Some students of mine got me into a D&D game. More specifically, I was shanghaied into gamemastering for them, and predictably, the group swelled to around 8 people very quickly, before dropping down to a more reasonable 4.5 (the 0.5 represents one student who enjoys playing, but isn’t there every day.
In any case, I find myself doing a lot of maps of villages and towns and towers these days, including this one of a royal guard tower along the frontier. Some of you are gamers, and might enjoy seeing such things, so I provide you with the photo, and a link to the larger explanation.
[…] This post has been getting some notice recently, from back in 2007. I wanted to highlight it, and set it in some sort of common relevance, as a possible design exercise for a medieval history class. You could do something similar, I suppose, with almost any era in history. Here’s the constraints: […]