Blood of Prokopius

I was out of town again this week, during which time a priest friend of mine brought the poet Scott Cairns to my attention. I subsequently f...

This session is a tale of caution for those who travel through the wilderness without a detailed map or with little regard to making one the...

Over the last week or so, I've been traveling. Though I did bring my laptop and did intend to continue to stay up-to-date and blog, I fo...

Sustenance These are the spells I removed from the Change Environment category: Purify Food & Water [1] Make poisoned and/or spoil...

There was one thing left unresolved from the funhouse dungeon that the party survived during the last three sessions. Something inside the d...

I haven't been posting much this week for two main reasons. I've been trying to tackle a tough spell category and I've been watc...

Communication This category was actually quite straight forward: Read Magic (1) Read magical incantations. Duration = short (one or two ...

As you might have noticed, I have not posted anything about my Lost Colonies campaign in a while. This is in part due to my own crazy schedu...

Dispel This is the first time that I have been compelled to look at later editions. Although there have been some surprising mechanics (s...

Both Jeff and James have brought up the point that D&D assumes a post-apocalyptic world with lost civilizations that have left behind ...

Conjuration/Summon This project has been fascinating. It has made me reexamine some of my own assumptions and prejudices. For example, I ...

Transform For Memorial Day weekend, I decided to try to and tackle one of the more daunting spell categories. Truth be told, "dauntin...

Detection The next category in my queue is the Detection Spells. Mechanics are in (): Detect Magic (1)[1] ("Limited" Range, ...

Illusion The next category is the Illusion Spells. Here are the OD&D spells with their mechanics in ( ): Phantasmal Forces (Illusion...

On Thursday, I posted some thoughts on 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.' While most folks reacted to my comparison of Mohammed to Chri...

Jeff Rients over at Jeff's Gameblog mentioned that today is 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.' He has chosen to decline to particip...

Like James over at Grognardia , the death of metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio has reminded me of all the friends that I had who were metal he...

Buff Spells The next category I'd like to tackle (because it's one of the easiest mechanically) is the Buff Spells. Here are the ...

As I've been paying attention to spell descriptions in OD&D lately, I ran across this interesting little tidbit in Men & Magic :...

I've started to expand my Reading List over at the right to acknowledge all those folks I pay attention to and have bothered to read my ...