Crusade of Kings, by R. Scott Peoples 809572214
Brand : Wildside Press
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- 809572214
All the splendor, majesty, Byzantine plotting, and senseless destruction of the first three Crusades, designed for the Wildside Gaming System (but easily adapted to other systems). Contains all the resources a GM needs to build a Crusades-based campaign, whether the players are in the roles of princes or peasants, Crusaders or Caliphs.
Nearly a century of history is covered, allowing for long campaigns, and the book spills over into a variety of environments in Europe and the Middle East. Want to run a Byzantine campaign? an adventure centered on a mountain fortress in Lebanon? It's all here: everything you need to know to live or die in world-spanning adventures from 1094-1192.
Crusade of Kings is filled with information on key environments (How did people dress in Antioch? What's a really bad day to be caught in Jerusalem?) and with profiles of major players in the first three Crusades, including larger-than-life figures like Richard the Lion Hearted and Saladin. It has exactly the information you need to run a Crusades-based campaign without getting bogged down. There are also dozens of adventure seeds for GMs who want to get started in a hurry.
- Author writes a very popular history column on the DailyKos website.
- Includes material for history teachers using it as a classroom supplement. (The author is a high school history teacher who uses roleplaying to teach history and government)
- All the splendor, majesty, and senseless destruction of the first three Crusades (1094-1192), designed for the Wildside Gaming System (but easily adapted to other systems).