Blood of Prokopius

Musings on Religion & RPGs

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Deities & Demigods: A Christian Perspective

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Here is a scenario that seems to happen quite often: James over at Grognardia writes something that makes me reconsider some aspect of our ...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

Lost Colonies Session 10

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This session saw the party return to the site of their battle with the masked necromancer to find that the tower was now throbbing like a h...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

On d6 Weapon Damage

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This morning I followed a link from James at Grognardia to this very reasoned argument for all weapons doing d6 damage. Even though I use ...
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Meditations on the Thief Class

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As a Christmas present, I got a sampling of old-school modules written and published by various sources around the OSR. To one degree or ano...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Lost Colonies Session 9

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This was a happy pre-Christmas session that saw all our wayward players able to make it to the table after some absence. For those that had ...

A Kernel of an Idea

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The other day I was reading a prayer which listed a number of things that God has done for us throughout the history of salvation. One of th...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

An Experimental Map

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I am a big fan of celtic knots and was wondering how one might look and function as a dungeon map. This is designed to be a pair of identica...
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Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas

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But you O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, the least of the clans of Judah, from you will come for me a future ruler of Israel whose goings forth hav...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Lost Colonies Session 8

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There are two things that struck me about this session. The first had to do with maps. When exploring the ziggurat that seemed to be the sou...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

World Building Part 9

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Magic Items You have given your sash to your flock, O Virgin most glorious, as a bond that is most secure, which carefully keeps us from all...
Friday, December 11, 2009

World Building Part 8

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The Church Historically, the Church has existed in one of two conditions — tolerance or persecution. I use the word tolerance because even i...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

World Building Part 7

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The God Man That which was not assumed is not healed; but that which is united to God is saved — St. Gregory the Theologian (also known as G...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009

World Building Part 6

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The whole of the Old Testament is full of stories that are impossible to import into a fantasy setting — they are too specific to the geogra...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

World Building Part 5

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The Flood God looked at the earth: it was corrupt, for corrupt were the ways of all living things on earth. God said to Noah, "I have d...
Friday, November 27, 2009

A Fist Full of Dice

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I have a soft spot for Weapon vs AC tables. They are a remnant of the Chainmail rules and represent another level of tactical choice within...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

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Just a quick thanks to everyone out there who's taken the time to read my ramblings, to those who've bothered to leave a comment, an...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

World Building Part 4

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My project continues... Humanity There is one centrally important reality about humanity in Scripture — God made humanity in His image and l...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

World Building Part 3

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My project to produce a template from which to create a fantasy RPG world based on Scripture and Christianity continues: The Fall So the gr...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

World Building Part 2

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I continue with my project to produce a template from which to create a fantasy RPG world based on Scripture and Christianity. Creation In ...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

World Building Part 1

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In response to my meditations on Psalm 8 , Rob Conley of Bat in the Attic had this to say: As for the pagan aspect of my cosmology. I choos...
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