This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
Hardcore nerdery as gentlemanly pursuit. The ur-hobby-game; Little Wars begat Chainmail, which begat Dungeons & Dragons, which more or less begat every RPG, MMO, FPS and sandbox videogame ever made.