History Vampires: History & Myth October 2024 Series – check out the rest of the series! This article may include affiliate links, which allows me to get a small portion of the price you pay, at no extra cost to you or the creator. Welcome to the series for October! For spooky season, this month will
History Organized Crime: History & Myth Two weeks ago, I talked about how we should stop using thieves' guilds in our medieval/renaissance fantasy worlds because a guild hierarchy would not really make sense for a criminal organization. So today, I want to talk about three different historical modes of organizing criminal activity, as potential
Rethinking Fantasy Rethinking Fantasy Feudalism: What's a Guild? This week's post is sort of a continuation from this post about the ways that we misunderstand feudalism in our fantasy worlds, and how we can have more engaging worlds by learning more of the real world's history. This week, we're focusing on a
History Jesters & Fools: History & Myth Happy April Fool's Day! To celebrate this holiday, I wanted to write about the history of court jesters, a staple trope in popular imagination about the medieval European royal court, as well as share some resources for this classic image for use in your Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
History Rethinking Fantasy Feudalism: History & Myth Something that came up while I was writing last week's post on the Luddites is how hard it is to imagine a world that is based on any system other than capitalism. The motive of individual profit, the majority of individuals living in cities and towns, the ability