Comments on: Why Don’t You Just Tell Me What Mentors You Want

By: caul

caul — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:05:20 +0000

Vikings…definitely vikings.

By: Aramis

Aramis — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:00:33 +0000

Spain and the Al-Moravids.

By: Michael Blair

Michael Blair — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:29:23 +0000

It is really only dawning on me now that just by changing the Mentor list you can change the setting completely. Maybe tweaking the skills a little as well but basically just the Mentors. Wow.

By: Michael Blair

Michael Blair — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:27:45 +0000

One Aspect that might not be a lot of use but it amuses me enormously:
“You may address me as ‘Your Holiness’”
A game where you can use that one would be ‘interesting’.

By: Jeremy Keller

Jeremy Keller — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:42:02 +0000

Great suggestions, Michael.

By: Michael Blair

Michael Blair — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:37:43 +0000

For Vikings, a really obvious one my brother suggested.
-An old wanderer with a hat drawn down over his one eye.

By: Michael Blair

Michael Blair — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:43:48 +0000

For Byzantium:
-A eunuch (politics!)
-A Varangian Guard
-A trader from just about anywhere
-An Icon maker
-A Jewish horse nomad from Khazaria
-A Chinese silk trader

For Vikings
-Skald
-Priest
-Skraeling (not likely but worth a mention)
-A Finn (mystical and mysterious woodsman)
-An Irish Monk
-An Arab trader
-Berserker

I am playing around with bronze age Homeric Greece myself.

By: Jeremy Keller

Jeremy Keller — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:48:39 +0000

Darren: yes, you’ve hit on one of the big problems I’ve been having while researching this. A lot of the readily available information (and not just Wikipedia) about the crusades is very Euro-centric.

Hi ANA: great ideas. I will definitely add those to the list.

By: ANA

ANA — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:24:00 +0000

HI:

For Arabic kingdom mentors, Jewish/Christian kabbalists & learned men would be excellent!

Also, Arabic doctor mentors would need their skill augmented.

By: Darren Brewster

Darren Brewster — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:39:30 +0000

That sounds like a good selection of mentors. Yeah, I was only using Saracen because Wikipedia uses it for their articles on the Crusades. I don’t know if it has any bad connotations or not.