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Phylacteries are a form of amulet, worn for protection, tied at some point to one of the wearer's limbs, as opposed to being worn around the neck

Unfortunately, the famers, their wives and family = MEAT, and the grain fields surrounding the village are where they spend most of their time in the warmer months, unless they are out foraging farther afield. The fields of grain are completely irrelevant to the monsters who want to chow down...

The Arabian, Akhal-Teke, Barb, and the now-extinct Turkoman horse were highly favored and prized in the Middle East, historically. In temperate climes, you only need to carry fodder for your horses in late fall and winter, when forage is insufficient. Adventurers' horses are working horses, so...

The principle remains, and IMO&E remains true, regardless of whether the practice is hard-wired into the rules or not. An RPG setting requires not just internal consistency but a clear connection and correspondence to the base-line physical realities of life – and I am not speaking in regards...

IME&O, aside from players falsifying dice rolls in their characters' favor, pretending your character still has arrows, bolts, sling short, etc. to fire after they are already used up, and continuing to pretend your character is eating or drinking long after the stores of food and water they...

Getting the Vlad Taltos novels together to dive into again, a perennial favorite. That will last me a few months before I need to look for anything else. I'll probably dig into the Deryni novels after that, take me through the rest of the year, although I've had my eye on the Thieve's World...

I didn't pull those figures out of a hat. What’s the Average Walking Speed? Why would you cut average walking speed in half for humans? "... in a D&D game the characters will be far more healthy than any medieval person. At least at higher levels." Why would they be any healthier than anyone...

Human average walking speed = 3mph. Horse average walking speed = 4 mph. That's a 25% advantage.

I submit you haven't read all that much regarding the common people of the era. The traveling journeymen craftsmen weren't just in France and Germany, but England, too, and that practice documented as common all across Europe. I would surmise you think they were all filthy and undernourished...

It's being questioned because it's bollocks. First, across England for example, serfs and the land-bound (villeins, bordars, cottars) only made up roughly 1/3rd of the population of the shires. Yes, their mobility was limited in theory, BUT it was commonplace for them to pay the fines their...

It's being questioned because it's bollocks. First, across England for example, serfs and the land-bound (villeins, bordars, cottars) only made up roughly 1/3rd of the population of the shires. Yes, their mobility was limited in theory, BUT it was commonplace for them to pay the fines their...

"Tuatha de Danann (pronounced Thoo-a day Du-non) is translated as 'tribe of Danu.' Scholars are agreed that Danu was the name of their goddess" https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/ancestry/the-tuatha-de-danann-were-they-irish-gods-or-aliens-photos

Said NONE of the players I ever gamed with in 40 years. EVER. And the point of it is ACTUAL role-play, unlike whatever it is you happen to be doing, apparently.

Because, for it to be even the the least tiny bit believable, they should have died at the hands of the dozens of armed and armored guards in and surrounding the audience chamber/throne hall if they had succeeded. Those were the guys that clapped the failed assassins' in irons as the king...

Inconsiderate? Are you kidding me? Attempted regicide is "inconsiderate"? omfg