Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Lore Sjöberg at Wired celebrates the achievement of recently deceased gaming wizard Gary Gygax with an entertaining look at what it would be like if Dungeons & Dragons characters behaved like archaeologists.
May 16We have nearly finished our initial survey of the outer flagstones of the dungeon entrance. Already we have made wonderful discoveries! Initial tests indicate that the stones may have come from an open pit quarry near the Elonges River, nearly two miles from here! Also, we were attacked by a Phantom Fungus and lost two more graduate students.
Thanks to Johan Lundström for the tip-off.
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Evidence for ancient Greek neurosurgery found
Guess what I like most about that photo.
Posted by: Twoflower | March 14, 2008 12:46 PM
Pre-Inca temple discovered in Peru
Posted by: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD | March 14, 2008 6:41 PM
Neverwinter Nights, an RPG based on Gygax's AD&D rules, has an archaeological dig as one of the locations.
Posted by: OriGuy | March 15, 2008 2:01 PM
Ooh, now this could be an exciting game. A dear friend is the game master of a game set in a world that he created. On the side, he also does a cyber-punk game. The last cyber-punk that I played, I got to be a tenth level nanotech research professor, complete with a barbarian horde of grad students. Though in all honesty, it was merely a method of giving me the equivalent of a wizard. And my grad students were really hard to kill.
Posted by: DuWayne | March 17, 2008 2:22 PM