Blood of Prokopius

Over the last several days, I have gotten some very positive feedback on various aspects of this little corner of the internet. I definite...

Today is the feast of St. Clement of Rome. According to the list of bishops given to us by both St. Irenaeus and St. Hegesippus, Clement was...

I pray that everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving Day. I managed to finish a rough draft of The Slave Pits of Abhoth . This means that I have ...

Today is the feast of St. Gregory of Neocaesaria the Wonderworker. He was a well-educated son of pagans who converted to Christianity. Aroun...

I have been ill this week, therefore I have done a lot more TV watching than I normally do. Fortunately, in these days of streaming video, i...

It is an old school trope that combat is abstract and that each “to hit” roll is actually a “to damage” roll representing several attempted ...

Today is an intriguing local commemoration within the Georgian Orthodox Church — the Martyrdom of St. George the Great Martyr and Trophy-Bea...

WotC continues to surprise. It looks as if they are planning to re-release the A-Series in hardcover form next summer along with a new intro...

Today, I would normally be inclined to wax poetic about St. Raphael of Brooklyn (since he is a recent and American Saint); however, since he...

Earlier this week , I posted an update on my version of the Slave Pits of the Undercity . The main purpose of that post (besides putting pre...

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...