We might also be having a fourth player join us, who asked if she could still join.

Welcome player 4!

Welcome!

Welcome to P4 - apologies for the slight radio silence, we've been having some good weather and I've also been involved in setting up another game, so it's been a bit hectic. I will settle upon a name and get my first post up shortly!

No worries! I'm still thinking about my character, taking some inspiration from yours. Let's see if we can join them in some sort of plausible team.

Why do I get the sense this really means I'll be taking the blame when we all end up in front of the Pope?

"The Flemish moneylender made me do it, Your Holiness! She's a witch! She has bewitched her father too! It was totally her idea that we poison the Castellan!"

"No, your holiness, it was that bastard daughter of Philip the Good! That strumpet was the one who poisoned the Castellan, knifed that pensioner, and unleashed that wave of pigs into the nave of Poitiers Cathedral! I'm innocent, and so is my girlfr...handmaiden!'

Hahahah. Getting some King Solomon vibes here, but I don’t think cutting a baby in half will solve this one! :-P

No one mentioned babies...

Hmmm...

"Your Holiness, she's also been trying to cut babies in two and blame it on the Castellan!"

I won't lie, releasing pigs in a Cathedral sounds like a seriously cool avantgarde performance. I'll go for it.

Right, I have a name and have done a post. I promise they won't all be quite as jam packed with exposition as this one!

And it's that kind of attitude which will get us both sent to a nunnery!

And it's an old whinge but I really wish that there was a better set of options for female historical pictures available - it's virtually impossible to find a good picture which isn't either airbrushed to hell, staring straight down the camera giving a 'come hither' pout or somewhat ruined with the inclusion of a hugely plunging neckline :(

It is a less than ideal selection, true.

Seconded, or thirded.

Yeah. You have the option, I believe, to send in a picture request, which for our sake shouldn't be too copyright restricted as it's probably renaissance painting. If you want to not use a picture, that is good for men too.

Anne's player, I had to edit your character name slightly as apparently the symbol for shortening de to d' is not accepted.

Not very Francophone-friendly, this website :P

My thoughts exactly

*Puts on his best British accent, with tongue wedged firmly in his cheek*

Well, if the French had bothered to win a few more of their wars, then some more people might speak their accursed language.

Oh, we gonna start this whole 100 year old war all over again now!

I had intended that Gerhard was speaking with Roland, but if you would prefer it could be some other member of the Order?

In reply to Gerhard de Colmar (msg # 36):

Oh, I had pictured it as someone else, my mistake!

Well done on the player selections for this one GM. Not too many, and everyone seems to be thinking along the same lines while still maintaining interesting and original concepts.

Not easy to do!

For Roland in particular, I have found that the collection of woodcuts from Der Weisskunig to be especially helpful for visualizing material for Gerhard.

It's later than our current period by a few decades at the least, and it is specifically German, but it provides a wealth of arms and armor illustrations from the period as well as illustrations depicting warfare in general at the time, i.e early artillery emplacements alongside well armored infantry formations with pole arms, cavalry, executions, etc.

I'll link it here if it would be of any help.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.or...ts_by_Hans_Burgkmair