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Violence of Action: Forgotten Ruin Book 3 by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole Book Review

Violence of Action by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole [Amazon link] is our opportunity to see the Rangers go raiding. To do what they do best: kill things and break stuff. The non-linear flow of the pseudo-memoir style of the Forgotten Ruin series works really well here, as we shift

The side you pick requires changes in behavior

In the post included in this last week’s Linkfest about the individualism [look at me!] of modern D&D, there was a link to another post on alignment in D&D. at the Methods & Madness blog. The perception of and playstyle in practice has changed a

Linkfest 2021-06-18: Picking something up on Sensors

Claremont Review of Books: There Goes Robert E. Lee I’ve never liked the casual dismissal of Lee as nothing but a traitor, and Christopher Caldwell puts this into far better words than I ever could. Methods & Madness: The individualism of modern D&D I’m not the

The Sacred Radiance by Daniel Humphreys Book Review

The Sacred Radiance [Amazon affiliate link] is where Pax moves into adult life, and the stakes on everything get higher. He has a real job with real responsibilities, and problems to match. But don’t let that make you think this is a boring or unfunny book. And any book

Goblin Slayer Season One Anime review

It has been a very long time since I’ve done an anime review here at With Both Hands. Goblin Slayer [Amazon link] has been on my radar for a while, and I recently had a chance to watch it. The short review is I found it a perfectly enjoyable

Linkfest 2021-06-04: Gimme that Old School Religion

Yesterday I went down a rabbithole of a very different kind of #OSR, old school religion, looking at the inchoate shaping of D&D by Christianity at the beginning though Clerics in Fantasy Literature and a followup The Church in D&D Wasteland & Sky: Selective Memory ~ An

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