Wow, brain twins. 

1) Today on the way home from work I literally thought “you know, I think I’d like to talk to some people about how we deal with character background post-Forge. Because while there was a lot of good done there, I think we threw some babies out with the bath water.” 

This obviously applies to setting as well. 

2) As long as we’re only playing in Basque and/or Occitan, I will play in this game. If you introduce Arabic and old Frankish I’ll accept it as long as anyone speaking them gets a +1 Ob to all tests. Latin is an edge case. English is right out. 

3) Part of this is inspired by the Samurai World long con I’ll be running at Dreamation with James Mendez Hodes and the three history texts I’m reading in prep. How can I possibly know who deserves a +1 forward on their Courtier roll unless I know how the Easterner/Westerner conflict of the Joseon lead to the invasion after Hidetsugu’s succession to kampaku?