Author: Conall Kavanagh (---.ucsd.edu)
Date: 07-28-2002 20:45
Neat discussion on using fiction or pseudo-history to flesh out the gaming period. You brought up the larger issue of finding the mix between using written works about a period vs. the stones, bones, and tools that one finds through archaeology. This is most apparent for something like the Arthurian period. To be strictly historically and archaeologically correct, we'd have lightly-armed cavalrymen chasing groups of Germans over a Latin landscape. This is very different from the world of Mallory -- a "historical novel" written in the 1400s about the 600s!
Like you (I suppose), I tend to use the old and modern literature to give motivation to my historical PCs, and the archaeology to determine what they wear, eat, and ride.
Conall
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