Blood of Prokopius

Today is the feast of a pair of sisters from a well-to-do family in northern Syria: Sts. Marana and Cyra. They lived their lives in strict a...

What follows is the version of the Thief that I would want to play, and therefore is the one I offer as a PC class in my LL games. It was ma...

Step 8: Villains I have to be honest, I don’t normally do villains when I prepare any kind of campaign, especially a sandbox. The best vil...

After my brief foray into looking at the Basic Rules for 5e (which led to the unfortunate conclusion that it's unplayable as-is), I hav...

Step 7: Background Noise One thing to keep in mind about sandbox campaigns is that the world does not remain static. It must react to the ...

Step 6: Rumors This is probably the most important aspect of a good sandbox campaign, because a sandbox only really works when players can...

Today is the Feast of St. Timothy of Symbola, who was of Italian descent. He was attracted to the monastic life and was tonsured at a young ...

Step 5: Dungeon Background It is now time to use the level names and landmarks of the dungeon to inspire several different eras of occupat...

Step 4: Fill in Dungeon Details It is now time to name each level of the centerpiece dungeon and place landmarks throughout. The goal here...

Step 3: Place Your Centerpiece Dungeon This is an important step, even if you never see your players show any desire for entering your meg...

Step 2: Ignore or Change Everything Else Seriously. Your job is not to follow the whims or will of the author. Your job is to create a wor...

The other day, I started going through Rob Conley’s Blackmarsh setting (which you can get for free here ) to engage in a little creative ca...

Today is the Feast Day of Auxentius of the Mountain. Born in Syria, he enlisted as a soldier in A.D. 442, during the reign of Theodosius th...

Inspired by St. Augulus , I meditated once again on alignment, something I do quite often here in my corner of the internet. In fact, I wou...

When you spend enough time reading the Synaxarion, you run across entries about saints who have no name or saints about which we really only...

I don’t know about you, but I have long felt that the hobgoblin is the most neglected of all the “primary” goblinoid races. They just feel l...

I have a quixotic obsession with Weapon vs. AC Tables . It is quixotic because at its core, D&D combat is extremely abstract. Once one s...

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...