Blood of Prokopius

The news that Jack Chick has passed away has been making its rounds around the blogosphere. Reactions range from the vindictive to the conci...

Anyone familiar with my musings on how to run a campaign is well aware of my long love-affair with Arneson’s rule of 1 gp of treasure spent ...

My benchmark for a monster stat block is the 1ed Monster Manual because that is the stat block that I used for years in the formative youth ...

Yesterday, when I mentioned the idea of a 5e Lite, Michael Bugg enthusiastically agreed by pointing out the large about of fluff text that e...

Over the course of the past several days, I have been trying to typeset a 5e Players Guide to the Lost Colonies in order to reflect some of ...

When the current party I am GMing created its characters, I had yet to get my hands on the core books and was operating solely with my readi...

Surprisingly, one the things that I really like about 5e is its character creation. I would venture to guess that there really isn’t anythi...

For those of you who don’t know, I have not been playing anything for a number of years now. My youngest was in and out of the hospital for ...

After much discussion (two positive votes and a sentiment that it is far more descriptive), Five Monarchs Campaign it is. If I have one m...

I now have a couple of working titles for this campaign, but neither has really charmed me yet: The Five Monarchs Campaign Chasura City ...

Today is the Feast of St. Michael the Confessor who was from Synnada in Phrygia in what is now modern day central Turkey. From a young age h...

Another bandwagon I am compelled to hop onto is this meme about innovation in the OSR: rules or settings ? First, let me get this out of th...

I am going to hop on the bandwagon and throw my two cents worth at the alignment question asked over at Tenkar’s Tavern . It should be obvio...

If there is one main feature that sets FASERIP apart from Marvel Superheroes and other renditions of the system is its use of a Campaign Ran...

I have to make a confession. My kids want to play RPGs with me, but I have traditionally struggled with creating a campaign suitable for the...

Today is the Feast of St. Musa. Rather than have me summarize her life, I am simply going to quote St. Gregory the Dialogist and his account...

I would not call myself an anime fan. Giant robots and demons bore me and these seem to be the focus of much of the genre. There are, howeve...

While there seems to be a general buzz over the release of the new Swords & Wizardry White Box compatible sci-fi RPG White Star by Jame...

Today is the Feast of the Prophet Isaiah. The book attributed to him is one of the longest in Scripture at 66 chapters and over 25,000 words...

Today is one of the Feasts of St. Athanasius the Great, who is also celebrated on January 18 with St. Cyril of Alexandria. Let me get this...