Captain's Log

In 9 AD, a Roman-trained Germanic chieftain named Arminius led three full Roman legions — XVII, XVIII, and XIX — into an ambush in the forests of northern Germania. Roughly twenty thousand Romans were killed in three days. The legions' numbers were retired and never...

In this episode of Beyond the Pale, we go back to May of 1525, to a field outside the German town of Frankenhausen.There are thousands of peasants gathered there. Farmers, tradesmen, miners, ruined knights, and desperate people who have spent generations being...

Beyond the Pale | Special EpisodeIt's done.After more than two decades — a garage apartment in the early 2000s, two deployments to Iraq, a back injury, a cross-country move, a divorce, the death of my father, a catastrophic data loss, and somewhere north of a million...

Just to let you know, as I often do, I'm changing the title of The Heart of the Wasteland.I could tell you that I had some big epiphany, that a glowing and winged muse delivered a better idea to me on the morning wind. That would sound really good.The truth is, in...

Hey all, just a quick update. This week is a little crazy for me. My son is graduating the 8th grade and going on to High School, so we've been getting him ready for his middle school promotion ceremony. That ceremony will take place tomorrow, right during the time...

Hey, all.Just wanted to let you all know that I'm revamping things here behind the scenes. Reward tiers have changed without anyone currently losing rewards. I've simply removed some tiers that no one was on and simplified the entire approach.I've renamed some things,...