Blood of Prokopius

Awhile back, I gave Dave of Dave's Mapper  a number of geomorphs to add to his awesome website and tool that he happily provides for our...

Having successfully slain the water hydra, which made its home in the lake which the party had to traverse in order to get to the toadmen pr...

Dark Fantasy As I have meditated upon this thought experiment — envisioning a Basic Edition that uses the FF for its monster section — I ha...

Today is the the feast of St. Tarasios the Patriarch of Constantinople. Born into a royal family of Constantinople during the eighth century...

[Forgive me, I am suffering from an unusual amount of Gamer ADD recently...I'll get back to my previous ADD ramblings shortly] Recentl...

The Wilderness Personified One of the interesting consequences of having the name Dungeons & Dragons is that regardless of whether or...

Awake, O man, and recognize the dignity of thy nature. Recollect thou wast made in the image of God, which although it was corrupted in Adam...

Putting the Scare back into the Undead One of the recurring challenges in D&D is that the Turning ability of clerics tends to take a lot...

There has been a low buzz in the blogosphere about racial level limits. Since I just got done proposing a bunch of non traditional race-as-c...

Optional Race-as-class For those who want to embrace the science fantasy/mutant future weirdness that I suggested in Part 2 for the generic...

No Dwarf, Elf or Halfling PCs There are no halflings or halfling-derivative races within the FF. The only elves are Drow, who live deep bene...

Let me preface this by saying that one of my favorite poetic forms is haiku. It seems so easy — five syllables, seven syllable, five syllabl...

Today is the feast of St. Theodora the Empress. Born into a military family, she was married to the last iconoclast emperor — Theophilus. De...

When we last left our stalwart adventurers, they were still in shock over the death of Hamlen (who went toe to toe with a demon in order to ...

Brendan at Untimately has written an interesting analysis on alignment (and in passing mentions one of my many musings here ). He does some...

When looking over some of the possible subjects for today's post, I ran across an obscure saint. Celebrated today is the Right-believing...

I have not had a very good couple of weeks in terms of gaming. I’ve been ill, the Pathfinder campaign I am playing in hit a major speed bump...

Today is the feast of St. Ephrem the Syrian. He was born in Nisibis about the year A.D. 306. In his youth he was a disciple of St. James, Bi...

I have been re-tooling some of my work on my version of the Chateau des Faussesflammes, concentrating primarily on the ruins that are above ...

The name Panagia Paramythea  (roughly translated as  All-Holy Comforter)  refers to a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary found on Mt. Athos ...