Casey at the Bat
In honor of my daughter’s first ever softball game (two hits for singles –including her first ever at-bat– and one earned run), and with no gaming content whatsoever, I present…
Resurrected Deities
Mythology is replete with examples of gods who died and were reborn. The idea is one of several central to both Indo-European and Middle Eastern mythology. Frasier’s Golden Bough argued that such myths were intended to explain the phenomenon of Read More
Aaron Uses His Staff of the Serpent…
The bible forms part of our shared cultural landscape, even if I don’t personally believe it to be divinely inspired or anything more than a collection of stories about mythological figures, Noah, Moses and Jesus included. But from a literary Read More
Castles & Crusades Introductory Set Coming
Scott Thorne over at ICV2 has an interesting bit of news; apparently the good folks over at Troll Lord Games are planning an introductory set for Castles & Crusades. The whole article is interesting as well, with Scott musing on Read More
Wandering Monsters
Sung to the tune of “Interjections“, from the old School House Rock songs, and inspired by this thread over at Rather Gamey. Those of you who don’t remember the song, or didn’t grow up in the U.S. in the 1970’s Read More
Poll Results
So last week I asked a question; “Do you currently play an ‘old school’ RPG?” with the definition of what constitutes an old school RPG left to the individual responders. Before I take down the poll, I thought I’d repost Read More
