Setting & Society Sunday - Medieval Love

Three from the Medievalists.net this week with the first being "Feminine Love in the Twelfth Century – A Case Study: The Mulier in the Lost Love Letters and the Work of Female Mystics" here.

Also, have a look at "Lovesickness: The Most Common Form of Heart Disease" here.

Finally, check out "The Concept of Courtly Love as an Impediment to the Understanding of Medieval Texts" here.

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Looking closer at Setting and Society

as a part of what is presented by GMs.

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Saturday in Space - Rockets

Over on space.com, they share a "Career Launch: 50-Foot Rocket Built By Students Breaks Records."  Find out more here.

Also, on space.com, they tell us "Yes, NASA's New Megarocket Will Be More Powerful Than the Saturn V."  Learn more here.

Finally, on sciencealert.com, we're told "NASA's new camera just filmed a rocket plume so we can see it properly for the first time" here.

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What's happening in Space and

what can it mean for our tabletop RPGing?

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Flora & Fauna Friday - Adorable Deep Ones

Three videos from the EVNautilus YouTube channel of adorable Deep Ones.  First up, a "Dumbo Octopus in Action." Enjoy!

Also, watch as a "Shy Octopus Hides Inside Its Own Tentacles."

Finally, check out this "Googly-eyed Stubby Squid."

Flora & Fauna Friday on GRYMVALD.com

Examining animals, plants, and the

environments we use for our tabletop RPGing.

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Historical Thursday - Medieval Battles

Over on medievalists.net, they share their "Top 10 Strangest Battles of the Middle Ages" here.

Also, on historyextra.com, they expound on "9 medieval battles more significant than Agincourt" here.

Finally, on culture.pl, their article "The Battle of Grunwald Explained" has an excellent interactive graphic here.

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Sifting through History to
enhance our tabletop RPGing.

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Worldbuilding Wednesday - Victoria's Way Sculptures

Over in Wicklow, Ireland, there is a place called "Victoria’s Way Indian Sculpture Park" with some amazingly inspirational sculptures for Gamemasters.  There is a Slate article overview here and a lot more pictures on Atlas Obscura here.

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The nuts and bolts of Worldbuilding
for our tabletop RPGing.

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The Tuesday Sundries - Helmets on Pinterest

Pinterest is often a good jumping off point when one is looking for images but rarely one for sources.  If you see something there, you may have to use a search engine or tineye.com to track down the original source, though not always.  You can click through the links to the source on some, so please do so.  A recent interest in helmets turned up some great images particular for Ancient Greek helmets here.

Also, have a look at some Ancient Roman helmets here.

Finally, check out some Medieval helmets here.

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Essentially, a clearinghouse for topics on GRYMVALD.com
not covered elsewhere or wanting a particular focus.

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Mapping Monday - Making Maps

Over on vulpinoid.blogspot.com a few years back, The Fox began with "Map Drawing Tutorial 1" here.

Also, on play.google.com, check out the "ProD&D Dungeon Generator" here.

Finally, on Kindari YouTube channel, they have a seven part series on "Atlas Map Style Tutorial(s)" and I made a playlist of them here.  Enjoy!

Mapping Monday on GRYMVALD.com

Cartography and Mapping are the order of the day,
from setting maps to battlemaps, it's all good.

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