{"id":127491,"date":"2015-08-10T11:26:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T17:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/the-quest-for-the-java-jive.html"},"modified":"2015-08-10T11:26:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T17:26:26","slug":"the-quest-for-the-java-jive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/the-quest-for-the-java-jive.html","title":{"rendered":"The Quest for the Java Jive"},"content":{"rendered":"

I dearly love +<\/span>Emily Dresner-Thornber<\/a><\/span>'s Murder Hobo essays, where she takes real (well, our) history and economics and extrapolates it out against standard fantasy tropes. Hilarity oft ensues..<\/p>\n

I particularly like her use of the term "Murder Hobos" for your standard D&D style adventuring group (what else would one call itinerant adventurers who make a living killing creatures and taking their stuff?).<\/p>\n

Of her recent material, I also heartily recommend http:\/\/www.critical-hits.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/murder-hobos-and-empire\/<\/a> (on the rise and fall of the Eternal Empire) and http:\/\/www.critical-hits.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king\/<\/a> (on dynasties and resurrection spells), though, honestly, it's all a wonderful rabbit hole to crawl down into.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe Druid, the Murder Hobos, and the Coffee Bean<\/a><\/span>
\nThese weren’t any normal berries. They were magic berries! Later, he gave the leftovers to the Druids. They popped the berries in hot water and made a drink. Coffee was born.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I dearly love +Emily Dresner-Thornber's Murder Hobo essays, where she takes real (well, our) history and economics and extrapolates it out against standard fantasy tropes. Hilarity oft ensues.. I particularly like her use of the term "Murder Hobos" for your standard D&D style adventuring group (what else would one call itinerant adventurers who make a … Continue reading “The Quest for the Java Jive”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25583,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/why-being-poor-sucks-in-ways-you-might-not-think.html","url_meta":{"origin":127491,"position":0},"title":"Why being poor sucks, in ways you might not think","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Jan-12 6:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because is promotes habits that are unhealthy, stressful, and actually can keep you poor. 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