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Ok it looks like you are referring to the campaign map of Silesia. We did add higher resolution printable maps to the book, on pages 74 (DM’s version) and 75 (Players version). This is in Version 1.49 of the book.
If those are not sufficient though I can make the higher resolution map available to you.
The original version of the map we used can be found here (at 2388 x 1970 pixels):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Helwig.png
This is pretty good, hadn’t seen these before
Yes this kind of thing – data about homicides and other violent incidents- has been a subject of interest in HEMA circles for ~ 20 years.
Each country, political system and region had it’s own methods for prosecuting or investigating homicides, duels, informal fights and so forth.
– In England, the coroner was obligated to fill out a detailed report about every homicide in his district and most maimings, woundings etc. So we have the coroners rolls of London, Boston, York etc.
– In most of the Italian City-States, the barber surgeons were required to write reports of deaths and non fatal injuries received in violent altercations, so we have such records from Florence, Rome, Pavia, Sienna and so on.
– In the German Free cities, the town council conducted thorough investigations of every homicide and every fight, even quite a few minor incidents in which nobody was hurt. Scribes recorded these interrogations. So we have transcriptions of these and sometimes translations, for example Ann Tlusty translated a bunch of these for Augsburg.
– In the German feudal courts, similarly, investigations would be conducted and duly recorded. In both princely court and Free City, violence done under the right rules could be permissible (self defense or according to the rules of the Fedhe). In the event that someone was seriously (i.e. corporeally) punished or executed, there is also the hangman’s diary.
– In France, lawyers wrote “letters of remission” every time there was a violent incident resulting in a homicide. As in England, under most circumstances dueling or violent fracas were prohibited on pain of death, so the lawyers report was designed to exonerate their client, who starts out from a position of guilt (and in great legal peril). These are required to be quite detailed and are probably the best single source of information regarding most homicides in medieval France.
The article I linked was a survey of ~ 300 or 400 such letters, in which the author Pierre Henry Bas, tried to find some patterns as to what weapons were used by both assailant and victim, and what were the results vis a vis mortality. Due to the relatively small sample size it’s not really that telling in terms of weapons, just more of a curiosity.
The only relevance to the incident with Pseudo-Jacquemart and De Holland is that the Duke had a letter of remission drafted which led to their ‘rehabilitation’ – and Pierre Henry Bas collected a few hundred of these, and IIRC they were in roughly the same time period (14th-15th Century) it’s possible some of his sources could be relevant.
Thanks! Your editing privileges should be updated, apparently the default for the website software was 5 minutes.
Ok so this article, by a researcher in France, is an analysis of fights based on those letters of remission. Since the case of Jean de Holland resulted in a letter of remission, some of the sources in this article (which IIRC covers the same time period and the same part of France, roughly) might be a good place to check. I haven’t asked anyone about this case yet but I just remembered that article.
(Oh and just FYI, I believe the sheet is programmed so that some things that you enter on page one also go onto page two, (Feats and Special Abilities etc.) where you can put additional information like short descriptions of how they work.
Hi Powder Monkey, welcome to the forum and try this link, if you have any problems with the link or the character sheet itself, please let us know. This is an editable PDF but it’s also printable.
If you have either of the Monsterberg books there is are two other URLs available for the pre-generated characters that come with them.
Yeah I was not a fan of Guns, Germs and Steel which is the only one of his works that I read (and I think mentions the Greenland debacle), to me it’s much more ideological than historical. History just isn’t that deterministic.
It seems most likely that the Greenland colonies were brought down by a combination of climate change and the arrival of large numbers of inuit.
Basque whalers and fishermen were apparently making it out to that area routinely by the 14th Century.
