[sir_pudding]

One more thing:

I personally would find a gamer oriented discussion of agriculture, economics, medicine, social classes ect. much more useful than weapon stats. It is a lot easier for me to look up the weight of a pollarm in the Wallace collection than it is for me to figure out how many surgeons there are in a 8th century kingdom, what they can do, who they treat, and how they are paid. Information on military esoterica is much more accessible than sociological data, IME.

Which is not to say that I don't want the sharp n' pointies. I do. I just don't think that a lot of fantastical gear is really needed. After all, it's setting dependent and it can be extrapolated from real equipment.