Game in the Brain

I’ve just gotten access to my gradschool library, and downloaded a ton of PDF’s I plan to use to prep my future games. I’m a history nut and I’m of the simulationist school.

I don’t like using fantasy settings so much because I can’t use it for anything else. I read volumes only to not be able to talk about it in the other circles i go to. Using history as my “Game” setting or Shamelessly ripping off history is both easier and enriching.

The tons of things i learn in history about human nature is just too valuable. It is two birds with one stone, and If I get people to learn more about history it is also enriching to them.

Here are list of things I’ve just added to my reading list.

• Naval Combat Logistics Support System
• Military Families under Stress: Implications for Family Life Education (Character backgrounds)
• The Horse in Ancient China and Its Cultural Influence in Some Other Areas
• The Revival of Byzantine Learning and the Revival of the Byzantine State
• Arabic Lists of the Byzantine Themes
• ‘Luxury Foods’ in Medieval Islamic Societies ‘Luxury Foods’ in Medieval Islamic Societies (both Game flavor and Ideas of what to cook at home).
• World Maps and Easter Tables: Medieval Maps in Context
• Islamic Settlement in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula
• The Convention of Alexius Comnenus and Raymond of Saint Gilles The Convention of Alexius Comnenus and Raymond of Saint Gilles
• The Byzantine Empire in the Eleventh Century Some Different Interpretations
• Some Byzantine Accounting Practices Illustrated from Georgian Sources
• Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy
• Monetary Theory and Roman History
• Toward an Ecological-Evolutionary Theory of the Incidence of Warfare in Preindustrial
• Nomadism, Horses and Huns
• The Nature of Warfare in Fourteenth-Century Japan: The Record of Nomoto Tomoyuki
• English Warfare in 1066 English Warfare in 1066
• Tanks and Roman Warfare Tanks and Roman Warfare
• Early Germanic Warfare
• Ancient Chemical Warfare Ancient Chemical Warfare
• Spanish Horses among the Plains Tribes
• The Training of an Inner Asian Nomad Army in the Pre-Modern Period
• The Military Use of the Chariot in the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age
• Review of Stratagem and the Vocabulary of Military Trickery by Everett L. Wheeler…
• Greek Chariot-Borne and Mounted Infantry
• War and Politics in Ancient China, 2700 B.C. to 722 B.C.: Measurement and Comparative Analysis
• A West African Cavalry State: The Kingdom of Oyo A West African Cavalry State: The Kingdom of Oyo by Robin Law (Is this the GM Robin Law?)
• The Military Revolution in Russia, 1550-1682
• Nomadism as a Political Adaptation: The Case of the Yomut Turkmen

and more…