Blood of Prokopius

It is Halloween and I have a confession to make. This is going to sound awfully strange coming from a guy who is such a big HPL fan, but I f...

Today is the feast of St. Serapion of Zarzma, a 10th century saint who is primarily remembered by the Georgian Orthodox Church. He grew up a...

For those of you who are interested, here are the stats I used for the half-giants from the last session of my Lost Colonies campaign. Hal...

Due mainly to illness, our numbers for this session were small, but we did have a new player at the table. He declared that he wanted to pla...

Back on September 10th, I wrote some of my feelings about the state of affairs at Ground Zero, specifically about a little Greek Orthodox Ch...

Today is the feast of St. Abercius the Wonderworker of Hierapolis and is a remarkable way to end this particular week. He was a 2nd century ...

I was inspired by the last few days of discussion and decided to do a little homage to one of my favorite pieces of D&D art, not just i...

When I asked the question Is Christianity Compatible With D&D the other day, I had no idea it would make its way across so much of the ...

Those of you who have read my blog for a while may have noticed that, when doing thought experiments, I like to limit the parameters (someti...

Is Christianity compatible with D&D? This is a question that has been around since at least the early 80s, if not earlier. Those who re...

Today is the feast day of St. Lucian ( Loukianos in Greek) of Antioch. He was born Samosata. Orphaned at the age of twelve, he became an as...

One of the themes that I am playing with as I work on my version of the Chateau des Faussesflammes is that of  time . I plan on having vario...

This session started out with a decision by fiat on my part. No one was particularly interested in fighting 2,000+ ghouls, especially since ...

This Saturday is the feast of St. Pelagia the Righteous. She had been a prominent pagan actress in the city of Antioch (which, in those time...

I have been putting together a level for my version of the Chateau des Faussesflammes, and in process came up with another interesting ecolo...

Interesting . Just this morning I went to look at Dragon #56 to remind myself about Jeff Goelz's iteration of the bard in the wake of th...

This list of level titles for the Thief is my own attempt to make explicit what is implicit in OD&D — all adventurers are thieves. Ther...

For the purposes of creating level titles that reflect rank, I must admit that those for fighters are probably the most difficult. This is d...

Today is the feast of St. Romanos the Melodist, one of the Orthodox Church's most celebrated hymnodists. He was born in Syria in the 5th...

Please keep in mind that the following are heavily influenced by the way magic users are presented and illustrated in the Holmes Basic Editi...