Blood of Prokopius

Today is the feast of the martyr saints Dadas, Gabeddas and Kazdoa. Daddas was a noble in the Persian Empire assigned as governor of one o...

Beedo of Dreams in the Lich House is musing out loud today about how the various versions of D&D interact with each other within the n...

So I noticed a couple of sorties in what Talysman has dubbed The Realism War . It began with Noism trying to make the claim that it is absur...

Dice Monkey is hosting the September Blog Carnival and the topic is Established Settings . He asks: Why do we play in settings others have...

Today is the feast of St. Phocas who was bishop of Sinope (modern day Sinop in north-central Turkey on the Black Sea coast). He was martyred...

As I have admitted before, one of my least favorite parts of this hobby is actually keying a dungeon or adventure. When it comes to actually...

As much as I love geomorphs, I must admit that due to the limitations of the form, maps made from them can be a bit blocky. One of the most ...

As I mentioned the other day, Dave Millar of Dave's Mapper is running a little fund drive for a good cause (the info can be found here ...

B.R.7 is the working name of the hive city-as-megadungeon for my WH40K campaign. Last night I started to do an intellectual exercise with so...

Just a note that Dave of Dave's Mapper (one of the very cool tools that this community has pooled their talents to produce) is having a...

Today is the feast of St. Nicetas the Great Martyr. He was a Gothic Christian who was captured, tortured and thrown into fire by the pagan u...

Personally, one of the philosophies that I accept when it comes to running a successful campaign (from both the perspectives of someone who ...

When I conceived of this WH40K campaign, I mentioned that I would allow abhumans (ogryns and beastmen, for example) as characters. The mecha...

Today is the first Great Feast of the Orthodox Christian ecclesiastical year — The Nativity of the Theotokos. This event, of course, is not ...

As folks who have read this blog for awhile know, I am a big fan of random tables. When used correctly, they can be a catalyst for some ser...

As life has been less demanding of late, I have had more time to get together with my regular group and play. Unexpectedly, they wanted to r...

In the Orthodox Church, today marks the beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year. Personally, what I find significant about this reality are...

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...