Post originally by Wombat at 2004-07-17 07:18:14
Converted from Phorums BB System

Actually, the GURPS supplement is much better in that regard. The Avalanche book may be researched, but it is not actually WELL researched. Instead it is a very strange mish-mash of small details out of Julius Caesar (1st c. BC) through Brian Boru.

The assmuption in this book, as, sadly, is true of many other books on the same topic, is that the Celts in all times and all places are a monoculture. Instead, "Celts" is a convenient title that may be used an interrelated group of peoples who speak similar languages with vaguely similar religious practices ranging from Turkey to Ireland and dating from roughly 1000 BC to the present.

In the GURPS book there is some attempt to recognize at least some changes due to time and place; in the Avalanche book there is none.