I have been reading a lot of history over the last couple of years. Mostly for my own enjoyment and education and partly to provide better Witch Tradition books and One Man's God posts. So it has been with great enjoyment that I have been reading Brian Young's Codex series for Castles & Crusades.
While they are overtly Castles & Crusades books I have found they are usable and have useful information for just about every game; especially original D&D/AD&D games and the OSR clones they are based on (of which C&C is one of the biggest).
You can read my reviews of the first printing of the Codex Celtarum and the Codex Classicum. Having already spent some time with them all I can say that Brian Young brings his Ph.D. level skills to the task of uncovering these myths, legends, and history and brings them to your game table. That's not hyperbole by the way. Dr. Brian Young does have a Ph.D. and he is working on a second one if I recall right.
On tap for this week are:
- Castles & Crusades Codex Nordica
- Castles & Crusades Codex Germania
- Castles & Crusades Codex Slavorum
- Castles & Crusades Codex Egyptium
- Castles & Crusades Codex Celtarum 2nd Printing
I am also going to give these a bit of One Man's God. Or more to point I'll at least look at them through the same lens of my One Man's God posts.
Should be a fun romp through the history of our world.
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