#Bestiary

Jacob Gobhar

goatmealery

This is a great thread. Please read the whole thing. I wanted to talk about how I arrived at some of the prices for my games and how this thread

Daniel Holland

DannyDutch

A thread of medieval paintings of animals that look nothing like real animals because the artist had never seen them. Starting with - The Oyster A Crocodile, Unknown Artist, c.

Dr. Shannon Steiner

xeimevta

I’m so extremely tired of the “weird-looking medieval animals in art” trope that I dedicated two entire classes to dissecting how these representations actually convey useful scientific or moral information

The Monster Files: Dr Surekha Davies

sourdoughchef

It’s #LockdownBestiary #unicorn day! Unicorns (animal w/ a horn) are real & many! Some even have several horns. How many unicorn types were there & did horns have special qualities?

Axel Folio, PhD, carries soup for the family

ISASaxonists

Hwaeddup https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f5Pgp-4kWX5lycmQRkj9w7gWcMlINqmjId1VuQjxXeY/edit. There’s been some interest in digital libraries &manuscripts that various ppl have been asking abt so I thought I’d compile some for you

Indie Press Revolution

IPRTweets

What day is it? That's right, it's Kickstarter Tuesday! Here are some tabletop RPG Kickstarters we'd like to tell you about. Firstly, Wanderhome, a pastoral fantasy RPG about traveling animal-folk

Shay (they)

spellsinsugar

Pathfinder 2E review video tweet time!Okay, I’ve booted up the video. And I’m remembering being irritated at the first impressions. Yes good, the three action turns is pretty awesome. Please

Ferris Jabr

ferrisjabr

Cinnamon is one of the most beloved spices in the world, used in savory & sweet dishes, tea & cocktails, chewing gum, candy, perfume, medicine, and cosmetics. This time of

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

The illuminations in bestiaries were a little bit like the medieval memes - often standarised images that could mean many things to different readers and having many versions. And they

STF-Crypto

STFCrypto

For almost two years now, my friend and I have been developing an Action/RPG game in the genre of medieval fantasy We want to draw additional attention to the project

Pandatheist

Pandatheist

A tiny guide to improving rpg adventures - a threadAdventure modules are gm tools. They take a series of interaction points: npc’s, monsters, items, factions. They combine them with some

😷🧼 Courtney 🧼😷

cakrolik

Because I need something to keep me focused on work today — which means I need mini rewards — I present to you me jumping on the bandwagon, but with

Katherine Ibbett

eparpillee

Today @LockdownBestia1 #LockdownBestiary, S is for SHEEP. (Is the whole bestiary an excuse for me to do this? maybe.) We all know what sheep can signify in early modern Europe!

Sean W. Anthony

shahanSean

Sorry, but Muslim scholars did 𝒏𝒐𝒕 write about evolution, let alone natural selection, 1000 yrs before Darwin ..."A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection" https://www.vice.com

wereoctopus, hawker of RPG zines

wereoctopus

I've seen some--usually OSR--people claim that D&D has lost certain procedures of play over the editions, such as the GM making wandering monster rolls every few dungeon turns, reaction rolls

Katie Murphy

manymanyplies

Today, at the #LockdownBestiary, P is for PARROT. This gives this zookeeper an opportunity to revisit interests in parrot language, multilingualism, and the pleasures of nonsense. Or, as I like