Middle Ages

Frame · Epochs temporal

Feudal order, faith, craft, knights and peasants – a world of loyalty and duty where the church sets the calendar.

Design question – Your game takes place in the Middle Ages. Which Middle Ages – the romantic one (knights, castles) or the real one (poverty, plagues, power struggle)? And what lies beyond the European Middle Ages?

Associations

• Typical Activities – Farming, Building, Trading, Ruling, Praying

Coherence

Mechanisms: Worker Placement (serfs), Area Control (fiefs), Resource Management (agrarian economy), Feudal Loyalty. Activities: Farming, Building, Trading, Ruling, Praying. Ludic Narrational Structure: rise narration (a peasant becomes a knight), cyclical narration (seasons), hero’s journey (a crusade/quest).