The Ash, the Elder, and the Hen Elm

If you're at all interested in Warhammer Fantasy Battles, you've probably been pointed to this before, possibly by somebody currently in the process of losing a game to you: Dr. Luke Blaxill, wargamer, historian and (thereby) unknowing instigator of the most entertaining late essay of my first year at uni, describes Stillman as something of a 'grail knight' or cloistered monastic figure, somebody to be respected for their commitment but not necessarily somebody to be - or who can be - emulated. I'll let you watch the video rather than spoiling the conclusions - it's a solid analysis of the points, well worth it. If you'd like to know more about Stillman and his work, I can't add much to this  article . 1 Watching Dr. Blaxill's video got me thinking though - I certainly can respect the dedication of the analogous religious ascetics without believing the same things as them, and I can draw inspiration from that dedication in pursuing my own convictions...

I thought I might get this done in an hour. Counting editing, it's probably taken four. Good omen!  If you don't know RPGaDAY, it's this: What better way to give you a sense of who I am and how I write when under time pressure (which a lot of these posts probably will be), and me a sense of what kinds of things I might like to write about?  I'm 99% sure the first TTRPG/s I bought this year were all of the ones in the Palestinian Relief Bundle at once, back in April. I tried to work out which of those I read first but I didn't keep notes and I've read a lot of them in previous aid bundles so it all gets a bit jumbled. I otherwise tend to get mostly free games (or in the case of large/defunct companies, 'free games'), and ask for paid ones as gifts rather than buying them myself, because I don't have much in the way of money at the moment . Most recently , I played (ran - I'm assuming this counts) a game of my own design called The Face of the Wor...