Scribblings or Something

This week's monster is once again inspired by imagery for the very amusing Weird Medieval Guys Twitter account. I've included the p...

This is another post inspired by one of the creatures from the Weird Medieval Guys twitter feed. I've included the original illustratio...

The always wonderful BiblioOdyssey site has an interesting review of Chet Van Duzer's book 'Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaiss...

'It's coming straight for us...!' According to this BBC report , a sort-of carnivorous plant called Puya chilensis is about...

Further to my most recent post about Medieval armour, there's an interesting blog called How To Make Armour . This provides some ins...

There are some great photos of weird and wonderful armoured helms to be found at this page over at io9 . Some are of the rather showy o...

There's a rather good Tumblr feed called In Male Dress . It features many photos from a wide variety of re-enactment and other source...

Inspired by my previous post on the subject of ransoms, what follows hereafter is a basic system of ransom for use in 1e AD&D. I'v...

The capture of the French king John II at Poitiers in 1356 (Source: Wikipedia)   This interesting article appeared today on the BBC ...

Fantasy RPGs can tend to draw on the Medieval period for influences, but at the same time miss out slightly on the sheer oddity of that per...