New Video: When the astronomer Copernicus fought the Teutonic Knights (and won)
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New Video – Handwerker: The forgotten middle class of medieval Europe
In this video we look at three period sources on the medieval craft artisan. This allows us to explore their world in detail, and see it through their own eyes. Plunge with us into this time tunnel and emerge four centuries in the past.
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New Video – Going Underground in the Middle Ages
Here we explore the many types of underground spaces which were available to, and in many cases created by the people of the medieval world, mainly in and around Europe. We look at mines of various types, going back to the Bronze Age, and how those changed (getting deeper and more sophisticated) during the medieval
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New Video – The Fuggerei
New video takes us into the world of early 16th Century German towns, and a remarkable achievement in the establishment of a social safety net. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1NReXVmXCU
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Congratulations to Jonas Bürgi for winning the Bärenkönig of Wexford!
Congratulations to Jonas Bürgi for winning the Bärenkönig of Wexford longsword tournament in Ireland!
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New Updates for Codex – Goodbye OGL, hello Indy World
We have done a fairly significant round of updates to three of our books so far – Core Rules and Player’s Guide, and our new adventure module / setting book, The Road To Monsterberg: Curse of the Mad Princess. In large part this was to remove all DnD and OGL / SRD references because we
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The Road to Monsterberg: Curse of the Mad Princess
Hello and happy spooky season, Codex customers! On Friday the thirteenth, this October 13, we finished our latest project. Today we are announcing the release of The Road To Monsterberg: Curse of the Mad Princess, the third and final episode of our Road to Monsterberg historical adventure series. These books work as both adventure modules
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New Release: Codex for OSR “Stara Szkola”
We are very happy to announce the arrival of our new “OSR Friendly”, lite version of Codex Martialis – Stara Szkola. At just under 40 pages, Stara Szkola (SSk for short) provides a complete combat system, equipment including weapons, armor, and basic gear, a complete point based character generation system with six classes, and a micro adventure: The Ghost Ship.
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New HROARR Publication: Were Poisoned Weapons used in medieval Warfare?
https://hroarr.com/article/were-poisoned-weapons-ever-used-in-medieval-warfare/
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Raised to War: The deadly militias of the Swiss Confederation
In this video we take a look at the feral killers of the Swiss Alps as they face down (and chop into little pieces) the mighty Duke Leopold I (Habsburg) of Austria at Morgarten in 1315, to their annihilation of the army of Duke Leopold III also of the Austrian Habsburgs at Sempach in 1386.
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