Blood of Prokopius

Grrr… this is what happens when I don't get to play as regularly as I want. So, despite the fact that life continues to happen (severe...

Today is the commemoration of the Return of the Relics of the Apostle Bartholomew. Originally, the relics of the apostle were in the region ...

Conrad Klinch of Joy and Forgetfulness asked the following question of me: One of the most popular wargames, Warhammer 40K, makes heavy u...

Today I am going to hop into my Way Back Machine and end up in 1985 when I waisted more hours than I’d like to count playing The Bard’s Tale...

I have been contemplating the Holmsian suggestion that the monk is a subclass of cleric . Given that the early iterations of the cleric cla...

Today is the Feast of St. John of Rila. He is a 9th-10th century monastic of Bulgaria and considered to be the country’s great spiritual asc...

I have been contemplating these famous words from the Holmes Basic Edition: There are a number of other character types which are detailed ...

Today is the commemoration of a miracle performed by St. Spyridon at Corfu in 1716. St. Spyirdon is a 4th century saint from the island of C...

Today is the feast of the Seven Youths of Ephesus. Maximilian, Iamblicus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustondianus and Antonius all lived...

Let me begin today’s post with a personal story. Several years ago, I visited Thessaloniki. When I first arrived, I was stunned by how ugly ...

As I noted in my last post, I have been traveling a lot lately, mostly by car. In order to pass the time in an entertaining way (particularl...

First, let me apologize for not posting a whole lot lately. Life intrudes. I have been traveling a lot. My actual time gaming has been much ...

Today is the feast of St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain. Born Nicholas Kallivourtzis in Naxos, Greece around 1749, he went to Mt. Athos to ...

As I have mentioned before, I am not a huge fan of Hollywood. It takes a great deal for me to be interested in actually bothering to go see ...

Today is the feast of St. Kyriake the Great Martyr. The title Great Martyr is given to those saints who had to endure many tortures prior t...

I have to admit that it has been really hard for be to get back into the habit of blogging. I've been spending time with the kids this s...

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...