Blood of Prokopius

One of the most influential moments of my life was sitting next to my dad in a theater (that is now a parking lot) watching Star Wars for th...

Back in July, I was experimenting with a layout design for trying to write up my version of the Slave Pits of the Undercity . My own perso...

Today is the feast of St. Nestor the Martyr, which is really an extension of yesterday’s feast — St. Demetrius the Great Martyr of Thessalon...

One of the entrances into B.R.7 is the space port. This is one area in which geomorphs are not going to be very helpful, so I decided to cre...

Today is the feast of St. Artemius of Antioch. During the reigns of St. Constantine the Great and his son Constantius, Artemius was a promin...

One of the most prevalent group of creatures that inhabit B.R.7 are the orks left over from the failed invasion of Black Reach. Thus, I need...

Today is the Feast of the New Martyr Zlata (also known as St. Chryse). The title New Martyr refers to those who were martyred after the 4th...

For a reason that is beyond me, there seems to be a meme going around this corner of the internet that the existence in a dungeon of a treas...

Yesterday , I mentioned that there were three steps within the process of making an Ulfberht Sword that invited elaboration. Given that I su...

I just finished watching the most recent episode of Nova, entitled Secrets of the Viking Sword. It focuses on the science of medieval weapo...

Today is the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle. Of the Twelve, St. Thomas may very well be my personal favorite. While he is most popularly kn...

Please note that I have yet to see the movie, though I hope to fit it into my schedule at some point in the near future. Please also note th...

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 ...