Blood of Prokopius

Today is the Feast of St. Hilarion the New. He was a monastic saint who lived much of his life as a hermit. Eventually, he was ordained as a...

My last post on this topic elicited this response from JB over at B/X Blackrazor : I haven't thought too much about the relationships ...

Today is the Feast of St. James the Confessor. He entered the monastic life at a young age, living at the Studite monastery in Constantinopl...

Today is the Feast of St. Cuthbert, who has been a part of this hobby since the 1970's. Here is a link with which to peruse the vari...

I have spilled a lot of virtual ink in my last two posts trying to point out the limitations of reason and logic and arriving at some kind o...

One of the reasons that human secularism has become normative is the belief that such a system is rational and logical. Indeed, I argued man...

So, while I was away from active blogging, I got to miss a whole lot of vitriol about gender politics in gaming, a fact which I am actually ...

This post is going to be a bit convoluted, but bear with me it will eventually make sense. One of the major challenges of doing a campaign...

Today is the Feast Day of St. Benedict of Nursia. Born in A.D. 480 in Nursia, a small town northeast of Rome, he took to monasticism at a yo...

Cezavy refers to a common language spoken by various tribes in the northeast of the OKW. The are a barbarian peoples who have only recently ...

Thanks to all of the interesting information made available about the Original Known World (OKW) through the diligence of James Mishler and ...

Today is the Feast of St. Paul the Confessor. The title Confessor refers to those Christians who were jailed and/or tortured for the faith ...

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but some really interesting info has recently been unearthed about the Known World which was originally publ...

One of the ways in which I am a serious geek is my love of foreign language film and TV. One of my favorite sub-genres of this is the stuff ...

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...