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Here for the porn. Maybe the art too.

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Resources For Fantasy & Mythology Writers

Designing A World

City and Town Name Generator

How To Create a Believable World

Fantasy Religion Design Guide

Fantasy Map-maker

The Language Construction Kit

Fantasy Name Generator

The Pagan Name Generator

Writing Fantasy: Tools & Techniques

Fractal World Generator

Creating a Magic System

The Middle Ages

A Large List Of Articles On The Middle Ages

Middle Ages Weapons

Medieval Clothing

Medieval Clothing Pages

Medieval Name Archive

The Domesday Book

European Nobility Titles

Mythology

General Folklore

Various Folktales

Heroes

Weather Folklore

Trees in Mythology

Animals in Mythology

Birds in Mythology

Flowers in Mythology

Fruit in Mythology

Plants in Mythology

Folktales from Around the World

Egyptian Mythology

African Mythology

More African Mythology

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

The Gods of Africa

Even More African Mythology

West African Mythology

All About African Mythology

African Mythical Creatures

Gods and Goddesses

Aztec Mythology

Haitian Mythology

Inca Mythology

Maya Mythology

Native American Mythology

More Inca Mythology

More Native American Mythology

South American Mythical Creatures

North American Mythical Creatures

Aztec Gods and Goddesses

Chinese Mythology

Hindu Mythology

Japanese Mythology

Korean Mythology

More Japanese Mythology

Chinese and Japanese Mythical Creatures

Indian Mythical Creatures

Chinese Gods and Goddesses

Hindu Gods and Goddesses

Korean Gods and Goddesses

Basque Mythology

Celtic Mythology

Etruscan Mythology

Greek Mythology

Latvian Mythology

Norse Mythology

Roman Mythology

Arthurian Legends

Bestiary

Celtic Gods and Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses of the Celtic Lands

Finnish Mythology

Celtic Mythical Creatures

Gods and Goddesses

Islamic Mythology

Judaic Mythology

Mesopotamian Mythology

Persian Mythology

Middle Eastern Mythical Creatures

Aboriginal Mythology

Polynesian Mythology

More Polynesian Mythology

Mythology of the Polynesian Islands

Melanesian Mythology

Massive Polynesian Mythology Post

Maori Mythical Creatures

Hawaiian Gods and Goddesses

Hawaiian Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses

List of Gods

Encyclopedia Mythica

Mythical Creatures & Beasts

Questions To Ask When Worldbuilding

The World

Physical and Historical Features

Magic and Magicians

Peoples and Customs

Social Organization

Commerce, Trade, and Public Life

Daily Life

Basics

Alternate Earth

Not Earth at All

Climate and Geography

Natural Resources

World History

Specific Country(s) History

Rules of Magic

Wizards

Magic and Technology

Miscellaneous Magic Questions

Customs

Eating

Greeting and Meeting

Gestures

Visits

Language

Ethics and Values

Religion and the Gods

Population

Government

Politics

Crime and the Legal System

Foreign Relations

Waging War

Weapons

Business and Industry

Transportation and Communication

Science and Technology

Medicine

Arts and Entertainment

Architecture

Urban Factors

Rural Factors

Fashion and Dress

Manners

Diet

Education

Calendar

Magic

The Hypertext List of Spells

Gemstone Properties

Gemstone Meanings

Crystal Healing

Fairy & Other Spirits

Elven Phrases

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neat stuff.

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From a medical perspective, what is the damage to a human body like from a modern round compared to a musket ball?

The modern round would probably be a lot more deadly and damaging, even using steel or copper jacketed military ammo which are designed to not expand when penetrating flesh to leave a clean wound.  18th century musket balls are very large caliber, typically .75 caliber if British, or .69 caliber if French, Russian, Prussian, or American.  These are huge pieces of lead, and would certainly hit you like a freight train.

But I have seen ballistic gel tests from round balls fired from a black powder smoothbore muskets and modern calibers from modern firearms.  The modern calibers (and most of the tests I have seen use jacketed bullets) are much more devastating.  Musket balls create a very neat and orderly wound channel without much expansion and a relatively small wound channel despite being of such large caliber. This is because they have relatively slow muzzle velocity, being big round balls, and black powder not being as powerful as modern smokeless propellants. More soldiers died post wounding from things like bleeding and infections than from combat itself.

  Modern rounds, however, impart a ton of energy upon impact, creating this big temporary wound channel that is huge in proportion to caliber.  This is due to the much higher velocities of modern ammunition. Trauma to internal injuries is much more likely.

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Oh! 17th century muskets had a nasty kick! Not because they were better than 18th century ones, but because of what the enemy wore!

At the beginning of the English Civil War a lot of soilders wore armour, breast and back plate. At the beginning of the war these were decent protection (unless you got a dodgey armouer, ask me about that later). But as the war went on muskets got better. Eventually the musket ball could pierce the breast plate but not the back, meaning the shot would ricochet back and fourth in your torso with it’s remaining energy! By the end of the war fewer soilders were wearing armour.

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“Paper towns” of the Roman Empire. Each image is hyperlinked to its source, which is the subreddit /r/papertowns. They are constantly sharing more awesome illustrated maps of cities, and not just Roman ones.

I love how these paper towns really give you a flavor for ancient urban life. I can imagine myself walking through the streets, attending plays at the amphitheater, congregating the forum to hear a speech, or boarding a ship in the harbor and sailing off to the next city. Also, these should be great references for whenever I find the time to run a Greco-Roman D&D campaign.

For quick reference, the cities here are (in order):

Constantinople (duh)

Vindobala (fort on Hadrian’s Wall)

Pompeii (RIP)

Tarraco (modern Tarragona)

Tergeste (modern Trieste)

Augusta Raurica (modern Basel)

Aquae Sulis (modern Bath)

Segedunum (fort on Hadrian’s Wall)

Barcino (modern Barcelona)

Lutetia (modern Paris)

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So these were pretty cool. 

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Onward, steed!

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The thirst is real

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1) Risus Monkey Fantasy Language Cypher

This is amazing!!!!!!!!!!

Are you creating a fictional language? Do you need help coming up with words that sound like they fit with what you’ve come up with so far?

Just put your fictional language in the model text, type some words in the translation text, and click “translate”. It’ll “translate” whatever words you put in using patterns from your sample text.

2) Speed Distance Calculator

These calculators aren’t perfect, but they can help you figure out:

How long it will take your characters to get somewhere based on how fast they’re going,

how far your characters moved based on how fast they were going and on how long they were moving,

how fast your characters need to move to reach a certain distance in a specified time

The calculator was meant for cyclists, but you can use it to get estimates for other things too.

3) Fantasy Calendar Generator

Another amazing resource!

This can create a random calendar for you or you can input the year, the number of months, the name of the months, the number of moons, the number of days in a week, the names of each day, and more.

You can even save the data for your calendar so that when you go back to the generator, all you have to do to get to your calendar is paste the data.

4) Inkarnate Map Maker

This is a new resource that’s still in beta, so it’ll probably be updated in the coming months.

This map maker is easy to use and free. You can add different climates, mountains, trees, towns, cities, text, and notes. For an example of these maps, look at the quick map I made for this post’s header.

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Creepy Magazine

Frank Frazetta

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Monsters - Gulguthydra

The gulguthydra is a hybrid of the predatory hydra and the scavenging otyugh.

It’s known for its teeth, its appetite, and its sickening stench.

Each of the creature’s six heads has a mouth full of sword-sized teeth, whirling on a hydra-style neck, able to reach targets up to 20 feet off the ground.

A gulguthydra is six thousand pounds of ravenous hunger for anything organic, including plants and trees as well as halflings and humans. A gulguthydra moving through a forest grabs mobile prey with its two otyugh-style tentacles while chomping on trees and bushes with its six mouths, leaving a clear-cut trail of destruction in its wake.

The creature prefers soft organic matter such as meat to hard organic matter such as trees.

A foot-thick layer of greasy slime and excrement coats the gulguthydra and the ground beneath it.  When a gulguthydra moves, it slides along a cushion of its own hideous slime.

At least two gulguthydras that rampage through the Farsea Marsh are known to be surrounded by buzzing colonies of eyeball beholderkin. The beholderkin use their daze and ray of frost eye beams to capture elusive prey that the gulguthydra is normally too slow to catch. Meanwhile, creatures that sometimes prey upon the eyeballs want nothing to do with the gulguthydra.

The eyeballs catch scraps out of the air as the gulguthydra tears into its meals, or fish undigested scraps out of the gulguthydra’s leftover slime.

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The City of Urvosov by Kaloith

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Waeris by Kaloith

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Need help!

Does anyone know any great t-shirt prints? In the style of these.

Thank you :)

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Shaun Tan, The Arrival. The best illustrated book EVER.

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