Mali’s Real-Life Adventurers’ Guilds
November 7, 2017
Timbuktu is an ancient crossroads town in northern Mali, in the dusty Sahel between the Sahara and the green lands farther south. Its scholarly institutes make great adventurers guilds. Seriously – the libraries of Timbuktu have everything a good adventurer’s guild needs: an interesting ideological reason for existing, tension, high stakes, plot hooks, and quests […]
Aristodemos
August 14, 2017
The 5th century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus records an interesting story about Aristodemos, the one Spartan who survived the battle of Thermopylae. It’s the sort of thing that could make some great PC backstory. Quick background: the Battle of Thermopylae, best known these days from the movie 300, was a three-day battle fought in 480 […]