Blood of Prokopius

I mentioned yesterday that I've been busying myself with the thought experiment suggested by Scott at Huge Ruined Pile . I've decid...

I've been under the weather this past weekend, and as I've demonstrated in the past , I tend to deal with such misery by doing thoug...

Given everything that I've said on this topic the last couple of days, here is what the OSR Sci Fi RPG I would write might look like:

The only long term sci fi campaign I was ever involved with was a Star Wars (d6) campaign. I've played a lot of Traveller over the years...

Last time we left our stalwart adventurers, they were preparing to assault a fortress occupied by orcs carved from a cavern wall in the Fung...

Like James over at Grognardia, I have recently been meditating on science fiction, especially about the question James posed a couple weeks...

One of the intriguing aspects of this campaign is the lack of interest in the tent pole megadungeon by my players. I've been wondering a...

A Call for Comments I realize that this particular project has not garnered a lot of comments; however, I am asking for feedback on this p...

Movement Apologies for not getting on with this project for a number of weeks. As I noted in my last post, things have been busy around he...

After a long and unplanned hiatus, I finally got back in the saddle and played some Labyrinth Lord this weekend. In some ways, the hiatus wo...

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 ...