Blood of Prokopius

Today is the feast of St. Innocent of Alaska, also known as Equal-to-the-Apostles and Enlightener of Alaska. He was born in the Irkutsk regi...

So, this weekend (appropriately on April 1), Google is forcing me and everyone else who blogs using their service to switch to a new interf...

Those who have read my blog know that I am a big fan of geomorphs. They are a fantastic tool for coming up with dungeons on the fly — especi...

Earlier this week, Stuart of Strange Magic posted a very nice version of the paladin/anti-paladin for Basic D&D . Stuart does an excelle...

Today the Orthodox Church celebrates the Forefeast of the Annunciation. When I began to really study the liturgical year of the Orthodox Chu...

Stocking the Dungeon When I put together the Wandering Monster Tables (WMT) for a FF Basic Edition, I promised to find a map and stock it...

Work on my re-imagined version of the Slave Pits continues. Here is a map of Hucwind Castle: Notes: The castle is meant to look like an ...

Today is a convergence of two significant events, at least for those of us of an age who dabble in this singular hobby of ours. I am in good...

Unlike so many other of the feast days that I have written about, today is a feast that is not only widely recognized outside of the Orthodo...

Wandering Monster Table Level 3 This is a continuation of my posts here and here . An interesting thing starts to happen with the Level 3 W...

Wandering Monster Table Level 2 This is a continuation of what I started yesterday . Although I am itching to stock a dungeon with yesterday...

Wandering Monster Table Level 1 Among the other members of The International League of Fiend Foliasts , Chris of Vaults of Nagoh has already...

I am going to break pattern today. Although it is the feast of St. Quadratus and his companions who were martyred at Corinth, Conrad of Joy ...

What follows is the map of Hinsmount — the village of kua-toa halfbreeds/sea bloods on Hicwind Island  (the area in which I plan to place my...

Frogthulhu When I was a kid and just learning to read what my children now call “chapter books,” I spent a lot of time in my local library p...

I've slowly been making progress on my re-imaging of A1: The Slave Pits of the Undercity . Below you will find a finished map for the ge...

By Orthodox Christian reckoning, today is the first Saturday of Lent. The Orthodox Church still uses the Julian calendar to figure out when ...

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...