* It illustrates character creation under the rules of Fourth Edition. The characters are practical examples and creative inspiration for players and storyguides making their own characters.
* It is a source of ready-made characters for use by players and storyguides alike. If a new player drops into your saga for one game, you can just grab a character from this book rather than generating one from scratch. Or, as a storyguide, you can turn to this book when you need an NPC on the fly.
* The characters and related inserts educate players about the setting of Mythic Europe and medieval history. Besides being interesting in their own right, the characters shed life on the typical and the unusual in medieval society. Informative inserts cover such topics as medieval law, hunting in the middle ages, the Knights Templar, heresy, and more.
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A Medieval Tapestry: Personalities of Mythic Europe is a 160-page sourcebook, featuring dozens of unique characters to be added to your Ars Magica saga, plus informational inserts and story ideas, as well as magus archetypes. A Medieval Tapestry serves several purposes:
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Editor: Jeff Tidball
Contributors: Cheryl Arbuckle, John W. Baichtal, Benedict Chapman, David Chart, Neil Laughlin, John Nephew, Tim O'Brien, Chris Pramas, Jakob Ryngen, Steve Saunders, John Snead, Jeff Tidball, and Jan Wagner
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3.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent NPC sourcebook.,
This review is from: A Medieval Tapestry (Ars Magica) (Paperback)
I'm not a big fan of books full of NPCs, but as far as NPCs books go, A Mdieval Tapestry is quite good. It describes NPCs from all walks of life: magi, peasants, nobles, priests etc., most of them quite usable in any Saga. Also, some NPCs include additional rules concerning the character, such as the note about the Welsh longbow with the Welsh peasant or Virtues specific to Templars and other knightly monastic orders with the Templar character.
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Welcome to A Medieval Tapestry: Personalities of Mythic Europe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
magic theory, full chain mail, longevity potion, kite shield, driving goal, vis source, casting tool, other magi, player characters, adventure deeds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Personality Traits, Unconscious Body, Incapacitated Abilities, Init Atk Dfn Dam Fat, Scribe Latin, Folk Ken, Mythic Europe, Order of Hermes, Artes Liberales, Hermes Lore, Legend Lore, Parma Magica, Unconscious Abilities, Sir Odo, Speak French, Esclarmonde de Foix, Attack Brawling, Speak Own Language, Wizard's Sigil, Folquet de Marseilles, Speak Italian, Animal Handling, Area Lore, Code of Hermes, Deft Art New!
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Welcome to A Medieval Tapestry: Personalities of Mythic Europe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
magic theory, full chain mail, longevity potion, kite shield, driving goal, vis source, casting tool, other magi, player characters, adventure deeds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Personality Traits, Unconscious Body, Incapacitated Abilities, Init Atk Dfn Dam Fat, Scribe Latin, Folk Ken, Mythic Europe, Order of Hermes, Artes Liberales, Hermes Lore, Legend Lore, Parma Magica, Unconscious Abilities, Sir Odo, Speak French, Esclarmonde de Foix, Attack Brawling, Speak Own Language, Wizard's Sigil, Folquet de Marseilles, Speak Italian, Animal Handling, Area Lore, Code of Hermes, Deft Art New!
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- The Atlas of the Crusades (Cultural Atlas of) by Jonathan Riley-Smith in Back Matter
- The Medieval Town (The Anvil series) by John Hine Mundy in Back Matter
- Making of Britain: Middle Ages (The making of Britain) by Lesley M. Smith in Back Matter
- The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption in Back Matter
- Women in the Middle Ages by Joseph Gies in Back Matter
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