Blood of Prokopius

Today the Orthodox Church celebrates the Third Finding of the Head of St. John the Baptist (the first two findings are celebrated on Februar...

I got to see Ironman 3 last night and given Tony Stark’s use of all the various versions of the Ironman suits with a kind of remote control...

I find myself in an interesting situation with the ACKS custom class system. I am struggling to find a way to differentiate the Blue Mage  (...

The next type of Tolkienesque Mages from my Averoigne campaign that I am going to convert to ACKS is the Brown Mage. Originally, these were...

Today is the feast of St. David the Martyr of Georgia, who was born to a noble Christian family. His father died when he was still young and...

The next classes I will tackle for my conversion of Averoigne to ACKS are some of the alternate magic-users suggested by Tolkien’s rainbow o...

The next class to tackle in my conversion process to ACKS for my Averoigne campaign is my Holmesian Paladin . This class really came about ...

I would just like to take a moment to thank both Tavis and Andrew for dropping by and commenting on some of my meditations on ACKS, especial...

Today the Orthodox Church commemorates the consecration of the city of Constantinople, which gives me a chance to do things a little differe...

The second class that I am attempting to convert to ACKS for my Averoigne campaign is the Holmesian Ranger . Although, the impetus for the o...

My first step in converting some of my ideas about a Homes/Cook Averoigne campaign to ACKS is the idea that the primary purpose of the Thief...

One who has read this blog over the years may have noticed that I haven’t posted a Lost Colonies Session report in a long time. This is not ...

It is the day of the Resurrection! Let us shine brightly for the festival, and also embrace one another. Brethren, let us say even to t...

Today is Holy Saturday according to the Orthodox Calendar. We Orthodox Christians do a funny thing this week. We are so eager to celebrate P...

Apologies for the durth of posts around here recently. Life. Apologies also ahead of time for the brevity of this post, but, again: Life (an...

Today is the feast of a very popular saint among monastics — St. Theodore the Trichinas. The title Τριχινᾶ refers to his practice of wearin...

Today is the feast of St. Martin the Confessor. He was born in Tuscany in the 7th century. Prior to being elected as bishop of Rome, he serv...

Today is the feast of St. Methodius, Equal to the Apostles and Archbishop of Moravia, Enlightener of the Slavs. This ninth century saint was...

I first encountered the idea of weighted Wandering Monster Tables in the MMII, where encounter tables were designed to use 2 dice (1d8+1d12)...

This weekend, I finally got around to seeing the 2011 Green Lantern movie. I had been avoiding this due to the bad reviews it received and m...