Blood of Prokopius

Today is the Synaxis of the Twelve Holy Apostles: Peter, Andrew, James & John the sons of Zebedee, Phillip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew...

This is a session that actually happened prior to my resent bouts of health issues, so you will excuse me if this is brief and lacking in a ...

Today marks the feast of one of the more intriguing stories that I have had the privilege of writing about on this blog — the feast of the H...

There have been several health issues that have assaulted myself and my family over the past week or so. Nothing terribly serious, but serio...

Today is the feast of St. Cyril of Alexandria. Born into a Christian family of means, he grew up studying science, philosophy and Holy Scrip...

Last week , I posted an attempt at a dungeon module layout, organizing ideas by bolding and italicizing various sections of each room descri...

Today is the feast of St. Nicephorus the Confessor. Born about A.D. 758, his father Theodore was embroiled in the first wave of iconoclasm t...

As I have mentioned in the past , stocking a dungeon is my least favorite part of the whole process of making an adventure. Normally, I will...

I have to admit that my players took me completely by surprise during this session. When we had last played, they had agreed to scout out in...

At present, I am rather badly afflicted by Gamer ADD. I’ve spent time meditating on a couple different campaign ideas in my last couple of...

Today is the Feast of St. Augustine of Canterbury. An Italian Benedictine monk, he was sent to Britain at the request of Bertha, the wife of...

Over the weekend, Library Bob, a fellow Orthodox Christian and gamer dropped me a comment on an older post of mine ostensibly about Travelle...

Today is the feast of St. Patrick the Hieromartyr. He was Bishop of Prusa, which is a city in the region once known as Bithynia, now in the ...

My afternoon today found me spending time comforting my oldest daughter who had a rather nasty spill on the playground this morning. One of ...

I recently had a conference in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin and though I did not get much of a chance to wander around and get a sense of the plac...

As someone who grew up reading and collecting comic books, I ask that you indulge me for a moment while a geek out a bit over the Avengers ...

Today is the feast of St. Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus. Born in Palestine in A.D. 310, he was the son of poor farmers. In his youth he accep...

One of the peripheral consequences of working on my re-imagined Slave Pits of the Undercity (which itself is a result of WotC re-releasing...

This session was one of those that got thrown together at the last moment. As a group, we want to get to play as often as we can with Dn. Go...

Today is the feast of St. Irene. She was born Penelope to a noble in the Persian city of Magedon. Through her tutor Appellian, she was able ...