A while back I read van Creveld's Equality, the Impossible Quest [https://www.amazon.com/Equality-Impossible-Martin-van-Creveld-ebook/dp/B00UVLE20W] . It was, looking back, something of an inflection point. More recently though, Charlton flat out called equality as a goal intrinsically evil [https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-goal-of-equality-is-intrinsically.html] . > Equality is only possible with complete oneness which means either the chaos of unformed matter or the Night of…
DMR recently published two reviews of Bugman's Appendix N, one strongly taking the stance that the new one fatally misunderstands what it is dealing with, and not worthy of even beaing a torchbearing peasant to Jeffro's work [https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2021/4/7/wisdom-from-an-angry-god-a-rebuttal-to-peter-bebergals-appendix-n] , the other, kindly, being best described as "damned by faint praise [https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2021/4/1/review-appendix-n-the-eldritch-roots-of-dungeons-and-dra…
In Part 1 I covered the basic setup to get foundry running [https://thelastredoubt.com/how-to-host-foundry/] on your own server running Ubuntu. Now, don't get me wrong. A lot of people just won't want to mess with stuff like this, or won't have/want to start a private server up. I get it. For a few bucks a month you can pay the guys at Forge [https://forge-vtt.com], punch in your license code to foundry, and get a feature set far better than Roll 20 for a lot less, in the long run,…
I pray that all of you had a blessed day, celebrating the resurrection of Christ the Lord with family and friends.…
I don't keep a twitter account so it took me a while to stumble into this, but: > The book with the exciting cover is @JohnsonJeffro [https://twitter.com/JohnsonJeffro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]’s collection of literary criticism that helped kick off the #PulpRev [https://twitter.com/hashtag/PulpRev?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] movement. The other one is an anthology of stories taken from Appendix N. Along with some personal additions the editor apparently felt like making. 1/11 pic.twitter.com/…