http://www.canberramedievaltournamentandfair.com/

Although apparently AAF are only exhibiting at this, not perfoming.  So go along for All-Wood-Action!
And the craft too, of course :)

Painting of miniatures for Dystopian Wars has taken a bit of a back seat, ever since I found cheap viking plastics at MindGames ( Read more... )

The Ravenar Sagas
The Unsung Saga
Time: 989 AD
Six heroic warriors from the village of Dagvell located on the southern coast of what is today Norway set sail in the Knorr (longship), Ravenar. Five young and unproven and one veteran.

• Finn (17) - The designer and builder of the Ravenar, armed with an axe and a bow.
• Hoskuld (17) - A large, powerful ( Read more... )

A new roleplaying resource that may be of interest to fantasy GMs out there-

Fief is a sourcebook that examines the Middle Ages from the viewpoint of the ordinary farmer, priest, and landholder - the inhabitants of a feudal manor. It's one of Cumberland's best-selling and most acclaimed titles.

Town is the all-new companion volume: a ( Read more... )

I'm stealing arthwollipot's thunder here, but I figure it'll interest folk not on his friends list, but on mine.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8160081.stm

The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers - including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of ( Read more... )