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New book just released. It's an encyclopedia of historical weapons for role playing games, I made it 100% Open Game Content so that it could be helpful to gamers, game developers and people who like to tinker. I wanted it to be available as a baseline for basically anyone who likes fantasy or...

Glad you liked it. A lot of my friends were in that film. G.

Modern Rogues Cant? Irish Traellers secret languages, this is great stuff Shelta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Some other modern Cants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cant_(language)

A little update. Codex Martialis has been out for almost a year now. It never exploded in popularity but it has sold pretty well, and it's still selling despite being on several wares sites now (I probably shouldn't mention that) we have had 6 reviews, all positive (average of 4.5 stars out of...

The hard life (and death) of a real Medieval knight Skeleton reveals violent life and death of medieval knight - Telegraph

I found a fantastic resource for all things Roman, if you are into that and you want to see what the real stuff was like (rather than somebody elses interpretation) including swords Roman Military Equipment: Weapons - Gladius, Spatha, Pugio, Pilum helmets Military Equipment: Decorated...

Statue of a lindworm Klagenfurt Austria

Ok as promised earlier, here is another colorful anecdote on the subject of Wyrms, this time from the Vikings... in fact one of the most famous Vikings in history, Ragnar Lodbrok Ragnar, whose cognomen translates to 'hairy pants', was both a very colorful literary character and a man whose...

Another interesting character who apparently wrote a Periplus which we know of from other writers references to it but no longer have, is this guy: Pytheas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...who apparently sailed from Massallia (Marseilles) to England and back in or around the 4th Century...

Navigating the ancient seas Speaking of maritime campaigns, there is a really cool historical resource available for gamers interested in including any kind ship travel, trading, or exploration called a Periplus. Periplus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A periplus was a type of...

I missed this before about the Lions Mane jellyfish... holy crap!! G.

I second that, Gallic wars is a very good read, even quite funny (in a black humor kind of way) particularly in reading the dialogue in the letters exchanged between Caesar and the various German and Belgian tribes. It's an easy and engaging read, and it's primary source history, you can't beat...

If I understand you correctly, that actually happened in most sieges, perhaps most famously at Alesia where Caesar defeated Vercingetorix. here is another interesting example of a Seige from another forum I'm on:

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While I agree this is the theory, I was never comfortable with the idea all that action was represented by a single To Hit die roll vs AC. Since I was a kid I never understood why you couldn't play-out a fight like the one you described above in real time in DnD. Of course, there is no reason...

Fair enough, but I think people really misunderstand the effects of a sharp sword, if you know what you are doing with a real sword it takes very little effort to cut through flesh and bone. Swords don't weigh ten pounds and you don't need to be conan to cut things with them. In fact power isn't...

In a very early Greek context, you may have a point (no pun intended), since Spears were by far the most ubiquitous weapons on the battlefield. We really don't know all that much about the details of how the Bronze Age Greeks fought, other than what can be gleaned from vases and epic poems...

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In Lichtenauer tradition German Renaissance fencing there are two recognized types of fighting: Blossfechten, which means unarmored fighting, and Harnischfechten, which means fully armored fighting (literally fighting in Harness). Unlike in DnD, in the real world plate or even mail armor were...

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