Blood of Prokopius

One of the interesting things that happens when I go about any kind of thought experiment, is that it has a tendency of bleeding out into ot...

Ecology of MMII Demi-Humans As I have noted before, the MMII has two different elves within its pages: wild elves that are neutral fighter...

Magic Items Something I never did when I hypothesized a Moldvay Basic D&D with a Fiend Folio monster section was to see how that would...

Wandering Monster Table Level 3 Oozes and Slimes continue to be my bane when trying to come up with Wandering Monster Tables for an MMII v...

Wandering Monster Table Level 2 For this Wandering Monster Table (WMT), I again used the break-down of Moldvay’s WMT as a template . As ha...

Wandering Monster Table Level 1 I have been trying to work on some Wondering Monster Tables (WMT) for a Moldvay Basic Edition using only M...

Demi-Human Player Characters Unlike my experience with the FF, which had no halflings, dwarves or playable elves in its monster list, the...

Notes on the Undead Interestingly, there are not many undead creatures in the MMII: Animal Skeleton Demi-Lich Juju Zombie Monster Zo...

In Search of a Theme Moving forward, I am going to have to depart from the methodology I used with the FF, because, while I whole-heartedl...

A few years ago, I did a series of posts based around the idea of seeing what would happen to Moldvay’s Basic D&D if the Fiend Folio had...

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 ...