Produktbeschreibung
Ein Quellenbuch über das ritterliche Leben: mit einer Liebe zum Detail, die selbst mit dem Pendragon-Rollenspiel locker konkurrieren kann, werden hier alle Aspekte des ritterlichen Lebens beleuchtet: die verschiedenen Zeitalter des Rittertums, das Leben eines Ritters, die Kunst der höfischen Liebe, das Turnier, Ritterorden, Wappenkunde, neue Berufe, feudale Besitztümer, Waffen und Rüstungen und Gegner. Ein Meisterwerk des Detailreichtums auf 96 Seiten!
So you want to be a Knight - Do you have what it takes?
This is the handbook no Knight should be without!
Skill modifications, technology, fortifications, and other background data on the following time periods:
The Dawn of Chivalry: Knighthood in the Early Feudal Period
The life and times of an early knight, for whom life was often brutal and
short, but who answered only to those with more skill at arms.
The High Period of Chivalry: Knighthood in the Middle Ages
The High Chivalric period, when chivalry flowered into a way of life.
Knighthood in the Late Feudal Period: The Decline of Chivalry
As the feudal way of life declines, the Knight still puruses his romantic ideals.
The Life of a Knight:
Honour, how to win it, and how to lose it, and how it increases one's status. The home and pastimes of the Knight, such as the Hunt or jousting. The Royal Bureaucracy, war, and revolt. The stuff that Knight's live - and die - for.
Knights, Ladies & Constant Heartache: The Art of Courtly Love
Once you understand the rules of the game, you'll know why you can never win!
The Joust:
The tournament was the social occasion of the medieval world. It was a place
to meet one's friends, embarass one's enemies, and bring honour to one's family name. Includes complete rules on jousting, based on (but much improved) the original Jousting Matrix of C&S 1st edition fame.
Religious & Secular Orders of Chivalry:
Thirteen pages on the history and organization of real life fighting orders, the fighting orders of Marakush, and how to design your own fighting orders.
Heraldry:
And extensive treatise on Hearldry by Edward E. Simbalist, in the finest C&S tradition! Includes several pages of sample designs
Appendix A - Knightly Vocations:
Knights, Sergeants and Men-at-Arms for Holy Fighting Orders, a revised secular Knight, and three vocations for the Knights of the Church of Urto.
Appendix B - Feudal Holdings:
Includes material from the Game Master's Handbook, for the sake of completeness.
Appendix C - Arms and Armour:
A detailed essay on the development of weapons and armor thought the medieval period, by Nigel Clarke.
Appendix D - Bestiary:
Perhaps the two most important creatures to the Knight: The deer and the boar, fit for the table of the King!
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