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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

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