Blood of Prokopius

Today is the feast of St. Marcellus the Abbot. Born in Syria, he was brought up in a rich family that provided for an excellent education. T...

This last installment of this series is for those who do not hear the high calling implied by the other organizations that fighters can be a...

When writing the Level Titles for the Black Swords , I was forced to use language to detail their heraldry that is both difficult to describ...

I continue with my series of posts on Level Titles for fighters in my version of Averoigne . Please note that the Level Titles of the first ...

O my soul, magnify her who is greater in honor and in glory than the armies of heaven. I see here a strange and paradoxical mystery. For,...

I continue with my series of posts on Level Titles for fighters in my version of Averoigne . Please note that the Level Titles of the first ...

I continue with my series of posts on Level Titles for fighters in my version of Averoigne . Please note that the Level Titles of the first ...

Today is the feast of St. Anastasia the Great Martyr. She was born in Rome to a pagan father and a mother who was secretly Christian. As a r...

A little over a year ago, I did a series of posts about utilizing Level Titles in a way that was more integrated into a campaign world. I p...

I only was able to play Stormbringer a couple of times in my life (our group always saw it as a challenge to see who could survive rather t...

As I have admitted in the past, one of things that I have really come to appreciate from the 3.5 SRD is the way that it handles languages . ...

A little less than a year ago, I mused about a way to utilize feats in context of old-school rules . I gave an example of how such a system ...

When 2e D&D came out, it didn’t really affect the way in which my group played our version of AD&D (which was really something in-be...

Today is the Feast of St. Susanna the Deaconess. She was born in Palestine of a pagan priest and a Hebrew woman. After her parents died, she...

Today is the feast of St. Patapius of Thebes. He was born into an aristocratic family of Thebes in A.D. 380. They were faithful Christians a...

This post is really just a note to myself, but it is intriguing enough that I thought I'd share. My dreams are at their most vivid early...

First of all, I would like to congratulate Dan Proctor for getting Starships & Spacemen 2e (S&S) out in a timely fashion. Of all the...

I need to publicly thank a few folks: Firstly, Carl Nash took the time to go through and do an edit of The Slave Pits of Abhoth. I have y...

This is post number 500 for me here at Blood of Prokopius . Having noticed that I was quickly approaching this milestone, I came to the real...

Today is the Feast of Nahum the Prophet, who is one of the Minor Prophets. His prophecy is three chapters and foretells the destruction of N...