Stupor Mundi

[Magistus]

First, great product, I picked this up last night and have been reading it when I can today, so far so good. This is a good historical setting using the MRQ rules.

From reading I have a question while reading about the Teutonic Knights it sates that they will be discussed more in the Baltic Campaign, so this is the question how many supplements will be released under this title?

 

[RosenMcStern]

Thanks for the appreciation!

The baltic coast (Lithuania, Latvia, etc.) is one of the areas that I have not detailed as they deserve. Mythic Russia has a very good description of all the northeastern lands, and since it is set only one hundred years after Stupor Mundi all the information found there is useful, if you do not mind a bit of translation from HQ to RQ. If the book is successful (it looks like it can be), I want to write down the necessary info in RQ format, this time in the form of a campaign book detailing the adventures of the Teutonic Knights in Riga and other places. This setting has a lot of potential, because you are likely to meet both Aleksander Nevskij and Gengis Khan (well, maybe his heirs) as adversaries.

Other stuff like more detailed saint cults are easy to write for me, and I will do it if there are enough people who request it. I just avoided to clutter the book with endless descriptions of Catholic orders. I also have more adventures ready besides the two presented in the book.

A reference map of Europe, that was not included in the book when it was released, will be available soon. It will not detail the baltic area much more, though.

 

[Magistus]

Well I would like to see more. And there are two reasons, the first is I am interested in historical settings.

 

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I have it on order from lulu (well re-order really - for some reason they had an error printing it first time, and refunded my payment and cancelled the order instead of just printing another one).

Definitely looks interesting - I've just been reading Lord Norwich's History of Venice, so something set there would be good - anyone fancy a quick crusade? You can start off by fighting the Hungarians, and then have a go at the Byzantines...

I'll probably steal ideas to use for RQ3 rather than MRQ, but I guess that should be straightforward.

Mark

 

[smiorgan]

Thanks for the appreciation!

Stupor Mundi is indeed a great supplement. As a fellow Italian I was delighted to see my favourite period of Italian history tranformed in a very playable setting.

Kudos also for the "respectful but fun" and rather accurate treatment of real world religions. I am so sick of game books just caricaturing the medieval church as The One Big Conspiracy of Evil (TM) - real history was more complicated, had many shades of grey, and was much more fun than that!

I am soon to throw my players into the Arab market of Palermo and I look forward to the Baltic campaign.

 

[RosenMcStern]

I have updated the Stupor Mundi web site. It now includes the PDF preview and a map of 13th century Europe as a free download.

If Dario has some spare time I will ask him to draw a better map, but since he is at work on the battle maps and cardboard miniatures for the two published adventures, I do not want to bother him with the map now :wink: