Blood of Prokopius

Myrmixians Compare yourself with the ant, O sluggard, and be zealous when you see his ways, and become wiser than he. — Proverbs 6:7 (LXX) N...

Yesterday, James over at Grognardia did a piece on August Derleth and his (albiet small) contribution to the heroic aspects of the Call of ...

Recently (inspired by Dyson at A Character for Every Game ), I've been experimenting with geomorphs. I remember seeing them in my hobby ...

One of the risks that you run as a Referee when undertaking a sandbox campaign is that the work put into creating dungeons can go for naught...

Over the weekend, James over at Grognardia wrote a meditation on the Referee as a player . An integral part of this is the use of the random...

I should first explain that life has intruded quite a bit in the last month or so, which explains why I have not posted much. Lent, Holy Wee...

Having destroyed the "Gate" last session, the party reported their success to Bishop Iova; however, they feared that more evil lur...

Yesterday, James over at Grognardia challenged the OSR community to come up with tables for character background modeled after Aaron Kesher...

This session saw the addition of a new player, who must get some old-school kudos because he immediately picked up 3d6 and rolled his stats ...

Although I have always had a soft spot for psionics in D&D (it is a great concept), I have never allowed them in any of my campaigns. T...

Every year, it seems, the beginning of Lent brings with it trials and tribulations. This past week I've been to the emergency room, ever...

Over at Grognardia , James shared some of thoughts about WotC coming out with a new version of the "red box." To me, the most inte...

I saw Star Trek (2009) for the first time last night. This in and of itself demonstrates two things about me: 1) I have three young children...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...