As a bit of constructive criticism: Add some more stills or props to your videos. Just watching a guy talk is one thing, but illustrating what you're talking about helps.
I would like to point out that the whole "adventuring party" RPG model does not come from the medieval period, to use D&D as a base as it started the genre it's actually based on the bronze age. An age of city states with large uncontrolled territories between them, where it appears to have been rather common for groups of young men to leave their home and travel together in search of resources/wealth/land.
IIn fantasy RPGs there is something to be said for magic there is a item I know of that stores your armour in an extradimentional space and with a command word Simmons it onto the owners person. That changes things drastically fantasy has magic and magic should be accounted for.
Bedding 2 wool blankets, reindeer hide, pine boughs surrounded by logs in a lean-to fashion and covered with more pine boughs, moss , what have you . Fire with a heat wall to radiate heat toward lean-to. Great points about full plate, typically 45mins or so with assistance to get in and out of full plate. Gambeson with leather armor and/or riveted chainmail with constant supply of oil, two horses perhaps, one as a pack mule, the other battle ready while on the move.
I REALLY appreciate your videos, but I'd like a bit more images and sequences of films or sketches that underline what you're saying. Like at 13:19 when you're mentioning how to carry bows.
I think it could be a big improvement to your already great content, more arts like tapestry or paints from the different periods to illustrate (even why not talking about the differences between the centuries in artistic licenses and realism about the depiction of weapons/armor/battles).
If you wanted to be armored and travel long distance on foot or horse a light gambeson a mail shirt and a mail coif a open face helmet and a brigantine will carry you to the ends of the earth with no real consequence or fatigue then strap on a pack with a bedroll and some cordage and cooking utensils wrapped in there to the top of it have a belt with a fire kit oats and a knife and then add a crossbow and a quiver of bolts on your hip add a hatchet and a set of clothes to the bag then a sword and buckler around your waist finally carry a walking stick with a notch for a staff sling and that’ll weigh you about 1/4th the average body weight of a healthy adult male if you do it properly if you need you can sumpter or pack animal to carry anything else but that alone can be hiked through around a 15-20 mile march per day the idea that it was impossible is BS now if your getting into a fight like this you could literally just drop your pack pull the sword and go at it if in immediate danger you got a stick and if you have time dismount the crossbow from the pack and shoot them before they get close and as for food you could typically forage it off the land and hunt it in nature or purchase a meal in a town or in worst case scenario you can forage in the less legal manner water can be stuffed in the bag and have a canteen or flask around the belt also some simple salves and medical supplies and maintenance things can be stored as well everything you need to carry you can carry and anything you need to find you can find
To be fair a lot of medieval era RPG’s have what is called the bag of holding which is basically a bag that you can hold a semi infinite amount of things in like a small rooms worth of stuff and it only weighs 10 pounds and that’s a common magic item or relatively common like any adventuring party probably has one and it lets you carry about 5000 pounds of stuff so that solves one issue it also calls the object that you’re looking for to it you just have to know that it’s in there
One may also think they need a lot of fantasy RPG’s they know what vanadium is and mix it into all of their steel thereby allowing them armor that never rusts and I assume this may be an enchantment on any master work gear to just make it comfortable
I don't know what kind of back quiver you have but I've worn a back quiver most of my life and I've hunted all my life and I've worn a back quiver most of the time and I've worn side quivers to I've found that the side quiver actually gets entangled in more brush then the back quiver but you have to have your back quiver set up properly if you don't have it set up properly it will not work.what about them carrying the bowl in the quiver like some of the native Americans that are the first Nations?
This goes a long way towards explaining why the medievals hated sleeping outdoors so much. They mostly traveled from village to farm to village to castle.
A bow being transported would probably not have been strung, therefore it could have been used with a strap slung across the back.
Something you have seriously overlooked is a wheelbarrow or handcart of most basic form for the traveller. (Many homeless today improvise with a purloined supermarket trolley) They were even commonplace for travellers across Australia up till the Great Depression, and are still commemorated by long-distance wheelbarrow races in some shires today
Am I crazy or is a pole weapon not the obvious choice here. Not only is somehting like a poll axe or a halberd one of the best medieval fighting tools but get this… Its also literally a perfect walking stick.
All these problems would be solved with having a dragon, it carries you, and your gear while burning your enemies to death or eating them alive. You don't even need to carry a weapon, or armour becasue no-one's gonna screw with the dragon. You can even snuggle up under its wing in rainy weather. The only downside is that you might have to rake through miles of dragon droppings to get some loot.
Sidesword (don't really need a shield), two gambesons (one breathable for hot times, one for colder, use whichever you aren't using as a pillow), hornbow (hunting), double sided axe, lots of knifes, kettle helm, and maille (leave on horse except when you need it). There you go.
The video left out wagons. Yes, wagons. While a long bow would be stored in a case unstrung, it appear to be carried on the soldier's back. Most of the arrows or bolts were supplied to the soldier, and so would be part of the baggage train. Same with pikes and halberds, although I have seen some references to soldiers marching with pole-arms and slinging a variety of items on the shaft. Each noble would have a train of servants and wagons to carry his kit. one of the things barely touched on, but well known by infantry soldiers, is that the more gear a soldier carries, the more wear and tear on the body and the more exhaustion sets in. And it lowers the ability to move. In RPGs, neither the amount of stuff carried or the numbers of wounds have a negative impact on fighting skill, until hit points reach zero. But the reality would be very different. Try running an obstacle course with an extra ninety or a hundred pounds. ^_*
Idea:whats stopping you from using a polearm as a walking aid when not in combat? At that point it becomes more anability rather theb a liability. Also, whats stopping you from giving said polearm some kind of sling, and wear that? It wouls be hitting you all the time, but your hand is free
would like to see the same video over again with actual (or imitation) horse, and putting things like actual wineskin/bedding/weapons on it for illustration
The edge of an axe was covered by an axe sheath tied to the head, often made of wood. At least in the viking age. There a good number of finds. Carrying an axe in your belt is no problem at all.
So Link. Arming sword, heater shield, boomerang, tunic and hood for warmth, small but strong recurve bow and quiver, a few small items and rupies that would fit in a small belt bag or hand bag, and a magic ring that protects like armor but is far more comfortable to wear. Even with links boots, gauntlets, and mail he's sometimes depicted with, I think most fighting shape humans could easily run around all day with this setup.
Speaking from my own experience, I can confidentially say that Zorg, 10th level fighter carries: +3 battleaxe, +2 shield, +1 spear, +1 silver dagger, adamantine morning star, short bow, and a mummified medusa head in a bag.
You can have an axe head sheath so it won't cut you. I have one with that and a leather belt holster for it. I'm sure they could also make that for axes too. It's not a new idea.
I have one addition to carrying the bow, what about a bowsling? I find I can use my hand but it's not very mobile unless you attach the sling to something. But I do this when collecting my arrows at a shoot sometimes.
ironsoul80
18.06.2023you need a "bag of holding"
PDZ1122
18.06.2023As a bit of constructive criticism: Add some more stills or props to your videos. Just watching a guy talk is one thing, but illustrating what you're talking about helps.
LordMunchkin
18.06.2023Seems like polearms would be the weapon of choice for a lot of adventurers fighting monsters.
Radagast49230
18.06.2023I would like to point out that the whole "adventuring party" RPG model does not come from the medieval period, to use D&D as a base as it started the genre it's actually based on the bronze age. An age of city states with large uncontrolled territories between them, where it appears to have been rather common for groups of young men to leave their home and travel together in search of resources/wealth/land.
Athear
18.06.2023IIn fantasy RPGs there is something to be said for magic there is a item I know of that stores your armour in an extradimentional space and with a command word Simmons it onto the owners person. That changes things drastically fantasy has magic and magic should be accounted for.
NorfookianJesus
18.06.2023Robin Hood. Robbin Hood. Robbing hood. May have been a more literal descriptive name than a real name.
Wyrd Wildman
18.06.2023MYFAROG
Wyrd Wildman
18.06.2023Bedding 2 wool blankets, reindeer hide, pine boughs surrounded by logs in a lean-to fashion and covered with more pine boughs, moss , what have you . Fire with a heat wall to radiate heat toward lean-to.
Great points about full plate, typically 45mins or so with assistance to get in and out of full plate. Gambeson with leather armor and/or riveted chainmail with constant supply of oil, two horses perhaps, one as a pack mule, the other battle ready while on the move.
diebesgrab
18.06.2023Obviously you out your pike and plate armor in your bag of holding.
KitSnap
18.06.2023I REALLY appreciate your videos, but I'd like a bit more images and sequences of films or sketches that underline what you're saying.
Like at 13:19 when you're mentioning how to carry bows.
I think it could be a big improvement to your already great content, more arts like tapestry or paints from the different periods to illustrate (even why not talking about the differences between the centuries in artistic licenses and realism about the depiction of weapons/armor/battles).
_Gold_Eye_
17.06.2023If you wanted to be armored and travel long distance on foot or horse a light gambeson a mail shirt and a mail coif a open face helmet and a brigantine will carry you to the ends of the earth with no real consequence or fatigue then strap on a pack with a bedroll and some cordage and cooking utensils wrapped in there to the top of it have a belt with a fire kit oats and a knife and then add a crossbow and a quiver of bolts on your hip add a hatchet and a set of clothes to the bag then a sword and buckler around your waist finally carry a walking stick with a notch for a staff sling and that’ll weigh you about 1/4th the average body weight of a healthy adult male if you do it properly if you need you can sumpter or pack animal to carry anything else but that alone can be hiked through around a 15-20 mile march per day the idea that it was impossible is BS now if your getting into a fight like this you could literally just drop your pack pull the sword and go at it if in immediate danger you got a stick and if you have time dismount the crossbow from the pack and shoot them before they get close and as for food you could typically forage it off the land and hunt it in nature or purchase a meal in a town or in worst case scenario you can forage in the less legal manner water can be stuffed in the bag and have a canteen or flask around the belt also some simple salves and medical supplies and maintenance things can be stored as well everything you need to carry you can carry and anything you need to find you can find
Charlotte Walnut
17.06.2023To be fair a lot of medieval era RPG’s have what is called the bag of holding which is basically a bag that you can hold a semi infinite amount of things in like a small rooms worth of stuff and it only weighs 10 pounds and that’s a common magic item or relatively common like any adventuring party probably has one and it lets you carry about 5000 pounds of stuff so that solves one issue it also calls the object that you’re looking for to it you just have to know that it’s in there
Charlotte Walnut
17.06.2023One may also think they need a lot of fantasy RPG’s they know what vanadium is and mix it into all of their steel thereby allowing them armor that never rusts and I assume this may be an enchantment on any master work gear to just make it comfortable
Randell Darky
17.06.2023If SHTF some People say that they will bug out. I ask " How are You going to pack all Your stuff ?"
Little Bear
17.06.2023I don't know what kind of back quiver you have but I've worn a back quiver most of my life and I've hunted all my life and I've worn a back quiver most of the time and I've worn side quivers to I've found that the side quiver actually gets entangled in more brush then the back quiver but you have to have your back quiver set up properly if you don't have it set up properly it will not work.what about them carrying the bowl in the quiver like some of the native Americans that are the first Nations?
Dan Belmont
17.06.2023This goes a long way towards explaining why the medievals hated sleeping outdoors so much. They mostly traveled from village to farm to village to castle.
After Zanzibar
17.06.2023@scholagladiatoria What if my "horse" is a '95 Ford Truck..?
JS FF
17.06.2023Tell the old Marius's Mules of the Roman legions you can't carry a large shield around with you while adventuring ;^)
Ashley Smith
17.06.2023A bow being transported would probably not have been strung, therefore it could have been used with a strap slung across the back.
Something you have seriously overlooked is a wheelbarrow or handcart of most basic form for the traveller. (Many homeless today improvise with a purloined supermarket trolley)
They were even commonplace for travellers across Australia up till the Great Depression, and are still commemorated by long-distance wheelbarrow races in some shires today
knutzzl Rampspoetnikov
17.06.202312:11 unstring the bow. Tie a loop of cord to your quiver, put bow threw loop (approx ⅓ from the top), sling over your shoulder.
wulfgar88 -
17.06.2023Wearing Full plate in Florida is ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE.
Strellettes
17.06.2023Am I crazy or is a pole weapon not the obvious choice here. Not only is somehting like a poll axe or a halberd one of the best medieval fighting tools but get this… Its also literally a perfect walking stick.
Euan Smith
17.06.2023Hirelings for the win! Or a portable hole, of course.
Riley Ernst
17.06.2023All these problems would be solved with having a dragon, it carries you, and your gear while burning your enemies to death or eating them alive. You don't even need to carry a weapon, or armour becasue no-one's gonna screw with the dragon. You can even snuggle up under its wing in rainy weather.
The only downside is that you might have to rake through miles of dragon droppings to get some loot.
Tizio Von Agno
17.06.2023about dungeons&dragons 3.5, sleeping with armor give you a malus, but my dungeon master never apply this rule
superfluous
17.06.2023Sidesword (don't really need a shield), two gambesons (one breathable for hot times, one for colder, use whichever you aren't using as a pillow), hornbow (hunting), double sided axe, lots of knifes, kettle helm, and maille (leave on horse except when you need it). There you go.
M n
17.06.2023How much difference would there be between plate armor and Chinese style lamellar armor?
Andrew Gillis
17.06.2023The video left out wagons. Yes, wagons. While a long bow would be stored in a case unstrung, it appear to be carried on the soldier's back. Most of the arrows or bolts were supplied to the soldier, and so would be part of the baggage train. Same with pikes and halberds, although I have seen some references to soldiers marching with pole-arms and slinging a variety of items on the shaft. Each noble would have a train of servants and wagons to carry his kit. one of the things barely touched on, but well known by infantry soldiers, is that the more gear a soldier carries, the more wear and tear on the body and the more exhaustion sets in. And it lowers the ability to move. In RPGs, neither the amount of stuff carried or the numbers of wounds have a negative impact on fighting skill, until hit points reach zero. But the reality would be very different. Try running an obstacle course with an extra ninety or a hundred pounds. ^_*
Z0MBAZINATOR
17.06.2023I keep my armor in a stand and on heavy hangars.
Mike Pennington
17.06.2023I think I'd prefer having a donkey or mule as an adventurer. It wouldn't be quick to ride, but they are hardier and not as flighty as some horses.
A.J. Steinman
13.06.2023Is he implying that a buckler isn't a shield?
Psiberzerker
13.06.2023I've been looking at the kit of Ötzi recently. Since he was obviously a hunter/warrior, in the Alps, and he had his kit down to the essentials. Also, being a hunter/fighter in the alps, we'll just assume he was in pretty good shape. (He was not.) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Ricostruzione_otzi.jpg/800px-Ricostruzione_otzi.jpg That's a lot to carry.
Random American
13.06.2023Psh, nobody pays attention to encumbrance rules.
Alexander Freeman
13.06.2023Couldn't you avoid having to carry lots of water if you were near a river or stream?
Kombat Ace
13.06.2023Idea:whats stopping you from using a polearm as a walking aid when not in combat? At that point it becomes more anability rather theb a liability. Also, whats stopping you from giving said polearm some kind of sling, and wear that? It wouls be hitting you all the time, but your hand is free
pinky
13.06.2023would like to see the same video over again with actual (or imitation) horse,
and putting things like actual wineskin/bedding/weapons on it for illustration
Marius Reinecker
13.06.2023The edge of an axe was covered by an axe sheath tied to the head, often made of wood. At least in the viking age. There a good number of finds. Carrying an axe in your belt is no problem at all.
KohinaREC
13.06.2023Humans are tech-dependent creatures, prone to death without tools, clothes and equipment.
David Rushworth
13.06.2023This why the "Jack" was so popular. Basic protection, flexible and reasonably comfortable.
pixel fairy
13.06.2023So Link. Arming sword, heater shield, boomerang, tunic and hood for warmth, small but strong recurve bow and quiver, a few small items and rupies that would fit in a small belt bag or hand bag, and a magic ring that protects like armor but is far more comfortable to wear. Even with links boots, gauntlets, and mail he's sometimes depicted with, I think most fighting shape humans could easily run around all day with this setup.
Mike Costigan
12.06.2023You forgot about the Bag of Holding….LOL!
Justus Crusade
12.06.2023I like that shirt where do I get it?
Brendan Drislane
12.06.2023Speaking from my own experience, I can confidentially say that Zorg, 10th level fighter carries: +3 battleaxe, +2 shield, +1 spear, +1 silver dagger, adamantine morning star, short bow, and a mummified medusa head in a bag.
Sir Seth Taggart
12.06.2023My hauberk and long, longsword with a rucksack and Quillon dagger. Sorted.👍🏻
Robert Patter
12.06.2023You can have an axe head sheath so it won't cut you. I have one with that and a leather belt holster for it. I'm sure they could also make that for axes too. It's not a new idea.
archabe
12.06.2023I find hiking with more than 20kilos frustrating but I am not really trained.
Jonathon Altmann
12.06.2023I have one addition to carrying the bow, what about a bowsling? I find I can use my hand but it's not very mobile unless you attach the sling to something. But I do this when collecting my arrows at a shoot sometimes.
David Miscarriage
12.06.2023„buckulars were popular“ loved that 😂
Ed Ackley
12.06.2023Bag of Holding…solved!
beans malone
12.06.2023Is that tshirt outlawed in the UK yet?