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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 2021-03-12: The Importance of Leaving Bad Reviews

The Old That is Strong: Tolkien & the Anglo-Saxons An achingly beautiful exposition on how key passages in the Lord of the Rings echo either Anglo-Saxon history or Northern epic poems. Now I want to re-read my copy of Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney [Amazon link]. I had considered naming

The Long View 2008-03-07: Nuclear Apocalypse; Threatening Choirs; The Documentary of Doom; New Jersey; Motorcycling

John’s comment here is apt: The Nuclear Apocalyptic Novel is culturally important in a way that Hitler Wins Alternative History never will be. The Cold War made an impression on the psyche of the West. An absolutely enormous amount of popular art is an attempt to think through the

LinkFest 2020-10-02

Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait A fascinating look at Albrecht Dürer’s slightly scandalous self-portrait. ASTEROIDS: BY THE NUMBERS A detailed look at Asteroids by RETROGAME DECONSTRUCTION ZONE. Asteroids was meant to be something of a physics simulator, but with interesting adaptions to make the

Takeover: Part 3 by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole Book Review

What do you get when you dump an involuntarily retired secret agent into the galaxy’s worst hive of scum and villainy? A hell of a lot of fun is what. Lt. Commander Jack Bowie (ret.) is back, and Big Nee has a special mission just for him. In the

Radioactive Evolution Book Review

Radioactive Evolution: A Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic Adventure by Richard Hummel Hummel Books (November 15, 2018) ASIN B07KLMTZBW I received a complimentary review copy of this book from bookpublicityservices.com Richard Hummel’s Radioactive Evolution is now the third or fourth variant [depending on what counts] on the relatively new LitRPG category