Nice response to high speed archery video

I was pointed to a rebuttal of the Lars Andersen claims about high-speed archery. I’ll repost it here: A Response to Lars Andersen: a New Level of Archery As someone that wrote a fairly substantial article on the physics of building and bending bows, I’ve followed the entire re-emergence of the original video interesting, and…

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Relationship Mapping and Complicated Stories

In yesterday’s post on +Rob Conley‘s Majestic Wilderness D&D Campaign, I noted the difficulty of keeping all of everything straight. Part of that was trying to integrate the map and geography, the PCs themselves, getting a feel for my own character, as well as being dropped in the middle of things. Ready? OneTwoThreeFIGHT! But the more…

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Majestic Wilderlands (D&D5) – First game

This may be a short post. My newly-made Paladin charged into the opening fight as per his “seek out the baddest guy” custom, and got nailed for a crit for 4d8+2 damage, for 22 points. That brought him down hard from 38 hp. Several misses later, Mark (my guy) gets hit again for 9, though…