The Guild editorial staff apologizes to Mr. Bourguignon for the delay in publishing this entry in his series. It has been a challenging year. The end of the school year is still puttering on, which means that I can keep playing games with kids. It also means that I’ll slowly have more time to read … [Read more…]
Historical Context for the Hollywood FilmsKingdom of Heaven and Arn: Knight Templar Preface: I Initially wrote this article for my medievalist friends, who recreate an order of soldier-monks in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). They often show new recruits The Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and Arn: Knight Templar (2007). At some point, they asked … [Read more…]
This is RPG-ology #48: Embraces, for November 2021. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating copies of many lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles. This was originally published as Game Ideas Unlimited: Embraces, and has been reproduced here with minor editing [bracketed]. I … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #48: Advent, for November 2021. There was, decades ago, a gag in a comic strip (called Funky Winkerbean) in which two of the characters were walking down the street marveling at all the decorations, the lights and garlands and wreaths put up for Christmas, and then one of them says, … [Read more…]