Gavriel Kay; if you like the comradely feel of Eddings and wish the plots or worldbuilding made sense (and know a true knight would always choose exile over marrying his adopted daughter), or wish "historical accuracy" in the works of GRR Martin was not interpreted exclusively as doing horrible things to women; if you like Ivanhoe, el Cid, or fragmentary mediaeval ballads.
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