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In Arthurian legend, the white stag is a mythical creature that represents a spiritual quest, acting as a catalyst for knights to embark on an adventure. It is a symbol of unattainable quests, spiritual journeys, and the pursuit of higher aims, often leading knights into the unknown or the otherworldly realm. The stag is believed to be magical, can never be truly caught, and its appearance signals that it is time for a great quest to begin. In Celtic and other northern traditions, white deer are sacred messengers from the Otherworld, appearing during taboo violations. In English folklore, the white hart is linked to Herne the Hunter. In Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, the white stag played a role in the conversion of Saint Eustace, who saw Christ’s image between its antlers and was foretold his future suffering. A similar legend surrounds Saint Hubert. The White Hart was the badge of King Richard II of England, who probably derived it from the arms of his mother, Joan "The Fair Maid of Kent", heiress of Edmund of Woodstock. It may also have been a pun on his name, as in "Rich-hart". White has long symbolized purity, and in Celtic tradition, it also represented the Otherworld. Today, the white stag is valued as a rare symbol of beauty, and its hunting often provokes public outrage. 🎨 Helen Stratton

The most famous cover in old school D&D was drawn by a man who later drove a taxi in Carbondale, Illinois. Dave Trampier did the Player’s Handbook cover. Adventurers prying open that stone lid. Treasure spilling out. That image is burned into more brains than almost anything TSR ever printed. He filled the Monster Manual. He drew Tomb of Horrors. He spent eleven years on Wormy in Dragon. Then he tried to collect his own strip into a book. TSR said the strips were theirs. He said they were his. The collection never happened. Checks started coming back unopened. In 1988, mid story, Wormy just stopped. People assumed he was dead. He wasn’t. A student reporter found him driving a Yellow Cab in 2002. He asked people to lose his number. He wanted nothing to do with the company that had used his work and then told him he didn’t own it. In 2014 he finally agreed to show original art at a small Illinois convention. He died three weeks before it. The cover that taught a generation what “finding the treasure” looked like was made by a guy TSR pushed far enough that he walked away from all of it. What’s the first Trampier piece that stopped you cold?

Over the past three years, you've explored distant systems, built awe-inspiring ships, and made countless memories during your travels. To celebrate three years in the Settled Systems, we're running a giveaway and want to see some of your best in-game photos! To enter, follow, quote repost, and attach up to four of your best photos using the hashtag #StarfieldGiveaway. Three winners will be selected at random in two weeks to win a 3-Year Anniversary Giveaway Bundle that includes: 🎧 Starfield Limited Edition headset 🎮 Starfield Limited Edition wireless controller 🏴‍☠️ Starfield Crimson Fleet LED Wall Art Full rules: beth.games/3VmlA74

Peter Cullen, best known for voicing Optimus Prime in both the original Transformers animated series and the live-action films, has died at the age of 85.

The Bard's Tale 1985 #Fantasy #Conputergames This was one of the games I played for a long time before any others after I started to play D&D to get more of my fantasy gaming fix. Back then, this was the bees' knees. :P The Bard's Tale is a straightforward dungeon crawl. The objective is to gain experience and advance characters' skills through (mostly) random combat with enemies and monsters. This is done while exploring maze-like dungeons, solving occasional puzzles and riddles, and finding or buying better weapons, armor, and other equipment. When beginning the game, the player may create up to six player characters, chosen from among the following classes: bard, hunter, monk, paladin, rogue, warrior, magician, and conjurer. The classes sorcerer and wizard are available to experienced conjurers and magicians. On some platforms, the player can import previously created characters from Wizardry and/or Ultima III, which was somewhat revolutionary at the time of the game's release.

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86 years ago tonight, Britain was nine days away from losing World War II. This is the story of how civilians in fishing boats saved it. Winston Churchill had been Prime Minister for 16 days. Four hundred thousand Allied soldiers, essentially the entire British professional army, were trapped on a 21 mile stretch of French coastline near a port called Dunkirk. Behind them was the English Channel. In front of them were nine Panzer divisions and the full weight of the Luftwaffe. If those men were captured, Britain would have no trained army left to defend the homeland. The war would be over by August. At 6:57pm on May 26, 1940, from a chalk tunnel deep beneath Dover Castle, Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay gave the signal. Operation Dynamo had begun. His staff had planned the entire evacuation in less than a week. Their best estimate: they might rescue 45,000 men before the Germans overran the beaches. Then something strange happened. Three days earlier, Hitler had personally ordered his panzers to halt outside Dunkirk. Historians still argue why. Some say Göring convinced him the Luftwaffe alone could finish the job. Others point to the marshy ground around the port. Whatever the reason, the pause gave the Allies just enough time to dig in. The Royal Navy then put out an extraordinary call: send us your boats. Any boats. What answered was the strangest fleet ever assembled. Fishing trawlers from Cornwall. Pleasure yachts off the Thames. A Belgian car ferry. A paddle steamer that normally took day trippers around the Isle of Wight. The Massey Shaw, a London fireboat that had been pumping water on Blitz fires days earlier, crossed the Channel under her own steam. The smallest vessel to make the crossing, a 14 foot 7 inch open fishing boat called Tamzine, was towed across and used to ferry wounded men through water so shallow no destroyer could approach. Civilian skippers. Volunteer crews. Bank clerks. Off duty firemen. Men in three piece suits standing at the helm of their own weekend boats. For nine days they sailed back and forth across a beach being bombed, strafed, and shelled. The sea was sown with German mines. U-boats hunted the larger transports. Stuka dive bombers screamed down on troops standing in chest deep water waiting their turn. When the last ship left on June 4, they had evacuated 338,226 men. That afternoon Churchill stood in the House of Commons. He called it a miracle of deliverance, then immediately warned the country: "We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations." Four days later, he gave the "We shall fight on the beaches" speech. Tamzine still exists. You can stand next to her at the Imperial War Museum in London. She is so small you could almost reach across her with your arms outstretched. She crossed the English Channel under enemy fire and helped save the free world.

This weekend, raise a mug for the real heroes. The ones whose stories ended long before our dice ever hit the table. May God bless those who paid the ultimate price, and the families who carry their memory forward.

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Mandatory school reading when I grew up: Gr7 Lord of the Flies, Johnathan Livingston Seagull Gr8 Outsiders, Call of the Wild Gr9 Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew Gr10 Julius Caesar, Clockwork Orange Gr11 MacBeth, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Gr12 Hamlet