Technology vs. magic, sometimes even to the point of a war, in a feature of a number of fantasy works, though I'm not aware of a publish...

The original version of this post appeared in February of 2014, inspired by " Bit Rot, " a short story by Charles Stross. Neptune...

The original version of this post appeared in December 2020... "Thinking beings of earth planet. This message was sent subsequent to th...

Maybe there's a game or setting I'm unaware of, but I feel like there's a missed opportunity for a dinosaur themed "incursi...

With my 5e campaign winding down perhaps (or at least switching to a new phase) in the near future and the Bundle of Holding I mentioned bef...

I wrote the original version of this post in 2014, then I updated it in 2019. It's probably time to check back in and see how the rpg la...

I was thinking about Leigh Brackett's Mars today (as I often do) and reflecting on how it isn't very science fictional at all, so th...

  Welsh triads , a historical form found in Medieval manuscripts where folkloric and mythologic tidbits are presented in groupings of three ...

Mogh's fortress is a ruin. Pigs root in the courtyard and roam noisily in his empty halls or drowse in sunbeams beneath a decaying roof....

Here's an idea for a campaign for an action/covert mission rpg.  Outgunned is what I'm thinking of, but it would work with somethin...

Art by Falmarin de Carme I came across this site a couple of weeks ago that compiles additional background material generated for a Finnish...

The original version of this post appeared in March of 2015... I've written previously about a world where the dungeoneering was an d...

I've been listening to the audiobook of A Travel to the Middle Ages , and its description of what, by the late Middle Ages, is essential...

The origin of the so-called humanoids of eastern Oerik is something of a mystery. They first entered history as mercenaries and foederati of...

Going back to the Greyhawk Folio has made me realize how it differs from modern setting material and perhaps why I bounced off of it when I...

Rel Astra is one of the major port cities of the Great Kingdom. It is an old city of the Aerdy, the original seat of the early Aerdian Churc...

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) describes Howard's Hyborian Age and similar imagined worlds as "fantasylands" in contrast ...

by Anna Meyer The Iron League was a separatist alliance formed in 447 CY for mutual defense against the Great Kingdom. While the members mad...

Over the past month, I've been reading some historical fantasy ( Between Two Fires  and His Black Tongue ), some straight historical stu...

Listening to the History of the Germans podcast in episodes about the struggle for power between the Papacy and the Hofenstaufen Holy Roman ...