Tag Archives: Chivalry & Sorcery

Homosexuality in the Middle Ages

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Barwickian

In Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition we referred briefly to medieval attitudes towards homosexuality and to an active gay scene in the 11th and 12th centuries. This article explores homosexuality in the Middle Ages in more detail. This is a … Continue reading →

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Genderqueer people in the Middle Ages

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Barwickian

One aspect of the diversity of medieval life we did not address in Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition concerns genderqueer people. This article is intended to correct that omission, in more detail than the core rulebook would have allowed. The … Continue reading →

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Diversity, historical accuracy and Chivalry & Sorcery

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Barwickian

Common factoids (things that look like facts but aren’t) about the Middle Ages are that people of colour didn’t exist in medieval Europe, that women didn’t fight (or do much other than be wives or nuns), and that homosexuality was … Continue reading →

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C&S 5th Edition: one designer’s notes

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Barwickian

I really don’t need an excuse not to update this blog, as I can go years without posting. But for what it’s worth, the last few months have been taken up with helping design and edit Chivalry & Sorcery 5th … Continue reading →

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Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition Kickstarter: Nightwalkers

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Barwickian

The Kickstarter campaign for Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition is well underway, and I’m proud to be associated with it. It achieved funding in less than 16 hours and, as I write, is on the way to unlocking its second … Continue reading →

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Review: Robin of Sherwood

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Barwickian

 Note: this is a minor reworking of a review I originally published on rpg.net in August 2003. “Nothing is forgotten. Nothing’s ever forgotten.” Robin of Sherwood is, for many people of a certain age, the definitive modern version of the … Continue reading →

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Chivalry & Sorcery: The Early Years

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Barwickian

Back in the days of the Loyal Order of Chivalry & Sorcery mailing list I enjoyed swapping emails – both public and private – with C&S designers Ed Simbalist and Wilf Backhaus and, at the last two Dudley Bug Ball … Continue reading →

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Unchivalry & Sorcery: C&S Redbook

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Barwickian

There is a document being promoted around various filesharing sites under the name C&S Redbook, aka C&S 6th edition. I don’t know who’s behind it, but it would appear from the title that is considers itself some sort of successor … Continue reading →

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Chivalry & Sorcery PDFs available

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Barwickian

Update, January 2020: A brand-new edition of Chivalry & Sorcery – the 5th Edition – is now available in PDF, and I’ve had a hand in designing it.  Britannia Games Ltd, publishers of the mother (and father) of all sim … Continue reading →

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