/lit/ - Literature

>>14063312
I want a video game where I can be a monk. I don’t know how the gameplay will work, but there can be a way. Maybe the monk is training to attain certain magical, healing powers to save his country from evil spirits. You’d have to read old books and gather special tools and ingredients to assist you in your work. No easy work. If I make potions, I have to read the spellbook and understand the formula, and maybe even control the arm movements that go into mixing ingredients or heating up a certain instrument or whatever. The spell system would work like fortnite’s build mode: press one button and you’re in spell mode. Spells starting with certain buttons can be fire, ice, heal, etc. while the second button clicked will indicated area, self, ranged, etc. and maybe some spells can have third or fourth buttons in the combo to add some extra attributes. Magic should exist in large pools and regenerate slowly. If you decide to coom in-game your magic supply is dwindled and you have a hard time reading the books as the pages become blurry. Monks do a lot of sitting around, so I’m not sure how you could make that fun. Perhaps you would have to recite a certain chant that powers you. Maybe even learn Latin as you play, idk.

>>14063476
Fuck off

>>14063312
Shakespeare, Milton

>>14063476
>wants to play a monk
>magic
choose one big dummy

>>14063312
The Somonyng of Everyman

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Piers Plowman

>>14063531

>>14063312
The Cloude of Unknowing!

>>14063312
Faerie Queene
Theatrum Chemica Britannica
Le Morte d'Arthur

>>14063312
Is that Emperor Urethra Scrotum IV?

>>14063312
The works of the Pearl/Gawain poet are the finest works of Middle English poetry, imo.

Check out the TEAMS Middle English Series
https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/catalog
dozens of published works, many available for free online via that link.

>>14063531
that's early modern english ya dinlow

>>14063476
The Abbey of Crime Extensium may be of your taste then

>>14063312
A Gest of Robyn Hode
Le Morte Darthur

>>14063987
>>14063531

>he doesn’t know the difference between renaissance and Medieval English literature

>>14063476
You want to be a monk, eh? I got just the game.

The alliterative Morte Arthure. Simon Armitage put out a new translation easily so it’s easy to get
>>14066335
Unrelated, but I think that Runescape has one of the best depictions to classic medieval fantasy of any video game I’ve played

>>14066759
>needing a translation for middle english

Think I prefer Troilus and Crisyde to The Canterbury Tales desu

>>14066783
It has the original text on the facing page. Lord forgive me for trying to accommodate people who may be new to medieval literature.

The castle of perseverance
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajohnsto/cascomp.html

>>14063476
>chemistry is about arm movements

>>14063312
These: >>14063773 >>14065707; also
Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls
Pearl
John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid and Moral Fables
The Stanzaic Morte Arthur
The Owl and the Nightingale
The York and N-Town mystery plays
Sir Orfeo
Sir Launfal
Havelok the Dane
>>14066759 is also good, but ignore the translation; Simon Armitage sucks (his edition has the original Middle English in it)