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Originally Posted by Kromm
King and general
Still desire meat, drink, and robe
And roof overhead— Some hack
The latest from e23 is GURPS Low-Tech Companion 3: Daily Life and Economics, by Matt Riggsby and Bill Stoddard. It completes the GURPS Low-Tech series, bringing you the pillars that hold up any empire, large or small. It covers hunting, gathering, raising, and preparing food; crafting everything from fine metalwork up to huge buildings; the trade that generates the money that pays for everything; and the craftsmen and other professional who do all the work. All very mundane, one could say . . . but heroes must come from somewhere, and ignore these things at their peril. And let's face it: Those cool swords come from somewhere, too, and it's rarely Sword-Mart. |
Excellent book.
So far, and that's after having read over 98% of the material, my only complaints are the absence of endurance hunting, that there's no entry for non-legume vegetables in the agriculture section, and some problems with pigs and fowl (how and where to feed them, and how well they can or can't survive on kitchen scraps like dogs).