In Memory of John F. Raess

A good man, a good friend, and a good gamer

   

On November 9^th, 2000 A.D., I lost a good friend.  In the ten years that I had known him, he had been not only a good friend, but a good gamer as well.  The day of his death marked the end of a decade.  It is in his memory, that I have labored to make available, this web page.

  A special thanks goes out to the people at BRITANNIA GAME DESIGN Ltd.  for their kind permission in allowing this web page to see the light of day.  The data contained within these following web pages were converted for use in our G.U.R.P.S.™ campaigns from Chivalry & Sorcery™ third edition as well as Chivalry & Sorcery™ The REBIRTH material.   

   

  In Market Place and Food Bazaar, you will discover that I have listed various goods from the Chivalry &Sorcery rule book in GURPS dollar currency.  These prices were converted from the Chivalry &Sorcery  format by the expediency of multiplying Chivalry &Sorcery the Rebirth  prices by $4.   Food items and rents were taken from C&S 3^rd edition and multiplied by $2 to get their GURPS equivalents.  If you are working from an older third edition of CHIVALRY & SORCERY, prices are 80% of the prices given.  Thus, something listed as being 800 pennies is $640 in GURPS.

 

  In Vocations, you will see an attempt to describe various jobs in a medieval economy not only by the incomes for said jobs, but also the social status values as given in Chivalry &Sorcery  versus GURPS.  This way, players and game masters alike may attempt to discern a social pecking order where lowly sheepherders may look to the pig herders and say, “God, am I glad I wasn’t born a pig herder!”  (this section not yet available)

   In Farming, you will find rules converting the income system for peasants and freeman farmers into a system compatible with GURPS.  Given that 90% of any feudal population were agriculturally involved, you will see that such rules are useful not only for those whose incomes are dependent upon farming, but also those lords whose incomes were dependent upon the farmers!

 

  In any event, it is my fond hope that those rule modifications presented in Market Place, Vocations, and Farming,  are as useful to you the reader, as they were to John and myself.  Again, thanks to the people at BRITANNIA GAMES for their kindness in allowing these web pages to be available for the public.

 

                         Hal