02-04-2012, 09:21 AM
The sub-creating in this game was fun. Role-playing my abbott was helped by historical fiction of the sort that Ellis Peters wrote, as in her series on Brother Cadfael, or (using her name Edith Pargeter) the 4-volume Brothers of Gwynnedd (pointedly subtitled as the one and only true Prince of Wales) and the Heaven Tree Trilogy. Her ability to bring history alive was remarkable.
Combined with some fairly general church history, the Abbott used the travellers who stayed the night in the guest quarters and the mendicant friars to learn of the latest church building techniques and to hire a French glazier. I enjoy just doing creating writing to describe an abbey or any other situation. Using "sub-created" characters this can bring alive a personl dimension of any pbm game. The result was something like the Great East Window in Exeter Cathedral, on which I modelled the window.
Combined with some fairly general church history, the Abbott used the travellers who stayed the night in the guest quarters and the mendicant friars to learn of the latest church building techniques and to hire a French glazier. I enjoy just doing creating writing to describe an abbey or any other situation. Using "sub-created" characters this can bring alive a personl dimension of any pbm game. The result was something like the Great East Window in Exeter Cathedral, on which I modelled the window.