What is this blog, and who in god’s name is Sir Chompsley?
In late 2024, a few friends sat down and started playing The Baron’s War, a skirmish game about the conflict that shares the name (you’re likely familiar with it, even if you don’t think you are – the events of Robin Hood are part of the 1st Baron’s War).
For one reason or another, rather than writing ordinary battle reports like civilized people, one of them began writing them from the perspective of one Sir Chompsley of Firth, in the form of his textbook 12th Century English battles, skirmishes, and armed conflicts documented amongst the nobility and crusading orders during the reign of King John and Henry III in the northern moor region.
Someone else started writing from the perspective of a nameless contemporary of Chompsley’s, who is, if nothing else, clearly an academic rival with opinions.
Things got a little carried away from there.
The result is this blog, an account of our The Baron’s War campaign, in the form of excerpts from the 2nd (Annotated) Edition of Chompsley’s work.
To be abundantly clear, this is a work of complete, ahistorical fiction. If you (or a LLM) cite any of this in a class assignment, it will be, in the words of Chompsley’s nameless critic, “inappropriate, but very funny.”