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| Sant Jordi 2025 |
And this April of 2025 the blog is 14 years old being at Internet (yes, I know that its activity hasn’t been as frequent as before, but I continue to do things as you may have seen lately).
The case is that this year’s anniversary post will be more special than before, because it has coincided with some rather interesting happenings…
Sapiens magazine: Saint George’s knights | Historical roleplaying games
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| Cover of Sapiens magazine issue 277 |
Catalan Sapiens magazine (Website | Spanish Wikipedia), devoted to popularising History, published monthly since year 2002 and, as always, full of all kind of interesting information. The issue of April has two articles which brought my attention specially:
The cover’s article Els cavallers de Sant Jordi, written by German historian and medievalist Cornel-Peter Rodenbusch (Instagram | UPF | Faberllull), presents the confraternities of Catalonia having Saint George patron saint, being Barcelona’s Sant George confraternity, which appeared in the 13th century and was charged to carry out the tournaments celebrated in the Born square, the star of the article. The celebrations of a tournament day honouring the saint are summarised, explaining the different types of contests and knights participating.
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| Cover of Misèries i Malaurances |
On the other hand the article Jocs de rol: la història en mans dels daus offers to the readers a short introduction to roleplaying games through a session of the game Misèries i malaurances - Llibre 1: jugar a rol a la França de 1648 (Mel Negra online shop | Itch.io), the game Miseries & Misfortunes written by Luke Crane and translated to Catalan and published by Mel negra.
Besides this the article also offers some information about Catalan roleplaying games publishers and creative groups and their published works.
Seeing this coincindences and realizing that in the previous anniversary I published the game Wandering Paladin (which you may find as a free download at itch.io I have decided that it can be very interesting to go deep into the world of medieval jousting to write a game about the topic.
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| From left to right: first pages of Tirant lo Blanch, The Knight and cover of Dominion Rules |
I already have began to investigate with the help of the Fediverse as can be seen here, here and here and I’m beginning to search for specialised literature, but I can say in advance that among other sources of inspiration I will use Tirant lo Blanch by Joanot Martorell and The Knight’s Tale , part of The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer.
For the game mechanics I will use Dominion Rules (Website | Wikipedia, having a permisive licence long before Wizards of the Coast decided to give the steps, allowing to create derived contents and variant rulesets (even creating new games), which I will be uploading to itch.io to create a game available in Catalan, Spanish and English languages.
La Pesanta, the IEP and the Necronomicon
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| Logo of the Institut d'Estudis Primigenis |
By the way, if you remember last Saturday’s post, I talked you about La Pesanta and the Institut d’Estudis Primigenis (which I helped to start), well then: today, Sant Jordi, publishes the Catalan translation of the document A History of the Necronomicon (1927) which I also helped to supervise (don’t be very afraid tonight…☺).
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| Chibi Cthulhu created by Håkan Ackegård |
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