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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

Linkfest 2021-05-24

Assume a spherical fireball “Simple but brilliant use of dimensional analysis by G. I. Taylor to estimate the rough yield of the first atomic bomb test by simply looking at photographs released in a popular magazine.” As the old physics joke goes: assume a spherical fireball…. Good enough is good

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

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

Linkfest 2021-03-26: Trigun Edition

. . . And Between the Wasteland & Sky JD Cowan masterfully analyzes the Catholic themes in Trigun Made in China Razib Khan looks at the history of China and various governments actions in Xinjiang. Appendix N Connection: The Origin of Shadows in the D&D Game How a classic story by