I hope they include how the Templar’s basically invented the western idea of a banking system, with the ability to deposit money at one Templar church and withdraw money from another Templar church hundreds of miles away. Or how their success in banking and issuing loans is what brought about their ultimate downfall.

SARCASM DETECTED

Given Vikings, they'll just dress everyone in black and brown leather and call it good.

I assure you this madman does not speak for the rest of the UK, we all think it looks abominable too.

Yeah it’s basically ... take a small sampling of a contemporary society, and give them all stories that make light of one another and express the fears, hopes, desires they all have. It’s a brilliant construction of multiple narratives.

Chaucer FTW

Canterbury!!! Its genre is, well, it’s ... anthology social commentary drama comedy tragedy action adventure. It’s all of those scrambled together and that it’s still around hundreds of years after publication is kind of amazing.

70/30 would be a huge, welcome step!

Couldn’t have imagined it better.

D&D actually started its life as skirmish wargaming. IMO it never really outgrew it. For example, everything had to be a new character “class” because the “classes” came from wargaming miniatures that you were meant to be moving around a sheet of graph paper. The simple concept of assigning “traits” to a basic…

There are some awesome physics at work in the series. Problems of inertia - things suddenly speeding up or slowing down. Massive objects moving quickly. My favorite though, is outrunning torpedoes or other ships. There are a few times in the series where they’re being chased, but not for a few minutes, chases last…

These kits were usually just a small piece of combing through all the books to find just the perfect combination of skills and traits to tell the story of who you were. Yeah, they were shortcuts, but because they gave you benefits it encouraged the less backstory oriented players to actually build a backstory. I had a…

How to find like-minded people? Head to your local gaming store, where if it’s anything like ours, there are plenty of groups that play older-rule RPG’s. I’m playing Traveller, using the original rules with a very few updates. One character sheet, a couple six-sided dice, a lot of imagination per player, a great…

HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

Probably my favorite book series right now. They do a good job making the science important without letting it get in the way of telling an entertaining story.

If you read the books, you will be hooked

As is an plain staff. That thrust is dangerous if not we'll controlled.

Most often used in conjunction with a targe.

I loved Winter Soldier (2nd favourite after Guardians) and not only does this look to be on the same level or even better, but I’m happier than ever about the Russos directing Infinity War. I love Joss, but you get the feeling he struggles to follow the party line sometimes, and was certainly getting a bit fed up of…