So, one of the trees I have in my backyard is a weed species known as Buckthorn. Given concerns about toxicity I decided to try carving it into a miniature dugout canoe for use in a tabletop RPG. I research dugout canoes, particularly period from …
OK, around the 7th of November 2022 a friend of mine named Alex was helping me sort out and cut green branches for seasoning over the winter and we came across an oddly bent stick. So we finished the bend and lashed it to a …
Basically everywhere. I have ideas on thousands of topics in some state of development, but often a Facebook post on a particular topic spurs on development on that topic especially if I did some more research to phrase or confirm statements for my responses and …
In playing tabletop role-playing games I notice that few people, other than myself and a friend of mine, ever take pole arms. This is odd since spear of various types dominated most of human history. Greek hoplites used spear, the Macedonian phalanx used long spears …
One question that may come to mind is “where would medieval people store things like food?” Well, the answer did not change all that much until the 20th century when electricity allowed for cold storage, and even now it still is not that different except …
Land is typically measured by Rods & Chains. In a field each villager would have a certain number of strips typically 1 rod wide and the length of the field, generally 1 furlong or less, thus the length of a rod needed to be standardized …
By the time you are reading this the website will have migrated. Some issues came up with the software the webhost group used and our ability to provide all of the features we wanted, namely how to do the submissions & databases to hold them. …