Flora & Fauna Friday - Most Beautiful Flowers

Building a campaign setting isn't just about creating maps and populating it with monsters and NPCs, sometimes you have to stop and describe the roses.  With Valentines Day upon us this weekend, let's check out some opinions on the world's most beautiful flowers.  First, over on stylecraze.com, an article shows us the "50 Most Beautiful Flowers In The World" here.

Also, on magazine8.com, they shared their ideas on the "Top 35 Most Beautiful Flowers In The World To Look At" here.

Finally, on the Kaying Vang YouTube channel, we are treated to "The Most Beautiful Flowers."  Enjoy!

Flora & Fauna Friday on GRYMVALD.com

Examining animals, plants, and the

environments we use for our tabletop RPGing.

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Historical Thursday - Rise & Fall

Three from the archives of the medievalists.net website with the first being "The Huns and the End of the Roman Empire in Western Europe" here.

Also, they tell us about "The rise of the Carolingians or the decline of the Merovingians?"  Find out more here.

Finally, we learn of "The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History" here.

Historical Thursday on GRYMVALD.com

Sifting through History to
enhance our tabletop RPGing.

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Worldbuilding Wednesday - Lost Worlds

Over on education.nationalgeographic.org, we're told of "Doggerland - The Europe That Was" here.

Also, on io9.gizmodo.com, we learn about the "Long lost continent discovered beneath the Indian Ocean" here.

Finally, on amusingplanet.com, they tell us of "Qiandao Lake: The Thousand Island Lake and Ancient Submerged Cities" here.

Worldbuilding Wednesday on GRYMVALD.com
The nuts and bolts of Worldbuilding
for our tabletop RPGing.

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The Tuesday Sundries - Medieval Weaponry

Over on medievalists.net, they featured "A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Medieval Flamethrowers: A Case Study" here.

Also, on medievalists.net, they tell us "How to make swords talk: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding medieval swords and their inscriptions."  Learn more here.

Finally, on the Lindybeige YouTube channel, he's got a video on "Heavy crossbows and light crossbows."  Enjoy!

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

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RPG Media Monday - Creepy, Hateful, & Surreal

Over on wired.com, the share "Tony DiTerlizzi's Top 10 Books for Creeping Out Kids" here.

Also, on cracked.com, they give us "5 Grimm Fairy Tales You Should Only Read to Kids You Hate" here.

Finally, on the Robert Morgan YouTube channel, we are treated to a video of a "Cat with Hands."  Enjoy!

RPG Media Monday on GRYMVALD.com

What can be gleaned from Media

and used in our tabletop RPGing?

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Setting & Society Sunday - Languages

Over on io9.gizmodo.com, they tell us "A creepy 15th century language experiment took place on this island" here.

Also, on australiangeographic.com.au, they are "Mapping indigenous language across Australia" here.

Finally, on the Steindinn Okkar YouTube channel, a video titled "Steindinn okkar - Víkingar" shows a man speaking Old Norse.  Enjoy!

Setting & Society Sunday on GRYMVALD.com

Looking closer at Setting and Society

as a part of what is presented by GMs.

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Saturday in Space - Living Offworld

Over on laboratoryequipment.com, they tells us of plans to have "Volunteers Live in Confinement for 30 Days as Part of NASA Experiment" here.

Also, on cnn.com, the news from "NASA: 2 places on Mars could have been habitable."  Details are here.

Finally, on inverse.com, they discuss how "Future Space Humans Will Be Light and Lean, With Strong, Dexterous Feet" here.

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What's happening in Space and

what can it mean for our tabletop RPGing?

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