Blood of Prokopius

While today is the feast of Sts. Cyrus and John the Unmercenary Healers, I am not really going to blog much about them. I do love them and h...

PLEASE NOTE: Currently, all of my meditations on 5e are going be about the Basic Rules as a stand-alone product outside the context of the ...

PLEASE NOTE: As of now, all my musings on 5e are going to be about the Basic Rules (which I will refer to as 5eBR from now on). When one h...

Today is the Feast of St. Gerasimus the Bishop of Perm, which is both a city and an area in central Russia at the base of the Urals, where A...

Several months ago, I tried to start posting to this blog again. Shortly thereafter, my daughter’s health took a dramatic turn for the worse...

It is ironic, really, that under normal circumstances “life” would be intruding upon my “RPG time” but now that my circumstances are anythin...

Today is the Feast of Prokopius the Great Martyr, for whom this blog was originally named and as I did my morning prayers early today I was ...

Today is an interesting feast: the 26 Monk-Martyrs of Zographou Monastery on Mt. Athos. My interest is in the fact that it is part of the la...

Today is the feast of Sisoës the Great, a monastic saint of the fourth century. He began his ascetic trials at the monastery Nitria, just ou...

Today is the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, paramount of the Apostles. Normally, I would write a brief summary of the life of these two great...

Over the years, I have converted various campaign worlds to different systems. Every time, whether I like it or not, the mechanical assumpti...

Today is the Feast of the Prophet Amos. According to the witness of the Book of Prophecy named after him, he was a shepherd, herdsman and a ...

Today is the Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God of White Lake. This particular icon belonged to St. Cyril of White Lake, a hermit who be...

Let me start by saying that this post will fly in the face of today’s perceived dichotomy between Christianity and science; however, as I ha...

I have to admit, I am still struggling with the concept of the Blue Mage for the ACKS conversion of my Averoigne campaign. My Preference wou...

Today is the feast day of a saint with whom I feel a very deep connection, because we both came to faith in Christ from a similar place. St....

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...