Blood of Prokopius

Yesterday , I mentioned that I would not be using geomorphs for creating my version of the Chateau des Faussesflammes. This is a decision I ...

I have been busying myself with the prospect of creating a dungeon in homage to the Chateau des Faussesflammes, one of the ruined castles me...

My youngest daughter absolutely loves the concert DVD A Winter's Night — Sting at the Durham Cathedral doing winter and Christmas-them...

Today is the Aπόδοσις (Apodosis), or Leave-taking of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. The actual feast occurred yesterday, but when it...

One of my favorite things in the world is heraldry. I love how it tries to communicate ideas through simple graphic cues and how variations ...

In the wake of the creative onslaught that assaulted my brain  after reading The Beast of Averoigne by CAS, I have been brushing up on West...

I have been running some hypothetical combats using the Holmes rules as I have come to understand them in order to see how it feels. One of ...

Over the weekend, I have been very much distracted by Mr. Clark Ashton Smith. I am not unfamiliar with his writings, even though I only disc...

St. Leontios was the military-chief of the imperial army in the Phoenician city of Tripoli during the reign of Vespasian (A.D. 70-79). He wa...

A little over a week ago, there was a "shields ought to be better" meme that popped up in the OSR corner of the blogosphere. Even ...

In his section on Magic Research and Production, Cook gives us this interesting little gem: [Those things necessary to produce magical item...

In the Magic Spells section of Holmes, there is a very curious sentence. He is giving an example of how to use the table which governs wheth...

It is truly right to bless thee, O Theotokos,
 ever blessed, and most pure, and the Mother of our God.
 More honorable than the cherubim, 
a...

Currently, where I live is going through one of those fascinating life cycles found in nature. Our trees are inundated with thousands of red...

As I mentioned yesterday , there are several dragons (blue, gold and green) that appear in Cook's wandering monster tables that are not ...

In his monster section, Holmes only has stats for four types of dragons (black, brass, red and white). Though dragons do not appear in Cook...

If, as I do, one wants to place Portown and the example dungeon from Holmes into the region of the Grand Duchy of Karameikos, there is the r...

Today is the feast day of the Holy Martyrs Frontasius, Severinus, Severianus, and Silanus. Theirs is a story that almost has a Grindhouse- k...

I realize that this particular topic does not have much, if anything, to do with the rules, per se; however, within my thought experiment, t...

Yesterday, J.B. of B/X Blackrazor reacted to my recasting of the Holmesian Thief in context of Bilbo Baggins by reminding me of his previo...