Resources for Medieval Baltic RPG Campaigns
Note: While I take inspiration from the real history of the Northern Crusades, I am ultimately just playing a game and nothing you read on this blog should be taken as factual. Neither should anything I write here be taken as an endorsement of what happened during this time period. I'm giving myself permission to explore history but will change or add whatever I want in order to make it interesting to me. After finishing my 6 Mile Hex Map of the Baltic Area I've started thinking about running a solo game in this area. I initially became interested in this setting through the source books: The Medieval Baltic, Volume I and The Medieval Baltic, Volume II but since then I also discovered the RPG Baptism of Fire (set in 11th Century Poland) and the Basic Role Playing campaign setting Crusaders of the Amber Coast . At the moment the early Middle Ages is more interesting to me because I don't want to deal with firearms and cannons....