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The Church in D&D

After this morning’s post on Clerics in Fantastic Literature, I said that I wanted to follow up on the implied Church in Dungeons and Dragons. This will of course be interpretive and subjective, but I think there is something really interesting here. In particular, I think once you examine

Clerics in Fantastic Literature

Last evening after work, I was delving into the Grognardia blog, and I found this post on The Implicit Christianity of Early Gaming from 2008. James Maliszewski makes this startling [to me] claim right at the beginning: One of the many interesting ways that Dungeons & Dragons differs from its

Linkfest 2021-05-14: Dunbar's Number

Dunbar’s number: why my theory that humans can only maintain 150 friendships has withstood 30 years of scrutiny Robin Dunbar defends Dunbar’s Number in the light of thirty years more research. Cavalry in the Modern Era Rob from New Jersey explains the terms used to describe cavalry in

Linkfest 2021-04-30: Peasant life

The image above links to a great Twitter thread on the real advantages and laments of medieval peasant life. One major challenge with talking about medieval life is that people might mean a period at any point from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Reuters: Why a medieval peasant got more

Linkfest 2021-04-16: Implied Apocalypse

Brain Leakage: The Implied Apocalypse of Dungeons and Dragons Where did you think all those ruins came from? The Ruins of Murkhill: Celebrating Blackmoor Campaign Day “April 17th, 1971” Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor campaign was a critical piece of the development of the kind of game that everyone now thinks

eBook deals 4/9/2021

Open Road Media manages the back catalog of ebooks for several of my favorite authors, and I like them in part because they regularly have great sales on ebooks. I think digital media has less value than physical media, given that you typically can’t turn it around and resell

Linkfest 2021-04-02: Good Friday

The Christian scandalously asserts that this day is a good day. And it is. Yesterday I got into a discussion on Twitter about how badly misunderstood the paladin has become in D&D. The meme on the gets the laugh from contemporary players, but it is the equivalent of