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Spengler! D&D! Psychotronic gaming!

Thanks to Stephen Smith, I came across this discussion of D&D with a dose a Spengler. Since this blog is the Internet’s foremost provider of Spengler-themed short fiction, how could I resist? The discussion is quite long, a couple of hours, but it is interesting to hear

The Book of Joe Book Review

The Book of Joe [Amazon link], the fifth entry in the Forgotten Ruin series, offers us a trip through a mythic underworld, some serious Rangering how-to, and giggling legionnaires. You’ve got to check this out. When we left off in Lay the Hate, Talker had jumped into the swirling

Linkfest 2021-12-10: Sonic Boom!

From Fenton Wood, a trailer for a movie that really does look like the visual style of Samurai Jack. Huge Calder Valley model railway hidden from girlfriend unveiled This headline will never not be funny to me. How to Build a Supersonic Trebuchet As a weapon, there are far more

Linkfest 2021-12-03: The Burden of Proof

The Harvard Crimson: Burden of Proof This math course sounds kind of awesome. One of my few regrets is that I didn’t go further in mathematics. I wouldn’t have had enough preparation for this course as a undergrad, but I find it fascinating all the same. BasedCon: A

The Drawing of the Dark and adding Wargaming back into Dungeons and Dragons

One of the most exciting things that has happened to Dungeons and Dragons recently is the re-appreciation of its roots in wargaming, in particular due to the excellent Secrets of Blackmoor movie that shows us not only Dave Arneson’s contribution to creating the most imaginative game that exists, but

Linkfest 2021-11-26: Black Friday

The Mixed GM: The Definitive Post On Patrons In Your D&D (or ACKS) Game John Daker points us to this post on adding Patrons to your TTRPG game, a way to add richness and variety to a living game world. Here is a follow-up with additional thoughts. Heroes

Linkfest 2021-11-19: Common Good

The Post-Liberal Order: Big Mac Alasdair MacIntyre is a favored philosopher here at With Both Hands. I really enjoyed this account of MacIntyre’s talk “Human Dignity: A Puzzling and Possibly Dangerous Idea?“ I had always found dignity a bit vacuous of a concept, but I hadn’t realized just