Episode 339: A Lot of Bathories
April 12th, 2019 | Robin
Last week you heard us from Carcosa Con in Poland. This time we’re back and ready to share out experience of the show and the local RPG scene in the Gaming Hut.
Then, in Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, we chat with one of our estimable hosts, Daria Pilarczyk. As project manager of Black Monk Games she has much knowledge to drop on the life of a game company that licenses and translates such titles as Munchkin and Call of Cthulhu.
We stuck around for a few days after the show to explore Wroclaw and Krakow. Travel Advisory finds us delving into a medieval salt mine and checking out a castle that has now fully recovered from a Renaissance-era alchemy accident.
In the spirit of our trip we conclude with the History Hut, profiling veteran commander of multiple revolutions Tadeusz Kosciuszko.
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I believe I heard you say Tadeusz Kosciuszko went to military school in Paris, but I believe he graduated from the Corps of Cadets in Warsaw, Poland.
You missed his relationship with Benedict Arnold and Arnold’s treasonous attempt to sell Kosciuszko’s design documents to the British.
Kosciuszko’s degree, design of fortifications on the present day Hudson River, and friendship with Jefferson influenced President Jefferson’s commissioning of the West Point Military Academy.
This was a delightful discussiojn of my country and I am in no way offended by it.