# dark age — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dark age. Page: Feed: --- ## [Reddit GM Advice: Find Games, New Players & Arcs](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/19/reddit-gm-advice-find-games-new-players-arcs/) _2026-08-19 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ In which I post comments to subreddits geared towards supporting rookie DM's... ## [The state I’m in](https://chrissmaje.com/2026/08/the-state-im-in/) _2026-08-16 · Chris Smaje · Chris Smaje_ A few further thoughts in this post on the matter of the state – what it is, what its past and future involves, and what does it mean to live within the jurisdiction of a singular state (‘the state I’m in’)? – arising out of discussions under my last post. But first, to go with \[…\] The post The state I’m in appeared first on Chris Smaje . ## [Reddit GM Advice: Backstory, Situation & Prep](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/14/reddit-gm-advice-backstory-situation-prep/) _2026-08-14 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ In which I post comments to subreddits geared towards supporting rookie DM's... ## [Thursday Night AWBO S9: Wolf Hunt and Fleeting Peace in Lock](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/13/thursday-night-awbo-s9-wolf-hunt-and-fleeting-peace-in-lock/) _2026-08-14 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ #ApocalypseWorld #TTRPG ## [The Warlock’s Apprentice, a intro/supporting playbook for Apocalypse World: Burned Over’s Sword & Sorcery setting, Warriors of the World Ablaze](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/12/the-warlocks-apprentice-a-intro-supporting-playbook-for-apocalypse-world-burned-overs-sword-sorcery-setting-warriors-of-the-world-ablaze/) _2026-08-12 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ I am a sucker for wizard's apprentices and so here's a rough draft, kind of raw playbook for Apocalypse World's latest edition's swords and sorcery setting, Warriors of the World Ablaze. ## [Dark Ages Playtest: Behold, Gideon the Dragon-Herald](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/11/dark-ages-playtest-behold-gideon-the-dragon-herald/) _2026-08-11 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ I was excited when I read about Luke and Andrew taking over the development for Dark Ages (previously known as Apocalypse World: Dark Ages). When I read the Dragon-Herald playbook, I showed it to Janaki the moment I had the printed out playtest documents. We jumped on the prep with both feet. Link to Dark \[ \] ## [Welcome to the Githyanki Diaspora](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/10/welcome-to-the-githyanki-diaspora/) _2026-08-10 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ Welcome to my blog. There are new subscribers lately, so I thought I'd write up an introduction. ## [Death in Space, our campaign’s mission badges](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/09/death-in-space-our-campaigns-mission-badges/) _2026-08-09 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ I adore making odd little artifacts from gaming. Can t go wrong with a spaceship logo/patch that can be a comfy t-shirt. ## [Let us do some or all of the following: Play Appendix N Jam Adventures, Support Rascal’s Amazing Work, Playtest Apocalypse World: Dark Ages](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/08/let-us-do-some-or-all-of-the-following-play-appendix-n-jam-adventures-support-rascals-amazing-work-playtest-apocalypse-world-dark-ages/) _2026-08-08 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ Rascal News is seeing a dip in revenue. If you like independent TTRPG and gaming news it is well worth supporting. https://www.rascal.news/state-of-the-rascal-august-2026 The Appendix N Jam with several cool bsky threads below: If you have the spoons, grab an adventure, play it and talk about it. Luke and Andrew are taking over the development of \[ \] ## [Cairn Background: Chaos Goatman](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/07/cairn-2e-background-chaos-goatman/) _2026-08-07 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ #Cairn2e #TTRPG ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UCzSctpM69YS) _2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [Thursday Night AWBO S8: Love Letters 1](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/06/thursday-night-awbo-s8-love-letters-1/) _2026-08-07 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ #ApocalypseWorld #TTRPG ## [Thursday Night AWBO S7: Look to the Stars](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/01/thursday-night-awbo-s7-look-to-the-stars/) _2026-08-01 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ #ApocalypseWorld #TTRPG ## [Mythic Bastionland: The Boulder Knight & the Meteor Knight](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/08/01/mythic-bastionland-the-boulder-knight-the-meteor-knight/) _2026-08-01 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ It says something about the evocative nature of the material in Mythic Bastionland that no matter what is randomly generated, it seems thematically linked. ## [Finding Lights in a Dark Age – Discussion Forum](https://chrissmaje.com/2026/07/finding-lights-in-a-dark-age-discussion-forum/) _2026-07-31 · Chris Smaje · Chris Smaje_ Apologies for my slow turnover of blog posts here, which is likely to be ongoing. I’d planned to do a blog cycle about my book Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft, published by Chelsea Green last year, but somehow I’ve run out of steam for it and the moment seems \[ \] The post Finding Lights in a Dark Age Discussion Forum appeared first on Chris Smaje . ## [Reddit GM Advice: Indie RPG, Pirate Start & Horrified Villagers](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/07/29/reddit-gm-advice-indie-rpg-pirate-start-horrified-villagers/) _2026-07-29 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ In which I post comments to subreddits geared towards supporting rookie DM's... ## [Tools to help.](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/07/28/tools-to-help/) _2026-07-28 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ I ve been enjoying his videos for a long time and I applaud the act of making the Dewey Decimal System useful for gaming. Did using the system like the ones above bring a book into our D D game described as Snake Person Erotica?Yes.Did it get stealthy stuck into backpacks, hoods and duffels of fellow adventurers \[ \] ## [Classic Traveller: Androids](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/07/27/classic-traveller-androids/) _2026-07-27 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ Classic Traveller Androids ## [Cairn Background: Lady of Dust’s Sworn Servant, inspired by the work of Evlyn Moreau](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/07/21/cairn-background-lady-of-dusts-sworn-servant-inspired-by-the-work-of-evlyn-moreau/) _2026-07-22 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ If a character has perished in play and you need to get a new character in the mix quickly, perhaps the Lady of Dust foresaw this death and sent a sworn servant to aid their comrades. Inspired by art by Evlyn Moreau (and come to think of it, the Lady s name was from Evlyn also). \[ \] ## [Floating Pyramids & Dinosaur Herds, making a city with Beak, Feather & Bone and Claw Atlas](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/07/18/floating-pyramids-dinosaur-herds-making-a-city-with-beak-feather-bone-and-claw-atlas/) _2026-07-18 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ I ve had Beak, Feather Bone along with the Claw Atlas on my to-play shelf for a while now. I was going to use it as an icebreaker for a work meeting but never did; I felt like I needed to play it once. Yay, I ve played it once and it was delightful. The same \[ \] ## [The Waking of Willowby Hall via Cairn](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/07/17/the-waking-of-willowby-hall-via-cairn/) _2026-07-18 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ They ran through a haunted house, got in a fight or two, ran from a fight or two, barred doors, charmed a ghost, put things together and left with the goose. ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VAo88x1ZnhKZ) _2026-07-18 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [Reddit GM Advice: D&D Boxing, Overwhelmed & Delayed Information](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/07/15/reddit-gm-advice-dd-boxing-overwhelmed-delayed-information/) _2026-07-16 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ In which I post comments to subreddits geared towards supporting rookie DM's... ## [Thursday Night AWBO S6: Everyone is touched by weird in R’lyeh](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/07/09/thursday-night-awbo-s6-everyone-is-touched-by-weird-in-rlyeh/) _2026-07-10 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ The Dreamers' Cloisters is where retired Fishwives spend their last days. Otter met with her ma and I loved that relationship. #ApocalypseWorld #TTRPG ## [Stop Press, Same News: No energy transition, again](https://chrissmaje.com/2026/07/2900/) _2026-07-09 · Chris Smaje · Chris Smaje_ Every year I take a look at the annual energy data published toward the end of June by the Energy Institute in order to ask the big question: Has the energy transition that everyone keeps talking about actually started yet? So far, the answer has always been no. Every year since 1983, total global fossil \[ \] The post Stop Press, Same News: No energy transition, again appeared first on Chris Smaje… ## [The Ancient City, a Hard Zone for Apocalypse World: Burned Over’s Sword & Sorcery setting, Warriors of the World Ablaze](https://githyankidiaspora.com/2026/07/08/the-ancient-city-a-hard-zone-for-apocalypse-world-burned-over/) _2026-07-08 · juddthelibrarian · (untitled)_ An ancient swords and sorcery city with the serials numbers BARELY filed off. ## [Saving the world from bad ideas: the continuing failure of food ecomodernism](https://chrissmaje.com/2026/06/saving-the-world-from-bad-ideas-the-continuing-failure-of-food-ecomodernism/) _2026-06-30 · Chris Smaje · Chris Smaje_ This week sees a more personal anniversary for me than the Brexit celebrations/recriminations last time: it’s three years since I published my book Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future. In it, I criticised the idea that factory-produced bacterial food could be a realistic and significant ‘farm free’ alternative to food from agricultural land, as touted \[ \] The post Saving the world from bad ideas: the… ## [Ten years of Brexit: a small farm future special](https://chrissmaje.com/2026/06/ten-years-of-brexit-a-small-farm-future-special/) _2026-06-14 · Chris Smaje · Chris Smaje_ There are a few anniversaries in the air at the moment. The one that looms in British politics is the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum, which was held on 23 June 2016. I daresay the media will soon be full of opinion pieces about it, so I thought I’d get mine in early and \[ \] The post Ten years of Brexit: a small farm future special appeared first on Chris Smaje . ## [The economic path ahead: four or two things to think about for surviving the future](https://chrissmaje.com/2026/06/the-economic-path-ahead-four-or-two-things-to-think-about-for-surviving-the-future/) _2026-06-08 · Chris Smaje · Chris Smaje_ In this post I reflect on the main things I think will be necessary for ‘surviving the future’, to channel David Fleming. The post was prompted by comments under my last one, especially ones by Kathryn, Steve C and Walter. I was going to write my own comment underneath in reply, but I thought it \[ \] The post The economic path ahead: four or two things to think about for surviving the future… ## [The path ahead](https://chrissmaje.com/2026/05/the-path-ahead/) _2026-05-27 · Chris Smaje · Chris Smaje_ Sorry I’ve been so silent here of late. I’ve got a lot of work on various fronts, some of which I may mention here soon, which is keeping me from blogging. But if there s a Small Farm Future/Dark Age Light hole in your life, do listen in to this Crazy Town podcast I did with \[ \] The post The path ahead appeared first on Chris Smaje . ## [Food, energy, capitalism, collapse](https://chrissmaje.com/2026/04/food-energy-capitalism-collapse/) _2026-04-22 · Chris Smaje · Chris Smaje_ Apologies that I’m not finding much time at the moment to write new blog posts, a situation that will probably continue for a while. Well, here’s one anyway, chiselled out from a couple of hours of idling on the internet recently and trying to catch up on world news by triangulating rather unoriginally between the \[ \] The post Food, energy, capitalism, collapse appeared first on Chris Smaje . ## [THE SONG OF THE ANGRY SKALD](https://www.wavlake.com/album/3012a2f1-2c23-42fc-a6ef-43dc60685aed) _2026-03-22 · Ulf Blutaxt · ANNO 2025_ [Listen](https://op3.dev/e,pg=78b7a393-b397-5d0e-b702-5131f8f49d66/https://d12wklypp119aj.cloudfront.net/track/04d095eb-0936-4792-855b-3f7553342058.mp3) ## [Earn crypto from idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bT7nspjxEp31) _2026-03-22 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI command, connect your GPU, and start receiving crypto payouts. ## [Kalt rís Ragnarøkkr](https://www.wavlake.com/album/3012a2f1-2c23-42fc-a6ef-43dc60685aed) _2026-03-22 · Ulf Blutaxt · ANNO 2025_ [Listen](https://op3.dev/e,pg=78b7a393-b397-5d0e-b702-5131f8f49d66/https://d12wklypp119aj.cloudfront.net/track/6a997134-6318-4385-b8eb-f9f3c658c782.mp3) ## [Call Against the Silence](https://www.wavlake.com/album/3012a2f1-2c23-42fc-a6ef-43dc60685aed) _2026-03-22 · Ulf Blutaxt · ANNO 2025_ [Listen](https://op3.dev/e,pg=78b7a393-b397-5d0e-b702-5131f8f49d66/https://d12wklypp119aj.cloudfront.net/track/c92c1b02-43a3-4910-9d9f-65c636171950.mp3) ## [The Saga of the Dark Age](https://www.wavlake.com/album/3012a2f1-2c23-42fc-a6ef-43dc60685aed) _2026-03-22 · Ulf Blutaxt · ANNO 2025_ [Listen](https://op3.dev/e,pg=78b7a393-b397-5d0e-b702-5131f8f49d66/https://d12wklypp119aj.cloudfront.net/track/066c52a8-61a9-4125-9e11-7b7da8d3e6ac.mp3) ## [The Beginning of Ragnarök](https://www.wavlake.com/album/3012a2f1-2c23-42fc-a6ef-43dc60685aed) _2026-03-22 · Ulf Blutaxt · ANNO 2025_ [Listen](https://op3.dev/e,pg=78b7a393-b397-5d0e-b702-5131f8f49d66/https://d12wklypp119aj.cloudfront.net/track/74949b58-c57a-4970-be12-665e4b08736c.mp3) ## [Foragers and farmers: further thoughts on a debate with Tom Murphy](https://chrissmaje.com/2026/03/foragers-and-farmers-further-thoughts-on-a-debate-with-tom-murphy/) _2026-03-21 · Chris Smaje · Chris Smaje_ Diverting briefly from my blog cycle about my recent book Finding Lights in a Dark Age, here I m going to continue my polite discussion with Tom Murphy about the human condition past, present and future – and, more specifically, about the place of foraging (gathering and hunting) vis-à-vis farming in it. My thanks to Tom for \[ \] The post Foragers and farmers: further thoughts on a debate with Tom… ## [An arc of future Earth](https://chrissmaje.com/2026/03/an-arc-of-future-earth/) _2026-03-11 · Chris Smaje · Chris Smaje_ Continuing my stately progress through my book Finding Lights in a Dark Age, we come next to the Introduction, entitled ‘An Arc of Future Earth’. But first a couple of quick housekeeping notices. Apologies to a couple of commenters whose comments sat for a long while in the moderation queue without me noticing, now approved. \[ \] The post An arc of future Earth appeared first on Chris Smaje . ## [Ragnarök revisited](https://chrissmaje.com/2026/02/ragnarok-revisited/) _2026-02-16 · Chris Smaje · Chris Smaje_ It’s about time I wrote some posts about my recently published book Finding Lights in a Dark Age. There are twelve chapters in the book plus a preface, introduction and afterward, so my intention is to write fifteen posts about the book in all, one for each of these segments. And, as a bonus, one \[ \] The post Ragnarök revisited appeared first on Chris Smaje . ## [The New Dark Ages](https://yabirgb.com/posts/dark-age/) _2026-01-25 · Yabir's blog_ One of the fears that I have with our approach to AI and LLMs is the threat of creating a new Dark Age. I won't enter into the details of what caused the medieval Dark Ages or if they were indeed that "dark". Commonly, the medieval Dark Ages are considered to have started right after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The Roman Empire provided stability, reducing the number of civil wars.… ## [How I feel about vibe coding](https://yabirgb.com/posts/vibe-code/) _2026-01-10 · Yabir's blog_ LLMs have come a long way. Last year, you couldn't fully trust them, but right now they are very capable and can solve many problems faster than any human. Personally, I use them to find bugs faster and prototype ideas that I can iterate on later. I also use them for repetitive tasks during refactors or for setting up the foundation for tests, finding fixtures, configuring them, and so on. But… ## [Anisotropic Scaling in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and DOOM: The Dark Ages](https://martinfullerblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/anisotropic-scaling-in-indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-and-doom-the-dark-ages/) _2025-09-26 · Martin Fuller's Graphics Ramblings · Martin Fuller's Graphics Ramblings_ While working on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and later DOOM: The Dark Ages, it became apparent that both titles are particularly sensitive to anisotropic sampling cost on the Xbox Series consoles. This is despite both having very different renderers, Indiana Jones uses what I would best describe as a semi-forward system, while Doom \[ \] ## [Massaging the Shader Compiler to emit Optimum Instructions](https://martinfullerblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/massaging-the-shader-compiler-to-emit-optimum-instructions/) _2025-01-13 · Martin Fuller's Graphics Ramblings · Martin Fuller's Graphics Ramblings_ Modern GPU s feature sophisticated instruction sets for executing shaders. However this blog details how difficult and unintuiative it can be to have the shader compiler leverage the optimum instruction. Consider the simple example of swapping the endian of a 32bit word. (Something that was common on the PlayStation3 in particular) Below are 5 different HLSL \[ \] ## [Dynamic Resolution Scaling (DRS) on PC](https://martinfullerblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/dynamic-resolution-scaling-on-pc/) _2025-01-06 · Martin Fuller's Graphics Ramblings · Martin Fuller's Graphics Ramblings_ DRS is one of those technique that is a lot easier to implement on console than PC, or perhaps more accurately, its easier to run closer to the wire, maximising GPU use without dropping frames. My previous post on dynamic resolution scaling briefly touched on this, however I ve received a couple of PM s asking for \[ \]